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[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a big roast beef bap

Still dry here. I've got to pop up to the pharmacy in a bit for the monthly prescription, so it'll probably start raining again then

[ladymuck]

Bins have been brought back in. Both have been emptied, which makes a change.

Bed linen is dry so has been folded up and put away.

General clothes, smalls, etc are now in the WM.

[WTFH]

Rejecting meeting requests for December with spurious excuses. It's all good fun.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Having reported my sniffles to the Covid trial people, I then had to take a call to describe my symptoms and confirm I had done at least one test and what the result was. They will call back at the end of the week to see if I'm still suffering even though we all know it's just a cold.

Om.

Meanwhile on March 5th 2019 I was really getting ready to lock & load after a sleepless night. Amusement was provided by the inability to install VS on the lab machines because the HD space was taken up with mech eng crap of zero innerest to the intended audience.

[ladymuck]

General clothes, smalls, etc are now out of the WM and draped about.

[NickFitz]

Prescription collected. It took ages

The flat I attempted to buy around the corner has finally been moved in to. I hope their neighbours are very noisy

And another one in the same development is on the market by auction with a guide price of a mere £115K, despite seeming generally in somewhat better order than the one I was willing to pay £170K for. Turns out it's got tenants though, paying nearly £700/month for the privilege of living there. I was thinking, they could probably buy the place and pay about the same for the mortgage. I checked with a mortgage calculator, and if they had a 20% deposit and got it for the guide price, they'd actually pay nearly £200 a month less even at an interest rate of nearly 6%, assuming a 25 year term

My new place doesn't allow subletting, but it turns out it's only in the past couple of years that the freeholder has enforced this, with existing tenancies allowed to run their course but no new lets allowed. So there's probably going to be more of the flats coming on the market in dribs and drabs over the next couple of years. The one above mine is up for sale now and for a bit less than I paid, but looking at the bathroom and kitchen, you'd have to spend the difference just getting them up to a similar condition to mine

[vetran]

Watched SAS - Rogue heroes, I thought they were a bit mad to be so brave, it seems I underestimated them - completely nuts. Well worth a watch.

Currently on without a trace which is lighter weight criminal minds.

Lunch was quinoa & pork.

Work is very tedious. But apparently I will be quiet over XMAS if I can get this done.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas

[WTFH]

TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

The car earlier was a Volvo 8-something estate. Good solid things those Volvo estates

And then, as predicted, a new season which isn't actually all that new of the gold hunters

And food was accompanied by an old Police Interceptors

Finally, a C5 documentary on the loss of the Herald of Free Enterprise just outside Zeebrugge harbour in 1987

Quite a chilly night out again - down to 4°C now. And Sirius is twinkling brightly, so the sky is clear and it'll probably get colder still.

Goodnight all