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[WTFH]

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.

[NickFitz]

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

[NickFitz]

Bad times in Stalingrad for both sides, though I reckon the Germans will have a harder time of it when winter comes

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

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

[NickFitz]

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

[sadkingbilly]

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.

[ladymuck]

Here too there seems to be more gaps than clouds at the moment.

[NickFitz]

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)

[ladymuck]

Morning all
Windy out. One of our bins had blown over, although that's not the biggest disaster... last night I put our garden waste out. It's collected every other Tuesday but they take 4 weeks off over Christmas. An embarrassing disaster on my part - the collecting is NEXT Tuesday. Not sure I can show my face in public for a few days.

My first garden collection is next Tuesday too. Not that I have much of a garden needing a fortnightly collection but it does come in handy.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Alternating between cloudy and less cloudy with flashes of sky. Damp from overnight precipitation. Currently 9 degrees ('feels like' 7) and that's the high for the day. Barometer down to 1010 mBar.

Sunrise 07:55; Sunset 16:30 GMT

Still haven't got the contract for gig 3. The person who asked me to work with them is annoyed by the delay. It's now with Adecco to do checks and issue the paperwork. I reckon I'll be starting next week if I can get the contract and SDS by Wednesday lunchtime for it go for a review.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Was dry now wet.

Windy.

Was slightly sunny now grey and sunless.

Chilly in here at 13 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 10.5 in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.4747 psi, (down from 1005 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, BR14, and LM popped in, whilst NF rolled out the bins on the right evening and I was listening to some programme or other about coughs, there being a lot of it about. .

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. An early trip to avoid the rain which was singularly ineffective in thus doing. Ho hum.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: someone waffling about Werner Herzog, survivalists, people being eaten by bears, and cannibalism in the Andes. Y&Y <click>.

Foyle's War S3 E3 "They fought in the fields". The answers be in the soil. Plus a nasty Nazi assassin. Another one I have recollection of seeing before. Looks like I missed the entirety of S3. I wonder why. Wasn't working away in 2004. . Must have been watching sommat else instead. Probably some Septic trash or other.

Something else I was unaware of: beetroot is laxative. That explains that then. . I had wondered. .

Currently hammering down again, horizontally due to the semigale. It's making up for yesterday's glorious weather.

The clouds, as it happens, aren't travelling in their normal west to east, but more like south to north. Peculiar. Don't see that often around here.

Doesn't stop them raining though.

Book. Other book. Finished book. Found another book.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click> More of the doings of the Orange Mother****ing Moron. Oh where oh where is the likes of LHO when he's so badly needed?

Book. Other book.

"The Deadly Affair (1967)" with James Mason rather than Alec Guinness as George Smiley Charles Dobbs.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Windy out. One of our bins had blown over, although that's not the biggest disaster... last night I put our garden waste out. It's collected every other Tuesday but they take 4 weeks off over Christmas. An embarrassing disaster on my part - the collecting is NEXT Tuesday. Not sure I can show my face in public for a few days.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day again, and windy too boot. There are a couple of tiny gaps letting light in, very near the horizon to the west, and the bits of cloud being blown past them have the raggedy look that comes from stormy, or at least breezy, weather. It’s not expected to rain until tonight, but the wind is supposed to be getting stronger shortly, and it’s already strong enough that the temperature of 7°C “feels like” 0°; presumably the high of 8° won’t feel much better. The barometers are only down a little, at 997/1005mB

[NickFitz]

More reading of Stalingrad tonight; the Germans have nearly made it there. Not many will come back

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

This was accompanied by The Crash Detectives, in which nobody was killed this time - some life-changing injuries though. With various other serious offences also on the charge sheet, the arrogant young scrote responsible got nearly twenty years, which was nice