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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start out, though not rainy and not expected to be. Comparatively mild: 5°C and aiming for 10° later. The barometers are up a little bit at 999/1007mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
MMtSH was up at 3.30 cause he was touching fur.
After that I was awake, thinking about car servicing, lawn mower servicing/replacement, summerhouse repairs, and several other jobs that need doing.
Gently spitting when we went out, but it stopped shortly into the walk.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Further viewing this evening was part one of Chinook: Zulu Delta 576 about the chopper that went into the Mull of Kintyre, killing every senior intelligence officer in Northern Ireland in one fell swoop

Part II deals with the coverup. It's the ep I watched on BBC2 NI some weeks ago.

Morning.

Tuesday.

Damp.

Blue sky.

Sunny.

Chilly in here at 11.8 deg, 10.5 deg in the kitchen, 9 deg in the leanto, 6 deg in the saltinghouse.

1009 mBar, 29.796 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.634 psi, (up from 1002 last night), 75% RH (GDR hair), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of September 2019 I was offered a contract in Cheltenham at £25/hr which made I larf, whilst WTFH was ticking things off the todo list including the chicken door.

Shirts in the WM, out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Smalls and cords in the WM, out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Cottons in the WM on the shirts setting since they need a hot wash having had successive 40 deg washes. Out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine.

Came back & it started raining feck it.

Shirts in the TD.

Lunch: baked spud etc.

Entertainment: getting the fecking shirts in off the line.

Motorway Patrol.

NZ customs thing: 4kg of meth in tubs of LM grease. Big tubs. Possible human trafficking a lady from Taiwan along with her handler: refused entry.

Everything in off the line & finishing in the TD. Not a happy bunny.

Canadian border control. Dumb septics done for carrying the receiver for an AR15 which is illegal in Canada: vehicle & trailer confiscated because it was concealed & not declared. Gaol time on its way: smuggling an illegal weapon. Idiot trying to carry drugs to Argentina: thought it was ok since he wasn't staying in Canada: he was wrong there. Gosh. Here's a first: a chap who's killed someone, put the body in a 40 gallon drum, put the drum in the lake, got busted & served 11 years and had 2 books written about him. A lady allegedly selling her wotsit denied entry.

Oz border control. Can't wait to see the quantities of "food" in this one. Birds nest. Confiscated. Same two had $40k concealed. Total fines were knocking on for $1100. Lady from septicland who was into the master/slave thing (rather odd considering her color but whatever floats yer boat as it were): returned to septicland since they reckoned she was on the game. Chap with a kilo of coke internally: 7 years.

Shirts & cottons requiring it all duly iRoned. It mostly dried on the line, a mere cupful of water coming out of the TD.

Tea: soup etc.

UFO Hunters.

Scotland Yard "the strange case of blondie (1954)". Hadn't seen that one before. .

The Mentalist S1 E7.

Freecell score: 86%, running average: 86%.

Maigret and the Minister (2002).

[NickFitz]

Part II deals with the coverup. It's the ep I watched on BBC2 NI some weeks ago.

Yes, I'm looking forward to that part. Private Eye has had a fair bit to say about it over the years

Lunch has been a couple of leftover southern not-fried drumsticks with a bag of chicken crisps

[WTFH]

I see facebook has gone down

[NickFitz]

I see facebook has gone down

its wiv the angles now

[ladymuck]

Evening all

This morning started clear with fluff but was cloudy by the time I got to the office. When I left, it was clear with fluff again. Barometer this morning was steady at 1012 mBar and up to 1017 mBar when I got home.

The drive to/from the Heathrow HQ today was easy and uneventful. Only took 20 mins to get home.

Had an early dinner and am now doing general tidying around the house as HWMBO has invited guests for dinner on Friday.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Nando's leftovers

And the bed has been remade, for I have new pillows!

The previous ones are only a couple of years old, but seem to have lost much of their oomph, or whatever it is pillows should have. They say you should replace them every couple of years anyway, but this time I decided to splash out on some expensive Hungarian goose down ones. No idea what makes Hungarian geese so special, but apparently they are

And if the new ones also need replacing in a couple of years, I'll know that there's no point shelling out for the expensive ones

[NickFitz]

This evening's viewing started with a new episode of Traffic Cops

And then part two of the Chinook thing, in which the coverup eventually unravelled, as they so often do

Somebody's scheduled a meeting for 9am tomorrow. I am not best pleased about this; I usually "start" around then, but it takes at least half an hour to get myself into a state where I'm ready to actually think about stuff

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start with a hint of fog slightly blurring the outlines of the more distant trees. Currently 3°C and once again aiming for 10° by mid-afternoon. The barometers are buoyant at 1008/1016mB

I awoke exactly two minutes before the first alarm was due to go off. It was still earlier than I would have liked, but I think it's better that way than being jarred awake in the middle of some dream state, which has happened the last couple of days and which always seems to leave one feeling groggy and stressed. We need an alarm clock that monitors your brainwaves and waits until you're in a suitable state before waking you up