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[WTFH]

Morning all
Some light cloud this morning, but seems pleasant enough. Haven’t been out for a walk yet as I need a coffee.
The Wife had a good night’s sleep and is in slightly less pain today
On the flip side, my shoulder is rogered, and I didn’t have much sleep.
The N95 sold for £7.66 (+ fees)
Almost everything else I’m selling finishes this evening. I can see this afternoon being packing time.

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 1119

Sunny, no cloudy. Currently 23 degrees with a high of 27 expected. Barometer down a touch to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 05:30; Sunset 21:02 EEST

We had a lovely day yesterday, ending with a fab dinner at a rather posh restaurant 15 mins out of town. Sadly there was some racket of a party in one of the hotel function rooms and I swear I could hear the bass thumping away until gone 4 am. Sleep was largely evasive as a result.

HWMBO and I are at the airport. Smooth cab ride and reasonably efficient security process. Our first flight is within Schengen, to Munich, so no passport control nonsense. We part ways in Munich, heading towards our respective ends of the UK.

Having bought lots of (apparently illegal) Romanian cured sausages, I hope today isn't the day Border Force decide to have sniffer dogs out when I arrive into Heathrow later this afternoon.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Cool in here at 19.8 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.

1017 mBar, 30.03 in Hg, 762.8 Torr, 14.75 psi, (up from 1013 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 24th of January 2020 I was still collecting bottles & cans during my walks (only 4 weeks to go before The Leg ), LM's fridge was approaching empty of Xmas comestibles, there was noise in next door which proved not to be burglars so my Superman(tm) outfit wasn't needed, nor the Dirty Harry, BR14 popped in as did DaveB, and NF's car started, drove, stopped, started again, all without the M69 battery charging trip being required.

Well that was good for a larf: 2014 FB post: one of those now inhabiting next door came out with the fatuous "I'd like an allotment but haven't got the time at the moment". Well there's half an allotment's worth of garden you could dig that if the fancy took you. As fecking if. Idle pair.

On ducks: just found the "Go feck a duck" scene from "Thunderbolt & Lightfoot". It's been cut from every tv showing I've watched. Can't remember if it's in the dvd version.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus waiting for Ambridge to feck off.

Following on from feck a duck, Captain Steeeve's analysis of the Indian Airlines crash drew me in. Apparently the Ram Air Turbine had deployed.

More potching in the garage: Let there be light & there was light, and a means of turning it on and off again.

Drizzling well now that the sun has disappeared & the grey has returned unbidden.

Entertainment: Oz customs thing: enough ketamine in a tin can to fell a horse or a billionaire.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough.

The Repair Shoppe: lustre bowl, Ansonia Regulator A pendulum clock, Guitar to punish yer ma.

If there be anything else to watch I haven't found it. Templar castle thing: <click>.

I note that the EPG states that the Blind Frog Ranch lot have found a bar of gold: this is rather more than the Oak Island nutjobs have found in 11 years of boring us tulipless.

Book.

Bit of the Blaze thing about sex in history.

Alice Roberts doing an autopsy on Charles II. You were lucky if you were poor enough not to afford doctors.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start, and a chance of light rain shortly. It might clear a little later though. Still warm at 18°C with 22° due later, and the barometers are up again at 1009/1017mB

Looking ahead, it seems it'll be getting even warmer through the week with 30° on the cards for next weekend

[sadkingbilly]

our new (16 month old) pond's a success, it seems.
she brought these four to visit yesterday evening.

[sadkingbilly]

oh, sorry, - morning all
got excited about the ducks.

[NickFitz]

The dishwasher got itself into a bit of a state yesterday, making a weird noise at regular intervals whilst flashing a light that apparently ought not to flash and, most concerningly, failing to respond to the power button, meaning I couldn't stop any of those things happening!

Prolonged investigation forced me to conclude that it's plugged in somewhere behind itself, and as it's a fully integrated one, this means it's impossible to turn it off at the wall or unplug it

So I had to flip the breaker for most of the sockets in the flat while I attempted to investigate, as searches suggested the odd noise was the drain pump repeatedly activating. There was very little water down in there, which I removed with a sponge, and no obvious blockages. But a thorough examination called for a slightly complicated process involving a teaspoon to lever a part out of the way, and I couldn't be doing with all that just then. I turned the power to the flat back on, assuming several minutes of no electricity would at least have reset whatever ailed it - and it went back to flashing the light, regular grinding noises, and no response to the power button!

In the end, I left it open to dry as much as possible (as apparently some sensor can get wet and trigger this kind of thing, according to an Australian on YouTube) and adopted a policy of pretending everything was all right. And after several hours, it had stopped doing the grinding, though the light was still flashing - and best of all, I could now turn it off!

So I didn't have to try to sleep while wondering if it was about to catch fire (Keith had his kitchen destroyed by the dishwasher bursting into flames about twenty years ago, so it does happen), and this morning I've managed to apply a teaspoon correctly and check there's nothing blocking the pump. No sign of anything, so I've just put it on a rinse cycle with nothing in it to see if it makes it through OK

[NickFitz]

oh, sorry, - morning all
got excited about the ducks.

So you should! Very fine ducks

[NickFitz]

The dishwasher made it through the rinse cycle and shut itself down after having drained correctly, so I'm hoping yesterday's strange behaviour was just a glitch and nothing bad will ever happen again

[ladymuck]

We have arrived in Munich.

HWMBO is staying in zone G whilst I have exited Schengen into zone H. He is off to Frankfurt before heading onto Glasgow.

Quite tired and would very much like a nap but, with only 45 mins until boarding starts, it's not worth the risk.