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[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a pork and apple sauce bap (wholemeal) with a bag of plain crisps

Been doing some stuff that's moderately interesting today, for a change. I'll still be glad when five comes around and I'm done for the week, though

I think I'll submit my timesheet now before getting back to the fray

[ladymuck]

Just noticed the estimated delivery time is 9.10 am - 11.10 am. I think it's missed that slot by some margin.

[xoggoth]

Eh, crappy night sleep last night. Maybe all that cake and wine at the local do last night didn't help.

Day to meself today, get bit more of me new PC set up. Got the most important bits done. What I like about Windows is the backward compatibilty. Got a couple of useful little progs I wrote years ago using VB6 1995 student edition and they still work.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull. Wet. Currently 14 degrees ('feels like' 12) and that's the high for the day. Rain overnight and this morning. More due this afternoon and into the evening. Barometer down to 1009 mBar.

Had a lovely dinner out with HWMBO last night. Had the bright idea of booking a flight to Glasgow with him this evening and then coming back Saturday morning. Found a bargain fare and booked it! Except, I didn't properly check the dates and I'd booked a trip in March 2025. Thank goodness for BA's policy of allowing cancellations within 24h of making the booking. The fare to go tonight was more than three times the 'bargain' I paid. He's not worth that much. And he's back next weekend anyway.

In UPS news, the 9.46 am update states that my parcel is out for delivery today. Coming from the Feltham depot, despite them saying they were transferring the parcel to a UPS facility in the destination city. I guess they realised it was already where it needed to be and just had to be put on a van. Let's see if it turns up today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Dire.

Wet.

Windyish.

Chilly in here at 13.5 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

1006.5 mBar, 29.722 in Hg, 754.94 Torr, 14.598 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 7th of December 2019 the final Xmas family party & group hug happened in that Cardiff, the cancellation of half the trains causing trauma but I got there in the end but needed to get a taxi to the restaurant since I had no idea WTF it was, NF got soaked coming back home from the Chinese, and I ended up watching yet more BTVS & Angel once I'd staggered back home again.

Freecell score: 90%, running average: 80%.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: none that I recall.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Rain & windy overnight meant the ground was quite wet on our walk and the air was warm, a t shirt under a long coat was too much.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's been a rainy, windy night out there, so as the gloomy dawn arrives, we're ringed by low cloud - though overhead seems much clearer. It's been warmer overnight with the rain, being 11°C now, which is the high for the day - and the continuing breeze is making that "feel like" 5°. The barometers are down at 995/1002mB

[eek]

I managed a bit of mucking around with SwiftUI and Bluesky stuff this evening

And then I read a bit more Jeffrey Bernard

Is he unwell?

[NickFitz]

I managed a bit of mucking around with SwiftUI and Bluesky stuff this evening

And then I read a bit more Jeffrey Bernard

Thursday tomorrow! Only four more days after that

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Just back from really nice do with the local history society lot. Now can relax and watch some crap on TV with me little puppet parrot.

[NickFitz]

^^^ The biggest pain in the arse was my dad's Halifax account. The number of times I tried to sort that out. .

I think the main thing we have outstanding is our Mum's ISA at Santander. For some reason, they were able to deal with another account she had there no problem, but the ISA process couldn't cope with it not having been dealt with before Dad died, and they've got in such a tangle that they're having to start the whole process again

Today's payout came from Dad's Premium Bonds. We'd left them in until the final draw for which they were eligible, which was this month's. Looks like we didn't get the hoped-for million, but he won a few hundred over the course of the year

The funniest bit was the interment of the ashes: they'd dug the hole in the wrong grave at the other end of the row.

The undertaker was, er, mortified. . My dad would have loved it.

That's the kind of thing our family would appreciate too

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade pork chow mein. Very nice, I thought. I'm not saying anybody else would like it, or even regard it as edible, but I enjoyed it

This was accompanied by a new Police Interceptors which was from Nottinghamshire again despite the earlier episodes in the series except the one before this being from Northamptonshire and Notts being from the previous series

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ The biggest pain in the arse was my dad's Halifax account. The number of times I tried to sort that out. .

Had to go there with my sister in the end and find someone who knew WTF they were doing, unlike the first oik.

The funniest bit was the interment of the ashes: they'd dug the hole in the wrong grave at the other end of the row.

The undertaker was, er, mortified. . My dad would have loved it.

[NickFitz]

One strange feature of my life at the moment is that various accounts of our parents are being settled by financial institutions and when they are, my brother will send me my share without warning. So now and again, like this afternoon, I'll get a notification out of the blue that several thousand pounds have just landed in my bank account

I think we're nearly there now though. Got to save some for interring the ashes next spring

[NickFitz]

^^^ What news of the DPD parcel? We should be told!

Ah, yes! That conveniently arrived around twenty past five yesterday evening

He left it down in the entrance lobby when I buzzed him in so I had to go downstairs to get it, but I don't blame him - he'd been buzzing around in that van dropping off parcels for hours by that time