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[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast here. No walk earlier, as Max is at home, and I am not.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Damp from overnight rain. Cloudy. Currently 13 degrees and that's the high for the day. Showers expected off and on all day, reducing in likelihood as the day progresses. Barometer down to 1013 mBar.

Sunrise 07:05; Sunset 17:26

I was pleased to discover when making my bed last night that the mattress cover and fitted sheet had dried and so could go straight back onto the bed. This morning the duvet cover is in the WM.

It's annoying that the forum doesn't send an email when a PM is received. I checked, and I do have that box ticked.

[sadkingbilly]

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

commiserations.
better get used to it though, I've lost 6 in the last 10 months.
(only three to cancer)

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a chicken leg with a bag of plain crisps

In this morning's spirit of Getting Things Done, I phoned the garage and booked the Corolla in for an MOT and service, a week tomorrow

Not sure what I'll do once I've dropped it off first thing in the morning TBH. I used to just go home, but now it's almost two miles to walk back. I could go into the city centre, as that's only a few minutes away, but I'm not sure there's much left to do there nowadays. Even M&S has closed down

[ladymuck]

Lunch has been a chicken leg with a bag of plain crisps

In this morning's spirit of Getting Things Done, I phoned the garage and booked the Corolla in for an MOT and service, a week tomorrow

Not sure what I'll do once I've dropped it off first thing in the morning TBH. I used to just go home, but now it's almost two miles to walk back. I could go into the city centre, as that's only a few minutes away, but I'm not sure there's much left to do there nowadays. Even M&S has closed down

If you'd taken SKB up on their bike offer, you could have slung that in the back and cycled home. When do your wheels arrive?

Alternatively, as you say you're getting a bit porky, just do the walk there and back

[NickFitz]

If you'd taken SKB up on their bike offer, you could have slung that in the back and cycled home. When do your wheels arrive?

Alternatively, as you say you're getting a bit porky, just do the walk there and back

Last year I did the walk, but I was working that day. I'm thinking that as it'll be on my day off, and I never find any reason to go into town nowadays, I should do something more interesting. I might go to the Richard III museum - that's pretty much round the corner, if you ignore trivial details like the inner ring road

I need to chase the bike shop about when that'll be showing up. If it gets here in time, I was thinking about taking it and cycling home. But now I've had the museum idea, I'm quite tempted by that. I've been meaning to go there for ages

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a roast chicken dinner, and very nice too

This was accompanied by Top Guns: Inside the RAF on All4. There's a new series but I hadn't seen the old one so I've started with that, which appears to have been recorded shortly after the invasion of Ukraine. Is there some law that any documentary about the military must include a minute or two of cooks preparing a few hundred rashers of bacon? Is the MOD's media office run by a retired military chef? Whether it's about the Navy, Army, or RAF, they always get that bacon in

[NickFitz]

Read some more of Inventing the Renaissance. It's about 600 pages and I'm at around page 150, so I'm a quarter of the way through, and TBH I'm finding it a bit of a slog sometimes. But this first chunk is mainly the core historiography of studies of the period. Not long until we get into the actual stories about actual people and events and suchlike, which will be more entertaining - though there'll still be plenty of debunking and explanations of varying interpretations, because it's a book of historiography, not a history book

Friday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
Windy overnight.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Grey.

Wet.

Sunless.

Windy.

Chilly in here at 13.1 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

999.5 mBar, 29.515 in Hg, 749.686 Torr, 14.496 psi, (untapped: 1005), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of December 2019 NF went to Wilko & bought a waste paper basket for the living room: it had only taken 15 years, whereas BR14 had a surplus that he was thinking of donating to charity, Brillo popped in for a chat.

With the ongoing deluge it looks very much as if today's walk is cancelled, & judging by the forecast, tomorrow's & Monday's too.

Freecell score: 50%, running average: 81%. WTF is wrong with me? I cannot hear I cannot see. To quote the almighty Hawkwind "Warrior on the Edge of Time".

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: The Metals thing from sounds. Gold today.

Book. Other book. Other other book. Book.

Just wandered upstairs to poke about in the front bedroom wardrobe to extract a box I thought (mistakenly) contained some ETI (electronics today international) magazines.

Once I'd moved enough to open the door the box was incredibly heavy & turned out to contain a shedload of Elektor magazines from the 70s, 80s, 90s, & a few from 2000.

None of which were ETI.

Also found in the wardrobe 2 brand new leather jackets, a leather jacket that had been worn at some time until someone commented on it , and my dear old leather jacket the pong of which used to turn my then GF on, it's badly worn but I keep it for sentimental reasons. . .

Still don't know WTF the ETI mags are. 'Tis a puzzle. What's even more disturbing is that there's piles of Elektor, Practical Wireless and EPE in the bedroom too.

There's 40 years of Wireless World down in the garage. It's no wonder the house is nearly falling down.

Also found a duvet I'd forgotten about, presumably intended for the spare bed. No pillows because there's 4 on my bed.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM <click>

The News Quiz. Mildly amusing.

"What's gone wrong with Asda" on 5.

"Edward VIII the traitor king" on PBS. Lots of Dear Old Adolph in this one. . Where's the :nazi: smilie when I need it?

"What's gone wrong with Asda" on 5+1.

I've never shopped at Asda. It's too far away & awkward to get to without a car.

Some bollox or other on Blaze at 23:00: view from above or some such bollox.