Done: off to Oxfam with it.
Next: "The Dark Side of the Moon: the making of the PF masterpiece" by John Harris. Set the controls for the heart of the sun. Or something....
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Morning.
Tuesday by all accounts, including the clock.
Damply dry.
Greyly sunless.
Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 11.5 deg in the kitchen, 9 deg in the leanto.
987.5 mBar, in Hg, Torr, psi, (up from 987 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric)....Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 22:59.
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On from Tokyo Rose:
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...atest-swindles
If you were 1/16th Japanese then off to the camps you went.
Stone me, that's worse than the Nazi...
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Not as much fun as the poor sod whose address was registered as an Amazon Returns address.
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World's supply of Chinesium crap plastic lunch boxes turning up on pallets.
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Morning.
Monday apparently.
Grey.
Wanly sunless.
Damply dry.
Chilly in here at 12.7 deg, kitchen: 11.5, leanto: 9.5.
992 mBar, 29.294 in Hg, 744 Torr, 14.39 psi, (down from 996 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).
...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 09:19.
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Done: Off to Oxfam with it, though I may read it again before that happens.
Next: "The Bomb: A History of Hell on Earth" by Gerard DeGroot....Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 1 February 2026, 16:47.
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Morning.
Sunday.
Damp.
Grey.
Misty.
Sunless.
Drizzly.
Dreary.
Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto.
997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (up from 996...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 1 February 2026, 23:07.
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Done: off to Oxfam with it.
Next: "Longitude" by Dava Sobel. Tick Tock....
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^^^ WNF&LMS. I've gotjumperssuits older than that.
Morning.
Saturday.
Wet, very.
Grey, incredibly.
Sunless, totally.
Chilly, a bit, in here at 12.7 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 9.5 in the leanto.
990 mBar,...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 31 January 2026, 20:31.
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Can't reverse it: we'd be even further up tulip creek without a paddle if that happened: the EUSSR would ensure that happened.
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Morning.
Friday.
Poor night's sleep woken by a dream about a golem. 2 hours reading before returning to the land of nod.
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Damply dry.
Wanly sunny.
Chilly in here at 12.9 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto.
...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 30 January 2026, 23:47.
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Morning.
Thursday apparently. I didn't hear the Recycling Engineers earlier though they'd taken away my 3 months haul of bottles thusly proving it must be Thursday and they weren't on strike.
Dry.
Wanly sunny.
Bit overcast.
Chilly in here...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 29 January 2026, 22:12.
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Knocking on for £10k / year for an HNC ffs.
My first year of HNC cost £4. Mind you dinosaurs still roamed the fields back then.
The 2nd year cost £140*. Due to the incoming Labour government.
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*Not me: 3M paid for it back in the days of day release &...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 28 January 2026, 12:56.
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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...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 28 January 2026, 23:26.
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Morning.
Tuesday apparently.
Wet.
Calm.
Grey.
Sunless.
Chilly in here at 12.7 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto.
975 mBar, 28.79 in Hg, 731.31 Torr 14.14 psi, (down from 982 last night), 68% RH (Lidl...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 27 January 2026, 18:30.
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Morning.
Monday.
Dry. (For the moment).
Grey.
Sunless.
Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto, 6.8 in the saltinghouse.
995 mBar, 29.38 in Hg, 746.3 Torr, 14.43 psi, (unchanged but a tad), 66% RH...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 26 January 2026, 22:21.
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What's your point? Everything the tory bastards did is fine?...
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No. It started 45 years ago and continued unabated until 1997.
Would the CEGB have built a combined cycle gas turbine power station in Baglan Bay, along with a massive gas pipe line to Hirwaun for a 17 year lifetime?
I rather think not. Then again I'm sure the Australian bankers...
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