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[NickFitz]

Tea has been some of the shepherd’s pie for which I laid the groundwork yesterday. Very nice

In the perennial struggle to work out how many spuds to use to get the requisite amount of mash, I erred on the side of too many this time. Better than not enough! And I recently came across a recipe for making fried potato cakes with surplus mash, so I’ll give that a go with what’s left

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice, as the shop actually had some yesterday

It continues to be a bit variable out there. I can see a fair few areas of blue sky from the living room window, but it’s also come over quite gloomy so I suspect a load of cloud is heading in from the other side

The mundane laundry is on

And my washer-dryer has just informed me that a software update is ready to install, which didn’t used to happen with the old one

[WTFH]

Hope you shopped around - the brokers have 15-25% discount of EVs at the moment

Got about £8k off it via a broker.

[eek]

Porsche* Elroq.
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I know it's not a Porsche, I'm not stupid with my money (any more). Priced up the Audi equivalent and it was £18k extra for the 4-ring badge.

Hope you shopped around - the brokers have 15-25% discount of EVs at the moment

[WTFH]

Go on then, I'll bite. What did you get?

Porsche* Elroq.
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I know it's not a Porsche, I'm not stupid with my money (any more). Priced up the Audi equivalent and it was £18k extra for the 4-ring badge.

[ladymuck]

New car ordered, hoping for delivery before Christmas.

Go on then, I'll bite. What did you get?

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but bright enough. The ever-present chance of rain remains. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 3) and that's the high for the day. Barometer down a snifter to 994 mBar.

Sunrise 08:30; Sunset 15:46 GMT

Back in that London I'd be getting an extra 48 minutes of daylight

Clashing meetings this morning meant I attended the one that wasn't recorded then watched the recording of the other afterwards. Neither truly required my attendance and I definitely didn't have to input anything.

Chat yesterday with ex-client was interesting. They have moved onto a different organisation. It's public sector yet outside IR35. In two minds over it as it'll be full on, full time and I quite like the easy life I have at the moment with my two little gigs. But stretching the old grey matter may do me some good too.

[Pondlife]

Afternoon campers

Wind 12 kt from the South
Temperature 9°C
Humidity 81%
Pressure 1000 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Few clouds at a height of 2900 ft
Broken clouds at a height of 3500 ft
light rain

TFIF.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all
Woke up 15 mins ago and decided it was too late to try to go back to sleep, then remembered the Ashes. That will keep me occupied until it’s time to take Max out for a perambulation.

you can watch that game and stay awake???

[sadkingbilly]

Morning

bright and breezy this morning.
positively King Billy.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

Chilly in here at 13.3 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto.

998.7 mBar, 29.49 in Hg, 749 Torr, 14.485 psi, (down from 999 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of March 2020 LondonManc, DaveB and NF popped and contributed to the LM inspired discussion of Soreen and cake whereas I sent some of my tea to the compost heap for some reason and then watched "Two mules for Sister Sarah" which isn't amongst my favourite Eastwood epics by any means.

Walk (abbreviated due to inclemency of the weather, towpath) walked. It rained on me.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the last ep of the Tom Stoppard biog.

Stone me it's getting darker & darker.

Stone me: it's down to 986 mBar. Thought my ears were popping. .

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Entertainment: PM. Ian Duncan Baldy: <click>.

Hammering down now. .

Taggart: S3 E7 "Cold Blood" an Xmas hols ep: you can tell because it's plainly high summer. The one where a chap is shot by his wife using a .357 magnum whilst he's sat "sleeping" in his car. It's a 2 hour ep, the other giveaway for an Xmas ep.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start, though with wisps and layers of cloud hither and yon. Bit colder today: 3°C now supposedly “feels like” -2° and sunlight will only get us to 7° - though rain will arrive tonight and warm things up, with a leap to 9° before midnight! The barometers are up a bit at 992/1000mB

[WTFH]

A pleasant walk has been walked.
TFIF, etc.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Woke up 15 mins ago and decided it was too late to try to go back to sleep, then remembered the Ashes. That will keep me occupied until it’s time to take Max out for a perambulation.

[NickFitz]

This evening’s telly was a new episode of Police Interceptors

Later, I finished The Forgotten Soldier, in which his retreat from the Red Army continued northwards from Poland via a siege on the Baltic coast and eventual escape by sea - several times, managing to get from one port to another on overloaded small vessels. His military service eventually came to an end in the hands of British and American troops in Schleswig-Holstein. Weirdly, he’d been recruited by the Wehrmacht on the grounds of having a German mother (his father being French), but the Allies determined that they could only hold him as a PoW if he’d had a German father, and as far as they were concerned he was a French civilian. So they let him go and sent him home to France

I’m inordinately pleased that I woke up early enough to get the haircut first thing and was able to do the shopping at lunchtime, as it means I have no errands left to run tomorrow!

Goodnight all