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[NickFitz]

Breakfast, or possibly brunch, was a couple of croissants with my morning coffee

No strawberry jam on them today as it had gone mouldy

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon

paid ontime, new invoice raised, 21 days to go

oh, i appear to have upset the Blessed Bishop of Basel's snowflake sensitivities again.
oh, dear. I do so hate upsetting people accidentally.

[ladymuck]

Just about to leave Amsterdam to meet HWMBO in Madrid. All uneventful so far.

[ladymuck]

Forgot to say: it's 22 degrees ('feels like" 25) and cloudy here at Schipol.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Chinese leftovers

Accompanied by a bit of Police Interceptors though I'm not too sure if I've seen this one before - let's face it, there's not a huge variety of things that happen in them

[ladymuck]

HWMBO and I arrived in Madrid within 5 mins of each other despite us both experiencing weather related delays.

On our stroll.back from dinner, I noticed the bar next door to our hotel had a good selection of gins. One of which being HWMBO's favourite. So we stopped in for one. The free pour was exceptionally generous and with a whole bottle of tonic was still "strong". At only €12 a drink, it's now our official gin joint for the next couple of days, until we move hotels and it becomes less practical.

[NickFitz]

Time for a change from sci-fi, so tonight I started reading The Collected Stories of Rumpole by John Mortimer. The title is something of a misnomer though; according to the introduction there are four novels and eighty short stories, and this contains twenty short stories. So they only collected a few

Anyway, it's quite entertaining. I'd never read any before, and nor have I seen the TV programmes. I always assumed the TV stuff was adaptations, but it turns out the Play for Today in the mid-1970s was actually the first appearance of the character, with the written versions following from that

Monday again tomorrow, and my first Monday working since the end of July. But as I mentioned the other day, I think the stuff I'm working on now will be more enjoyable; we shall see

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Big clouds out, though more blue higher up and with sunny spells when the gaps between are in the right place, and still very breezy. The current 14°C "feels like" 10° as a result; the expected high of 19° throughout the afternoon will be accompanied by rain of some description. The barometers are down a bit at 988/996mB

Monday. But what can you do

It's also the start of meteorological autumn, I do believe. But I reckon that's just a convenience invented to make the weather forecasters' spreadsheets easier to manage, and will await the Autumnal Equinox

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday?

Wet.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Odd horizontal rainbow high in the sky further down the valley. Most curious.

Cool in here at 19.6 deg, 20 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.

994.5 mBar, 29.367 in Hg, 745.9 Torr, 14.424 psi, (unchanged), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of February 2020 eek, BR14 and vetran popped in, LM's HWMBO was cooking beans like there was no tomorrow (obviously prescient), NF was going shopping and I was watching "The Wrath of Kahn" again.

Today's dream before waking involved some peculiar radio thing that was monitoring something or other, most of it was semiconductor apart from the output which used a valve. No idea WTF that was all about.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. It rained on me. A lot.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The R4 thing about WWII in Asia. They mentioned that there is no monument to the Indian soldiers who fought in WWII. They didn't mention the statue to Chandra Bose who had support from dear old Adolph & Hirohito.

Shopping trip to Tesco: 38 (double decker for some reason) out, 204 back.

Freecell score: 94%, running average: 84%.

Tea: chilli con carne.

Entertainment: PM. <click>

Book.

UFO bollox on Blaze: <click>

Oak Island bollox on Blaze. Probably watched with the sound muted. Particularly when the metal detecting moron is pontificating or Jack is spouting his usual bollox.

Yup. It was as uninteresting as one might readily imagine. Seems a long long time since it was worth watching. Now coins from the Roman Republic (i.e. BC). As if the 300AD coin wasn't enough. .

Still no sign of Marie Antoinette's Jewels, the Holy Grail, or the Ark of the Covenant. .

I suppose 4d worth of copper makes up for it all.

[xoggoth]

^I had nice dream about summit, forget what. I shall avoid doing bluddy company accounts too close to bedtime, had a boring accounty nightmare the other night.

Just done Wordle in 2 goes! Lucky day I hope. Nowt on today, just walky and farting about in me garden.