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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Grey. .

Dry.

Sunless. .

Warm in here at 24 deg, 25.5 in the kitchen, 23.5 in the leanto.

1003.5 mBar, 29.63333 in Hg, 752.69 Torr, 14.55 psi, (up from 1002 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric), 80% RH (GDR hair).


Meanwhile on the 31st of January 2020 Brillo popped in, along with BR14, and LM, NF made a chicken madras (Patak cookin sauce), whereas I had M&S breaded haddock and watched "The 39 steps" (inferior 70s version) followed by some nonsense with Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, and Di Caprio in a spaghetti western takeoff "The Quick & the Dead (1995)", it being the final film of Woody Strode, whereas NF watched "Contagion" and found the premise unlikely, stretching the bounds of credibility. .

Some minor potching in the garage: more 5* applied to drawers.

Strewth there's a lot obsolete car stuff in there.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Rebecca Stott relating her curious early upbringing.

Windy out there now. Gusty. Feels like there's a storm coming. . I'm sure I spotted a lady driving a jeep with an Alsatian dog going by just now. .

Y&Y waffling on about sunbeds & suchlike.

Bathroom deep cleaned. Gosh. The changes of water necessary to remove the grime. . Used up some of the multitude of Cif that exists in this house, some inherited, some (one) I bought myself.

Thing on the radio just now about someone drowning kittens. Lovely. Just what I needed. <click> Having memories of such things from 60 years ago.

In other other news it rained a bit ealier. Nothing much to speak of but quite pleasant.

More potching in the garage: almost finished with the 5* wood treatment.

Tea: chicken in white sauce but no rice. Much better. Have trouble getting it down my throat with the rice.

Entertainment: PM. <click>

UFO bollox on Blaze.

Neil Oliver tramping over Wales. Bloody tourists looking at our muddy footprints from 8000 years ago, and our Red Lady from 33,000 years ago.

Skinwalker Ranch: behind the gates x2. Clip show. Unless the aliens turn up of course. . Well that was tedious: nearly fell asleep at one point.

Foyle's War S1 E1. Seems a long time ago. Er, it was: 2001. The past is another country etc.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with lumps of fluff and a gentle breeze. Much more palatable temperatures today. Currently 25 degrees and that's the high for the day. Slight risk of rain but it's not looking likely at the moment. Barometer at 1012 mBar.

Sunrise 05:01; Sunset 21:13 BST.

Yesterday I was quite poorly. I wasn't all that great on Saturday either, but battled through, which is probably why Sunday was a wash out. I languished about the flat while HWMBO went out for lunch with a friend from his university days. I was supposed to be visiting Mum but that wasn't going to happen.

This evening I'm off to see Nye at the National Theatre.

[WTFH]

WE HAD RAIN.

OK, it was for about 5 minutes and everything is dry again, but there was a brief deluge.

A question for the hive mind:
Does anyone know how to remove a Vulcanate pond drain plug. It's a blast plastic one that has a nipple-like protrusion on it. (Big nipple, probably 2cm across and 3 cm high) that is firmly imbedded into a metal plate in the centre of the pond.
I've tried twisting it, it doesn't move. I've tried pulling it, no joy either. I've tried getting a screwdriver between the metal and the plastic, that's not happening.
My reason for wanting it out is that I'm going to put in a temporary liner and don't want a lump in the middle from potentially tearing the liner when it's full.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Lunch: turkey bap (white)

Wind's getting up here

[NickFitz]

Rain! Lots of it right now, though it won't last

[Dark Black]

Afternoon

25.7 deg inside.. but pleasant due to gustiness outside blowing cooler air into the room..

Been outside doing some jobs I'd put off during the heatwave...
Connected the spare empty water butt to the full one to catch any overflows when it rains (ever the optimist) .

My email and web hosting have now successfully transferred to MB for all my domains. Now I've started a domain transfer, using one that I don't really use as a test to see how smoothly it will happen... And of course it's not simple.. Easily won't let me do it via their portal.. I have to email them.. I have, but nothing back yet.. no confirmation of a ticket raised or anything. Will be glad when I'm completely free of that lot, they've really gone down hill.

Not done any job hunting for a few days.. will have to pick that up again soon.. I'm not optimistic though

[xoggoth]

Walk with 2 old ladies and 1 old bloke this morning. Just me and the 2 old ladies in pub when ll2 walked in by coincidence.

Roads unlucky round here, 3rd major accident I've passed in 3 days. Car yesterday was upside down.

25.7 deg inside.. but pleasant due to gustiness outside blowing cooler air into the room..

Almost exactly ditto, my thermo says 25.8.

[NickFitz]

Another day done, eleven more to go!

Today wasn't too bad. There was something I had to test a fix for this morning, which turned out to be OK and meant the stuff I'd been occasionally picking at over the last week or so can be described as finished. And while doing that, I discovered a bug that the tooling chaps had introduced into their stuff last week. So I raised it with them, and was able to help out with some chunks of relevant output and an idea about how to go about fixing it. They've now implemented the fix and that'll probably be good to ship by tomorrow. So although I didn't have that much to do, there was just enough to poke about at to keep me mildly interested

After the brief downpour, it's a sunny evening here now

[NickFitz]

Tea has been spicy roast chicken thighs and chips

I put together a spice mix myself, and it was pretty nice though it could have been a bit zingier. If I can remember what I used, I'll try that again but I'll beef it up a bit