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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 17 expected. A low level chance of some moisture falling from the sky throughout the day. Barometer up to 1033 mBar.

Sunrise 07:17; Sunset 18:18 BST

Many meetings this morning then off this afternoon. Firstly to get the greys painted over and then to take yea olde jalopy to Rickmansworth / Croxley Green way for it to have a very expensive make over for the next couple of weeks.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Damp.

Misty. Very low cloud, no blue to be seen.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 17.4 deg, 17.5 in the kitchen, 16.5 in the leanto.

1029 mBar, 30.39 in Hg, 771.8 Torr, 14.92 psi, (up from 1025.5 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 22nd of February 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, xogg was graced with scam letter about some long lost relative leaving £11M, WTFH was building the footins for the new chicken house, NF was pleased about the ZX Spectrum Next, and LM had a scam called purportedly from Ofcom. .

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom and drizzly mist or misty drizzle as the case may be.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the last of the Chinese lady book thing. She got into trouble for her biog of Mao the Monster.

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

I had been thinking of popping into M&S as well as Big Sainsbury's, but then I remembered that I'll have plenty of time for that kind of thing when I'm on leave, and also that I need to be rejigging arrangements around freezing, including using up stuff I already have while I work out how to organise the now-limited space available. (The old one is only managing to hold at around -8°C after running overnight, which is no good long term.)

So instead it was a fairly quick scoot around and not too much spent, though of course I got the new Viz

I also picked up four plain t-shirts in assorted colours; they were already cheap, then there was a discount for getting two, and finally a blanket discount on all clothing, meaning they ended up being just over £3 each. They're nowt special, but fine for normal everyday use. So I've removed all the sticky labels and such from them and chucked them in the washing machine on its "first wash" cycle, specially designed to ensure they don't leach their dye into other stuff in the future and so on

And so home, where I was initially dismayed to see that somebody had grabbed my favoured parking spot. But then I realised that it was a parcel chap here to deliver some stuff, and it turned out it was to me! Also to one of the ladies in the ground floor flats, so I left the car blocking the drive while I let him in to drop off her stuff, telling him to leave mine down in the hall as I could take it up. So he moved on, there being stuff for the adjacent block as well, and I was able to reclaim my spot!

All that and it's not even time for lunch yet

[sadkingbilly]

Morning.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom and drizzly mist or misty drizzle as the case may be.

Colossal Towpath??

[NickFitz]

Many meetings this morning then off this afternoon. Firstly to get the greys painted over and then to take yea olde jalopy to Rickmansworth / Croxley Green way for it to have a very expensive make over for the next couple of weeks.

I've sometimes stayed at a Premier Inn near Croxley Green, though just over the border in Watford. Once, heading back there late, I tweeted that it looked like a rather dull place - it's the last but one station on the little branch line that terminates at Watford. By the time I got back to the hotel, less than fifteen minutes later, my post had been found by a Twitter account dedicated to Croxley who indignantly replied that it wasn't at all dull, ACTUALLY

I apologised profusely for my inexcusable rush to judgement, whereupon they exhorted me to attend the Croxley Revels, an annual event which was happening in a few weeks. Sadly, I was unable to do so, though a while later I watched John Betjeman's film Metro-Land (TV Movie 1973) in which they feature ("a tradition that stretches back to 1952")

And it was a while after that before I realised that it had been the source of Croxley Script typing paper, which my father used for his writing throughout my childhood; the paper mill closed in 1980

[NickFitz]

Lunch: sausages in finger rolls

The new t-shirts appeared to have shed a lot of cotton fluff - well, more like dust if anything - during their First Wash, and there'd been a bit from the towel wash the other day, so I put the machine on its six minute "Clean out fluff" cycle while I was cooking the sausages. This is quite good fun to watch as it spins at high speed hurling water all over its innards with great vigour. Absolute mayhem in there