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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday? <checks clock>

Wet. Very very wet. Torrential at times overnight with the usual rivers of water in the road when I looked out of the front window at about 03:30ish.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Cool in here at 20 deg, 21.5 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.

995.5 mBar, 29.397 in Hg, 746.7 Torr, 14.44 psi, (down from 997 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of February 2020 Churchill popped in, as did AndyGarbs, and Simon Mac, WTFH was awake at 5 a.m. waiting for NF's weather forecast, NF was doing the washing, and LM had some curious concoction for lunch, and had the boiler serviced, and following my return from the 's meeting in Swansea, my big toe was painful.

Walk (towpath) walked. Minor cloudburst on the way back down.

Well that's filled the canal at Tonna lock: what was empty yesterday is now 18" deep. The bit I could have stepped across a stream 3" wide is now a foot or more wide & all the brooks are full too.

River much more enthusiastic this morning: you wouldn't want to fall in that at the moment.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Electric cars.

Gosh. Brief flood alert this morning:

https://flood-warning.naturalresourc...ail/102WAFF18/

Well there's a thing. I thought the river looked a bit enthusiastic.

More work potching on the un-un balun: finally got the phasing correct. Did it make any difference to the reception of short wave? Of course not.

Even unplugged the mains feed to the garage in case that was radiating the buzz, but nope, made zero difference.

Tea: beans on toast with baked spud and scrambled egg. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. <endless asylum seeker interview with a chap who's applied to Greece, Turkey, Austria, Germany, possibly France, and now he's here: click>

I'm sure we'll give him asylum no problemo.

Don't suppose there's feck all to watch on the idiot lantern this evening.

Correct: two disastrous freecell sessions instead, nearly achieving wall punching status.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Currently 18 degrees ('feels like' 21) with a high of 29 expected. Rain forecast in increasing probability this afternoon/evening. Barometer down to 1002 mBar.

Sunrise 06:08; Sunset 19:57 BST

In the office today. A friend of mine reserved a desk for me so I don't have to sit with ConsultancyCo folk. Although, the one that's in at the moment is a nice chap.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: pork and apple sauce bap (wholemeal)

Still sunny out, though a lot of cumuli seem to be gathering, possibly to provide the rain that's possible (now 35%) later

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all
@NF, - sounds like EVRI's your courier.
they. are. sh1te.
I avoid buying from anyone who uses them, wherever possible.

*PAYDAY tomorrow*
*1st for a wee while, hence the

[NickFitz]

Afternoon all
@NF, - sounds like EVRI's your courier.
they. are. sh1te.
I avoid buying from anyone who uses them, wherever possible.

No, it was ArrowXL for the machine, with Amazon's uselessness last night as a bonus

Amazon's order details page showed that they were making no attempt to redeliver, despite the message on there saying they would. As far as I could tell, they were expecting me to fill in a form explaining how to get to the front door they were at last night, and which every other Amazon driver realises has a large panel next to it with bell pushes for each flat and an intercom. So I've ordered another blanking cap and cancelled the original order, for which I get a refund, though not of the £1.99 I had to pay for same-day delivery

Before that, I popped round to the little hardware shop on the shopping road. Turned out he had blanking caps in several sizes, but not the size I needed

*PAYDAY tomorrow*
*1st for a wee while, hence the

[NickFitz]

Plan B, or maybe W by now: Screwfix! They're only about five minutes from here, depending on the traffic lights, so I searched on their website and it offered something which appeared as if it might do the job. Ordered from the local store and got confirmation it was ready for me in seconds, so I drove down there and collected it. Getting back, I discovered that it's completely useless! Despite being sealed in McAlpine packaging with "1¼ inch" clearly printed on it, it appears to be much larger by a quarter of an inch at least, maybe more; and it also seems a bit more complicated than is required, being in four parts

But as I was over that side of hereabouts, it gave me an excuse to make a minor detour on the way back. So it's been fish & chips from the VAT fraud chippy for tea!

And Amazon have refunded the extra shipping charge too, possibly because I opted to get it on my Amazon gift card balance rather than in the bank, so they know it'll come back to them soon

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture rewatch was Demolition Man (1993). Good fun, and also extremely violent

Shopping tomorrow! About time too

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all

TFIF, etc.
Cool out, but it didn't rain on our walk, unlike the rain we had overnight which has refilled most of our water butts and got the pond over half full.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Currently damp, wet pencilled in for later.

Grey.

Wanly sunny, using some imagination.

Cool in here at 20.1 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.

990.5 mBar, 29.25 in Hg, 742.9 Torr, 14.37 psi, (down from 991 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of February 2020 there was much discussion of washing machine temperatures, towels etc. while xogg got a cheque for 5p as a refund for his lost O2 phone, BR14 popped in whilst watching Hill Street Blues (hey hey hey! let's be careful out there! I wonder if he watched it all: we'll never know), and LM washed cottons at 60 deg, as did NF, in major bug killing mode.

The nightmare before waking involved me getting a contract somewhere in that south of Engerland where I'd started before signing the contract and local hotels were very expensive. I was glad to wake up & find it wasn't real. It was something to do with serial comms and security or something. Seemed unlikely to me but there you go.

Walk (towpath, unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine until 300 yards from home whereupon it rained on me.

The canal is looking much healthier with ample very brown water in it. Tree down over the tow path. I wonder how long it'll be before the PTB do sommat about it.

River much less in flood than yesterday.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Food programme, thing about South African murder trial, noon o'clock news, next thing <click>

At least the afternoon's freecell sessions were better: 89% and 95%, running average: 83%.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc.

Entertainment: Thing about cat ladies. PM.

Looks like there's bugger all to watch on the idiot lantern again: dozens of channels of dross & still nothing to watch. I suppose the bollox on Blaze at 21:00 might just be tolerable if I try hard.

Freecell score: 95%, running average: 83%. Last game was a bugger to get out.

Book.

Some bollox or other on Blaze.

Book. Other book. Other other book. Other other other book.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy grey day out, though any rain has supposedly already happened and it might even brighten up towards teatime. It's staying cooler, being 15°C now and aiming for 19°. The barometers are decidedly pessimistic, being down to 983/991mB

Off to do the shopping shortly. I may go to Big Sainsbury's, rather than dealing with the less extensive range of options at the nearer one