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[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dry with blue sky poking through the clouds. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 5) and the high was 8. Very slight chance of some rain in the wee hours overnight. Barometer down to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 07:09; Sunset 17:22

Feeling a lot better today but still occasionally getting nasty cramps in the abdominal region.

Work has been quite dull.

Had a call from a chap who runs his own mini consultancy with one client and wants me to do some work for him a couple of days a week. Contract based on Swiss law and invoiced in USD. Need to do a bit of due diligence before signing any dotted lines

[NickFitz]

Popped round to the pharmacy, where they'd neglected to fill the prescription despite having received it nearly a week ago so I had to wait

Coming back, some aromas were missing: the Indian restaurant doesn't open Tuesdays, and the tapas bar was quiet. But there was a nice one lingering around the Korean place, mainly ginger I think

[NickFitz]

Tea: beef & Guinness casserole with chips and peas

In other news, we have a confirmed date for the interment of Mum & Dad's ashes in a family grave in Liverpool: two weeks on Friday, 7th March

[NickFitz]

There was yet another new Traffic Cops to watch earlier

And later, some more of Inventing the Renaissance

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It seemed like there might be a bit of a rosy-fingered dawn, but patchy clouds are quickly closing up the gaps to put a stop to that. Still on the chilly side at 1°C that "feels like" -5°, but it'll be getting milder with an expected high of 8°. The barometers are down again at 1003/1011mB

Tonight it's expected to remain around 7°, albeit with a chance of some rain, and it generally looks a lot warmer over the coming days

[WTFH]

Morning all
We lost a good friend last night to cancer. That's all I can say right now.

[DoctorStrangelove]

In other news, we have a confirmed date for the interment of Mum & Dad's ashes in a family grave in Liverpool: two weeks on Friday, 7th March

Make sure the PTB get the grave site right (speaking from experience).

Morning.

Wednesday.

Wet.

Grey.

Sunless.

Misty.

Raw.

Chilly in here at 11.1 deg, 9.5 in the kitchen, 8.5 in the leanto.

1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.44 Torr, 14.627 psi, (down from 1010 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of December 2019 NF observed that the Polish Cafe had reopened.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked, at the start in grey gloom then towards the end, in Sunshine. And it didn't rain on me. The umbrella worked again.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about public transport. And undoing some of Beeching's needful doings. Just think: back then £23k was A Lot of Money. Twice the salary of the PM.

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 81%.

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough. The rice wasn't lumpy this time: Morrisons instead of Tesco. And in the mike-ro-wavey a bit longer.

Entertainment: PM waffling on about the Orange Moron's latest bollox. WTF? Still no .338 available? Or a stinger? Baffling.

Maigret this evening. The one about the dead harbour master.

Secrets in the Ice. (since I watched NCIS on Monday). Airstrip up a Greenland fiord: more tulipe left by the 1940s Septics: at least this bit isn't radioactive. Some Norwegian viking site at Bodo: no real information about WTF it was. Kazakstan: a step pyramid in the middle of nowhere, along the Silk Route. something or other about Dawson City in the Yukon: oh yes: someone found the frozen corpse of an iceage ground squirrel. Well there's a thing.

[ladymuck]

Morning all
We lost a good friend last night to cancer. That's all I can say right now.

That sucks

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with a mix of wispy and lumpy fluff filtering the sunshine. Currently 4 degrees with a high of 9 expected. Chance of showers increasing as the evening progresses with the majority forecast overnight. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 07:07; Sunset 17:24

I was supposed to be in ClientCo office today but decided when I logged off yesterday that I couldn't be bothered so I haven't bothered going in. I am meeting a friend there on Friday, for which I will make the effort of course.

Due diligence continues on the Swiss outfit that could be a con, could be worthwhile.

[xoggoth]

Old fart group walk this morning, book reading this afternoon and history talk this evening. Too many things on 3rd Weds and Chewsdays too. Free day tomborrow! Thank that thing I don't believe in.