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[NickFitz]

Lunch: a bacon cob

Unsmoked because I picked some up by mistake the other week. I wish they'd stop rearranging the bacon shelves

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and cloudy. No precipitation at present but some is forecast from mid-afternoon onwards. Currently 11 degrees with a high of 12 expected. Barometer down to 1021 mBar.

Tired today. Not feeling all that enthusiastic.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Wet.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 11.6 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen, 9.5 deg in the leanto.

1015 mBar, 29.973 in Hg, 761.31 Torr, 14.72 psi, (down from 1017 last night), 75% RH (GDR hair), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of September 2019 we were stuck on discussions of farthings and corned beef.

To add to my joie de vivre I discovered that one of the security lights had failed, and, as always, was on permanently. Thankfully it was equipped with a LED bulb rather than the 200W halogen. Switched the lot off & I'll fix it when it stops raining, assuming it ever does. I think that sensor has been there for a couple of years coz I changed it when the previous one died.

It hasn't stopped raining. .

Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about something.

NZ Customs thing.

Oz customs thing: Chinese woman losing her rag when her bags are opened: quite the biggest poody I've seen on said programme. Chap carrying a snowboard (in summer) for someone else: the someone else will be ever so pleased they drilled a hole in it. . Criminal from China put back on the plane: he'd been busted elsewhere for ketamine. WTF the Chinese chap had brought live worms (worms with legs at that) with him as fishing bait: $340. And they really were live.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: UFO Hunters. Blaze bollox that's too bolloxy even for me.

The Mentalist S1 E3.

Dan Do. All you need is money: Barn that was turned into something like a long house. Family in Swansea. House swap in Pontcanna, Cardiff.

The Bad Skin Clinic: chap with pilar cysts. Girl with eczema. Woman with lipoma.

Dr Pimple Popper. Woman with lipoma. Chap with pilar cysts on his head. Woman with rhinophyma.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another overcast start, though not expected to brighten up a bit like it did yesterday; instead, it'll get windy and possibly (35-40%) rainy from around teatime onwards. Currently 4°C and maybe getting to 11° after dark, with the barometers down a little bit at 1006/1014mB

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Watched a bit of Brighton plod stuff on All4 to accompany dinner, but no telly tonight other than that. Read a bit more of Shepperton Babylon though

I've woken up still feeling quite tired the last couple of mornings, so I'm getting a proper early night now in the hope it'll get me caught up on sleep

Just remembered, there's somebody coming round to inspect the flat door tomorrow; something about fire safety. Between 8:45 and 16:00, apparently. Good of them to be so precise

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Spag bol for tea. Very tasty, but now I need to make more bol

[NickFitz]

Lunch: roast beef bap (wholemeal) and a bag of crisps (plain)

Quite sunny out now. The gardener chappy has been down on the lawns with his lawnmower this morning, so the place is looking slightly more kempt

I got called upon to give a quick demo of some stuff to senior management at about two minutes' notice this morning. Makes a change

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Bright but cloudy. Dry. Currently 6 degrees with a high of 9 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer up to 1023 mBar.

Plumber has been to do the annual gas safety check. Nice little earner for 15 mins of effort.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday apparently.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Frosty out, cold in here at 10.8 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 8 deg in the leanto.

1019 mBar, 30.09 in Hg, 764.3 Torr, 14.779 psi, (down from 1020 last night), 75% RH (GDR hair), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of September 2019 there was discussion of groats, farthings, quarter, half, and three quarter farthings, the demise of the farthing in 1956, and the farthing I received in change some years ago, given away by George VI being on the obverse, while there was mentions of corned beef leading some to desire a tin thereof, plus mentions of forgettable films I've forgotten about.

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Shanks' out & Shanks' back.

Timed right since it's raining now.

Lunch: baked spud etc.

Entertainment: Y&Y on the joys of new build houses.

NZ Border Control. A "pirate" who appears to falling for a Nigerian scam. A chap from Singapore with $150 for a 10 day holiday: back he goes. An aircon unit catches fire & the place gets flooded. Takes 3 hours or more to get it all back up & running. Chinese woman whose husband is overstaying by 6 months: back on the plane. Abusive woman with a shedload of packaged seeds & a couple of bags of loose mixed seeds: $400 fine. Plenty of E and pseudoephedrine, cocaine & the like. Things don't necessarily go better with coke. .

Border Control Canada.

Oz customs thing. A coconut is a drupe not a nut so that customs chap was wrong. Chinese people with the usual selection of chinese "food" including a tasteful pair of deer penises, extracted from the living animal apparently. Korean "student" with bags full of undeclared cigarettes & no course to attend coz he'd been turfed off it (I remember some of those) back on the plane.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: more UFO bollox on blaze,

Scotland Yard "The fatal journey (1954)". More of the lugubrious Lustgarten. The Gypsy didn't do it, he just nicked stuff.

The Mentalist S1 E2

Maigret and the Wine Merchant (2001) S11 E1.