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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with intermittent bits of blue poking through. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 20 expected. Rain possible late afternoon. Barometer at 1015 mBar.

Sunrise 05:25; Sunset 20:49 BST

We landed about 10 mins late yesterday, which was an improvement on the delayed departure. This afternoon HWMBO and I are off to Glasgow for the weekend as it's his youngest's 18th birthday.

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

I took the route past the old place as I don't think I'd been that way in a while. Happy to report that the chestnut trees are doing well

It was too early for the Polish café to be open, but I assume that's doing well too

There was a very light drizzle just starting when I set off, which had turned into a heavier drizzle by the time I was done and making my way back to the car. Then it progressed to heavy rain during the journey home. But that had stopped by the time I made it back, so it's just grey now

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz chicken soup and white toast

I was going to have oxtail, but I've run out

[xoggoth]

Went to pick up ll2 and she was still out shopping, we eventually set off about a 3/4 hour after the agreed time. She is a complete pain in the ****. I'll be glad when ll1 comes back from the US.

[WTFH]

Dog walk to the pub shortly.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a bowl of the beef & ale stew from the other night, because I couldn't be bothered cooking

Accompanied by the rest of the Trucking Hell I started last week, with Crouch back to being a repeat - though at least it was the van in the Scottish loch, which is quite a good one

[ladymuck]

Uneventful journey to Glasgow.

HWMBO is having a new WM delivered tomorrow and has just received a text informing him that the delivery slot will be between 7 and 9 am.

[NickFitz]

Uneventful journey to Glasgow.

HWMBO is having a new WM delivered tomorrow and has just received a text informing him that the delivery slot will be between 7 and 9 am.

On a Saturday too! That's just evil

No movies for me tonight, as I've got my cousins' birthday thing tomorrow afternoon so I need to be up at a reasonable hour to make myself presentable

Instead, I've read a whole lot more of The Martian, getting up to the point where the crew of the Hermes have decided to go back for him

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Morning all, Glasgow calling

Blue sky at the moment. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Cloud cover set to increase. Barometer at 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 05:24; Sunset 21:22 BST

WM delivery commenced, and completed, shortly after 8 am and all packaging removed, as requested. WM collection did not occur because some insects were spotted and the delivery people said that was a H&S hazard. It's a risk you take when moving something that's been in place for 15 years. Fortunately the local council will do a collection for a fiver once it's put out on the street.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday. What's happened to the Saturday R4 schedule?

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly (very) sunny.

Cooler in here at 20.1 deg, 20 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.

1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.5 Torr, 14.7 psi, (unchanged), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of February 2020 DaveB was having an odd day & the permies around him having an even odder Tupe day, LM discovered the cause of the missing data: the world ended on the 31st of December 2019 according to the thing, Brillo popped in, NF had a ham sandwich, and I went to that Swansea, had a coffee with a friend, then came back with "The Second Sleep" in hardback, plus nearly a foot of dvds, most of which have remained unwatched & unregarded in a pile somewhere.

Cloudflare getting fecking irritating yet again.

Freecell score: 91%, running average: 83%.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus.

Shopping trips to Morrisons, Aldi, and Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Thank feck for the 34 back across the river.

Foot is hurting now. . Must be the bone spur that stopped me going to 'Nam. .

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM. Sliced Bread on Standing Desk.

"Scotland Yard: The Dover Road mystery (1960)". The tuned up Ford Zephyr MkII one.

Maigret "A man of quality (1960)".

Massive Engineering Mistakes S6 E10. Lodi, New Jersey: factory explosion caused by water ingress into a mixing machine giving rise to a runaway reaction. Tangiwai disaster, NZ, 24th December 1953: river bridge carried away by a lahar caused by the collapse of a plug on the side of a volcanic crater lake. Royal Liverpool Hospital, UK, 8 faulty beams found during construction, after the fix it opened 5 years late. Spain: Montfrague dam disaster 1965. Overfilled and a door protecting workers failed. Covered up by the Franco regime.