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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Friday!

It's a sunny start here, with the predicted "partly cloudy conditions" this afternoon likely to be nothing more than a bit of haze, I expect. Currently just 10°C but it's expected to get to 21° later, while the barometers are resurgent at 1011/1019mB

[xoggoth]

Yeh, I've just won a prize on the National Lottery! Oh, it's £5! Bah!

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, feels a bit autumnal out there.
A pleasant perambulation.
TFIF, etc.
Just finishing my timesheets for the month. Which bucket do I put CUK under?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday. And since it was a BH the recycling engineers made their merry way along the road earlier.

Dry.

Blue sky in parts.

Sunny.

Cool in here at 18.2 deg, 19 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto, 12.8 in the saltinghouse.

1017.5 mBar, 30.05 in Hg, 763.2 Torr, 14.7575 psi, (up from 1016 last night), 73% RH (Lidl electric).

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Smalls in the WM.

Meanwhile on the 6th of November 2019 NF enjoyed A Big Chicken sufficient for several meals and soup, followed by more of "I, Claudius", this featuring Nero and his fiddle, whereas I enjoyed more of BTVS & Angel S1, and LM reached Schipol despite some security scare.

Smalls out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Cottons in the WM.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine.

Cottons out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Shirts in off the line & roughly iRoned.

Smalls in off the line & airing upstairs.

Entertainment: Fringe S3 E11, E12, E13.

Lunch: there was lunch.

5 lawns duly mown.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: Fringe S3 E14, E15, E16.

"Armstrong" on PBS, being the story of The First Man. Muffie appeared in an assortment of 8mm films.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with occasional fluff. Currently 21 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Barometer up to 1023 mBar.

Nothing noteworthy happening.

I have been carrying around a "happy anniversary" card for a friend and their partner and walked past many a post box without actually posting said card. It's their anniversary on Sunday so today is the very last hope I have of getting it there approximately on time.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice

My list of things to be decommissioned or otherwise dealt with is now green from top to bottom, so that's me done with this project!

Well, I'll hang around virtually this afternoon in case any last minute questions pop up

Meanwhile, a bloke who I suspect to be a decorator (based on the splashes of paint on his shorts) is bringing what I assume is decorating stuff into the flat across the landing. At this rate, I'll end up with a neighbour over there for the first time in a year

[NickFitz]

To the pharmacy for the monthly prescription, where confusion reigned

Luckily, I'd made a point of checking assorted matters relating to it before I set off. So I knew that there had been a prescription request on 11 July, which I'd collected on 5 August. To my surprise there had also been a prescription request on 31 July, which is far too soon in what should be a four-week cycle. Anyway, this would be the one I collected today. And I discovered there'd also been a request made today, meaning their practice of re-ordering too soon has finally caught up with itself

When I got there, they looked around the back… and found the prescription from today. They told me it would take ten minutes or so to fill, as they'd only just received it.

So I pulled out my phone and showed them the one from 31 July, pointing out that the issue I was coming to the end of was dated 12 July and therefore couldn't be that one, so they must have one already waiting for me.

Then they went on the computer and looked, and looked, and finally declared that they'd never received the one from 31 July. They claimed it might never have been received by them, at which I pointed out on my phone that it said it had been sent to them, though they astutely pointed out that those aren't the same thing. Later, they argued that the doctor might never even have signed it, by which time I couldn't be bothered to argue any more. They insisted, however, that they could see EVERYTHING on the computer, and they could go RIGHT BACK, and there was no trace of that 31 July prescription.

Finally, after various other customers had come and gone (including a woman with a persistent dry cough who's probably given us all Covid), they appeared with the bag of drugs. So I ambled up to the counter to collect it… and guess what?

This was the issue from the 31 July prescription! The one they'd never received! The one the doctor hadn't signed! The prescription that couldn't be found on the computer that has everything and goes way back had, in fact, been filled and had been sitting on a shelf in the back the whole time!

They asked me if I wanted to wait while the pharmacist finished off today's version, but I told them I'd come back for it in 28 days

[NickFitz]

Done and dusted, so let the holiday commence!

[NickFitz]

Celebratory tea has been the last Chatsworth ribeye steak with chips, fried onions and beans. Very nice bit of meat

This was, for a change, accompanied by ST:DS9 S3E11 and S3E12: Past Tense parts one and two, because it starts when a transporter malfunction combined with a temporal anomaly lands Sisko, Dax, and Bashir in San Francisco on… August 30 2024! This is a couple of days before the Bell Riots, a pivotal event in Earth history, and naturally they mess things up by being there when they shouldn't and have to make sure everything turns out the way it "should" from the perspective of their future reality

[WTFH]

Standing out looking up at the stars as MtSH does his nighttime thang, having picked up a young hedgehog on the cameras an hour ago, and the song in my head is Desperado.

The Wife^TM is home tomorrow, out for dinner tomorrow night and then it’s her birthday on Sunday.

TFBSZ