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[ladymuck]

There has been much rumbling going on and the clouds are looking ominously grey. I hope this turns into a good and proper thunderstorm.

[ladymuck]

According to my weather app, it is heavily raining. Except the rumbles have gone and the cloud has mostly cleared, leaving a sunny evening.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas

To watch with that, E2 of The Warship: Tour of Duty in which HMS Queen Elizabeth seemed to get right up the Russians' noses in the eastern Mediterranean (this was before the invasion of Ukraine). Serves them right

[NickFitz]

More of Porno has been read

Still only Tuesday tomorrow. They should exclude that one from the working week; I think everybody would appreciate it

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's another sunny start, though there's a refreshing light breeze coming through such windows as are open. It's 12°C with 22° due later, so very slightly more restrained than yesterday; it'll generally be slightly cooler midweek before hovering around the 20° mark for a while. The barometers are resurgent at 1007/1015mB

And the roses have started to bloom in the central flowerbed

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS etc, and a pleasant walk earlier, but there's now some high level cloud coming in off the coast.

Off for the latest round of tests at lunchtime.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Was sunny: now grey.

Chilly in here at 17.8 deg, 19 deg in the kitchen, 17 deg in the leanto.

1012 mBar, 29.884343 in Hg, 759.1 Torr, 14.6778 psi (up from 1009 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of January 2020 BR14 popped in, as did Brillo, wattaj (after a 2nd breakfast), scruff, and eek. NF had a good night's sleep. opm was off out for a leaving do later.

It rained.

Walk (unabbreviated, alternate route) walked in the sunshine after the earlier rain.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about beauty treatments and the dire effects of same. Now on to salmon sperm. .

TWATO until some lying representative of the fascists was speaking of Gaza. <click>

More potching in the garage: yet more coach bolts.

Entertainment: Rudolph Hess's grandson.

Rain. Sound of distant thunder.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Nice enough even if a little overcooked.

Entertainment: PM.

Doctor Who: The claws of Axos E4. Colony in Space E1, 2, 3.

Thing about Alf Wainright's Helvelin "walk". Julia Bradbury. In mist. Not a great view.

Wales this week: the Uni crisis: Ye Newe Sloughe of Desponde featured, Lampeter Campus being an Esteemed Customer free zone next year. Oddly the takeover of Swansea Met got no mention, just "opening colleges in Swansea and London". Swansea Met was bigger than Carmarthen & Lampeter combined. Warner should have told the Welsh Assembly drone Andrews to **** off. Which is what Cardiff Met did quite successfully and they're still going.

How the Nazis lost WWII: Adolph's hubris & how it bit him on his arse.

[covbob]

Morning all

Warm and sticky here. I've voluntarily gone into the (mostly empty) office where the air-con is good and it's not my power bill to run...

Sadly the tram's AC wasn't so good and a couple of unwashed chaps in tracksuits got on, which made the atmosphere unpleasant. It must have been rather uncomfortable for them.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny, with occasional passing wisps. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 23 expected. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 05:12; Sunset 20:44 BST

Had a bit of a potter around the garden, cutting back the ivy that grows over the wall from the property behind. Watered the few plants I have. I have lots of bulbs to pot out so might do that this afternoon.

My kitchen and bedroom rugs are in the WM and will be draped out in the garden to dry when it's done doing.

[NickFitz]

Today's lunch has been a German special: a genuine German bratwurst, grilled, in a German deli bun with German curry ketchup and crispy fried onion bits (origin just says "EU" so not sure if they're German). Very nice indeed; I think the last time I had a real German sausage was in the town square of Regensburg or somewhere like that, back in the late 1970s

All these things were delivered this morning from The Sausage Man. I ended up ordering quite a lot from there, so there are more bratwurst (including some mini ones as opposed to the XXL 25cm one I just had) and a good number of frankfurters now occupying the freezer, and two different varieties of curry ketchup

Delivery was via DHL, and as it happens they're also delivering the new blind for the study today. So did they combine the deliveries? Of course not; the blind appears, from all the evidence on the tracking page, to be on the same van, but that's coming late afternoon

The delivery guys seemed not be be the brightest TBH. The site updated to say my stuff had been delivered at 10:55, which I spotted just after 11, so I went down to the front door to see if it had been left there. When I got down, the DHL guys were at the door, so I took delivery (and they disclaimed all knowledge of the blind). Having brought the box up, I checked the site again and realised that there was a proof-of-delivery photo showing said box standing in front of the counter in Sainsbury's Local, down on the road with the shops round the corner

I have no idea how they got it so badly wrong, but the page has since been updated to show delivery at 11:05 and the photo of it at the front door with me instead