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[NickFitz]

Tea: Scotch broth with multiseed bread

Accompanied by the rest of the episode of Surgeons I started watching the other night

[NickFitz]

Further telly has been The Repair Shop

Time for bed now as I've got an early start tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Gloomy grey day out, though at least it's dry. Currently 9°C, maybe soaring to 11° later; barometers are marginally up at 1019/1027mB

There's an accident causing a delay on the A14 and two causing delays on the M1. So it's a race for those to be cleared to determine which route I take this morning

[WTFH]

Morning all
The hills to the east are shrouded in mist, so we went west this morning and stayed high, to keep above it. Looks like a good day.

Glad to be back at my desk as it will give my aches & pains from gardening a chance to recover. Took down one tree yesterday at about 4m high, it had been pruned years ago so consisted of 7 different trunks, most of which were leaning towards outbuildings. Worst damage in the garden was one of the limbs broke a branch on a standard bay.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Thankfully no dreams of long obsolete chips & testers, rather a dream that seemed to include the repaired Rover 110 that got written off on the Mumbles road back in 1975 and a nonsensical trip to a factory relocated from Rugby to somewhere down south.

Morning.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

16.1 deg in here.

1025 mBar, 30.27 in Hg, 768.8 Torr, 68% RH.

Monday.

Telex machine moderately shiny.

Walk (slightly abbreviated due to rain) walked.

Neglected to carry the umbrella so it started raining after a quarter of an hour or so.

And it managed to soak through the jacket.

Lunch: scrambled egg and poached tomato on Morrisons wholemeal sunflower & spelt toast, bramble jelly sandwich on same, red corner yog, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: Oz customs: Chinese chap with an illegally obtained Oz passport, 17 boxes of lizards for export to Japan, Chinese chap had passport confiscated, fined, & returned to China.

NZ Border Patrol: yacht full of cigarette cartons: all confiscated, chap with some ganga taped between his nads & his arse: $500 fine.

Another £150 trip to B&Q for stuff, some of which is for me.

Tea: lambs liver & bacon with onion gravy, nice but not Very Nice, a yog, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Managed to burn the onions again.

Entertainment: Discovering Jimmy Stewart.

Quantum Leap: the one where he's a rabbi, oi vey!

Joy of Painting: wish I could bottle this.

The Oak Island nutjobs at 21:00: Connecting the Lots.

They've found More Wood. And an iron spike/nail/whatever out of last year's spoil and A Coin and an ox shoe nail, and another spike.

The excitement is overfeckingwhelming.

NCIS S17 E19 "Blarney" at 22:00 (except the EPG is showing S14 E24 instead).

[ladymuck]

Morning all

It was dark and dull when I got up. Cloudy but dry. Currently 11 degrees with a high of 12 expected. The sun might poke through the cloud as the day progresses. Barometer up to 1026 mBar.

Tired this morning. A bit stiff from all that walking around town and a bit fuzzy headed from one too many beverages last night.

Today's Kantar diary fact is:
The first 'Fairtrade' label 'Max Havelaar' is launched in the Netherlands 1988

[vetran]

Morning

brunch was chicken & Rice with tomato & lettuce. Side of nice black coffee.

Catching up on Holidays so off today.

[xoggoth]

Was gonna do me toothpaste inspection but took so long planning it's a bit late now. Manana.

[ladymuck]

Lunch was beans (Heinz 5 Beanz) on toast. It's still depressingly dull out.

[NickFitz]

Home again

Thanks to a broken-down lorry on the M1 I ended up making it to the crematorium about five minutes after the deceased. But they hadn't got to the end of the kick-off hymn Jerusalem yet and that's only got two verses, so not too bad

Then we repaired to the bar and dining room of a small hotel near town, adjacent to my old school's estate, where I engaged in socialisation activities for the first time since before lockdown

Nice buffet for lunch - very good chips with it

And then the drive home. I was wondering on the initial part of the journey why I felt so worn out; was it the driving, or the early rising? Then I realised it was mainly the effort of being in a room full of other people and making chitchat for the first time in so long