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[NickFitz]

Tea: ribeye steak with fried onions and chips. Very nice steak, that was

This was accompanied by Kegworth: Flight to Disaster on iPlayer, about the plane that crashed on the M1, just short of EMA, back in 1989

For many years afterwards there was a big V-shaped gap in the trees pointing up the embankment there, but it seems to have grown back now.

[ladymuck]

I did venture to the great outdoors and returned the poorly sized coffee cups.

The person serving in at the till recognised immediately that I was the customer who had emailed in to advise of the need to return and why. They said they did some investigations and discovered that the cups range in size from 70ml to 90ml capacity so they've updated the info on their website as a result. This is why I like independent shops.

Bitterly cold out, biting wind. Thankfully dry.

[xoggoth]

Quite good little local talk from a lady who's spent her life rescuing elephants and things, followed by boring shopping. LL1 walk tomorrow.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice

Most of the snow on the cars has melted away, though there’s still some on the lawn

[ladymuck]

Ooh this looks interesting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...r-byd-pennod-1

All about the conman Kenner Elias Jones.

[ladymuck]

Morning Afternoon all

Dull. Overcast. Wet. Currently 5 degrees ('feels like' 0) with a high of 6 expected. Not currently raining but more expected. A bit on the breezy side. Barometer down to 993 mBar.

Sunrise 08:04; Sunset 16:13 GMT

Meetings this morning. Time sheets to submit. Then I need to decide whether to head off to South Kensington / Knightsbridge way this afternoon or tomorrow morning. The coffee cups I bought for HWMBO need to be returned.

Oh, and contract no.3 start date postponed to w/c 19 January.

[Pondlife]

Good morning all, TFIF!

Wind 14 kt from the Northwest
Temperature 4°C
Humidity 87%
Pressure 999 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more

Weather warnings seemed a bit over dramatic here as I didn't even have to chase the recycling bags down the road.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Wet as in raining a little.

Dead calm.

Chilly in here at 11.2 deg, 8.5 deg in the kitchen, 6 in the leanto, 6 in the saltinghouse.

997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (up from 986 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of March 2020 Scruff and BR14 popped in, LM cleared up where the theatre was (not Woking), NF was Feeding His Cold, whilst WTFH was variously egg collecting, with 35 in the fridge, and shooting at rats but contemplating a night sight, and I listened to some drama or other on Di Ti Di Hello Tom Me Old Pal Me Old Beauty.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Some thing on R4. Book. Other book. TWATO. <click>

Book. Other book. Book. Other book. Book. Other book.

Next door in the semi has "music" on. It's a tad irritating. I can feel some Hawkwind coming on. .

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Entertainment: PM. 18 o'clock news. The News Quiz.

Welsh history thing ITV. Temperance Town, Cardiff, demolished 1930s. Merchant Navy training ship Menai Strait closed 1974: HMS Conway. Triang factory Merthyr, closed 1981.

Taggart S5 E4 "Love Knot". A new year ep: 2 hrs.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a snowy start, though it seems the overnight snow must have turned to sleet or rain as some of the snow that fell in the evening has been washed away and the drive is slushy rather than icy. It’s 2°C (“feels like” -8°) and won’t get above 3° and, though no more precipitation is expected, it’ll remain windy. The barometers are, as could be expected, well down at 982/990mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
The storm blew through, a lot of rain/sleet fell. Worst damage I have found so far is that one of our (empty) wheelie bins blew over.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was The Perfect Neighbor (2025), a documentary film on Netflix about an obnoxious woman hassling all her neighbours, ultimately shooting one of them because she was annoyed about her kids playing near her house. It’s largely made up of body cam footage from the local police, because she called them so often to make spurious complaints and unfounded allegations about the neighbours. Horrible woman

And speaking of horrible people, Sam Pepys really isn’t doing himself any favours by keeping that diary of the things he gets up to

I also managed to get the mundane laundry done during the evening

Meanwhile outside: snow! And plenty of it. But the last time I checked, it had gone back to sleet. Looks like a heavy band of whatever it may be is circling back around to us now though, so it’ll probably still be very white out there tomorrow

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Twice recently I've noticed expensive items that I haven't looked at, or even considered looking at, added to my Amazon basket! This evening it was a HP printer. The first time occurred while I was at HWMBO's; it was some games console. It's all very peculiar.

[ladymuck]

Meanwhile on the 10th of March 2020 ... LM was going out to the theatre later.

I went to see Message in a Bottle at Sadlers Wells' Peacock Theatre. A dance thing set to a number of Sting's songs.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

Casseroles and stews and so on are all very nice, but sometimes you need a chunk of fried, grilled, or roasted meat

[NickFitz]

Heavy rain here too. If I’m interpreting the symbols correctly, this will turn to sleet in a couple of hours, and then snow

But: it’s Thursday, and I’m done with work for the week!