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Morning all
Damp, dull, and overcast. Currently 12 degrees with a high of 16 expected. Rained earlier this morning and more rain due late afternoon and into the evening. Barometer down to 1002 mBar.
Trying to reinstate my account at Heathrow. The person who needs to raise a ticket is on holiday until Monday.
Job hunting continues. Am considering a move to the dark side if a contract gig doesn't present itself.
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Apple Watch has arrived!
It can wait until later to be set up, as it's too early to be messing around with things
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Morning denizens
It's a grey day out, though with a kind of stripy effect where hints of the blue sky behind can be seen hither and yon. It's getting to autumnal temperatures too, being only 10°C now with a brief spell at 15° this afternoon - though the start of said spell coincides with a 45-55% chance of rain, continuing into the evening. The barometers are down a touch more at 988/996mB
Today seems to be a day of things coming to one who waits, as not only am I waiting for the solicitor to confirm completion, I've also been notified that my Apple Watch Series 10 has shipped and will be arriving later
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Morning.
Wednesday.
Awake at 06:03.
Deja vu all over again.
Grey.
Dark.
Dank.
Sunless.
Spotting with rain.
Chilly in here at 16.9 deg, 17.5 deg in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto.
995.5 mBar, 29.397 in Hg, 746.7 Torr, 14.438 psi, (down from 1001 last night), 75% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 16th of November 2019 NF wasn't watching Bab5 since it was a friday & friday is Film Night apparently, LM was dusting things, and I wasn't dusting things since things on top of things would need to be moved before the dusting could take place, thusly it never happened, whereas xogg was putting forward the concept of PAYG tv rather than a licence fee. Be careful what you wish for. .Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 07:57.
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Originally posted by eek View PostWell I know it's not the sanest thing to do in the current market but I've told the people where I was did 4 weeks work that I'm not going back.
It's a fixed price project where the (Indian) consultancy hasn't grasped the scale of the work they need to do so it's safer to keep as far away from it as possible.
Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Deja Vu (2006) in which ATF agent Denzel Washington investigates a bombing in New Orleans and gets drawn into a secret government temporal research project. It's pretty good; maybe not Friday night material, but solid entertainment for midweek
And then a couple more episodes of S5 of The Wire
Better get to sleep now in case the solicitor calls in the morning seeking instructions on some last-minute crisis
Goodnight all
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Phew. Finally got the accounts and CT filed. Complexity out of all proportion to size of company.
Nice loony lady 1 phoned me, she wasn't at old fart art this morning and couldn't get her on landline or mobile, was worried she'd done a loony lady 2 and had a heart attack or summit. Turned out she went to see a friend and forgot to take her mobile.
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+1 like for eek’s post.
I’m off to a property half an our south of here tomorrow.
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Well I know it's not the sanest thing to do in the current market but I've told the people where I was did 4 weeks work that I'm not going back.
It's a fixed price project where the (Indian) consultancy hasn't grasped the scale of the work they need to do so it's safer to keep as far away from it as possible.
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I didn't have any lunch today as I was going to have it when I got back, but it was already teatime by then
So a nice big tea was called for: chicken jalfrezi with rice and naan
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Home again after the journey south to say goodbye to the old place and leave my key
It turned out not to be a time of solitary pondering, as my sister and brother-in-law had underestimated quite how much crap my parents were capable of squirrelling away in a garage, two sheds, a summerhouse, and a greenhouse. They were almost through with it though and optimistic about getting it finished in time, so I helped out by taking a load of assorted stuff to the tip
In among my load was a large flowerpot full of assorted crockery, all of it quite nice and including a teapot. I don't have it in me to chuck away a perfectly good teapot, and there were various nice mugs and plates too, so I ended up bringing that back with me
And with that done, the various rooms photographed empty (a state I don't think I'd ever seen them in before, as I vaguely recall the move happening on a school day), and assorted photos taken of the garden, it was time to leave my key and head home
I stopped off at Big-Sainsbury's-Down-There on the way back as they stock Old Hooky and none of the ones up here do, so I grabbed four bottles of that along with some other bits and bobs
Now I've just got to wait for the solicitor to call tomorrow…
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Afternoon all
Dry but cloudy with the occasional splash of sky poking through. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer steady at 1005 mBar.
It's been a bit of a non-event so far today. I did have a sausage sandwich for lunch though.
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Morning.
Tuesday.
Dryish.
Wanly sunny.
Blue sky in parts.
Cool in here at 17.9 deg, 19.5 in the kitchen, 16.5 in the leanto, 14.5 in the saltinghouse.
Was wanly sunny, now overcast.
1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750 Torr, 14.5 psi, (up from 999 last night), 80% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 15th of November 2019 NF had spag bol, BR14's contract fell through at the last moment, and the weather was cold and nasty.
Washing out on the line.
Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine. Nicer than yesterday.
Lunch: there was.
Entertainment: read book.
Shirts in off the line & roughly iRoned.
Freecell score: getting worse.
Cottons in off the line & roughly iRoned where needed.
Tea: soup etc.
Towels in off the line: the roller towel not being quite dry.
Read book.
Entertainment: Digging for Britain.
Read book.
Some Truth Seekers bollox on Blaze about crystal skulls. <click>
Something else about Silicon Valley: too irritating: <click>Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 07:45.
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Morning denizens
It was a rather gloomy grey start, albeit without rain either overnight or presently, but a minute or two ago the sun made it high enough to pass the bank of thick low cloud and start shining through the much flimsier stuff higher up. So things should dry up a bit more quickly, and potentially warm up a bit too. It's still not that warm though, being 13°C with an expected high of 15°, while it's also rather breezy which is making it feel like 10°. The barometers are essentially steady at 991/998mB
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Tonight's only telly was another episode of the Gloucestershire police thing, in which there was a glimpse of the pub I initially stayed in in Cheltenham, and also the corner of the nearby street I later lived on, off the High Street. The pub is a restaurant now, I think, and the larger part of the building which formed the guest accommodation has been turned into a coworking space
A few more chapters of Burmese Days have been read
Goodnight all
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