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[WTFH]

All this nonsense about deciding whether to heat a home by the date...

When I was single, I used to turn the heating on if I had a date. Always made them feel warmly welcome.

[ladymuck]

When I was single, I used to turn the heating on if I had a date. Always made them feel warmly welcome.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a roast pork and apple sauce bap (wholemeal)

With that done, I set to work preparing some large boxes and other packaging for recycling. I tend to let this stuff accumulate, until eventually it's getting in the way and I finally deal with it

So once I'd found the Stanley knife, which I'd left other than in its usual place on a bookshelf in the living room, I carved the boxes up into small bits which could easily be packed into recycling bags and topped up with cardboard envelopes from Amazon. Once I had two well-stuffed bags, I took them over to the recycling bins. First time I've been over there in a while, as I now habitually put stuff out for the management company people to take away in the morning; but these would have inconvenienced them, as they only bring one recycling bin and one general waste bin with them as they tour around the three blocks, and these were almost a bin load on their own

Returning, and with the dishwasher having finished the load I set it to work on earlier, it was time to get the mundane laundry on

I used the machine's "washing assistant", which allows you to specify the types of thing you're washing, and also prevents you mixing things that shouldn't go in together. It then devises what it reckons are the optimal settings. This will be one of my most frequently used combinations, so I remembered to save it to "Favourites" (under the title "Mundane laundry", of course) so I can go straight to it without faffing around in future

And a few minutes after it had started, it pinged me via my phone to let me know that it expected to finish sooner than its initial estimate, due to the load being relatively small!

[NickFitz]

I always find this interesting. My heating is never 'off'. There's a temperature set and should the flat drop below that, then the heating comes on. This means it's cold out. The past two mornings, the heating has been on when I've gotten up.

All this nonsense about deciding whether to heat a home by the date rather than the weather is beyond me.

I know! I should just leave it on, and let the thermostat deal with matters. I think I'll do that in future, as I've also realised that deciding something like that based on date rather than conditions is ridiculous

[sadkingbilly]

Returning, and with the dishwasher having finished the load I set it to work on earlier, it was time to get the mundane laundry on

I used the machine's "washing assistant", which allows you to specify the types of thing you're washing, and also prevents you mixing things that shouldn't go in together. It then devises what it reckons are the optimal settings. This will be one of my most frequently used combinations, so I remembered to save it to "Favourites" (under the title "Mundane laundry", of course) so I can go straight to it without faffing around in future

And a few minutes after it had started, it pinged me via my phone to let me know that it expected to finish sooner than its initial estimate, due to the load being relatively small!

What a palaver. I put everything in 'cottons normal 30degrees' with a scoop of pink stuff, a wash capsule and some relatively smell free* softener, and hit the switch.

*why does every washing product have to smell like a french whorehouse?? FFS

[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb cutlets with chips and beans

Accompanied by a bit of Police Interceptors

[NickFitz]

What a palaver. I put everything in 'cottons normal 30degrees' with a scoop of pink stuff, a wash capsule and some relatively smell free* softener, and hit the switch.

*why does every washing product have to smell like a french whorehouse?? FFS

But from now on, I can just select that option I configured, chuck the clothes in, and start it up - it deals with the detergent and stuff itself

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Foreigner (2017) in which an elderly Jackie Chan is hell bent on revenge after his daughter is killed by a bomb planted by a renegade nouveau IRA unit. But does he have a special set of skills…? I thought this was excellent, bringing revenge and action tropes together in a very dark political thriller. Highly recommended

And then Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) which is a fitting ending to the saga

Finally, I decided to rewatch The Adjustment Bureau (2011) for no other reason than that I like it. I really ought to get around to reading the Philip K. Dick short story on which it, as with so many good films, is based

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday. Last Fair day.

Wet. Torrentially wet overnight (or very windy).

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Nice rainbow just now.

Cooler in here at 17.4 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 16 deg in the leanto.

1001 mBar, 29.56 in Hg, 750.8 Torr, 14.52 psi, (down from 1002 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of February 2020 Brillo & scruff popped in, NF visited the Chinese (which was very nice), and I watched Highlander II and III.

Freecell score: 88%, running average: 84%.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: my tinnitus. News Quiz with no mention of 3006 bolt action rifles. .

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked, mostly in sunshine, slight sprinkling of rain.

Getting darker now.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM.

Video about some geezer comparing a Rover V8 3.5 engine fitted with SU carbs against the same engine fitted with some septic 4 barrel carb*: lot of fannying about and money for 17 hp at 6000 rpm.

*Edelbrock 500 for which a new manifold is required. (£200).

Maigret "The children's party" (1961).

4: Britain's Railway Empire: how Britain brought railways to the world. E1.

Blaze: Skunk Works.

[sadkingbilly]

But from now on, I can just select that option I configured, chuck the clothes in, and start it up - it deals with the detergent and stuff itself

It goes shopping??