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[NickFitz]

I found time to do some more mucking around with Swift and Bluesky stuff until, inevitably, I got bogged down on something and gave up for now

Then to reading: I resumed Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema, in which Ealing Studios is getting off to a very shaky start but is about to be saved by the arrival of Gracie Fields and George Formby

Wednesday tomorrow! Get through that and I only have to get through Thursday!

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

I checked Freecycle and there were people asking for both

Useful, Freecycle, I moderate for my local town. Used it to get rid of a whole lot of heavy tiles that were filling up my shed. Builders etc. always order far more stuff than they use.

Just back from Karaoke.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been pork cutlet with chips and beans

This was accompanied by part two of Hunting Mr Nice

[DoctorStrangelove]

I made it clear that I couldn't deliver right at the start when I contacted them. The big surprise is that they noticed that I'd said it!

In fact, the washing machine woman stated in her "wanted" post that she could get it collected. This lulled me into a false sense of security - I thought she'd be the easy one to deal with

Ah, the sweet innocence of youf. .

[NickFitz]

Wot? They didn't ask if you could deliver? That's the favourite around here. .

I made it clear that I couldn't deliver right at the start when I contacted them. The big surprise is that they noticed that I'd said it!

In fact, the washing machine woman stated in her "wanted" post that she could get it collected. This lulled me into a false sense of security - I thought she'd be the easy one to deal with

[DoctorStrangelove]

Lunch was a bacon bap (white)
In the meantime, I'd finally decided that having the washing machine and fridge from the old flat taking up most of my little storeroom downstairs was stupid, and I should find new homes for them. I checked Freecycle and there were people asking for both, so I let them know.

Wot? They didn't ask if you could deliver? That's the favourite around here. .

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a bacon bap (white)

I haven't been busy today, as the chap who knows what he's doing and is supposed to be passing this wisdom on to me is off sick. I've been asking questions of a chap on the service we're supposed to be working with, and he's been responding a couple of hours later when he has time, and then I'm able to make a one or two line edit to some documentation. I've tried asking the rest of the team if they have anything I can help with, via Slack, and have received no response

In the meantime, I'd finally decided that having the washing machine and fridge from the old flat taking up most of my little storeroom downstairs was stupid, and I should find new homes for them. I checked Freecycle and there were people asking for both, so I let them know.

The woman asking for a washing machine started being a bit fussy; how do I know it still works after two years, can she have photos, and all that. I popped down at lunchtime and hauled everything out of there so I could take some photos, which turned out to be worth doing anyway as I've got the space more neatly organised now - things had originally just been shoved in there as and when I brought them over. Then it turned out you can't include photos in messages, so I had to upload them somewhere and send her a URL. No response to that yet; if she doesn't get back to me soon, there's somebody else posted wanting one this morning, who perhaps won't be such a fusspot

Meanwhile, the chap looking for a fridge was just "I can come at these times, do I need to bring help get it down any stairs" and so on. I'd checked it while I was down there and it needs a bit of a clean. So I've arranged for him to come and get it on Thursday evening, to give me time to spruce it up. Much less hassle

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 13.5 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 10 deg in the leanto.

1011 mBar, 29.854 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.663315 psi, (untapped & it certainly wasn't 988), 57% RH (Lidl electric: dehumidifier on for an hour).

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Quite chilly out there.

Meanwhile on the 4th of December 2019 everyone was after the 4 hour hiatus, whereas NF was making soup.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling about scams <click>. Dehumidifier rattling away: more inneresting.

Shopping trip to Aldi & Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. I fell off the wagon & bought some dates from Aldi. Well there's still some left. .

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 80%.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: NAZI search thing: rocket engineers: our dear old Wernher starred.

UFO bollox about some incident at Edwards AFB in the 1960s.

Some R4 thing about films & stuff.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 80%.

The Bad Skin Clinic: chap with a lipoma above his left eye: easy peasy despite a previoius doctor saying it could affect his eye. WTF? Lady in a wheelchair with rheumatoid athritis with "pyoderma gangrenosum" on her foot, except it's a venous ulcer: weening her off the steroids & trying hyperbaric oxygen. Chap with a port wine birth mark on his face: he & his other half are tattooed. Very tattooed: lasered. Lady with rosacea: isotretinoin.

Shooter S1 E7, E8. More .338 goodness.

I have a curious desire to purchase a Weihrauch HW45 pistol.

[ladymuck]

Morning all, still in Sussex

Ue sky with occasional lumps of fluff. Damp from overnight rain. Colder today at 7 degrees currently and a high of 10. Rain expected overnight. Barometer at 1016 mBar.

Plumbers have been let in and are getting on with their doings. Mum has been fed a bit of breakfast.

[xoggoth]

Yesterday's walk with loony lady 3 pretty ghastly. Apart from her infernal yacking she was really slow due to bad back. Need someone a lot fitter than my 2 loony ladies.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, 2C, and a lovely sunrise today. Pleasant walk with MMtSH pulling on the lead in the way that he does.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Some bands of cloud low on the horizon have been keeping the sun down, but it'll have risen a few minutes ago and there's a clear sky everywhere else for it to travel through. A bit chilly at 3°C and it's even expected to fall by a further 1° over the next hour before resuming a rise to 7° this afternoon. The barometers are also on the rise at 1000/1009mB

[WTFH]

Will try to re-roof the lawnmower shed today.

Got one of the neighbours to come round and help with the shed roof. As we went to move it, I remembered that the last time we did it I had not attached the box profile sheets to it before lifting it in place. This time it was a tad heavier than before.
During the lifting process my bad shoulder was sore, and I wasn’t too surprised by the end that I was unable to shake my neighbour’s hand.
So far a mid of paracetamol and naproxen has dulled the pain, but I suspect breakfast tomorrow will be 75mg diclofenac or possibly even tramadol.

Anyway, the shed roof is back in place and I have made it to bed.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was part one of Hunting Mr Nice: The Cannabis Kingpin about the life, high times and, ultimately, hard time of Howard Marks

I also found some time to muck around with the Bluesky app, although that was mostly devoted to learning more about asynchronous HTTP request handling in Swift. Got a fetch of an actual feed working, though

And I finished reading Nuclear War: A Scenario which doesn't end well for anybody anywhere, as you might expect

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Evening all, Sussex calling

It's been a damp day but not especially chilly with a high of 13 degrees.

Arrived back from Berlin at 10.30 pm yesterday, unpacked and then repacked.

This morning I got up early to do laundry, shower, have a morning meeting and make sure mum was out of bed to let the plumber in. Drove down to Sussex, met the plumber, logged back onto work to find the 2pm meeting I'd rushed to be at a desk for had been postponed to tomorrow.

Took mum to Tesco and made sure we had some proper food for dinners.

HWMBO took advantage of BA offering free flight rebooking to retime his trip home today. He'll be back at the weekend.