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[NickFitz]

I finished reading Suspicion tonight; good little thriller

Goodnight all

 

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s grey and damp and drizzly out. Otherwise much the same, apart from the dampness: it’s 7°C with an expected high of 9°, and the barometers are down a bit more at 994/1002mB. The rain should finish in an hour or two, but it’s expected to remain cloudy all day, though the skies are set to clear overnight so it’ll be a colder start tomorrow, and even frosty towards the weekend

 

[WTFH]

Morning all
Slept in to 06:00 today, so haven't managed my 10,000 steps yet.
Overcast and damp out.

 

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Damply dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

14.4 deg in here, 12.1 in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto, 9 out the back.

1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750 Torr, 14.5 psi, (unchanged), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: traction engines ploughing a field, the coming of tractors during WWII, the demise of the two 5 year old heavy horses who'd won a ploughing competition in 1946, heaving 2.25 cwt bags onto the back of a cart. Terriers.

Stone me, those 2.25 cwt (114kg) sacks weren't outlawed until 1956.

One or two men would be looking after the bagging of the corn depending on how far away the granary was from the machine; sometimes the corn would be put into West of England Sacks which held four bushels, which was a measure of volume, and a bushel of wheat was 63 lbs and barley was 56lbs, with oats at 42lbs, so a sack of wheat was 2.25 cwt, so a struggle up the granary steps.

Gordon Lott's Story

Bideford and District Community Archive - the Gazette Newspaper from 1856 onwards

mail.bidefordarchive.org.uk

Stone me, no wonder they had bad backs.

In other news, it looks very much as if the quality of Glengettie tea has fallen so far that I won't be buying any more once stocks have exhausted. How are the mighty fallen with the asset stripping scum of Private Equity acquiring Typhoo.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked: alternate extra layer employed. Two conversations, one with 3 LLs, the other with an ex Marine.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Bab5 "In the beginning" last 20 minutes. Well it was on & I like it, plus Kilvey FM R4 transmitter in down again: it's on & off more often than the proverbial whore's drawers. FFS. Previously I'd have switched to LW but of course They switched that off.

Since the wireless is currently off I listened to the 13:45 1956: Suez, the end of delusion on the interweb instead and finished the series.

Dashcam bollox S3 E1. <click> Word perfect on this one.

Alaska homestead bollox: the fortress to keep the bears out. <click>. Watched before too recently.

 

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy and wetly damp. Currently 8 degrees ('feels like' 6) with a high of 9 expected. Barometer down to 1005 mBar.

Sunrise 07:12; Sunset 16:18 GMT

Laundry in the WM.

Off to stay with Mum tomorrow until Monday while my brother swans around Czech. Contemplating whether to change the bed linen today or just strip the bed tomorrow before I go, thus forcing me to do it when I get back.

 

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz oxtail soup with white toast

It’s sprint end/start so meetings took up much of the morning. And there’s another one due shortly

Thinking ahead, I find that it’s Viz week; last one of the year, so it’ll be the Christmas issue. This means no nipping out to do the shopping tomorrow lunchtime as I need to go to Big Sainsbury’s. I’ll probably leave it till Friday morning

 

[xoggoth]

Morning spent with old ladies again. Has me Viz delivered yesterday, ain't finished it yet. 2 pages of Drunken Bakers. Boring.