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[ladymuck]

Blue sky with fluff scurrying past in the stiff breeze. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 18 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer down to 1003 mBar.

Sunrise 06:36; Sunset 19:15 BST

Quiet day at the coal face today so I'm getting on with life admin while thinking about a document I have to write.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been Heinz chicken soup and white toast

I'm hoping its healing properties will help tide me over for the afternoon. Luckily there aren't any meetings, unless they've gone and scheduled any while I was eating

[xoggoth]

Group walk recce with 3 others and a stop at nice cafe by the reservoir. V rough water due to wind, looked like the sea. Then lunch at son's. Now back to f*** accounts!

[ladymuck]

My accountant merged with another company a while ago and, in my usual manner, I did my accounts within a couple of weeks of year end. The new outfit has a 'client portal' for the secure upload of documents, etc. So I uploaded all the bank statements and trial balance.

About 10 days after I did that, some chap from the new company emailed me to say I needed to submit all my year end files. I replied that I had already done it. Three weeks, and three nudges, later I still haven't had a response to that initial reply.

Something tells me I'm not going to be sticking with this new accountancy firm for long if that's how things are going to run.

[NickFitz]

Not a bad afternoon in the end - I was left to my own devices, and the thing I was working on proved to be nice and simple to deal with

I've knocked off early because to complete it, I need to pick my colleague's brains about how some stuff works, and she said she was finishing early so could we look at it tomorrow

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce, with potatoes roasted in duck fat with Cajun seasoning, and peas

I'd forgotten I'd had the chicken and red wine the other day too, so that was the last bit out of the freezer. Oh well, it's nice; I'll just have to make some more

And to watch, Japan's Tsunami: Caught on Camera on C4

[NickFitz]

I ended up wandering around on StreetView for a while, looking at some of the places in the tsunami programme as they were a few months later and as they are now

And another Rumpole story has been read

There's been rainy spells today, and it still seems to be very windy out

Getting to sleep now in the hope the lurgy will have gone away tomorrow, or at least eased up a bit

Goodnight all