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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day again and staying on the cooler side, being 17°C and getting no higher than 19°. It's still breezy too, giving a "feels like" temperature of 14°. The barometers are still dithering around 1008/1015mB

The new washer-dryer is arriving, and indeed the old one departing, tomorrow between 13:15 and 15:15! I'm glad it's not one of those 7am slots

[xoggoth]

Nephew wedding this afternoon. Fortunately the moths had not eaten the gray suit I haven't worn in about 20 years.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a bacon butty

Turning sunny out now, though there's still a lot of cloud in the other direction

[ladymuck]

Turned out sunny here too, this afternoon.

There's been a flurry of activity this morning/early afternoon.

The landlady turned up with a brickie to see what could be done about the garden wall that the tree was pushing over. They think it ought to come down entirely and be rebuilt. I can see a huge increase in my rent next year if I decide to stay put. If the quote is to her liking then hopefully the work could be done while I'm away at the beginning of September.

Then I called a car body workshop (what they'd call a coachworks back in the day and what the company call themselves too, I was pleased to observe) to see if they needed an appointment for giving my car a once-over for quotation purposes. They advised such formalities were not necessary so I off I toddled to the outskirts of Watford going past RAF Northolt and having a gander at Ruislip high street on the way.

As an aside, did you know that Gander is the name for the oceanic airspace between the east coast of Canada and roughly halfway across the Atlantic?

I also called a local independent optometrist to make an appointment for a sight examination.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been sausages and chips

And I'm finally on to the new series of the motorway cops thing, which is now with Humberside police who at least have a few more motorways

[NickFitz]

As an aside, did you know that Gander is the name for the oceanic airspace between the east coast of Canada and roughly halfway across the Atlantic?

I didn't know that specific fact, but thanks to Nevil Shute I did know that Gander is the location of an airport that was part of the transatlantic air routes in the days before planes could make it across in one go. And there's also a water aerodrome for seaplanes called Goose

[ladymuck]

I didn't know that specific fact, but thanks to Nevil Shute I did know that Gander is the location of an airport that was part of the transatlantic air routes in the days before planes could make it across in one go. And there's also a water aerodrome for seaplanes called Goose

Ah! That all connects up rather nicely.

[NickFitz]

Ah! That all connects up rather nicely.

The plot thickens! There's also Goose Bay Airport which is probably the one Shute was referring to, built during the war and now largely a military airfield, though it does have some commercial flights as well. According to that Wikipedia article, it was named Goose because they already had an airfield named Gander

[NickFitz]

I read some more of The Rewind Files tonight, in which confusion grows around who exactly is responsible for Watergate, and whether it's supposed to have been stopped or not

Early night now as I'll need to make sure everything's ready for the washer-dryer stuff tomorrow morning. This will include moving some stuff in the hall, which is really an L-shaped corridor running through the flat to the kitchen.

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday?

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cooler in here at 19.3 deg, 19.5 in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto.

1016 mBar, 30 in Hg, 762.1 Torr, 14.74 psi, (up from 1015 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of February 2020 NF was unimpressed with the pace of the first eps of "Picard", WTFH was wondering if he could finesse another trip to Memphis, Brillo was railing at the lack of trains, BR14 popped in, opm declared it was raining in Manchester (quelle surprise), and it was equally fine around here (ditto).

Walk (towpath) walked in the sunshine. Quite warm in places.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 green bollox <click> 13 o'clock news: <click> when the Zionist apologist started spouting lies.

House very roughly vacced.

Freecell score: 85%, running average:83%.

Tea: Mr Brains faggots & peas etc.

Entertainment: PM. <click>

More UFO bollox on Blaze: good s and bad s <click> Twiglet zone: the 2000 year old man.

"Jigsaw (1962)" with that PC Dixon chap as an Inspector about to retire, odd really since he soldiered on as a Sgt until 1976 and even got to use a computer.

Book.