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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Seems a bit grey out and the ground shows traces of drizzle, though that seems to have stopped now. Currently 7°C with 11° the high for the day, but it'll maintain that after dark and get up to 12° before midnight. The barometers are up at 1012/1020mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
The perambulation has been had - a bit shorter than the last few days due to me not dragging my backside out of bed early enough. Too hot for a long coat at full marching speed, even if I was only wearing a t-shirt underneath. About 10^oC out with no wind, but there's been some overnight rain.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull, overcast. Very fine drizzle.No precipitation forecast. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 12 expected. Barometer slightly to 1026 mBar.

Off to Heathrow to pick up an ID badge and have a meeting. Might go back home after that.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Drizzly.

Chilly in here at 12.6 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 11.5 deg in the leanto.

1020 mBar, 30.12 in Hg, 765.06 Torr, 14.794 psi, (down from an alleged 1023 but I failed to set it last night), 73% RH (GDR hair), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 21st of August 2019 NF had a bad back and spent some valuable time on a bash script that output a if it succeeded and a if it didn't, whereas the library was unexpectedly quiet with no Lego(tm) in use, and further discussion of Mammod steam rollers happened, with added pictures.

Freecell score in the grey gloom & drizzle: 86%, running average: 86% (86.003%).

Entertainment: Toast: Commodore Computers.

TWATO. <click>

NZ Customs thing: live starfish in the bogs, chap collecting someone else's bag from the wrong carousel. Food food & more food. Expensive things these apples.

Porn tapes. How long ago was this? Made in 2010. Oh feck, it's kiddie porn. . Downloaded 2006/2007 as it transpires. Stone me that's a light sentence: 6 months home detention, 6 months supervision.

Oz customs thing: more food. No starfish.

"Frontier Marshall (1939)" with that Randolph Scott, Ward Bond, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jnr. And not forgetting Charles Stevens, Geronimo's grandson.

"The Chase (1946)" with no one I've ever heard of: an obscure noir with a twist.

Tea: chilli con carne etc.

Entertainment: UAP bollox on Blaze, assuming it's not so totally bollox that I turn it off.

Memo to self: Trucking Hell S8 E1 next week at 21:00.

[NickFitz]

Meanwhile on the 21st of August 2019 NF had a bad back and spent some valuable time on a bash script that output a if it succeeded and a if it didn't

Better still, it's incorporated into the shell configuration, so it does it for every command! I still use it

After a mildly frustrating day, I headed over to Big Sainsbury's where, unsurprisingly, I got the shopping done

Only mask, as usual nowadays. Ah well, at least it's not like the USA where some redneck will shoot you for wearing one in Walmart

I remembered to check Google Maps before setting off and it's lucky I did as there was an RTC at the bridge I normally cross the river by, so I took the other route via the outer ring. This meant I wasn't able to observe the progress of the chestnut tree outside the old place, or the Polish café come to that, but the tree's usually resting at this time of year anyway, and the Polish café always does well

And homeward, I came via the VAT fraud chip shop, so it was haddock and chips for tea

[WTFH]

GBM & Traitors watched, now TFBSZ.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's post-shopping viewing was Murder Trial - The Killing of Dr Brenda Page: Episode 1. She died in the late 1970s, but her ex-husband was finally put on trial for her murder recently; he's in his eighties

And then a bit of ditzing around with SwiftUI before reading more of Breathtaking

Friday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

A bit of a breeze and some rain overnight, though nothing like the storms of earlier in the week, but it's a clear sky now for the dawn to appear in. Currently 5°C and maybe reaching 8° this afternoon, while the barometers aren't much different, albeit down a little at 1010/1018mB

Friday!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Bright.

Sunny.

Dry.

Calm.

Chilly in here at 12.5 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 10.5 deg in the leanto.

1025.5 mBar, 30.283 in Hg, 769.188 Torr, 14.874 psi, (up from 1013 last night), 75% RH (GDR hair), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 21st of August 2019 it was fine, there was debate about the sadness of unplayed with toys, Meccano Number 10 sets, a mandraulic saw in the garage, the reduction in consumption of beef, the number of buckets of apples consigned to the compost heap, and more paper destined for recycling.

Walk (abbreviated) walked in the sunshine, which was nice, the shade, less so.

Lunch: scrambled egg (satisfyingly leathery) etc.

Entertainment: Y&Y replacement thing waffling on about recycling and repairing stuff. Strange to relate: the older stuff is then the easier it is to repair. One vacuum cleaner turned away for lack of a suitable magick screwdriver.

NZ Border Patrol thing: cockroach city.

"The Bounty Hunter (1954)" with that Randolph Scott and Ernie Borgnine 3 years before he was Marty.

Tea:

Wheeler Dealers?

Vanished Wales?

Minute by Minute Emergency.

Spanish customs thing: I wonder how many bits of stolen motor bikes/cars they'll find this time: a van full, 7 engines, plus assorted bits of dismantling. 67kg of wacky baccy from the wheels of an artic. couple of kilos of coke from two suitcases.

Elderly chap smuggling cigarettes. Chinese chap with an assortment of odd stuff, needs wee fee to translate Mandarin into Spanish.

History's Greatest Mysteries: Thing about the Amber Room on Blaze.

I did think to take the 3 feet pile o'books to that Oxfam this afternoon but in the end decided a Randolph Scott film was more fun and probably less infectious.

Got phoned up yesterday about the renewal of my bus pass, which was good coz I couldn't see a way of doing it on line.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Lovely moon earlier as we came back in from the walk.

Had the free septic tank paperwork collected, now to get back to timesheets.


TFIF, etc