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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with a few wispy fluffs here and there. A bit damp on the ground from yesterday's rain. Currently 9 degrees and that's the high for the day. Cloud cover set to increase and there might be some rain overnight. Barometer up to 1003 mBar.

Sunrise 07:59; Sunset 16:23 GMT

Unsettled sleep, kept waking up. At some point I realised I had a headache but couldn't be bothered to find anything to take for it. I did have a couple of ibuprofen this morning when I got up but it's not helped.

All meetings for the day have been done. I think I'll take it easy for the rest of the day.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning everybody
bit of a sea haar this morning, looking very spooky out.
i agree, - TFIF.
(although i only do 5hrs/day)

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

From the state of the bed I had a restless night. . Included the working somewhere dream: this one was in some tower block that joined halfway up to what looked like BrynSifi Terrace. My Raleigh RSW16 was involved, along with losing my baseball cap when leaving to go home & getting lost on the way to the station going through some market or other. Most peculiar. Glad to wake up.

Drily damp.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 12.3 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen, 9 deg in the leanto, 7 deg in the saltinghouse.

999.5 mBar, 29.52 in Hg, 749.7 Torr, 14.496 psi, (up from 996 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of March 2020 Brillo popped in, covbob was looking for contracts, I bought some soreen, and LM agreed it was very moreish.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine.

Three conversations today. (not counting those with myself).

Raining now.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: TWATO Jenrick <click>

Foyle's War S3 E1 "The French Drop": Foyle and SOE. Rather good. Don't remember watching that one before. Then again it is 22 years old. .

Tea: chilli con carne etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click>

Welsh history thing: the wholesale demolition of old Aberavon. They didn't mention the joys of waiting for the level crossing gates on the Rhondda and Swansea Bay. Saunders Roe factory in Beaumaris Anglesey that built flying boats, buses, etc for half a century. A muriel in an underpass in the John Frost square in Newport, duly destroyed by the council. It celebrated the Chartists and the way they were put down by the government to encourage the others. .

Book. Other book.

Taggart. S5 E5,6,7 "Hostile Witness".

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey day and still damp from last night’s rain, though there isn’t any wind to speak of so I doubt the present 4°C really “feels like” 0°. The expected high of 8° will coincide with a sunny spell from the middle of the afternoon, though it’ll cloud over again shortly before sunset. The barometers are up a touch at 993/1001mB

Shopping will be done as soon as Royal Mail have made their “before 1pm” delivery, whenever that is

[WTFH]

Morning all

TFIF, etc.
CBS and a cool 4.5C. The ground is quite wet, but the walk was pleasant enough, with mist in the valleys.

[NickFitz]

I finished Endurance tonight. Shackleton & co. made it to South Georgia, due to Worsley’s remarkable navigational skills. But once there, with their boat damaged in getting ashore, they faced a further problem: the nearest place to get help was twenty miles away on the other side of the island, and the only way to get there was over the mountains and glaciers in the middle, which had never been crossed by humans before. But they did it! So they were (eventually) able to get a ship and head down to Elephant Island to rescue the rest of the crew

ClientGov are sending me a new laptop, and it turns out it’s arriving tomorrow, some time before 13:00. This is annoying as it needs to be signed for, so I’ll have to wait in for it, and I wanted to get the shopping out of the way in the morning

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from Nando’s in the end

I didn’t have anything in that I fancied so I thought of going round to the chemist’s for the monthly prescription, which needs collecting, and then on to the kebab shop. But that would have involved going out in the rain so I didn’t

Viewing so far has been the first half of the first episode of Twisted Sisters: Madness & Manslaughter on Five. This is all about that incredible business on Motorway Cops back in 2008 (when it was still on the BBC) with those two Swedish women who were running around the M6 and got hit by cars, plural - only for them to somehow manage to get back up and run around the motorway some more. One of them then got hit by a lorry, with the other punching to the ground a copper who was trying to stop her jumping over the central reservation. And when they finally caught her after much chasing back in forth in the live lanes of the other carriageway, she exhibited superhuman strength that made it almost impossible to restrain her. At the time, the Beeb ran it as a special episode in primetime within a few days of it happening, and the footage remains just as astonishing today

They’ve tracked down a load of the people who ended up involved - the cameraman, coppers, medics, ordinary drivers who helped restrain them, and so on. Interesting stuff

It all ends tragically, as the title suggests, but that’s a few days to a couple of weeks down the line

[xoggoth]

I went shopping, driving through badly flooded bits constantly, it's been pouring down all day.

[NickFitz]

The week is done!

I was thinking of going shopping but it’s raining and dark and generally seems a bit miserable out, whereas it’s expected to be dry and possibly even sunny in the morning, so I’ll put it off until then

Now I need to decide what to have for tea

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a bap (wholemeal) with apple sauce

I managed to dodge the more tedious bits of tech debt so the morning’s not been too bad