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[WTFH]

Morning all murky, but i expect that will burn off.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Very odd dream where I'd moved to that Engerland, bought a house, and had two lodgers. I was glad to wake up, the very idea of paying for prescriptions made me feel ill. Even worse: I'd applied for a technician job at some university or other & moved without finding if I'd got it or not. .

Grey.

Dark.

Dreary.

Damp.

Cool in here at 21.1 deg, 22 deg in the kitchen, 20.5 in the leanto.

1019 mBar, 30.09 in Hg, 764.3 Torr, 14.779 psi, (up from 1018 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Manwhile on the 28th of January 2020 NF was watching "The Martian" again because he liked it, plus the final two eps of the UK "House of Cards", Brillo popped in & burbled, WTFH was looking after the dog & the fowls, and LondonManc found it cold where he was. No sign of BR14.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Oz Highway Patrol during which there was one stiff ex moped driver with no lights who hit a 4x4, another almost stiff, some arse grass, someone who flew a car, and a copper who managed to puncture the tyres of two police cars whilst bring a miscreant to a halt due to losing hold of the string for the puncture thing. Amusing enough if you're not the chap on the moped I suppose.

More potching in the garage: today we sorted chisels (cold and wood), bolster chisels, assorted screwdrivers (old & posi), stillsons, wheelbraces (many), 3 of those extending wheel brace things I recommended to NF, plus assorted car jacks from cars old, very old, and not so old. I'm sure there used to be one from either the Rover P4 or the Wolseley 6/80 but there's no sign of it.

Even cleaned & oiled the Stanley twist drills (small & large) so they're much easier to use now. Not that they will be, but come Armageddon they might come in handy like when all the power is off. .

The Repaire shoppe: stained glass window someone had trashed, polyphon music box, a painting of someone's mum. Fell asleep for some of it.

Observed that him next continues to think it ok to use my side passageway.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Nice enough.

Entertainment: 18 o'clock news. Bit of POTW.

2 minutes of "Best of F1": Oh dear, how sad, never mind: Max out on the 1st lap. Couldn't happen to a nicer chap & he didn't even have someone's head to park his car on.

Book.

Firkled around with the "hifi" by using the Aiwa loudspeakers designed for the system. Sounded ok with the tbass thing turned off, not nearly as bright as the Spendor BCIIs did.

Listened to a couple of Neil Young CDs which were insufficiently grungy. May have to seek out some others the next time I'm in Swansea.

Nothing to watch on the idiot lantern yet again.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy out and likely to continue so. But it's still warm and getting more so: already 21°C and going for a high of 26° before tomorrow's expected sunny day takes us all the way to 31°. In here, it's already at 24.2° so the air conditioner is on to bring it down a bit then make sure it doesn't get any worse. The barometers are up to 1013/1021mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all (reprise)

Cloudy. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 29 expected. Usual low rain risk. Barometer up to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 04:47; Sunset 21:22 BST

The drive to and from Heathrow T4 was completed in about 40 mins. No speeding but I did encounter an unnerving number of green lights there and back. HWMBO is on his way to Madrid (via Paris) for work.

I impressed myself with a superb piece of reverse/parallel parking on getting back home. It's a space over the road from my flat so that'll be gone when I get back from Mum's later, and I'll be scratching around again for a spot up the road.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all

bit 'ot here, but not like where I moved from dahn sarf.

should be starting new gig tomorrow, but, surprise! - they haven't sorted my access to the end client systems yet.
It never ceases to amaze me. <>50 years, and I think 2 gigs had full access on day 1.
Sure, it can be 15+ sysplexes and a sandbox or two, plus the windoze admin sh1t, but it IS possible to have one ID profile fits all.
Oh, well, next week it is, then.

<twiddles thumbs>

[NotAllThere]

Temperature 29.9 °C
Sunshine 10 of 10 min
Precipitation 0 mm/h
Wind speed 7 km/h from NNW
Wind gusts 18 km/h
Humidity 48%
Pressure 986 hPa

Scheduled to reach 33°C later.

Shutters down, evaporative coolers on.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: sausage bap (white)

This was accompanied by an Australian traffic police thing which I don't think I've seen before. I thought maybe they had some new ones but then it ended and the copyright was 2012, so it must have just slipped through the net

Somebody in this half of the block has just had a washing machine, or possibly a washer-dryer, delivered. Might be the flat above mine, might not. If it is, they were nice and quiet about getting it in there - though we get very little sound leakage anyway

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Turkish leftovers with some chips

Accompanied by Murder 24/7 finishing the story of a bloke with paranoid schizophrenia who came off his meds in favour of coke, weed and meth, and ended up killing his mother and half-killing his father with a hammer at the behest of the voices in his head

[NickFitz]

Later viewing has been Surgeons on iPlayer, because I hadn't got around to finishing the latest series. One more to go!

And then I read some more of The Nazi Mind

Monday again tomorrow. Wonder how many more of those there'll be?

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Alarm set for 5:20am.

Spent a couple of hours this afternoon deflowering Sideshow Bob (A palm tree thing in the garden). It’s an all-play bin day tomorrow. Should be back from dog walk long before bin men turn up.
Old phones and memory now sold, but no one wants my BT home hubs. To the bin they go.