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[ladymuck]

The Southern Reach trilogy has a fourth book coming out in October. To my disgust, the cover doesn't match the books I have.

I am undecided as to whether to buy it, and read it, considering I wasn't exactly bowled over by the ones I have read. Or, maybe I need to re-read them and give them another chance before I finally donate them to NF.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs and chips, the former made with my homemade mango-centric BBQ sauce

This was accompanied by new delights from 5 in the form of Traffic Cops: Pursuit Squad One, which is a longwinded way of saying it's about motorbike cops

[xoggoth]

Just back from me karaoke. Loony lady 3 WhatsApped me, we got a date on Saturday.

[NickFitz]

In A for Andromeda, the military are getting involved. That's bound to turn out well

Today was very peaceful, having no meetings at all, no emails other than a few automated things from GitHub, and about three posts on Teams channels, none of which were any of my concern

But it'll be back to normal tomorrow. At least I managed to get some stuff done, so it won't look as if I completely wasted the day

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and somewhat misty start out, so I suppose we're squarely in the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. It's 8°C out there right now, rising to 16° this afternoon, but it'll remain cloudy or mostly cloudy all day. The barometers are steady enough at 1017/1026mB

I wonder what Wednesday will bring? I know it'll bring everybody at work back from yesterday's day out, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are meetings to make up for the meetings that didn't happen yesterday because everybody else was in one really big meeting

[WTFH]

Morning all
Cool out, but overcast. A pleasant walk earlier. Now just sorting out a couple of playlists for the holiday.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 16.7 deg, 16 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto.

1024 mBar, 30.24 in Hg, 768.1 Torr, 14.85 psi, (unchanged), 55% RH (LIdl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of February 2020 eek's daughter's interview lasted 22 minutes, eek, wattaj, AndyGarbs and SimonMac popped in, and it was hammering down old women & sticks in Neath.

Just managed after a mere 7 minutes to arrange the next flu jab for 16:00 on the 4th of October. First time I've used the landline since it was changed to that interweb version.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the slightly wan sunshine.

Managed to twinge my back doing up the shoe laces before going out.

Lots of butterflies on that ivy bush again today.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling about something I've completely forgotten, though I think 40 year mortgages came into it at one point, plus Yodel.

Just spent some time in the deep history of the Book Thread: I can't remember many of those books, thankfully most have met Oxfam.

More gardening: much ivy & brambles decimated. Looking forward to the next bonfire: it'll be a good one.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Back is still complaining but at least I'm still more or less mobile.

Maigret.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Another sunny start to the day. Currently 10 degrees with a high of 26 expected. It is likely to cloud over as the day progresses with a slight chance of a shower mid-afternoon. Barometer steady at 1031 mBar.

Sunrise 07:07; Sunset 19:11 BST

That's 4 minutes of daylight less than yesterday . Looking at the times down at home, it's shifted 16 minutes earlier there (06:51 / 18:55). Oh the joys of latitude!

Feeling pensive today. Not sure why.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been salt & chilli chicken thigh fillet in a wholemeal bap, with a bag of plain crisps

There was a bit of sunshine earlier but now there's big clouds with little gaps, so only a glimmer now and then. There's even been a few spots of rain, but that seems to have given up

One of the flats in the adjacent block is being vacated this week - they had a Transit van (hired or maybe borrowed, I assume) here over the weekend, including parking down there at night, and the last couple of days have seen a box van coming, loading, and going. I reckon it's the people who had a lot of guitars on view in their estate agent photos

Anyway, this inspired me to have a look on Rightmove and there are six flats up for sale at the moment: three of them in that block, two in the block opposite, and the one downstairs and across the hall in our block that went on the market a couple of months ago. I think that's the most to have been on sale simultaneously since I moved here!

One of them is the old lady on the ground floor opposite, who has the paper delivered around half-seven each morning and a delivery from Wiltshire Farm Foods every week. They're still coming and there are lights on of an evening, so at least she hasn't popped her clogs

[WTFH]

Currently watching the latest Travelling Turtle which "dropped" (as the young people say) yesterday.