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[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff on the box again today, and they didn't switch to Steve McQueen at teatime

Tonight, I read a couple more Rumpole stories

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Turkish place. Very nice as usual

I had a voucher for £8 off that needed to be used up, and there was also a promotion offering £7 off, so I ended up saving £15 on the whole deal

Lunch, for the record, was a sausage roll

[DoctorStrangelove]

I've got one of those. They're very good, and all you need most of the time

Wot? A linen dress?

That's a change from the board standard gingham version. .

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all
i'm glad I'm retired<sort of>. none of my stuff needs an I-ron or any fancy treatment whatsoever.
All cotton, no fancy dress/suits/ties/other nonsense.
jeans/shorts and Tshirts/track tops/fleeces. bliss.

Pleased with my continuing ability to make mainframes perform, though , Although I reckon I'll either go part time from now, or chuck it if the consultancy don't agree.
I've proved I can still cut it, and I don't really need the money*.


**oops, I'll upset the whingeing, greedy, tax avoiding Torys??
never mind eh?

[NickFitz]

Then over to Argos-in-Sainsbury's to treat myself to a clothes steamer. I got rid of my ironing board and iron as I didn't use them but I do have a couple of linen dresses that would look a lot better for a bit of de-creasing every now and then. A steamer takes up much less room.

I've got one of those. They're very good, and all you need most of the time

[NickFitz]

It goes shopping??

WlmS:

^^ nearly! HWMBO had reason to replace his WM recently and I suggested he looked at a combined washer-dryer. His has reservoirs for the liquid detergent and fabric conditioner that you fill up and the machine determines how much to use based on the load. He did some tests and determined it was dosing appropriately so now he lets the machine deal with it. Next stop will be to automatically order when running low, I'm sure.

Though it doesn't do the shopping, they sent me a load of the two kinds of stuff for free which is intended to last a family for six months, so it should see me through at least a year

I can still chuck a pod in if I choose, or even go old school and pour powder into the drawer. But the stuff it handles automagically works and smells OK, so why bother?

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny spells and big white fluffy bits out today. Not that warm though: 15°C now, soaring to a mere 16° later; the barometers are down a little too, at 994/1002mB

[ladymuck]

^^ nearly! HWMBO had reason to replace his WM recently and I suggested he looked at a combined washer-dryer. His has reservoirs for the liquid detergent and fabric conditioner that you fill up and the machine determines how much to use based on the load. He did some tests and determined it was dosing appropriately so now he lets the machine deal with it. Next stop will be to automatically order when running low, I'm sure.



Morning all

Sunny with a mix of wispy and lumpy fluff. Breezy. Currently dry but damp from overnight rain. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 18 expected. There may be a shower later. Barometer down to 1007 mBar.

Sunrise 06:33; Sunset 19:20 BST

Slept well again, didn't hear the rain, woke about 7.30 am which isn't too bad.

Popped over to the farmers' market to see if the Carribbean sauce lady was there this week (she wasn't).

Then over to one of the grocer's to pick up some savoury pastries.

Then over to Argos-in-Sainsbury's to treat myself to a clothes steamer. I got rid of my ironing board and iron as I didn't use them but I do have a couple of linen dresses that would look a lot better for a bit of de-creasing every now and then. A steamer takes up much less room.

[sadkingbilly]

But from now on, I can just select that option I configured, chuck the clothes in, and start it up - it deals with the detergent and stuff itself

It goes shopping??

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday. Last Fair day.

Wet. Torrentially wet overnight (or very windy).

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Nice rainbow just now.

Cooler in here at 17.4 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 16 deg in the leanto.

1001 mBar, 29.56 in Hg, 750.8 Torr, 14.52 psi, (down from 1002 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of February 2020 Brillo & scruff popped in, NF visited the Chinese (which was very nice), and I watched Highlander II and III.

Freecell score: 88%, running average: 84%.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: my tinnitus. News Quiz with no mention of 3006 bolt action rifles. .

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked, mostly in sunshine, slight sprinkling of rain.

Getting darker now.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM.

Video about some geezer comparing a Rover V8 3.5 engine fitted with SU carbs against the same engine fitted with some septic 4 barrel carb*: lot of fannying about and money for 17 hp at 6000 rpm.

*Edelbrock 500 for which a new manifold is required. (£200).

Maigret "The children's party" (1961).

4: Britain's Railway Empire: how Britain brought railways to the world. E1.

Blaze: Skunk Works.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Foreigner (2017) in which an elderly Jackie Chan is hell bent on revenge after his daughter is killed by a bomb planted by a renegade nouveau IRA unit. But does he have a special set of skills…? I thought this was excellent, bringing revenge and action tropes together in a very dark political thriller. Highly recommended

And then Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) which is a fitting ending to the saga

Finally, I decided to rewatch The Adjustment Bureau (2011) for no other reason than that I like it. I really ought to get around to reading the Philip K. Dick short story on which it, as with so many good films, is based

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

What a palaver. I put everything in 'cottons normal 30degrees' with a scoop of pink stuff, a wash capsule and some relatively smell free* softener, and hit the switch.

*why does every washing product have to smell like a french whorehouse?? FFS

But from now on, I can just select that option I configured, chuck the clothes in, and start it up - it deals with the detergent and stuff itself

[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb cutlets with chips and beans

Accompanied by a bit of Police Interceptors

[sadkingbilly]

Returning, and with the dishwasher having finished the load I set it to work on earlier, it was time to get the mundane laundry on

I used the machine's "washing assistant", which allows you to specify the types of thing you're washing, and also prevents you mixing things that shouldn't go in together. It then devises what it reckons are the optimal settings. This will be one of my most frequently used combinations, so I remembered to save it to "Favourites" (under the title "Mundane laundry", of course) so I can go straight to it without faffing around in future

And a few minutes after it had started, it pinged me via my phone to let me know that it expected to finish sooner than its initial estimate, due to the load being relatively small!

What a palaver. I put everything in 'cottons normal 30degrees' with a scoop of pink stuff, a wash capsule and some relatively smell free* softener, and hit the switch.

*why does every washing product have to smell like a french whorehouse?? FFS

[NickFitz]

I always find this interesting. My heating is never 'off'. There's a temperature set and should the flat drop below that, then the heating comes on. This means it's cold out. The past two mornings, the heating has been on when I've gotten up.

All this nonsense about deciding whether to heat a home by the date rather than the weather is beyond me.

I know! I should just leave it on, and let the thermostat deal with matters. I think I'll do that in future, as I've also realised that deciding something like that based on date rather than conditions is ridiculous