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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with bits of fluff. Dry. Currently 1 degree with a high of 11 expected. Rain forecast for this evening. Barometer up to 1012 mBar.

Rubbish sleep. Tired. Off to the office.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny but frosty start. Currently 1°C, up from 0° forty minutes ago, but expected to soar to 10° in the afternoon, along with increased cloud cover. The barometers are up again at 997/1005mB

[ladymuck]

The drive to Sussex and back was uneventful. Lovely sunny day. I should have given the lawn its first cut but my brother came round and chatted until his wife told him to come home cos she was waiting to serve up dinner. By then it was cold and dark and I wasn't inclined to do any mowing.

The forecast for the latter half of this week is not good which is annoying as the grass will likely be too wet to cut if it's accurate.

[NickFitz]

The schedulers have been mucking around again, meaning a bit less NZ roads policing after the Canadian customs

And later, for want of Ambulance (see above), a couple of episode of 24 Hours in A&E

And in among there somewhere, I found a couple of Metal tutorials which cleared some stuff up, though much remains unclear for now

Monday again tomorrow. I don't know how they keep getting away with it

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: a roast beef dinner

[NickFitz]

Much rain this afternoon and early evening. Seems to have taken a pause for a while.

The schedule for Ambulance looks like it's maybe fortnightly? None this week but there is one next week.

Turns out there was an extra-long programme about something called the FA Cup last Wednesday, which bumped it. No idea what that's all about

[NickFitz]

Bedding wash on

[NickFitz]

Ham toasties for lunch

[DoctorStrangelove]

Quite a lot of "our" furniture was Victorian, Edwardian, and Georgian.

Largely due to my great grandfather being a driver of a horse & cart for a chap who did removals back at the turn of the 20th C.

The grandmother long case clock went when the parents' house was emptied and causes pain in my soul.

Various other stuff like a japaned gaming table, victorian/edwardian wardrobe/dressing table/washstand went at the same time.

The only thing I retained was the georgian chest of drawers which is worth a few bob and my sister didn't want it.

The Crown AY wardrobes (one male one female) are next door in dilapidated condition. I wish I'd sold them since they're likely to be there until they rot, along with the blanket box and bedside table.

What my late mother would say about it all I dread to think.

I brought the G Plan wardrobe across to this house along with my old bed* which now graces the front bedroom.

*Said bed has a CC41 stamp on it.

Gosh that's brought back memories of the state the house used to be in before being destroyed by them next door.

[NickFitz]

Home again after the journey south. I now have even less room to manoeuvre

Not a lot brought this time, in fact, and I think that's probably me done in terms of bringing stuff, unless nobody else wants the DVD box set of The Forsyte Saga or I relent over a few more books (as, inevitably perhaps, happened today). Maybe a vase or two and similar knickknacks, though I'm not much of a knickknack person. There isn't really much left except the furniture, which will remain for staging purposes as we sell the place, then get chucked in a skip; like Lord Heseltine, our family bought its own furniture, and not a lot of it is worth handing down

Oh, but there's the microwave and a couple of matching occasional tables (each with a small drawer) that I've booked. I was thinking of getting a new microwave anyway as the existing one is a combi and takes up more space than required, given I no longer use the additional functionality. So their John Lewis one, only a few years old, will do nicely. And one of the tables will be a good replacement for the very cheap and gradually disintegrating Homebase bedside cabinet I currently have, while the other will probably be useful somewhere, once I've sorted the place out a bit