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[NickFitz]

Lunch: bacon bap (white)

Still nice here, though there's more clouds now

[NickFitz]

Got through to the Chinese on the fourth try (engaged the first three)!

Must be a quiet weekend for them too, as it'll only take fifty minutes - I was expecting to be told to turn up around half seven, or even eight

[NickFitz]

Got through to the Chinese on the fourth try (engaged the first three)!

Must be a quiet weekend for them too, as it'll only take fifty minutes - I was expecting to be told to turn up around half seven, or even eight

And very nice it was too, as always

[NickFitz]

Today there was a bunch of Monkey Life and then assorted other wildlife stuff, though I suspect the latter is sliding into endless repeat territory now - unless the wild dog thing is a new series, which I don't think it is

No other telly this evening, but I finished reading Burmese Days

And now it's time for bed, as I have to be up early for more Monkey Life tomorrow

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chillier in here at 15 deg, 16 deg in the kitchen, 13 deg in the leanto.

1014 mBar, 29.9434 in Hg, 760.56 Torr, 14.7 psi, (down from 1020 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom & wan sunshine.

Lunch: definitely.

Entertainment: book.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 77%.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: some crap poetry thing <click>

Book.

Different book.

Another book.

Vernor Vinge short story.

Clifford Simak short story.

Talking Pictures TV: thing about the Vulcan bomber from 1960 about training a new crew.

Said Vulcan was scrapped in 1968.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It was fairly sunny not long ago but is clouding over, and apparently it'll get windier later too. On the cooler side again at 9°C (feels like 5°) and aiming for 14°, with the barometers down the tiniest bit at 1010/1018mB

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bacon bap (white) again

The bed is airing and a bedding wash is on, as I decided a nice comfy clean bed would be conducive to a decent night's sleep ahead of the resumption of remunerated labour tomorrow

Though the morning I'm really looking forward to this week is Tuesday. That's when the mortgage payment would come out of the bank, and it appears from anecdotal online sources that the Halifax can be a bit slow about cancelling the direct debit and then even slower about refunding the overpayment. I'm not really bothered about the money as such, just curious to see whether they've improved this aspect of things as the anecdotes are from a couple of years ago, or older

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Sunny but cloudy today. No rain but some forecast later this evening. Currently 13 degrees and the high was 15. Barometer down to 1013 mBar.

HWMBO and I visited Mum. No dramas although she did accuse my brother of stealing a teaspoon.

[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb cutlets with chips, peas and gravy

There was a bit of rain earlier and it seems likely there'll be more of it, perhaps heavier, overnight and tomorrow

[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life this morning

This afternoon's helpings of US borders and Antipodean roads policing were repeats though, so didn't get much attention

And this evening, a new Saving Lives in Cardiff and old 24 Hours in A&E

The latter was first shown in July 2022 so I assumed I would have seen it before, but I didn't remember it.

More rain has happened as predicted, and it's also getting very windy

Time for bed now (it having been remade earlier) as I have to be up for work tomorrow - well, I assume I do, as I haven't heard anything to the contrary

Goodnight all