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[NickFitz]

More pork pie for lunch

As promised, it's cloudier out. But it's more of a wispy state of affairs than a gloomy overcast one

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Still cloudy but bright, dry and warm. Currently 22 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Barometer up a snifter to 1000 mBar.

After a lie in, this morning was spent figuring out what was causing some ants to visit my kitchen, and clearing it up.

Not visiting Mum as I want to watch the final stage of the Tour de France in its entirety, rather than just the evening highlights.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been pork cutlet with chips and beans

The cloud has largely cleared off again, so it's quite Simpsonesque out there for the evening

[ladymuck]

Ants!

[NickFitz]

I did a bit of mucking around with SpriteKit this afternoon which led to me missing the US borders programme, though I caught a bit of the Australian one later. And this evening, Trauma Room 1 followed by a couple of new episode of 24 Hours in A&E

And, of course, keeping an eye on Twitter to see what the Americans are making of the latest developments in their rebellious little colony

In domestic appliance news, I noticed this evening that the alarm light was no longer blinking on the freezer from the old place. I wondered if the LED had finally burnt out or something. There's nothing much in there apart from various bits of bread now, as I'm gradually working out how to adjust my lifestyle to the limited capacity of the resident fridge-freezer. So I opened it up and had a look at the thermometer I keep in there - and it was at -21°C!

So it appears to have started working again, perhaps reminded of its duties by the warm weather. Good news if it remains stable, but I'll wait and see how it goes for a week or three before I risk stocking up…

Monday again tomorrow

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

700kgs of oak sleepers moved, cut, drilled, etc, and then held together with what I am told are “tree nails”, i.e. long pieces of dowel hammered into them to keep them in place.
I am currently absolutely William Buggered and up to my eyes in pain killers.

Anyway, TFBSZ, back to sitting at my desk tomorrow, recovering.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start out but with gas where the sun is getting through, at least partially, from time to time. It's getting warmer, being 16°C with a predicted high of 22°. The barometers are much the same at 1000/1008mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday apparently.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Drizzly.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 20.7 deg, 21 deg in the kitchen, 19.8 deg in the leanto.

1007.5 mBar, 29.751 in Hg, 755.687 Torr, 14.61 psi, (unchanged), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile the 24th of October 2019 page was unchanged from yesterday.

Turning over in bed caused much angst in the back, though higher up than lumbago.

It's been like this since the last meeting with the chinese plague, for which much thanks.

Shopping trips to Morrisons (dry) and Tesco (not dry but drizzly on the way back) done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Raining now.

Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling about tulipe.

TWATO waffling about tulipe. <click>

The Mentalist S1 E21, E22. Well it filled a drizzly grey hour and 20 minutes.

Tea: chilli (tinned) con carne etc. Tasted rather good this time. Must be better quality cow's rectums in that tin.

Entertainment: PM. <click>

The Mentalist S1 E23. EOS1. Red John gets tricky.

Abandoned Engineering. Probably zero engineering content judging by experience: ruin of Irish mansion burned down by the IRA in the 20s, some septic mansion built by the 2nd son of the chap who bought Coke so fascinating I dozed off, Polish castle purportedly housing Nazi gold in some sort of railway tunnel. Some other bollox insufficiently inneresting to remember.

No Skinwalker Ranch, but the Lost Apollo Tapes instead: more inneresting than the crap above.

And very probably The Mentalist S2 E1, E2 will fit in there somewhere, wherein Jane is removed from the Red John investigation.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast but dry out.

[xoggoth]

Feeling cr*p after another grotty night's sleep. Was no worse than previous but I felt ok yesterday. Anyway, loony lady 3 later, after exciting trip to the dump with bits of wood and other junk I've been piling up in me shed for 40 years.