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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Lots of high, thin, flat cloud again, though there are some near-gaps here and there and some blue on the horizon to the northwest. It's much as it has been temperature-wise: 13°C reaching 16° for most of the afternoon - though the wind is lower, so the "feels like" figure now is 11°. The barometers are steady at 1011/1019mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Damp.

Blue sky in parts.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 18.2 deg, 18 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.6 Torr, 14.76 psi, (unchanged), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 21st of February 2020 NF had hot buttered toast for lunch, then was off out to Sainsburys, I had poached egg & tomato on toast, WTFH was busy getting the guineas and chickens out of next door's vegetable patch, LondonManc popped in, and LM was off out to the Baltic.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine alternating with grey gloom.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: that Chinese lady thing: today how her grandmother's feet were bound.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz oxtail soup and white toast

When going to get the bread for this, I discovered that the freezer from the old place seems to have finally given up the ghost. It's been struggling for ages, just about managing to get to around -12°C rather than the desired -18°, but it was at -8° and the compressor (or whatever it is) wasn't kicking in at all, suggesting it's done. I tried turning it off and on again and it flashed its light and sounded its alarm for being too warm, but was unable to start trying to rectify the situation

I've only been using it for stuff that doesn't turn poisonous at higher temperatures such as bread and frozen chips; there's no meat in there, not even leftovers. I'll see what the situation is this evening but if it's defunct, I'll have to start changing my shopping habits and so on, as the freezer part of the built-in fridge-freezer here is relatively small and unable to handle the amount of stuff I'm used to having around