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[WTFH]

Morning all Overcast a little drizzle on our walk earlier.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a blustery day, with sunny spells as the clouds shift hither and yon, though rain is expected during much of the morning. It’s 13°C and “feels like” 6°, with an expected high of 17°, while the barometers have dropped sharply to 980/988mB

More importantly, the southwesterly winds gusting up to 30mph+ will continue throughout the day. I’m still very concerned about the young magpies, and if they have been blown away and can’t make their way back against such strong winds, this will continue to prevent them getting home. The two parents were perching at the top of the highest conifer along the front for several minutes keeping a lookout first thing, before flying off towards the garages near the bins. After I’d showered, I saw them head to the top of the cedar tree next door and perch there for a bit, then move along to the next garden down. So it seems they’re still searching, but I think they’d be best advised to head to the northeast, and maybe quite a distance away at that. But perhaps that’s too far off their territory for safety? Anyway, the situation still seems to be very worrying

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was a bit of Police Interceptors

In The Middle Kingdoms, they’ve made a terrible mess of Central Europe after the Great War, shoehorning places together that don’t want to be together and creating new countries like Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia; a situation that wasn’t fully resolved until the 1990s (if it even was then)

It’s still extremely windy here

But… Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was initially an enigma, as it was some thing I’d put in the freezer without labelling it. It turned out to be the spicy chicken thighs with shallots and cherry tomatoes that I made the other week, so I made some chips to go with it. Pretty nice actually

The rain’s been back, but there’s a nice double rainbow too

I’m concerned about the young magpies in this wind though. I was thinking earlier that it might be a lot for them to cope with, and I just spent several minutes watching the parents looking as if they were searching for them; they weren’t pecking at the grass at all, and were going around looking under the hedges and so on. They may have been calling too, but I can’t hear that up here through double glazing. Anyway, now I’m worried that the young ones have let themselves get carried away by the wind and can’t find their way back

[xoggoth]

Took ghastly old ll2 to a talk this afternoon, didn't stay myself - sounded boring. Finally got round to putting my Windows 11 PC into the office and using the 10 as a spare.

[NickFitz]

Quite Simpsonesque out now

Just £50 won on the Premium Bonds this month. Come on Ernie, you can do better than that!

[sadkingbilly]

My sister-in-law found an investment document relating to my MIL about 3 years ago. Since then there has been a lot of communication - death cert, probate, solicitors letters, etc, all required as evidence before the funds were released. The good thing is that they remained invested over that time and have gone up by a reasonable amount. Finally got the money through today, more than a decade after my MIL died.

these shares are in MY name, but i can't remember whether they got flogged off, somewhen.
Hence the query.
* It was thirty years ago, in my defence.

[WTFH]

[SIZE=14px]Afternoon all
Greetings from the depths of Z_Land

found an old share cert when clearing my wife's effects.
Attempted to contact the authors for validity check, and I spent hours trying to negotiate their website, which insists on an 11 digit account number, when the number i have is only 8 digits...

My sister-in-law found an investment document relating to my MIL about 3 years ago. Since then there has been a lot of communication - death cert, probate, solicitors letters, etc, all required as evidence before the funds were released. The good thing is that they remained invested over that time and have gone up by a reasonable amount. Finally got the money through today, more than a decade after my MIL died.

[WTFH]

Afternoon all
Up at 04:40 to walk the dog, pending a 07:00 delivery of the next shed. At 06:00 as we were about to go into an area of poor phone reception, I thought I should check to see if there was any update on the delivery. There was. New ETA 06:40.
The walk was cut short and what normally takes 45 minutes was done in 35.
They arrived spot off 06:40, offloaded the shed in about 15 minutes and were on their way to the next delivery. They'd set off at 03:00 to get to me.

This shed is for the lawnmowers, but is from a company who normally make stables. I needed something with a wide enough door to drive the big mower in, and a stable is just about perfect size. While the other shed is good, and has a 3x2 frame, this one has a 4x2 frame. The other shed was made up of panels that were 1.7x1.2. This one is 2.1x3. That rules out me moving any of the panels myself. A slight drawback is that the guy who makes them does not supply instructions for building them, and while many bits are obvious, there's at least 2 pieces of timber that I have no idea of their purpose.
If we weren't away this weekend, I know what I'd be doing.

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all
Greetings from the depths of Z_Land

found an old share cert when clearing my wife's effects.
Attempted to contact the authors for validity check, and I spent hours trying to negotiate their website, which insists on an 11 digit account number, when the number i have is only 8 digits.
The website helpfully gives a tel no to call in the case of an 8 digit number, but this is guarded by a robot which, after 2minutes of pre-recorded irrelevance, insists on an 11 digit no before even offering any alternatives.
All contact nos for this incompetently written website's owners are guarded by the same robot.
WTF writes this sh1TE???
no doubt the 'professionals' in the SotM thread.
Feckin code monkeys.
Grrrrr.
I see the taxdodgers are still excited

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover chips and lamb from the other evening, because I made too much

The rain was occasional and more inclined to drizzle after some early downpours, and seems to have petered out altogether now

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast, a bit damp. Currently 16 degrees ('feels like' 14) with a high of 19 expected. Rain supposedly starting soon but the sun might make an appearance this afternoon. Barometer down to 1004 mBar.

Sunrise 04:48; Sunset 21:11 BST

This morning I was called by the NHS Blood and Transplant service to ask if I'd consider switching from whole blood donation to plasma. This is mildly inconvenient because blood can be donated pretty much anywhere and there's a great centre at Westfield in Shephard's Bush. Plasma can only be done at one of three centres, my local being in Twickenham (the others are in Birmingham and Reading). Turns out there's not enough plasma donations in the UK and they're on a drive to recruit and be less reliant on imports. Plasma donations can also be given more frequently than blood. So, this weekend, I'll be off to Twickers to try it out.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey start today, with what seems to be a lot of layers of various thicknesses. It’s still breezy, and this is expected to continue, getting even breezier during or after the rain that’s expected to visit from the next hour or so to mid-afternoon. As a result of the breeze, the present temperature of 13°C “feels like” 8°; the expected high is 18°. The barometers are very slightly up at 991/999mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Damp.

Grey.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 19.6 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.4748 psi (down from 1002 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 AndyGarbs popped in a lot, LM detailed skip charges for the parking bay outside her flat, WTFH popped in, and I turned the heating on briefly & roasted some beef, whereas NF suggested Brillo turned his car on and off to see if it made the clock work.

Awake at 06:20. Dream before waking was a work one: much use of the term "mother****er" happened in this dream. Can't remember a dream like that previously.

In other other news it's been hammering down for at least an hour, and windy with it.

If I could be arsed it'd be a good day to die hard have a bonfire.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Thing about AI on R4: they don't seem to realise that Terminator is a documentary. Followed by Best BTTC crashes on ITV4. Jungle Warfare on PBS: the Evil British in Malaya; the Evil French, followed by the Septics in Vietnam. Guess who were more successful against the communists. .

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in initial sunshine, subsequent heavy showers, then generic dampness when that stopped.

Fecking magpies on the leanto roof trying to make the holes in it bigger. Bastards.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Nice enough. Entertainment: UFO bollox on Blaze: dozed through most of it since it was about humans being genetically engineered for a love of gold. .

It hammered down so hard during the above that falling back to terrestrial was required, though considering I was dozing I really dunno why I bothered.

Out of town with Jack Hargreaves: I wonder wot he'll kill this week. . A collection of old tools. Some nasty ones: the horse's tail docker. . A funny one: the seed fiddle seed spreader. The WTF is this ones: quite a lot of those.

https://www.facebook.com/JimmyTheLam...0790581800474/

Hannah Fry waffling on about ?fusion? generators. . 10 years away as usual.

Blazian Bollox. Unbelievable Bollox with wotshisface. Unbelievable survival: woman who fell from 33,000 feet without a parachute. The Revenant. Chap who survived for 3 days 100 feet underwater in an air pocket in a sunken ship. Chap who got lost in the Sahara on that crazy marathon. Chap half eaten by a hippo. Woman frozen for 6 hours. Chap crashed his motorbike & ended up buried alive for 3 days coz they thought he was dead. Etc.

BBC4: "Too near the sun" (1966) BBC documentary about the hydrogen bomb. No mention of Ulam or cobalt thorium G. .

[NickFitz]

In The Middle Kingdoms, the Great War has made a right mess of everything. Hungary, which had seceded from Austria-Hungary, had the distinction of being the last of the Central European states to surrender in 1918. This was also its first official act as an independent nation

Goodnight all