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    Tea has been an M&S Tomapork, which is their fancy name for a very large pork chop, with chips and beans

    Accompanying this, the second part of 24 Hours in Police Custody

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      In Dawn, Lilith has been stuck with the job of deciding which humans to awake from suspended animation to form the first group to be sent back to Earth, and is very much aware that one of the major problems she faces is that many people are arseholes

      Goodnight all

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        Morning.

        Friday.

        Damp.

        Blue sky.

        Misty.

        Sunny.

        19 deg in here, 19.8 in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto, 14.5 out the back.

        1011.5 mBar, 29.87 in Hg, 758.7 Torr, 14.67 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

        Meanwhile on the 4th of April 2020, between 13:35 and 15:34, Brillo, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, scruff and WTFH popped in.

        Entertainment: Old Country with Jack Hargreaves: mostly a driving trial with Joe the pony and a cart. Cast iron fire insurance plaque.

        Woke at 03:50 again & read book until returning to the land of nod. Curiously the dream before waking involved working in septicland and receiving a parcel (which had been opened) that contained a pcb I'd designed somewhere else. Very odd. I wonder if it conflated the closing of the place I worked from 94 to 97, my Jonah effect finally confining that place to history. WTF I was doing in septicland is anyone's guess.

        Walk (abbreviated, towpath, 3 miles) walked in the greyish gloom of the morning. Took umbrella just in case.

        Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The food programme. Pellagra for the win!

        Dashcam bollox.

        Alaska Homestead thing: part II of The Tyre House.



        Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 10:36.
        When the fun stops, STOP.

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          Morning all
          TFIF, etc.

          Light rain overnight, but dry this morning. The walk started warmer than yesterday, 05:40 it was 13C
          …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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            Morning all

            Sunny with that pebbly-looking fluff. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer steady at 1019 mBar.

            Sunrise 06:31; Sunset 19:25 BST

            My brother is coming back about lunchtime. The bed has been stripped and is airing. Mum's bed was done yesterday. My bed at home was stripped before I left, so I'll be making that when I get home. That'll be three beds made in two days! I would get a job as a chambermaid but I think my output would need to be much higher.

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              Morning denizens

              it’s a partly sunny, partly wispy day. Likely to get cloudier later though. Mild for the time of year, I think, though who knows what normal weather is nowadays: currently 16°C and aiming for 20°, with the barometers up a touch at 1007/1014mB

              I slept well, possibly assisted by having changed the bed yesterday, which included switching to the two-thirds duvet. I also closed the big bedroom window, as once again it was getting very windy after nightfall and more cold air was coming in than I wanted. So I was a bit warmer than the last few nights, when I wasn’t actually cold but was on the cusp

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                Off to local show soon for tea and cake with much younger lady.
                bloggoth

                If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
                John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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                  Shopping done!

                  Big Sainsbury’s of course, where Viz was finally obtained

                  I also discovered that the meat and veg do, in fact, have roughly the same spatial relationship as they previously had. I think I was confused by the way we had to travel via odd routes when parts were still partitioned off; and the drastic rearrangement of spatial relationships within fruit and veg certainly doesn’t help, particularly if you’re looking for the onions. But on further analysis, the real problems seem to be deeper in the store, where - among many more minor dislocations - the relocation of crisps and nuts, alcohol, and cleaning materials, plus the introduction of ~1.5 aisles primarily dedicated to the lunchtime Meal Deal trade, all sow confusion

                  The rot goes deeper, though. The tepid food counter closed down some time ago yet tepid food still appeared from somewhere, housed in a warm cabinet near the magazines. That’s moved to the end of the new Meal Deal aisle, whence I got a couple of sweet chilli chicken thighs for lunch. However, in the days of the counter, these would have been carefully placed in a paper/plastic bag, designed to keep everything in. Now, they come in a box of the kind designed more for doughnuts or cream cakes; and as a result, leak fatty juices all over your shopping

                  Anyway, now I’ve cleaned the shopping and bag that were thus contaminated, I suppose I should eat them while they’re still tepid

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                    greetings and felicitations

                    lunch today was leftover gammon with honey and mustard sauce in sourdough bread.
                    back to Z land Monday.
                    oh, well, i suppose i can't really complain, considering the woes of the SoM thread, and the bumsqueaking tax dodgers.
                    He who Hingeth aboot, Getteth Hee Haw. https://forums.contractoruk.com/core...ies/smokin.gif

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                      Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
                      No Mahjong this morning as only me and one lady turned up. After walky and boring shopping ran me old lady neighbour to the doctors. Didn't realise she is almost 90, she seems very with it mentally.
                      xogg OM!
                      When the fun stops, STOP.

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