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[NickFitz]

Continuing the lunchtime theme, tea has been a burger and fries from Five Guys

[xoggoth]

Walk with loony lady 2 was too difficult for her. She wasn't up to walking back and a bloke at a campsite gave us a lift! There are some nice people around. Had a nice lunch at pub overlooking a lake and I had a lone wander while she sat chatting to another old lady.

Managed to submit my damn company accounts to HMRC. Hadn't been able to do a submission to Companies House as I had not received an authentication code and was a bit worried I might not get it on time so applied for a filing extension. Just had email that said it had been extended to Dec 31st! Think I'll just keep applying for extensions so I don't have to bother with submissions at all.

[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff today as usual

Tonight, I started reading The Andromeda Anthology by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot, being A for Andromeda and The Andromeda Breakthrough in one volume. I vaguely remember getting A for Andromeda out of the library when I was about fourteen, but don't remember anything much about it. Of course, I'm too young to have seen the original 1961 TV series!

There's been quite a lot of rain in the last hour, but it seems to have eased off a bit now. I noticed it was getting quite windy too

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny out, with just some patches and wisps of high, thin cloud here and there. The warm spell is over though: it's a mere 10°C ("feels like" 8°) and not getting any warmer than 14°, though the wind seems to have eased off quite a bit. The barometers are up again at 1006/1014mB

[sadkingbilly]

Lots of wildlife stuff today as usual

Tonight, I started reading The Andromeda Anthology by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot, being A for Andromeda and The Andromeda Breakthrough in one volume. I vaguely remember getting A for Andromeda out of the library when I was about fourteen, but don't remember anything much about it. Of course, I'm too young to have seen the original 1961 TV series!

There's been quite a lot of rain in the last hour, but it seems to have eased off a bit now. I noticed it was getting quite windy too

Goodnight all

I can remember the TV series. scared the stuffing out of me!
I blame stuff like that and quatermass for my lifelong addiction to scifi.
for which i'm eternally grateful

oh, sorry, - morning all
lovely sunny morning here, after yesterday's deluge.
no extra trampolines or sheds in the garden either.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry. Ish.

Grey with hints that there might just be blue sky and a wan sun somewhere.

Cooler in here at 19 deg, 18.5 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto.

1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759.1 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (up from 1005 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of February 2020 BR14 and Churchill popped in, along with LM, WTFH, and NF, whereas in the library, it being half term or something, it was LEGO day. . But not, as it transpired, for very many more weeks. Whilst elsewhere it was merely cold, here, as per, it was cold and wet.

Walk (towpath, unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom. More people about today.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: something about the woman who's in charge of the RFU.

Talking Pictures TV: Look at Life (1962): The Common Market.

Freecell score: 85%, running average: 84%.

Tea: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: thing about the partition of India.

Walking with the Ancients: when did humans first reach the Americas.

Sergeant Cork: The case of the knotted scarf (1963).

Whatever other bollox I can find.

More freecell: don't fecking ask.

Very good idea doing that before attempting to change the battery in a watch.

I've never previously encountered one that you have to disassemble out of the case to access the cell, then unclip the metal cell retainer.

It's very lucky it's still in one piece, the waterproofness is now doubtful.

The irritation level is sky high especially since one of the buttons wouldn't work until I'd taken the fecking thing in & out of the case 7 or 8 times.

Date isn't right but feck it, the time is close enough.

I seem to have lost much of the fine motor control of yore. .

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with wispy fluff. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 16 expected. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 06:47; Sunset 19:02 BST

Currently at Heathrow T5 awaiting my flight up to Glasgow to stay with HWMBO for the next week.

[xoggoth]

2 loony lady free days to meself! Hmm, what to do with me time apart from walkies? Get some gardeny things done for a start.

[NickFitz]

Heinz tomato soup and white toast for lunch

Must make some more bread

Outside, it's turned quite Simpsonesque now

[ladymuck]

Sunny here in Glasgow. Cool at 13 degrees but it feels nice and warm when in the sunshine.