Following yesterday's "wrong trousers", when I went into the garden at 6am it was drizzling, so I put on my waterproof trousers as well as the long coat. By about 6:45 it had stopped raining.
Raining again now, but it's looking a bit brighter to the east.
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Morning denizens
Another grey day, with a 60% chance of rain in the next hour but not after that - well, not until tonight. It’s 7°C (“feels like” 1°) with an expected 8° for much of the afternoon; the barometers are down a bit at 977/984mB
Thursday! Not sure how many meetings the day will be plagued with, but not too many if I’m lucky
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Tonight’s only viewing was the remainder of last night’s Police Interceptors
I must remember to watch E2 of that thing about the Swedish women who went berserk on the motorway.
In Stalingrad, mayhem continues - but winter has started, and the Germans have launched and failed at what will turn out to be their last major assault on what’s left of the city
The rain’s back
But: Thursday tomorrow!
This weekend will be one of great confusion as my routine is thrown into disarray by an appointment with the dental hygienist on Saturday. I’ll be across the river for that so I’ll put the shopping off until then, as I can head down to Big Sainsbury’s after it
Goodnight all
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A bit of roast gammon out of the freezer with chips, fried egg, and beans for tea
It continued gloomy until nightfall here, but I think the rain’s finally petered out
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Lunch has been the leftover belly pork from the other night, in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce
Still grey and, I think, occasionally drizzly here
It’s a day of several meetings today, being the end of one sprint and start of another
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Morning.
Wednesday.
Damp with hints of rain.
Grey.
Sunless.
Windy.
Chilly in here at 13.1 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 9.5 in the leanto.
981 mBar, 28.97 in Hg, 735.8 Torr, 14.228 psi, (down from 993 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 12th of March 2020 covbob had a headache & NF had an early night, whilst on the 13th Brillo, BR14, eek, and Churchill popped in and there was a discussion of The Spanish Flu just to cheer us all up, like.
Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: "Trust". Y&Y <click>.
Foyle's War S3 E4. "A war of nerves". The bomb disposal one. Don't recall watching that one before either.
Book. Other book. Looking up the fastest curve for a falling object as per Newton: a cycloid: a brachistochrone curve.
Tea: battered haddock. Nice enough. Entertainment: the ramblings of the Orange Mother****ing Moron on PM <click> Can no one rid the world of this idiot?
Entertainment: Scotland Yard. "Destination Death (1956)" with dear old Roger Delgado.
Abandoned Engineering. Bulgaria: Pedarsko radio jamming station. France: Fort de Romainville prison/transit camp: Eddy Chapman/Agent Zigzag. SepticLand: Philidelphia: Uptown Theatre/Cinema. Malaysia: Caledonia House, rubber plantation: John St Maur Ramsden murder.
Bad Skin Clinic S8E1.
Elementary S1 E10 "The Leviathan".Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 21:03.
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Morning all
Dull, dark, wet. Much rain overnight and so far this morning. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 3) with a high of 9 expected. Barometer down to 992 mBar.
Sunrise 07:55; Sunset 16:32 GMT
In ClientCo's office today.
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Morning all
6C and what I thought was light rain and little breeze turned out not to be. No such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes. I should have had my waterproof trousers on instead of jeans under my stockman coat.
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Morning denizens
Grey day out there, and damp again after last night’s rain. It’s 4°C which “feels like” -2°, so maybe still a bit breezy too, with an expected high of 9°, and the rain’s expected to resume shortly and continue resuming for much of the day (95% tending towards 55% later). The barometers are well down at 980/988mB
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Bad times in Stalingrad for both sides, though I reckon the Germans will have a harder time of it when winter comes
Goodnight all
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Tea has, eventually, been ribs and chips, made with my special mango BBQ sauce
Ribs take ages to cook, and this wasn’t helped by the fact I was busy working on something this afternoon which made me forget to pop them in the oven around 3pm
I chucked some chipotle chilli flakes in the sauce this time, just to give it a bit of a kick. It worked very well; I might even stick a bit more in next time
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I had to pop round to the chemist’s for the usual monthly prescription, and to my surprise it felt very slightly chilly but not the bitter cold I was expecting! Helps that the wind seems to have dropped a fair bit
It was the perfect excuse to continue popping a little further to the kebab shop as well, but I’ve got some stuff that needs to be used today and is already in the oven
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afternoon all
nice sunny day, here.
lunch was a toasted onion bagel, with warm salt beef, English mustard and sliced wallys.
not so nice as those purchased from Blooms of Whitechapel, when i worked in that London, but very nice anyway.
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Bit of pork pie for lunch
It’s turned sunny out now, but the somewhat Simpsonesque clouds are still whizzing by at a rate of knots
As far as I know, our garden waste gets taken away by the gardener(s)
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