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[WTFH]

Morning all, local time 0801

Yesterday was the calm between storms. Today's weather doesn't have a name but it's windy and very wet. Not sure if it's the sound of the rain falling on the palms that makes it seem worse. Apparently there are thundershowers but I've not need / heard anything to corroborate that. Currently 27 degrees with a high of 29 expected.

We're due to head home today, and I'm not looking forward to the drive to the airport. I expect there'll be much flooding on the way. Hopefully the roads won't be busy if people decide to stay home and wait it out.

Safe travels! Hope it's not too choppy on the way up.

BA254, I assume, or are you on VS198?

[ladymuck]

Safe travels! Hope it's not too choppy on the way up.

BA254, I assume, or are you on VS198?

Thanks! We're on BA254

[WTFH]

Thanks! We're on BA254

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-zblg#

Good job you're not on VS - they've been cancelling their Caribbean flights

[ladymuck]

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-zblg#

Good job you're not on VS - they've been cancelling their Caribbean flights

Yeah, we've been tracking it

I'm not surprised other destinations in the Caribbean have been cancelled as Beryl has caused / continues to cause havoc. The last thing SVG and Grenada needs is tourists.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce, with rice for a change

Accompanied by S4E1 of Secrets of the London Underground, for it's back!

Just like yesterday, it's turned sunny for the evening out there

[WTFH]

i see that she’s airborne. I do hope that she waves if they fly over my house at around 5.30am. I might even be out with MMtSH by then.

[NickFitz]

No further telly tonight, but a lot of stuff read on Twitter, largely crowing over how things will go tomorrow

Speaking of which, tomorrow is my last working day of the week!

Same for the Secretary of State I believe - well, last working day in the department in her case

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday: vote early & vote often. .

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 19.0 deg, 20 deg in the kitchen, 17.5 deg in the leanto.

1006 mBar, 29.707 in Hg, 754.56 Torr, 14.59 psi, (untapped but looked like 1004 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of October 2019 WTFH was waiting for a Social Marketeer whatever that is, whereas NF was watching yet more S5 eps of Breaking Bad before going to bed "early", while I was ranting about some prog with Michael Portillo & assorted scum, in particular ******* Farage and Bliar stating that I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire, an opinion that's failed to change since then, on the 17th it proved to be fragrant in with the hoi polloi in the library.

I'm off down to that Swansea later to join a mothers meeting of s at Ye Newe Sloughe of Desponde down by Ye Dockes. I feel sure I'll catch yet another version of the chinese plague, either on the bus or in the caff.

Mothers' meeting done. X7 down, T6 back. Free coffee had. More John LeCarre books purchased in the endless search to have a complete set to read again, though half of them I've never heard of since they were written after the wall came down.

Still haven't found "A small town in Germany" or "The night manager".

Looked in Oxfam and they didn't have "Foundation" but did have the other two: "& Empire" and "Second", both of which I have along with the doors stops he wrote later.

Unfortunately I now have more books than when I started out this morning. But the collection of LeCarre tomes is proceeding.

Lunch: beans on toast etc.

Following on from the demise of the kettle, and the demise of the motherboard sound on the pc, the toaster now seems to be getting temperamental.

Entertainment: some distopian play on R4 about "Olivia", being some sort of AI Siri type thing.

This fecking chromebook keeps forgetting it's got a keyboard. It's really irritating.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc.

Entertainment: PM.

Veronica Mars S2 E12. The one where she bugs the confessional.

The final two eps of "Buried" on iPlayer or whatever the feck it's called.

Veronica Mars S2 E13, E14, E15.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start, though not for the Conservative and Unionist Party, on whom the sun is already setting. Currently 11°C and expected to reach 18°, but getting a bit blustery too. The barometers are down a touch more at 996/1003mB

[NickFitz]

Thursday: vote early & vote often. .

Indeed! I'm off to the Hindu temple round the corner (well, three corners) to vote shortly, returning home via the bakery where I shall treat myself to a bacon cob as a reward for doing my civic duty