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    Morning denizens

    I had a slightly restless night to start with, waking or half-waking several times until about 3am. So I ended up sleeping on after deactivating both alarms, and felt much better for it. It makes starting the day a bit of a rush, but it’s not as if anybody really cares what time I start - or, indeed, finish - work, as long as stuff gets done

    It’s a grey day, though not rainy - a 10% chance of showers between 10-11am is the worst we have to fear in that department, supposedly. It’s 15°C (“feels like” 11°) and expected to soar to 23° later, while tonight won’t dip below 18°. Last gasp of summer?

    Speaking of which, I was thinking last night that I’d make it to the end of September without using the heating; it’s on, but the thermostat hasn’t activated it in ages. But when I finally arose and walked into the living room, it felt chilly enough that I decided this was a foolish and arbitrary target, and duly prodded it into action. Lovely and warm in here now

    The thermostat is located in the hall, at pretty much the deepest point within the flat and surrounding building that it could be, so always reckons it’s comfortably warm when the rooms I actually live in aren’t. There’s a setting to tell it to offset its perceived temperature relative to the ones in its programs, to allow for this kind of situation, but neither the previous owner nor I have ever got around to configuring it. If I had done, it would have kicked in automatically this morning anyway

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      Morning. .

      Tuesday apparently .

      Dry. .

      Grey. .

      19.6 deg in here, 18.3 in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

      1006 mBar, 29.71 in Hg, 754.6 Torr, 14.59 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

      Meanwhile on the 5th of April 2020, between 15:57 and 16:47, in popped Brillo a lot, with NF & I getting a post in edgeways.

      Must have slept better last night as I arose in a hurry at 07:45 to watch

      Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: River management, what a water meadow used to be before they stopped doing it in WWII, restocking a river with trout (proper trout not those immigrant trout). Waterlevel control with boards in some sort of dam thing that was used, back in the day, to flood said water meadow and is now used to keep the water level in the river up a bit in a drought. Identifying some variety of cranesbill he'd not seen before & failing to identify a daisylike flower that covered a rock bank with blossoms. I'm innerested because we have some of that around here in brick walls & I like daisies.

      Sun's shining across the valley, boyo, there's tidy then. Sounds a bit breezy out there today.

      Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine & semigale. 1 conversation.

      Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: dashcam bollox S4 E2.

      Alaska Homestead Rescue: a swamp in Georgia. Well, unlike the swamp in Alaska, at least it was warm.

      I was wondering if there was a 7up dvd boxset: well there is. Then I saw the price. .

      Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Nice enough. Still difficult eating anything: I have to cut the crusts off the bread before toasting. .

      Entertainment: PM. It went <click> a lot. Sick of politicians, harrasment and laws.

      Bab5 S4 E15 "No surrender, no retreat". "I've seen things... you people wouldn't believe... attack ships on fire off Proxima III".

      French made Thing on Sky Arts about Clint Eastwood. I still haven't watched many of his later filmic epics. Despite having many of the dvds. Preferred this to "Who do you think you are?" about that Irish twat who plays Mrs Brown (apparently: I've never watched it & probably never will).

      Who do you think you are? Indian chap whose parents were expelled from Kenya. Interesting history.

      Last bit of "Discovering Western films": the last 3 being "Once upon a time in the West", "Rio Bravo", and "Unforgiven (1992)".

      Movies: 1990s Part I.

      Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 22:35.
      When the fun stops, STOP.

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        That's a new one: "429 Too Many Requests" error



        Morning all

        Wispy fluff. Dry and bright. Weather app says it's drizzling. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 25 expected. Barometer down to 1015 mBar.

        Sunrise 06:59; Sunset 18:44 BST

        Nothing planned for the day. This evening I'm off to the theatre in Sloane Square to see the very marvellous Tilda Swinton in a one-person performance.

        Upstairs must have bought some piece of gym equipment as they're making a right racket, right above my head, every morning for a good hour.

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          Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
          The thermostat is located in the hall, at pretty much the deepest point within the flat and surrounding building that it could be, so always reckons it’s comfortably warm when the rooms I actually live in aren’t. There’s a setting to tell it to offset its perceived temperature relative to the ones in its programs, to allow for this kind of situation, but neither the previous owner nor I have ever got around to configuring it. If I had done, it would have kicked in automatically this morning anyway
          You want something like Tado in each room so you can trigger heating in individual rooms at the times you're likely to be in them. Tado used to be quite innovative, it's likely other solutions have overtaken them now.

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            Arty farty thing this morning after 3 days just spent with boring old fart, ie me. Karaoke this evening, if I can be bothered.
            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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              I've taken to reading a book I really need to get a job

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                Lunch was leftover beef cheeks braised in Chianti from the other night. This came with a sachet of crispy onion bits which I forgot to garnish it with when it was a main meal, so they all went on today’s leftovers instead

                After work, it was time for the four-weekly trip round to the pharmacy for the usual bits. The electronic prescription had been sent to them by the surgery last Wednesday at 09:15, so they hadn’t had time to get it ready yet and I had to wait

                There are two pharmacists, one an older Sikh gentleman, and the other a Sikh lady, not quite as old; I don’t know if they’re a married couple or what. Nor do I know how they arrange their turns in being the one on duty. But I have noticed that it’s usually her working when the stuff isn’t ready and I have to wait. Could just be coincidence, of course

                Anyway, once that was resolved, I ambled down to the kebab shop and got a kebab and chips; so tea has been earlier than usual

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                  Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

                  You want something like Tado in each room so you can trigger heating in individual rooms at the times you're likely to be in them. Tado used to be quite innovative, it's likely other solutions have overtaken them now.
                  I’ve thought of something like that, but then again, I haven’t got around to setting the temperature adjustment on the current thermostat in nearly four years here

                  It also defaults to a sequence of temperatures throughout the day that assume you’re going to be out from roughly nine to five, but can be switched to one with fewer changes that’s designed for people who work from home - you can even specify which sequence which to use on particular days of the week! But again, I’ve never got around to changing it despite working from home

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                    Teatime viewing was the rest of the ’orrible murder from yesterday

                    And later, I finished reading Small Bomb at Dimperley. Another really good story by Lissa Evans

                    It’s quite windy, but also very mild here

                    Goodnight all

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                      Morning denizens

                      It’s a cloudier start today with a slight chance of rain shortly, though only briefly; it’ll brighten up by mid-morning. Still breezy but mild, so the current 19°C “feels like” 15°, with an expected high of 22°. The barometers are scuttling downwards: 995/1002mB

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