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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    Just wait until you experience the joy of getting the fecker fixed when it goes wrong. .

    Oh.

    Yup.

    That was about the length of time it took to get the part.
    Nice pali!

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch, BTW, has been a Pukka steak slice

    Still very cloudy out

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

    I'm just hoping it won't go wrong
    Our Miele WM is, I think, 18 years old. The MiL's old machine is about 25 years old. Neither have missed a beat, and both have had a lot of dog stuff and beach towels through them

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    Just wait until you experience the joy of getting the fecker fixed when it goes wrong. .

    Oh.

    Yup.

    That was about the length of time it took to get the part.
    I'm just hoping it won't go wrong

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  • NickFitz
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    It's been a productive morning, by my relatively low standards

    First I went over to see if I could get a haircut. She turned out to be there, her husband/partner/whatever not having died of his cancer yet; a medical marvel apparently, having lasted longer on whatever he's being treated with than any other patient his specialists have treated

    I was able to get the second-nearest available parking spot on the main road (not actually that main), which saves a lot of faffing about with residents' parking schemes on the side roads. And when I went in, there was nobody ahead of me so I was straight into the chair! I had thought of going quite early, but she said she'd had non-stop customers until a few minutes before I arrived, so I turned out to have timed it just right

    After that, onwards to Big Sainsbury's as I was on that side of the river. I didn't need much, but I was able to get a few things that had been either out of stock or just not stocked at all at the Not-as-Big one last week

    And so home, where the preferred parking space was pristine and untouched, awaiting my return

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Just wait until you experience the joy of getting the fecker fixed when it goes wrong. .

    Oh.

    Yup.

    That was about the length of time it took to get the part.

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    New washer-dryer should be here a week on Friday! A fancy (and rather expensive) Miele, no less
    Oh FFS, they've rescheduled it to the Tuesday after because they need to get one sent over from Germany!

    You would have thought the famously efficient Germans could get it on a lorry some time in the next week, but apparently not

    That's my first day back at work too

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Cloudy but occasional beams of sunlight coming through. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 23) with a high of 27 expected. Barometer up to 1018 mBar.

    Sunrise 05:45; Sunset 20:25 BST

    The landlady is coming round today. There's a tree in the alley behind my garden that's been trying to push the wall over and she's getting it removed. That and some other tinkerings being done in lieu of properly fixing the guttering on the roof (as that requires the flat upstairs to also contribute).

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Thursday. (checks clock: yes it's saying "Th").

    Wet. Raining.

    Grey.

    Dark.

    Dank.

    Sunless.

    Cool in here at 22.6 deg, 23 in the kitchen, 22 in the leanto.

    1009.5 mBar, 29.81 in Hg, 757.2 Torr, 14.64 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 7th of February 2020 Brillo popped in, along with BR14, and there was discussion of the Oz customs thing, people carrying credit cards without names on, I watched "STIV: the voyage home" and yet more of "ST: first contact" whereas NF watched the popular spinoff known as "Galaxy Quest". .

    In other news, there's sommat wrong with the back door. I'll have a potch with it later.

    Once the rain has stopped for a bit.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 08:52.

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    CBS, etc, quite humid out.
    Great thing about working from home is the lack of requirement for long trousers and socks.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    There's a fairly low layer of grey cloud out there to start the day, presaging the slightly less hot (though not actually cool) day we've ben promised. It's already 19°C, but won't get any worse than 25°, so that's nice. The barometers are up a bit to 1005/1013mB

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  • NickFitz
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    Tonight's viewing was part one of Murder Case - The Vanishing Cyclist on iPlayer

    And I'm not too far from the end of Project Hail Mary

    After sunset, a decent breeze sprang up from the west which has brought the bedroom temperature down a few degrees. It's eased off a little now, but it's helping

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post

    Make sure you get it delivered to exactly where you want it. They aren't light.
    Removal of the old one and installation of the new have been included in the order, so it should be fine

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been home-made adana kebabs and fries

    Still very warm. I just realised I made the mistake of leaving the window open and blind up in the bedroom, so it'll be baking in there

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    New washer-dryer should be here a week on Friday! A fancy (and rather expensive) Miele, no less
    Make sure you get it delivered to exactly where you want it. They aren't light.

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