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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Damp.

Grey.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 19.6 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.4748 psi (down from 1002 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 AndyGarbs popped in a lot, LM detailed skip charges for the parking bay outside her flat, WTFH popped in, and I turned the heating on briefly & roasted some beef, whereas NF suggested Brillo turned his car on and off to see if it made the clock work.

Awake at 06:20. Dream before waking was a work one: much use of the term "mother****er" happened in this dream. Can't remember a dream like that previously.

In other other news it's been hammering down for at least an hour, and windy with it.

If I could be arsed it'd be a good day to die hard have a bonfire.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Thing about AI on R4: they don't seem to realise that Terminator is a documentary. Followed by Best BTTC crashes on ITV4. Jungle Warfare on PBS: the Evil British in Malaya; the Evil French, followed by the Septics in Vietnam. Guess who were more successful against the communists. .

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in initial sunshine, subsequent heavy showers, then generic dampness when that stopped.

Fecking magpies on the leanto roof trying to make the holes in it bigger. Bastards.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Nice enough. Entertainment: UFO bollox on Blaze: dozed through most of it since it was about humans being genetically engineered for a love of gold. .

It hammered down so hard during the above that falling back to terrestrial was required, though considering I was dozing I really dunno why I bothered.

Out of town with Jack Hargreaves: I wonder wot he'll kill this week. . A collection of old tools. Some nasty ones: the horse's tail docker. . A funny one: the seed fiddle seed spreader. The WTF is this ones: quite a lot of those.

https://www.facebook.com/JimmyTheLam...0790581800474/

Hannah Fry waffling on about ?fusion? generators. . 10 years away as usual.

Blazian Bollox. Unbelievable Bollox with wotshisface. Unbelievable survival: woman who fell from 33,000 feet without a parachute. The Revenant. Chap who survived for 3 days 100 feet underwater in an air pocket in a sunken ship. Chap who got lost in the Sahara on that crazy marathon. Chap half eaten by a hippo. Woman frozen for 6 hours. Chap crashed his motorbike & ended up buried alive for 3 days coz they thought he was dead. Etc.

BBC4: "Too near the sun" (1966) BBC documentary about the hydrogen bomb. No mention of Ulam or cobalt thorium G. .

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey start today, with what seems to be a lot of layers of various thicknesses. It’s still breezy, and this is expected to continue, getting even breezier during or after the rain that’s expected to visit from the next hour or so to mid-afternoon. As a result of the breeze, the present temperature of 13°C “feels like” 8°; the expected high is 18°. The barometers are very slightly up at 991/999mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast, a bit damp. Currently 16 degrees ('feels like' 14) with a high of 19 expected. Rain supposedly starting soon but the sun might make an appearance this afternoon. Barometer down to 1004 mBar.

Sunrise 04:48; Sunset 21:11 BST

This morning I was called by the NHS Blood and Transplant service to ask if I'd consider switching from whole blood donation to plasma. This is mildly inconvenient because blood can be donated pretty much anywhere and there's a great centre at Westfield in Shephard's Bush. Plasma can only be done at one of three centres, my local being in Twickenham (the others are in Birmingham and Reading). Turns out there's not enough plasma donations in the UK and they're on a drive to recruit and be less reliant on imports. Plasma donations can also be given more frequently than blood. So, this weekend, I'll be off to Twickers to try it out.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover chips and lamb from the other evening, because I made too much

The rain was occasional and more inclined to drizzle after some early downpours, and seems to have petered out altogether now

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all
Greetings from the depths of Z_Land

found an old share cert when clearing my wife's effects.
Attempted to contact the authors for validity check, and I spent hours trying to negotiate their website, which insists on an 11 digit account number, when the number i have is only 8 digits.
The website helpfully gives a tel no to call in the case of an 8 digit number, but this is guarded by a robot which, after 2minutes of pre-recorded irrelevance, insists on an 11 digit no before even offering any alternatives.
All contact nos for this incompetently written website's owners are guarded by the same robot.
WTF writes this sh1TE???
no doubt the 'professionals' in the SotM thread.
Feckin code monkeys.
Grrrrr.
I see the taxdodgers are still excited

[WTFH]

Afternoon all
Up at 04:40 to walk the dog, pending a 07:00 delivery of the next shed. At 06:00 as we were about to go into an area of poor phone reception, I thought I should check to see if there was any update on the delivery. There was. New ETA 06:40.
The walk was cut short and what normally takes 45 minutes was done in 35.
They arrived spot off 06:40, offloaded the shed in about 15 minutes and were on their way to the next delivery. They'd set off at 03:00 to get to me.

This shed is for the lawnmowers, but is from a company who normally make stables. I needed something with a wide enough door to drive the big mower in, and a stable is just about perfect size. While the other shed is good, and has a 3x2 frame, this one has a 4x2 frame. The other shed was made up of panels that were 1.7x1.2. This one is 2.1x3. That rules out me moving any of the panels myself. A slight drawback is that the guy who makes them does not supply instructions for building them, and while many bits are obvious, there's at least 2 pieces of timber that I have no idea of their purpose.
If we weren't away this weekend, I know what I'd be doing.

[WTFH]

[SIZE=14px]Afternoon all
Greetings from the depths of Z_Land

found an old share cert when clearing my wife's effects.
Attempted to contact the authors for validity check, and I spent hours trying to negotiate their website, which insists on an 11 digit account number, when the number i have is only 8 digits...

My sister-in-law found an investment document relating to my MIL about 3 years ago. Since then there has been a lot of communication - death cert, probate, solicitors letters, etc, all required as evidence before the funds were released. The good thing is that they remained invested over that time and have gone up by a reasonable amount. Finally got the money through today, more than a decade after my MIL died.

[sadkingbilly]

My sister-in-law found an investment document relating to my MIL about 3 years ago. Since then there has been a lot of communication - death cert, probate, solicitors letters, etc, all required as evidence before the funds were released. The good thing is that they remained invested over that time and have gone up by a reasonable amount. Finally got the money through today, more than a decade after my MIL died.

these shares are in MY name, but i can't remember whether they got flogged off, somewhen.
Hence the query.
* It was thirty years ago, in my defence.

[NickFitz]

Quite Simpsonesque out now

Just £50 won on the Premium Bonds this month. Come on Ernie, you can do better than that!

[xoggoth]

Took ghastly old ll2 to a talk this afternoon, didn't stay myself - sounded boring. Finally got round to putting my Windows 11 PC into the office and using the 10 as a spare.