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[NickFitz]

I ended up wandering around on StreetView for a while, looking at some of the places in the tsunami programme as they were a few months later and as they are now

And another Rumpole story has been read

There's been rainy spells today, and it still seems to be very windy out

Getting to sleep now in the hope the lurgy will have gone away tomorrow, or at least eased up a bit

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce, with potatoes roasted in duck fat with Cajun seasoning, and peas

I'd forgotten I'd had the chicken and red wine the other day too, so that was the last bit out of the freezer. Oh well, it's nice; I'll just have to make some more

And to watch, Japan's Tsunami: Caught on Camera on C4

[NickFitz]

Not a bad afternoon in the end - I was left to my own devices, and the thing I was working on proved to be nice and simple to deal with

I've knocked off early because to complete it, I need to pick my colleague's brains about how some stuff works, and she said she was finishing early so could we look at it tomorrow

[ladymuck]

My accountant merged with another company a while ago and, in my usual manner, I did my accounts within a couple of weeks of year end. The new outfit has a 'client portal' for the secure upload of documents, etc. So I uploaded all the bank statements and trial balance.

About 10 days after I did that, some chap from the new company emailed me to say I needed to submit all my year end files. I replied that I had already done it. Three weeks, and three nudges, later I still haven't had a response to that initial reply.

Something tells me I'm not going to be sticking with this new accountancy firm for long if that's how things are going to run.

[xoggoth]

Group walk recce with 3 others and a stop at nice cafe by the reservoir. V rough water due to wind, looked like the sea. Then lunch at son's. Now back to f*** accounts!

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been Heinz chicken soup and white toast

I'm hoping its healing properties will help tide me over for the afternoon. Luckily there aren't any meetings, unless they've gone and scheduled any while I was eating

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Blue sky with fluff scurrying past in the stiff breeze. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 18 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer down to 1003 mBar.

Sunrise 06:36; Sunset 19:15 BST

Quiet day at the coal face today so I'm getting on with life admin while thinking about a document I have to write.

[WTFH]

Morning all
After a weekend up in Surrey, it was nice to see the queues going the other way on the A303 as the tourist all head back to the rat race yesterday evening. A few heavy showers but a fast drive home.
Max had a great time running on Leith Hill and Ranmore.
Blue skies with some cloud and a bit of a breeze today, but at least the overnight rain has abated.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day out, with a strong breeze still blowing and lingering signs of overnight rain. It's 13°C but "feels like" 5°, and only expected to reach 16°. The barometers are very much down at 985/993mB

I had a very poor night's sleep and arose a bit later than planned as a result. This appears to be due to a mild cold, which I thought I felt coming on yesterday evening and which definitely seems to be here now

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Wet: intermittently torrential.

Grey.

Sunless though there are hints.

Cool in here at 17.7 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 15.5 deg in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.47477 psi, (up from 995 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of February 2020: see above.

Managed to sleep until the usual working nightmare woke me up at 07:15.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Managed to avoid the rain.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in sunshine & shower, this last whilst in the trees so got away with that.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 waffling on about something. <click>.

Freecell score: 90%, running average: 84%.

Nearly falling asleep here: ho hum. Can't do that or I won't sleep tonight. .

Some minor massacring of the brambles etc. plus taking out the old wood on the raspberries.

During which there was one of those BRRRRRRRM noises from the power line across the marsh complete with a security alarm sounding off due to the power spike.

Had to reset the bedroom clock. It cooperated this time.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough. Had to stop the rice because I can't get it down my throat any more.

Entertainment: The kitchen cabinet waffling on about stuff they eat in Wisconsin. PM. <click> when the assorted Tory bastards were on.

The oak island nutjobbery is on at 21:00 again. I'll probably watch it muted like last week. You don't miss much doing it that way. Actually you could watch it with your eyes shut too & miss even less. Wood. A 7 foot long chunk of wood. And a tiny scrap of pottery. and a guide for a musket ramrod. Apparently it had lovely patina according to the metal detecting moron. (Other morons are available).

Hidden History: The Zodiac Killer. The usual lack of any conclusions other than "it wasn't him or him or him or him or him".

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was some new thing called Street Cops: Catching the Yobs on Five, which is about the police officers who don't get to drive fast on the motorway. It's with Northants Constabulary, but the ludicrously over-the-top narration attempts to make it sound like Beirut in the 1980s. Dealing with a solitary drunk person in Kettering town centre on a sunny afternoon is not, in fact, a sign that civilisation has finally crumbled and we should all start spraying our mouths with silver paint and seeking admission to Valhalla on the Fury Road

And then a couple more Rumpole stories were read. I keep thinking I'm getting near the end of this book, but apparently there are three more stories left. I'm wondering if Penguin are sneaking in when I'm asleep and sticking extra ones in at the end

Monday again tomorrow! I'm quite looking forward to finishing off the thing I was working on last week if I'm honest, though it's also possible that my colleague who knows a lot more about React than I do will tell me I've done it all wrong and should start again

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a fish finger butty with red sauce

These were Sainsbury's TTD chunky battered fish fingers, recently introduced. I remember when Bird's Eye started selling battered fish fingers in the late Sixties or early Seventies. Our Mum got them for us once but we never had them again; I don't know if they were more expensive or if I was the only one that liked them

Anyway, these were nice but I also like the ones with breadcrumbs, so it looks like I'll have to stock two kinds of fish finger in future

[ladymuck]

I did check my tyre pressures before driving today. I'm glad I did as the nearside rear was very low. I checked it before leaving Mum's and it stayed up so there doesn't seem to be a puncture.

No dramas in Sussex. Helped my brother make a lasagne for their dinner. Much rain on the drive home but a good enough run there and back so won't complain.

[NickFitz]

Heavy rain this afternoon, so I made a nice pot of tea and watched One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) while the washer-dryer got on with washing (and drying) several pairs of jeans

Still very gloomy out, with the rain likely to persist and strong winds also forecast