Morning.
Friday apparently. Where would I be without the Lidl(tm) clock that tells me this?
Dark.
Dank.
Dreary.
Drizzly.
Damp.
Grey.
Sunless.
Cool in here at 18.5 deg, 19.5 deg in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.
1003.5 mBar, 29.63334 in Hg, 752.6868 Torr, 14.5545 psi, (up from 1002 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 20th of October 2019 NF had a sausage sandwich for lunch, Brillo made LM larf, I did some gardening & went for a walk after charging the battery on the Corolla, whereas the Oak Island nutjobs returned, finding an old penny, a lump of lead, a nail and a rock with a hole in it, NF reported that the Saisburys Local had its cash machine removed, along with the signage. I wonder what it became.
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Morning denizens
Friday!
Sunny start out today, with high, thin, streaky cloud such as one often gets trailing behind gloomier weather. It's currently 11°C and maybe reaching 18° this afternoon, while the barometers are up a little more at 1007/1015mB. The weather app gloomily asserts that it's "Mostly cloudy" which will "continue all day", but there's no way of telling if that means the wispy stuff we currently see hither and yon will hang around, or if it'll be replaced by something more substantial
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Morning all
A pleasant meal out with friends last night, but it’s a bit overcast this morning.
TFIF, etc
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Bah! No raspberries at Sainsburies so went to Aldi and Waitrose and they didn't have any either. How can I live without me raspberries?
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Tonight's viewing was an old Traffic Cops, as they seem to have a small stash of ones I either haven't seen before or can't tell I have seen before - it's not as if it sticks in the mind, and they're all much the same anyway
Friday tomorrow!
Goodnight all
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I think the end may be in sight for box clearing in the kitchen. There's four to go to storage.
Just need to to figure out where to put all the cleaning and laundry stuff, as there's insufficient space for it all under the sink.
A towel wash was done and successfully dried in the sunshine outside. I need to put a line up for easier laundry hanging.
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Off to Big Sainsbury's, despite the drizzle which has returned. I was only able to glance quickly at the old place as I drove past, the pedestrian crossing being green for traffic, but it looks to me as if the idiot landlord has replaced the windows in my old flat with UPVC ones
He's going to wish he hadn't done that - it's a conservation area, and the council strictly enforce it. In my time around there, I've seen work done on surrounding properties that had to be undone at great expense. My old landlord used to say that he couldn't change the handle on the front door without the council coming down on him like a ton of bricks, and he wasn't joking, or not much
In the case of the windows, they can only be replaced with ones that look the same as the originals, which date to around 1880. He's going to find that paying for a full set of antique-style wooden sash windows that look right, on top of whatever he's already paid, will cost an arm and a leg, and he would have been better off just replacing the broken pane and maybe giving the rest a lick of paint
And on the way home, I stopped off at the VAT fraud chip shop, so tea has been cod and chips
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Another day's work done. I'm completely out of enthusiasm for this project now, but at least the end is in sight - there's talk of a handover to the Live Services team in mid-September
I just hope they don't expect me to go with it
Meanwhile, solicitors have been instructed to deal with the sale of the parental home, so I just had to faff around taking pictures of my Driving Licence. Their website was very insistent that using a scan was not acceptable which was mildly annoying as I have one of those sitting on my laptop, but I had to go off and find the thing and take photos of the front and back to upload instead
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Lunch: Scotch broth and a bit of wholemeal
Today's forecasted 20% chance of rain in late afternoon was way off, with continuous light and sometimes heavy drizzle all morning
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Afternoon all
Sunny and warm out although quite cloudy too. Currently 21 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Barometer at 1015 mBar.
So far, the day has gone exceedingly pear shaped. I left my friend's house shortly before 9am. I planned to swing by Waitrose on the way home to pick up a shopping order that was set for collection between 10 and 11. On getting a mere two miles up the road, everything came to a halt on account of a rather large accident on Kingston Road in Hampton Wick. Helpfully, a coach driver blocked the road so no-one could move. All adjacent roads were gridlocked and I sat in queues for a good 90 mins before getting through to a clear patch wherein I could enjoy the 20 mph limits our glorious mayor has seen fit to slap on every road with a tree on it. I got to Waitrose at 11.20 instead of the planned 10am. Fortunately they hadn't deemed me a no-show and my goods were still available for pick up.
Now home, sat, cooling off and deciding what to do next with my day.
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Just had a look on RightMove and Zoopla, and the parental home is no longer listed
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Morning.
Thursday.
Dry.
Grey.
Wanly sunny.
Cool in here at 18.3 deg, 19 deg in the kitchen, 17 deg in the leanto.
1013.5 mBar, 29.92 in Hg, 760.18 Torr, 14.6995 psi, (up for 1011 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 20th of October 2019 I met the late Frank on my walk in the woods: the only other of the 4 of us who did those long walks on a Sunday morning who was then still alive, now I'm the last, and I was wearing some new walking boots (Chinese crap), and I roasted some lamb which shows how things have changed, whereas NF watched "The Thing (1984)" "The Accountant" and MI II, and LM was dealing with VAT.
Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom during which it picked with rain.
Five lawns mown while it was picking with rain: I've irritated a horde of little bumble bees by removing those orange weeds they seem to like.
Lunch: baked spud etc.
Entertainment: TWATO. <click> when it started waffling about association football.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 18:04.
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Morning all
CBS, etc. A very pleasant walk earlier, no jacket required.
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And I see I forgot to bid everybody good night last night! I was feeling tired, but I didn't realise I was that tired
For the record, last night's viewing was the Gloucestershire police night shift thing, followed by reading Black Box on the subject of Concorde and its Russian counterpart
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Morning denizens
It's a grey start again, and not expected to brighten up either - in fact, there's a moderate chance of showers this afternoon. It's fairly mild at 13°C though, with 17° likely later; the barometers are up a bit at 1004/1012mB
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