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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Wanly sunny.

Vaguely dry.

Blue sky in small parts.

Cool in here at 18.8 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 18 deg in the leanto.

1010.5 mBar, 29.84 in Hg, 757.937 Torr, 14.656 psi, (down from 1012 last night), 73% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of November 2019 there were many fireworks let off though quieter than the previous night, the bonfire went well consuming the detritus, LM related the tale of her exploding pumpkin, NF related the tale of being pulled out of the way of the descending flaming rocket debris, and assorted eps of "I, Claudius" and BTVS were enjoyed once the conflagrations had died down a bit.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Patchy cloud out with a reasonable amount of sunlight making its way through the thin patches, and a light breeze. Reasonably warm at 15°C with 23° planned for later. The barometers are steady at 1005/1013mB

[NickFitz]

Tonight's first medical stuff was Saving Lives in Cardiff on iPlayer, in which members of the public were hacked at in various ways, successfully so in all cases

And then some old episodes of 24 Hours in A&E

Finally, down at MI5, Peter Wright is moving on from trying to prove his (now retired) boss is a Soviet agent to the more pressing matter of trying to bring down Harold Wilson's government

Tomorrow, I expect to start the process of undoing much of what has been done over the last eighteen months of work

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was M&S honey & mustard cocktail sausages with a bag of plain crisps. And tea now has been steak & Guinness pie with chips

I made the pie filling overnight in the slow cooker, then let it cool and develop its flavours through the day, and it turned out very nicely

[NickFitz]

Hey NickFitz the book drop off on Weds won't be happening after all. The friend I'm meeting that day wants to meet in Kingston which makes the logistics a bit tricky for a post work meeting time.

Oh well, it'll have to be the Christmas Do then

I got an email from Amazon the other week telling me that a new 10th anniversary edition of the trilogy has just been published

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Hey NickFitz the book drop off on Weds won't be happening after all. The friend I'm meeting that day wants to meet in Kingston which makes the logistics a bit tricky for a post work meeting time.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Some of the fluff is grey flecked but the forecast doesn't mention any precipitation. Currently 22 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Barometer up a smidge to 1016 mBar.

HWMBO arrived late yesterday evening ahead of another week of talking TOGAF.

It must have gotten chilly in the flat overnight as the heating came on this morning. The bedroom radiator make a right racket, so I did what all proper contractors do: bled the radiators.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny out, though apparently it'll get cloudier this afternoon - though not in a rainy way, in theory. The temperatures are picking up a bit this week too, being 16°C with a predicted high of 22°; the barometers are also up slightly at 1005/1013mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday apparently. It's very quiet out there even accounting for the blocked ear canal.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

Lots of grey clouds threatening rain across the valley.

Cool in here at 18.3 deg, 19.5 deg in the kitchen, 17 deg in the leanto.

1012.6 mBar, 29.902 in Hg, 759.5 Torr, 14.686 psi, (up from 1011 last night), 73% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of November 2019 preparation for The Next Bonfire took place. I like bonfires even when it's not November the 5th.

Tiny spiders all over the leanto.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked. It wasn't very warm.

Lunch: there was lunch.

Entertainment: the last of the S1 Sledge Hammer eps plus the 2005 extra.

Fringe S2 E4, E5, E6, E7, E8, plus a commentary and other stuff.

Tea: there was tea: soup.

The first S2 ep of Sledge Hammer.

[WTFH]

Morning all

CBS, etc. Today will probably involve sawing/chopping wood then cutting the grass.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Mist (2007) in which a bunch of people are trapped in a supermarket when a mysterious mist descends outside, because it seems that there may be Something Out There… Excellent film, though maybe not for those of a nervous disposition

And then the final episode of S4 (which was longer than usual as all the loose ends were tied up) and first episode of S5 of The Wire

It's very nice not to have to "go to work" tomorrow, even though doing so merely means sitting in a different chair at home. I think I'm going to tell ClientGov that I'd like to switch to a four day week once the dust has settled around this project; they're generally supportive of such things, and I can afford it even before the inheritance comes in and disposes of the matter of the mortgage

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

It appears that having 3 sheds for indoor wood is a bit excessive, particularly when you point out that the two big piles are outdoor wood and will be stored separately.
New log store is now about 1/4 full and I think we’ve got 10+ years of outdoor wood and at least 4 years of indoor, excluding the pile of indoor to be split/sawn and the pile of tulip wood (not a swear word) from the tulip tree (not a swear word) at the other house.

If we had a log-fired electricity generator, we could go off-grid.

anyway, TFBSZ.

[NickFitz]

For tea, a cold chicken leg with a bag of plain crisps

Accompanied by S1E1 of Cheers because I've never seen all of them and now seems as good a time as any to start

Earlier, lots of Monkey Life this morning

And this afternoon, I eschewed the endlessly repeated Colonial borders and roads policing in favour of a four part documentary on All4: Merseyside Detectives, a fly-on-the-wall thing about the investigations into the unrelated 2022 murders of Ashley Dale and nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel

I think I'll watch a film tonight, but I haven't decided what yet

[NickFitz]

Lunch: sausages and bacon in buttered white toast

Turned gloomy out again, and looks very breezy too