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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Damply dry after torrential deluge overnight.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Cool in here at 18.9 deg in here.

1008 mBar, 29.73669 in Hg, 755.3 Torr, 14.6 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 71% RH.

Thursday, apparently,...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Ah, flat electronics. The best kind. That electronics with the flexible bendy pcbs is best avoided.




Ah, the dear dead days beyond recall when you could draw an arc off the top cap of a PL504 (or PL36) without blowing everything to shreds.



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[DoctorStrangelove]

Sir Colin Blakemore: head of the MRC.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sir-colin-...164929992.html

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Damply dry.

Sometimes sunnyish.

Blue sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 18.7 deg.

1006 mBar, 27.707 in Hg, 754.56 Torr, 14.59 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 71% RH.

Wednesday apparently.

More weird dreams....

[DoctorStrangelove]

Fortnum's carrier bags at that.

Shocking.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Dry.

Dark.

Grey.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Chilly at 18.9 deg in here.

Windy.

1011 mBar, 29.854 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.663315 psi, (up from 1010), 71% RH.

Tuesday.

Some curious...

[DoctorStrangelove]

And there it is: Gone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockl...ockleyBldg.jpg


I think it was still there the last time I looked some years ago.

The Hewlett Packard Garage is definitely still there.

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Cheers, Nick.

Must be sommat to do with the way I edit stuff.

I noticed the Frog Farm thing was on but resisted the urge to watch yet another load of tosh.

If they had the Ark of the Covenant on a chain, then it'd be different. .

Freecell score...

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It's doing that thing where half the post disappears again....

[DoctorStrangelove]

Loadsamoney!

Wad!

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[DoctorStrangelove]

I blame all those chinese door bell cameras and electronic thermostats altering the votes.

It's all a communist conspiracy, I tell you.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Lots of my Esteemed Customers seemed to end up back in the curry house.

I wonder if that counts as "highly paid".

Looking at the local level of wages I doubt that any of it counts as "highly paid".

[DoctorStrangelove]

Graham Skidmore, the voice of Blind Date:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61949408

Actually he died in December but no one noticed. .


Also: Frank Williams, the vicar in Dad's Army, 90.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Oh, it's back. Was getting 504 error all yesterday evening.

Morning.

Damply dry.

Greyish while wanly sunny.

Much less windy.

Cool in here at 19.4 deg.

1011 mBar, in Hg, Torr, psi, (up from 1003 yesterday), 73% RH.
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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Dry.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Windy.

Chilly at 19.3 deg in here.

1003.5 mBar, in Hg, Torr, psi, (up from yesterday by an undefined amount, the barometer not having been tapped & set prior to TFBSZ), 72%...

[DoctorStrangelove]

I'm impressed you managed to watch it all. I don't think I was in the mood for it. Especially after the stewed gooseberries.

Morning.

Damp.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Cooler at 20 deg in here.

1001 mBar, 29.5595 in Hg, 750.811...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Asbestos was used in lots of things, including floor tiles and that black thing they used to stick under stainless steel kitchen sinks.

It's even in lavatory cisterns, the black plastic kind, like the one in my outside bog & next door's outside bog.

Ye Olde Sloughe of...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Merry Midsummer's Day. .

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Damp.

Drizzly.

Grey.

Sunless.

Warmish at 21 deg in here.

999.5 mBar, 29.515 in Hg, 749.68 Torr, 14.496 psi, (down...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Reminds me of the fun we used to have breaking the white bits off those heat spreader things in the chem lab in skool. <cough> <wheeze>.

Not to mention chasing blobs of mercury over the bench. .

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Blue sky.

Sunny.

Dry.

Warmish side of cool in here at 20.8 deg.

1016 mBar, 30.002 in Hg, 762.06 Torr, 14.74 psi, (down from 1018 last night), 72% RH.

Thursday.

The recycling engineers made their merry...