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[NickFitz]

Today in thorny questions on which I would have sought my Mum's advice but now can't: how much to give for my niece's wedding present?

They haven't bothered with a list of household appliances and crockery and such, sensibly in my view, instead soliciting donations of actual money to the "Honeymoon Fund". My sister is also unsure but suggested a figure that seems reasonable (and is towards the low end of what I was thinking the range might be) so I'll go along with that

[DoctorStrangelove]

Isn't it amazing how many things one wishes one had asked that can no longer be answered.

There was one today about a rare book my late mate had sold to the Bodleian Library.

[NickFitz]

Another old Traffic Cops was watched earlier, for want of energy to think of something else to watch

Friday tomorrow! About time too!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

A sunny Friday morning with the wind having died down, though the open skies will presumably be letting the heat out: currently 13°C but not getting any higher than 21° later. The barometers are back up a bit at 1004/1012mB

[NickFitz]

Isn't it amazing how many things one wishes one had asked that can no longer be answered.

There was one today about a rare book my late mate had sold to the Bodleian Library.

I know! Just this week I had questions for my Dad about when he was writing for comics, which can't be answered now

[WTFH]

Morning all

CBS, etc, TFIF, etc.
Walk was shorter than usual due to me and the dog both deciding to have a lie in.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Utterly knackered after yesterday's journeying.

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 20.7 deg, 21.5 deg in the kitchen, 18.5 deg in the leanto.

1011 mBar, 29.854 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.6633 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of November 2019 NF had watched the director's cut of "The Exorcist" , followed by "MI: Rogue Nation" as a way of calming down afterwards , LM recalled watching the trauma of watching the original, meanwhile around here Ye Cracke of Doome had sounded which took out the local FM transmitter so I was reduced to LW for Today wherein Matthew Paris had left the Fourth Reich for the Lib Dems.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine.

Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

Entertainment: The Mentalist S7 E7, E8.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: The Mentalist S7 E9.

Some massacring of brambles since I was getting a bit bored.

Entertainment: The Mentalist S7 E10, E11.

HIGNIFY (2021) edition.

Americast.

All being well tomorrow sees the end of The Mentalist, then it's time to find sommat else to watch.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Blue sky with wispy fluff. A light breeze. Currently 21 degrees with a high of 24 expected. Barometer up to 1016 mBar.

More rejections this morning. I don't have the required skills or experience apparently. I felt I was overqualified, so maybe that's what they meant.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a cold pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

My brother received the Grant of Probate in the post this morning! So now the house sale can go ahead, with the timings depending on the buyers. They're at the end of a chain of four IIRC, so let's hope everybody can get things coordinated

I've spent part of the morning scrolling through photographs, trying to work out when our parents had the electric fire installed in the living room. I got back to 2011 when about two inches of the side of it can be seen at the very edge of a photo of our Dad unwrapping presents on his 80th birthday. But I think my sister must have found some paperwork relating to it, as the date that's been reported back to the estate agents is 2009

[NickFitz]

Weekend!

Bright sunny afternoon here

Earlier on, a couple of blokes visited the flat across the landing. They left in separate vehicles and one of them looked like he might be a builder or tradesman of some kind so there may be some activity over there soon, and a new neighbour