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[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc out, but haven’t been for a walk yet.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Drizzly.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 20.8 deg, 21.5 in the kitchen, 20 in the leanto.

1016 mBar, 30 in Hg, 762.1 Torr, 14.735 psi, (up from 1014 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of January 2020 LM was writing an essay, plus an essay plan, and checking the word count which was 1200 rather than 1800, NF remembered his GCE History, which included some sort of essay thing, LondonManc was drinking expensive beer, BR14 popped in, and I finished watching "Once upon a time in America" which was very long indeed.

Freecell score in the grey gloom: 90%, running average: 82%.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Dead Ringers.

Counted 15 jackdaws on the lawn. Plus a magpie or so flying over.

More potching in the garage: found more stuff I'd long forgotten. Some of it came up here with me. Anyone want any fanfold? Just asking like.

Not much call for moving iron ammeters and voltmeters, but I've got some now in case they come in handy, like. .

Just found a post where someone is remarking that no one had posted in TPD for a whole 10 minutes. Oh how things have changed. Whatever happened to Electric Chair?

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM.

Maigret: the one about the chap who declares his wife is trying to poison him.

UFO bollox on Blaze. Well it filled an hour.

Massive Engineering Mistakes S5 E10: North Carolina: Winston-Salem: Ammonium Nitrate fire with added propane to make it go a bit better: the 50 ton explosion in Texas was impressive: this one had 600 tons but that didn't go off, it just burned. Fertiliser factory. Took 4 days to put out. Canada: Ontarios: Nipigon bridge: loose nuts (probably never tightened properly, all 40 of them) let go causing a 60cm rise of the carriageway at an expansion joint. They loaded it down with concrete & tightened the nuts down properly to fix it. NZ: Wellington: 11 story block of apartments: woodframe construction: water ingress from cantilever balconies causing rot. Ooops. Swiss/German border: Laufenberg High Rhein Bridge: 54 cm difference in height between the two abutments due to maths error: the Swiss take the Med as sealevel, the Germans take the North Sea: 27 cm difference: someone subtracted instead of adding or vv. They hadn't built the German side so fixed it that way. Looks a bit odd but there you go.

S6 E1: California: Big Sur: Pacific Highway: ferroconcrete canyon bridge collapsed due to column foundation movement: replaced with a steel bridge that didn't need intermediate supports. German high speed train crash that killed 101 due to fatigue failure in the tyre of a rubber sprung wheel. Must have been alarming to see said tyre appear through the floor of the carriage in the seconds before the disaster. They don't use rubber sprung wheels on those trains any more. Nevada: Las Vegas: MGM Grand Hotel fire caused by an electrical fault in the kitchen. Killed 85. Australia: Sydney: apartment building started cracking due to differential settlement of the foundations, possibly due to adjacent construction.

Neil Young doing his thing at Glasto. I know some of the music. Mostly the heavier stuff.

[sadkingbilly]

who's BR14? a dummy account?

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Sunny out and it's hot, albeit not as hot yet as the next couple of days. Right now it's 26°C and shortly it'll move on up to 28°, though Monday is expected to reach 30°. But the air conditioner is on and has already got it down to just over 24° in here. The barometers are up some more at 1009/1017mB

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cold roast chicken thighs and a bag of plain crisps

The mundane laundry, which I've forgotten to put on for the last two days, is finally in the wash

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, a Turkish mixed grill (from the nearby place, not the one across town)

The mundane laundry reached a successful conclusion

Down on the lawn, the seagull dropped in again. A couple of magpies - one adult, one juvenile - were there at the time and carefully avoided it when it came near them, though it ignored them completely, as usual. I'm still not sure why it comes here. All it does is wander around the lawn for a few minutes, then fly off through the gap between this and the adjacent block. Still, it's not causing any problems, so it's welcome to take a little break here if it wants to

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's been alternating between cloudy and sunny today. Currently 27 degrees and the high was 29. Barometer up to 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 04:47; Sunset 21:22 BST

It's been a lazy day today. Laundry done and dried on the airer in the garden. HWMBO has cooked chicken souvlaki for dinner with multiple accompaniments.

Whilst eating we are watching Trucking Hell, with the key archive moment being that time WTFH parked his Ferrari in a Surrey roundabout.

[xoggoth]

Day out with ll1 followed by a village wander and another drop in at local club for a half. Listening to bar lady's troubles bit depressing, she has to do everything for her husband, he can barely get out of his chair.

Gordon Bennet! Marty Wilde is still performing, got a gig very near me in a few weeks. Not sure that Teenager in Love is a suitable song for an 86 year old. That's an idea, I could sing version "Doddery Old Pensioner in Love" at my next karaoke.

[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff on today as usual, though largely repeats

And this evening I started reading The Nazi Mind: 12 Warning from History by Laurence Rees

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Morning all

It's 19 degrees. The sun is not ris. Taking HWMBO to the airport then back to bed.