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[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover Indian starter bits from Saturday

It’s cleared up outside and turned quite sunny and Simpsonesque now

[NickFitz]

Morning all

Did you miss me?

Welcome back!

[xoggoth]

Arty thing this morning. Just doing panagram in DT puzzles, says mice and lice not in word list. Not much point trying to finish it.

[ladymuck]

Arty thing this morning. Just doing panagram in DT puzzles, says mice and lice not in word list. Not much point trying to finish it.

I would have selected those words too from the letter options

[ladymuck]

Laundry has been done.

The floors have had a cursory sweep.

I forgot to put the bins out last night so I didn't need to bring them back in again.

[WTFH]

Got back home on Saturday and opened my case. First thing I noticed was that my washrag was unzipped. Then I went through the rest of the bag. Either at JNB or at LHR someone had chosen to rifle through the bag. two things are missing: a glove and a battery charger for my main camera. They had also looked at a ceramic dog that we had bought. It was wrapped in white foam which was then held together with lots of tape, forming a large rectangular block. I think someone may have thought it was Colombian Marching Powder as they had taken to the the middle of the foam and removed some of it. Hope they choked when they snorted it.

I contacted BA who want a receipt for a battery charger that is 5 years old. I've no idea where the receipt would be. No receipt, they aren't interested.
Replacement charger is £430.

[NickFitz]

On the stroke of 17:00, my phone and watch together sounded the clarion call of an urgent reminder. What important task did I have to do? “Bake bread.” So the bread maker is now at work

I also remembered to put the mundane laundry on a little while ago

[NickFitz]

Tea has been beef and Hobgoblin casserole with some of the slightly spicy potato wedges I made last week, and peas

This was accompanied by another ’orrible murder in New York City, this time of a fashion designer killed by her spoilt and sociopathic rich kid boyfriend

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

19.7 deg in here, 19.1 in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto, 14 out the back.

1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.4 Torr, 14.63 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of April 2020, between 09:37 and 10:10, in popped AndyGarbs, Brillo, Churchill, LM, NF, and WTFH.

Entertainment: Further Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves, this one about Andalucian horses, Brassey Searle & his son Jimmy, and a trip to Nueva Andalucia so Jimmy could learn the Spanish techniques of horse training & riding.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Two conversations.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: dashcam bollox S4 E

Alaska Homestead rescue: Tennessee: after the previous ep where there were two instead of three, for this one there's one instead of 3, the other two being variously dealing with a new baby (Matt), and being ill again (Misty). Not a stunningly inneresting ep, the homestead having previously featured in a building off grid in the boondocks ep of another Discovery epic. The usual: build greenhouse, build a farrowing house for the pigs, fix the water supply (I wouldn't have unrolled that plastic pipe in quite that manner, it leaves the twist in the fecking thing). In addition they built a foundation for the son's new house. Some of the labo(u)r was supplied by previous homestead rescued people, including those from the yurt ep who lived about 5 miles away as the crow flies (more like 50 if you're not a crow judging by the way the valleys go). At least with this one the 47 acres weren't mostly almost vertical though some of the slopes looked a bit challenging.

Tea: Tesco battered ?haddock? with two Morrisons fish fingers, one or other of the three seems to have scratched my throat from the feel of things. Haematoma city, that's me at the moment. . At least it was nowhere near as bad as a week last Thursday, those haematomas being alarmingly large and one of which has only recently healed.

Castles thing Yng Nghymraeg: Chirk again.

Out of town with Jack Hargreaves: hidden brooks, ratty (aka water vole), wild trout. Culling roe deer buck. Goodness me, carrying a knife, he'd be busted these days. Bit tricky doing the gralloch without one, though. . Single shot kill.

Bab5 S4 E21 "Rising Star": the chap who gave his life for Ivanova wasted his time since she ain't in S5 due to some problem between her & the producer/writer chap. Which was a shame. So it's explained away by having her take a captaincy of a starship. Sorted.

S4 E22 is weird: it's a sort of filler ep to cover some cracks. Quite good though.

Alaska Homestead Rescue: back to Green Mountain, Vermont, and the Bowers: the bridge that the Raneys built 3 years ago washed away in a 100 year flood. Marty fixes it without Matt or Misty. The sunken greenhouse hasn't been used much. I'd have thunk that solar panel half obstructing the roof would have cut down the amount of sunshine it sees. I wonder if the added rockwool insulation will help.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I failed to bid you all goodnight last night

This was because I’d read more of Adulthood Rites, which seems very good now I’ve got used to not reading about wartime London. But after that, I got distracted reading about some API for a possible firebreak project, today being the start of the week when we can work on side projects should we choose

I decided it was going to be a bit much to cram into my four-day working week, but then neglected to say goodnight because I’d suddenly realised it was late so I got to sleep straight away

Anyway, I ended up oversleeping as a result - I have no memory of the two alarms I must have stopped, and awoke more than an hour after the second one. So it’s been a bit of a rush this morning!

The rains came overnight and it’s dark and grey and rainy out there now. It may be 11°C but it “feels like” 7°, and the expected high is only 15°; the barometers are down a bit more at 1002/1010mB

Last night’s loaf collapsed for some reason, becoming an even height all across and noticeably concave in many areas of the top. Still seems OK qua bread, but I’m not sure what went wrong

Right, better drink this coffee and start work!