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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey start after a night which got a little warmer, being below zero before midnight but rising to 2°C now - and this will continue into tonight, with 6° by sunset and the forecast high of 10° not expected until 23:00! There may be a shower or two this afternoon and some more steady rain this evening. The barometers have gone back down to 1001/1009mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Wet.

Drizzly.

Chilly in here at 11.2 deg, 9 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto, 7.5 in the saltinghouse.

1006 mBar, 29.71 in Hg, 754.6 Torr, 14.59 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 11th of March 2020 things were becomming inneresting, covbob thanked me for recommending "Survivors (1975)", which, it turned out, NF had bought a couple of years previously, LondonManc popped in, LM was dissatisfied with the canteen lunch, and WTFH was disappointed with the count of eggs. Oh, and there was a limit on the number of tins of corned beef you could buy in Morrisons. The shape of things to come. .

Power cut sometime during the night: woke me up when the boiler woke itself up on the power coming back on.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: avoiding smashing stuff with a hammer.

The TD excelled itself in random number generation: from 6 minutes left to 55 minutes left when the actual programme starts at 43 minutes when you turn the fecker on. .

Shirts met the iRon and are airing upstairs.

Still waiting on the TD, after which the remaining smalls will go in, no doubt taking 15 times as long as might reasonably be expected.

It there was a cup or so out of the TD last week, there'll be a gallon out this week.

Now getting outside a cup of mediocre yet consistent coffee whilst attempting to stay calm and not press the sledge hammer into use. . Om. Fecking Om. Om. It's not fecking working. Om. Om. Om.

In other news, after the washing frenzy, the saltinghouse has now reached the heights of 14 deg and is, indeed, warmer than it is in here where it's 12.7.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Rained for the last 3/4 of a mile.

Entertainment: Cold War Spies. E1. Tina Turner ZZ Top Legs cover.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Entertainment: Progress E2. This sounded almost exactly what I listened to last week. .

Last 20 minutes of "Sunset Boulevard (1950)": Norma Desmond "the films got smaller".

Westerns on Sky Arts. (again).

Sergeant Cork. S2 E7 "The case of the self made man". Eeee bah gum, trouble at't mill & all that. He didn't win that one.

Bit of "A Fistful of Dollars (1964)" on Sky Arts. The "my mule don't like you laughing" bit. . Must be a long time since I watched that since I couldn't remember some of it. "A Few Dollars More" is my favourite.

Blaze: Discovered by Disaster. Lost Egyptian port sunk in the Med. The Chicxulub asteroid & the rise of the mammals. Fall of the Kmer empire: drought etc. Volcano eruption in Turkey with added rock paintings.

Last bit of Fistful.

[WTFH]

Morning all
raining and windy out, but I can’t delay the walk any longer.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' -0) with a high of 8 expected. Rain forecast. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

I guess -0 means it's feeling colder than 0 but not quite -1.

Sunrise 08:03; Sunset 16:16 GMT

Off to see Mum today. Decided I shan't bother taking the duvet cover with me. I don't need it washed today.

[xoggoth]

A whole 5 today going up to 10 tonight. Would be good if not for 100% heavy rain. Monday meetup has been moved to Tuesday when I 've got me arty thing, so nowt to do for 2 days, apart from drink at village club maybe. Mostly just me and me puppet parrot.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a couple of leftover spicy chicken thighs from the other night

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken tikka masala out of the freezer, with rice and naan

It was OK, but I think I prefer the madras

This was accompanied by The Crash Detectives on iPlayer, which was a fatal after the relative respite of the last couple of episodes

[ladymuck]

A wet and windy drive home and a sub-optimal parking space acquired due to a van pulling into the one I wanted to allow me to pass.

[NickFitz]

I continued reading Endurance tonight. They made it south, and entered the Weddell Sea where they became trapped in the ice and had to spend the winter there in constant darkness. And now, after managing to break free for a short while when spring came, a gale has blown up and the pressure of millions of tons of ice being blown into them is about to send poor Endurance to the bottom, and they have to get off

Speaking of gales, it’s very windy out tonight. Unseasonably warm though: 10°C now and not dipping below 8° before sunrise

Monday again tomorrow. Best to make the most of it while it lasts, I suppose; I heard last week that when my contract is up at the start of February, they can only give me a six month extension, as the department isn’t doing twelve month ones right now due to budgetary constraints and general uncertainty

Goodnight all