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[NickFitz]

The delivery folk are currently on stop 10, with mine being 26. The estimated time of arrival is now between 15:52 and 19:52

But I've no idea how reliable their time estimation algorithm is, of course

[ladymuck]

Morning all

There was sunshine when I got up but that's been replaced by cloud. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 23 expected. The sun may reappear occasionally. Barometer up to 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 05:58; Sunset 20:09 BST

The day started with me realising, while being incensed by an interview on R4, that I had a meeting at 9 am. I was up and logged on in plenty of time, with a coffee. Two meetings now done and I'm having some toast.

The quote for the repairs to my car came in at north of £6k incl VAT. That's more than the car is worth but my brother says the cost doesn't really matter if I have no intention of selling it. The rust on the rear wheel arch is worse than I'd deluded myself into thinking, seeing as I've known it's needed attention for several years now. I'll think on it for a few days. The quote is good for three months, which gives me time to plan how to pay for it should I go ahead.

[NickFitz]

The flat's hallway has now been cleared of clutter, providing all the access they're going to get for delivering the washer-dryer short of taking a few walls out, which is forbidden by the terms of the lease. I even vacuumed it! Surprising how much dust gathers in a wholly interior space

And Amazon have just delivered some cheap runners which I'll put down to protect my lovely 1960s parquet floor

The tricky bit is going to be the kitchen door, where they'll have to sort of pivot it to get between the units within and the doorframe. There's a corner cupboard whose door I could remove, which would give them an extra couple of inches. But I won't bother with anything like that unless the situation demands it; it'll only take a minute to remove it if it's needed, but then I'd have the tricky business of putting it back on

If the whole kitchen door needs to come off…

[xoggoth]

Back from hotel stay after nephew wedding. As usual it was me got the loony dancing going.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start here, though there's also cloud around and it'll get cloudier by lunchtime. It's still warm enough but not too warm, being 16°C with a goal of 20° this afternoon. The barometers are back up a bit, at 1010/1018mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday?

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cooler in here at 19.3 deg, 19.5 in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto.

1016 mBar, 30 in Hg, 762.1 Torr, 14.74 psi, (up from 1015 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of February 2020 NF was unimpressed with the pace of the first eps of "Picard", WTFH was wondering if he could finesse another trip to Memphis, Brillo was railing at the lack of trains, BR14 popped in, opm declared it was raining in Manchester (quelle surprise), and it was equally fine around here (ditto).

Walk (towpath) walked in the sunshine. Quite warm in places.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 green bollox <click> 13 o'clock news: <click> when the Zionist apologist started spouting lies.

[NickFitz]

I read some more of The Rewind Files tonight, in which confusion grows around who exactly is responsible for Watergate, and whether it's supposed to have been stopped or not

Early night now as I'll need to make sure everything's ready for the washer-dryer stuff tomorrow morning. This will include moving some stuff in the hall, which is really an L-shaped corridor running through the flat to the kitchen.

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Ah! That all connects up rather nicely.

The plot thickens! There's also Goose Bay Airport which is probably the one Shute was referring to, built during the war and now largely a military airfield, though it does have some commercial flights as well. According to that Wikipedia article, it was named Goose because they already had an airfield named Gander

[ladymuck]

I didn't know that specific fact, but thanks to Nevil Shute I did know that Gander is the location of an airport that was part of the transatlantic air routes in the days before planes could make it across in one go. And there's also a water aerodrome for seaplanes called Goose

Ah! That all connects up rather nicely.

[NickFitz]

As an aside, did you know that Gander is the name for the oceanic airspace between the east coast of Canada and roughly halfway across the Atlantic?

I didn't know that specific fact, but thanks to Nevil Shute I did know that Gander is the location of an airport that was part of the transatlantic air routes in the days before planes could make it across in one go. And there's also a water aerodrome for seaplanes called Goose

[NickFitz]

Tea has been sausages and chips

And I'm finally on to the new series of the motorway cops thing, which is now with Humberside police who at least have a few more motorways

[ladymuck]

Turned out sunny here too, this afternoon.

There's been a flurry of activity this morning/early afternoon.

The landlady turned up with a brickie to see what could be done about the garden wall that the tree was pushing over. They think it ought to come down entirely and be rebuilt. I can see a huge increase in my rent next year if I decide to stay put. If the quote is to her liking then hopefully the work could be done while I'm away at the beginning of September.

Then I called a car body workshop (what they'd call a coachworks back in the day and what the company call themselves too, I was pleased to observe) to see if they needed an appointment for giving my car a once-over for quotation purposes. They advised such formalities were not necessary so I off I toddled to the outskirts of Watford going past RAF Northolt and having a gander at Ruislip high street on the way.

As an aside, did you know that Gander is the name for the oceanic airspace between the east coast of Canada and roughly halfway across the Atlantic?

I also called a local independent optometrist to make an appointment for a sight examination.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a bacon butty

Turning sunny out now, though there's still a lot of cloud in the other direction

[xoggoth]

Nephew wedding this afternoon. Fortunately the moths had not eaten the gray suit I haven't worn in about 20 years.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day again and staying on the cooler side, being 17°C and getting no higher than 19°. It's still breezy too, giving a "feels like" temperature of 14°. The barometers are still dithering around 1008/1015mB

The new washer-dryer is arriving, and indeed the old one departing, tomorrow between 13:15 and 15:15! I'm glad it's not one of those 7am slots