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[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs, cooked in my mango chutney BBQ sauce, with chips. Exceedingly nice

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy and dull. Currently 9 degrees ('feels like' 7) and the high was 12. Barometer up to 1011 mBar.

Sunrise 08:01; Sunset 15:53 GMT

Busy morning at the coal face. In between meetings I decided a couple of my pillow cases were a bit to crumpled and this was prime opportunity to test that steamer I bought a while back. Not a bad outcome; they just look slightly dishevelled now. With a bit of practice I could do better but I've never been one for ironing bed linen so I'm not going to start steaming them to perfection.

Need to talk to potential new client but they've not responded to my messages. This could throw all plans awry as communication of decisions is of paramount importance!

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a cold roast chicken leg

The weather seems to be turning a bit milder, with some just-about-blue streaks visible behind the clouds

In other news, I tweeted (on Bluesky, of course, but I refuse to call them “skeets”) at the chap who’d first made me aware of Barbara Comyns’ work earlier this year, in response to something related he’d posted, to thank him for that. And my tweet has just been liked by… Jack Womack, author of the excellent Dryco novel series I finished reading the other week!

[sadkingbilly]

No, he says his name is Cyril.

oh, that's ok, then

[Pondlife]

Good Morning all,

Definitely a weird energy in my calls today. Nobody wants to start a new conversation that might result in actions this close to Christmas.

Wind 2 kt from variable directions
Temperature 8°C
Humidity 87%
Pressure 1011 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more

[NickFitz]

…whilst NF's car failed the MOT on a lightbulb, then passed when they put a new one in, though a rear tyre had a nail in it.

This confused me as I though I hadn’t noticed the advisory, but it turns out I had my timings all wrong!

And there’s an advisory for a nail in the nearside rear tyre, which is extremely annoying as that’s the one with the spare on as of a few weeks ago

So it must be that I had the flat, switched to the spare, then that got a nail as well before I'd had the flat repaired

I vaguely recall it now, but there was a lot of other stuff going on at the time to do with a pandemic so I’d forgotten the details

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Very grey day, though if you look closely you can see where some patches of blue might be about to break through. It rained heavily last night and has not long stopped, though supposedly it may resume for a while shortly. The current 7°C “feels like” 2° and the expected high is 9°. The barometers are optimistic though, being up to 997/1005mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday apparently.

Damp.

Puddle considerably reduced.

Grey.

Hints of sun.

Chilly in here at 14.1 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto, 8.5 in the saltinghouse.

1005.5 mBar, 29.69 in Hg, 754.2 Torr, 14.584 psi, (up from 1000 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of March 2020 NF got a ticket for the boring conference on the 20th of May , LM tried but they'd all gone & she was going to be in Oslo that day anyway, whilst NF's car failed the MOT on a lightbulb, then passed when they put a new one in, though a rear tyre had a nail in it.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Some clown sent a gigantic text message to my ancient batphone which seems to have removed its ability to receive text messages, which is rather irritating.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine, during which Morrison was visited: done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Looks very much as if the canal overtopped the towpath in several places yesterday.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about landlords. TWATO.

Washing frenzy complete after the TD was pressed into service: everything now airing upstairs. Must remember to retire that worn out towel with one of the many left by my late mother because: a) it smells and b) it doesn't dry worth a damn any more.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough until I discovered the added saltiness was due to a split lip.

Entertainment: PM. <click>.

Lee Van Cleefe in a 4 stars production of "Trail's End (1953)". He didn't make it to the credits. .

Time to Remember: 1911 to 1913: starts with the investiture of the Prince of Wales (well he lasted ever such a long time as King), the King Emperor's visit to India for the Delhi Durba, the young lady who threw herself under the King's horse at the Derby, and the Titanic which proved rather less than unsinkable. Narrated by Dame Edith Evans. 1959. A different age.

The Mind of Mr J. G. Reeder: "The Treasure House (1971)".

[WTFH]

Morning all

Wet and windy overnight, but calmed down this morning, although our walk was quite muddy.

[NickFitz]

I finished Sisters By a River tonight. I think I’ll be going straight on to another Barbara Comyns book; they’re very enjoyable

Earlier today I did some stuff with RealityKit, leading to a cube drifting around randomly in 3D space. This may not sound like much, but it means I’ve worked out how to integrate RK with GameplayKit, which provides all kinds of weird and wonderful functionality such as path following and flocking

Goodnight all