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[sadkingbilly]

No arty thing this morning due to my coughyness. Spent me time clearing stuff in prepartion for visit to dump on Thursday. How exciting! Not! Darn it, I've got green and black stains on me fingers from handling some old printer cartridges. Won't come off, that stuff.

Their dark Chocolate Ginger's excellent!

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Overcast and dull all day after much rain overnight. Currently 9 degrees and the high was 10. Barometer down to 985 mBar.

Sunrise 07:47; Sunset 16:42 GMT

Very busy day. Finally starting onboarding for gig 3. Crikey the amount of compliance needed from these recruitment agencies! That and many demands from gigs 1 and 2 has made for a non-stop cavalcade of activity.

Question of the day:
Where is mudskipper 's bridge?

Yes! Enquiring minds need to know.

[xoggoth]

Google says Korea. Ah! What nice little Mudskippers!

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs and chips

This was accompanied by the rest of yesterday’s Police Interceptors

I see 5 have got a new series following RTC scene investigators, which is handy because I’ve watched all the BBC Wales ones

[NickFitz]

In Stalingrad, Germans continued to die in huge numbers after the surrender, whether from starvation, disease, or at the hands of the Russians. Some were shot after “scooping handfuls of lice off their bodies to throw at their captors”

The senior officers were looked after a bit better due to their propaganda value. Eventually, many of them ended up back in Germany as bitter old men - some in the East, others in the West

And that’s the end of that book! I’ve got Beevor’s Berlin: The Downfall 1945 to read next

The general sense of malaise hasn’t really got any better, but it hasn’t got any worse either. Bit of a cough, and the occasional blocked nose. I hope it isn’t one of those that drags on for ages

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy with gaps out, and tending towards patchy cloud with sunny spells or even sunny with cloudy spells during the morning. Cloudier this afternoon though. It’s 2°C and it seems it doesn’t “feel like” anything else, and it’s expected to reach 7° by lunchtime. The barometers are back up to 981/989mB

I had a much better night’s sleep last night. Still don’t feel right though

[WTFH]

Morning all
Raining earlier as we went out on the walk, and the ground is saturated. Watching the main BBC news yesterday evening with the various images from Devon. In a couple of them our house wasn't visible in the shot, but the neighbour's trees could be seen.
Blue skies now and the sun is shining, so I've put a load of washing on.

Anyone read the new FB options and decided whether to pay £3.99 to see no fewer ads or not?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Anyone read the new FB options and decided whether to pay £3.99 to see no fewer ads or not?

Currently contemplating deleting the account completely. It's so full of ragebait these days & I waste far too much time on there.

Still pissed off at the messenger password I need to access messenger despite never having set up a password in the first place.

I fail to see why I should make some scumbag billionaire richer by any amount.

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 9.5 in the leanto, 6 in the saltinghouse.

989 mBar, 29.2 in Hg, 741.8 Torr, 14.34 psi, (up from 984 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of March 2020 quackhandle, scruff, BR14 popped in, along with a frazzled LM, NF was disappointed with the actions of the Recycling & Waste Disposal Engineers, and I was watching Terminator again.

Washing frenzy in progress for those things that don't get washed very often and are rather, er, gamey.

Shopping trip to Aldi & Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Rain started as I checked on the washing: all in off the line still wet.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about houses falling in the sea & incompetent house insulation schemes. <click>.

Stuff back out on the line whilst the rest meets the TD. When all was done a whole cup of water out of the TD.

Entertainment: Foyle's War S5E1 "Plan of attack": the map making one.

Tea: batter haddock etc.

Entertainment: PM.

Look at Life: helicopters etc. 1964. Basil de Ferranti's personal helicopter and automatic garage for same. First UK female helicopter pilot. Flying to work in your own plane. Them were the days. Just as many Jesus bolts then as now.

Scotland Yard. The Polish spy one. <click> Must have watched this one about 5 times.

Yesterday: Abandoned Engineering. El Fronton Prison Island, Peru, for those lovely Shining Path maoist guerrillas. They killed all the mother****ers when they rioted and took over the island. It's the only way to be sure. Prosper Goumond Divorce Ranch, LV, Nevada. France: Godin ironworks village. Sicily: Borgo Schiro: Musso's farm village.

TLC: Bad Skin Clinic. Damn. That's a really impressive bunch of keloids. Poor woman has had them "removed" 5 years ago without any postoperative radiotherapy or steroid injections. So they've come back with a vengeance. Stone me. That's a biiiig op. 7 hours.

Elementary S1 E11 "Dirty Laundry". The spies one.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: sausage and bacon bap (white) again, thereby finishing off the outstanding sausages and bacon

Just had somebody ring the bell who explained that they’re doing a drone survey of the roof of the building. Not sure why they can’t just walk up there - there’s a little spiral staircase on the top floor that leads up there. But I suppose a drone is more fun

I wonder if any of the various inexplicable keys I got when I bought the place open the door to the roof? Might give it a try some time

[Pondlife]

Good Afternoon All,

Wind 5 kt from the East
Temperature 7°C
Humidity 93%
Pressure 993 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more


There was a sliver of sunshine earlier and it was noticeably lighter this morning.