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[NickFitz]

I have ventured to the place where the meters for each flat are kept and taken my readings. Well, I took a photo of the meters and then toddled back to my flat to decipher them.

I'm sure someone here knows why electricity meters have dials that run clockwise and anti-clockwise?

I would assume they’re all connected to the driveshaft via geared cogs. One cog turning clockwise would drive its adjacent cog counterclockwise. Gearing them at a 10 to 1 ratio would give you units, tens, hundreds and so on for as many cogs as fit in the box

[NickFitz]

There was a spare sausage left over from last night’s fry-up, so lunch has been that, cold, in a white bap; no sauce

[DoctorStrangelove]

Lunch: can of Heinz Tomato soup with a hint of chilli, with Morrisons sunflower and pumpkin seed bread, Morrisons wholemeal sunflower and spelt bread, bramble jelly sandwich on same, yogurt corner thing in red cherry, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.

It's getting windy out there now.

Freecell score: 85% mostly because I couldn't be arsed to play more to bump it back up, running average 83%.

On the Kermode Heists programme last week he mentioned "Bound(1996)" and lo! I spot a dvd of "Bound" starring Christian Slater and Christopher Walken.

Ah, not the same film

Takes 10 minutes to figure out it's actually:

Bound (2013) - IMDb

And, from the sounds of it, it's crap.

Just to prove me wrong it is now showing "Bound (2013)"

Even more disappointing it's not

Bound (2015) - IMDb

[ladymuck]

Guineafowl doing their thing (also feature's The Wife's (tm) voice, she's the one doing the filming)

Funny wee things!

[ladymuck]

I would assume they’re all connected to the driveshaft via geared cogs. One cog turning clockwise would drive its adjacent cog counterclockwise. Gearing them at a 10 to 1 ratio would give you units, tens, hundreds and so on for as many cogs as fit in the box

That makes satisfyingly logical sense, thank you!

[LondonManc]

Lunch was from Tesco - £3m meal deal of ham and cheese baguette, orange lucozade and sweet thai chicken McCoys. Decent value.

[ladymuck]

Lunch was toasted soda bread and a slice of cherry and almond cake.

Have tentatively booked to visit HWMBO for a couple of weeks at the beginning of May. Hopefully I will be allowed to do the journey. As it's just under two weeks away, we can both make sure we're extra careful in the intervening period.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Brambles massacred.

Goosegrass massacred.

Fuschia massacred (looks like it's dying, so a good trim might help a bit).

Pear tree looks to have set well this year, should keep the jackdaws happy once the apples have finished.

Judging by the itchiness of the throat, the pollen count is pretty high.

If I could be arsed it'd be a good day to run the scarifier over the lawn.

But I can't so I won't.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was from Tesco - £3m meal deal of ham and cheese baguette, orange lucozade and sweet thai chicken McCoys. Decent value.

Three million quid seems a tad pricey to me, but it depends on the quality of the ham I suppose

[NickFitz]

It looks like a really nice afternoon out there but, once again, it’s only about 14°C and there’s a bit of a breeze. As a result, now the sun has moved round and is no longer shining on the front of the property, I’ve had to close the windows