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[NickFitz]

The Western Approaches museum in Liverpool has an permanent exhibition on the Wrens - it was about the best part of the museum.

I’ve been meaning to go there for ages. I’m thinking go going up in the autumn to visit the parents’ grave, so I’ll try to fit it in then

I’ve probably mentioned before that my Dad worked in Derby House for a number of years in the 1950s, and nobody there had a clue that all that lot was still sitting, mothballed, down in the basement

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

21.9 deg in here, 23 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto, 17 outside.

1019 mBar, 30.09 in Hg, 764.3 Torr, 14.779 psi, (up from 1016 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 BR14, covbob, eek, LM, NF, and vetran popped in. LM had to put whisky in the bread & butter (HCB) pudding (with added fruit due to the inadequacies of the HCB and whiskey due to "someone" putting an empty cognac bottle back rather than throwing it away).

Oh, and the milk has turned so the tea is a bit lumpy this morning. . Milk met the compost heap, the tea met the plughole.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Slow walk down and even slower walk back: two conversations: lady who used to work in the library, and a chap who used to do the trolleys in Tesco carpark.

Now outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Poscode thing: Manchester M1 where ICI used to R&D stuff before it all fell apart like everything else in this fecking country.

Classic Movies: The Deer Hunter (1978). Directed by Michael Cimino before the saga of "Heaven's Gate" and blowing up horses & painting grass greener. .

Leanto, kitchen, living room, and half the hall roughly vacced.

Now outside another mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Other half of hall (some stuff moved), plus boxroom (part, some stuff moved), front bedroom (where nothing gets moved), back bedroom (two things moved) duly vacced

Now getting outside a mug of squash. .

Tea: Mr Brains faggots with peas & such like. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>.

Blaze UFO bollox: Keksburg. Die Glocke. Kamler. Time travel. .

Bab5 S1 E15.

Nothing on BBC1,2,3, or 4 that requires more than 2 braincells: ball game bollox.

Blaze: History's Mysteries. More bollox.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but sunny and dry with a gentle breeze wafting in the window. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 22) with a high of 24 expected. Barometer up to 1027 mBar.

Sunrise 04:47; Sunset 21:22 BST

No idea what happened to yesterday's post. I know I typed it out but evidently failed to properly post it. Anyway, it was a nice day, no drama.

Much better sleep in the cooler temperatures but my weather app says it might get back up towards 30 degrees next weekend, and maybe 33-34 next week.

[eek]

I’ve been meaning to go there for ages. I’m thinking go going up in the autumn to visit the parents’ grave, so I’ll try to fit it in then

I’ve probably mentioned before that my Dad worked in Derby House for a number of years in the 1950s, and nobody there had a clue that all that lot was still sitting, mothballed, down in the basement

If you can go when they are doing a tour - I didn't on one and to be frank without it the museum was a bit meh, what was behind this.

Earlier in the day we did the https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/.../old-dock-tour which was very good.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a leftover bit of chicken and a couple of spicy lamb chops

Meanwhile across the lawn: scaffolding is going up! Not sure what for; there are some large painted areas on the facade of that block that are looking rather dingy and flaking in places, so maybe that’s being redone

There’s also the ongoing saga of the guttering and drainpipes on those 1930s blocks. They need replacing and as this is a conservation area, the council originally said they had to be like-for-like. The management company got an estimate for them to be custom-made in a cast iron foundry, and it came out to about a million quid! The reserve funds are in decent shape, but not that decent. So they were trying to get the council to allow some kind of plastic things which can be made to look identical to the existing ones, but don’t cost anything like as much