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[xoggoth]

Nice afternoon with unlisted loony lady, walk then tea at her place. No invite to bedroom unfortunately.

[NickFitz]

Recently I heard about a small Indian restaurant just beyond the far side of the city centre, hidden away down a dead-end side street lined with old factory buildings, which is supposed to be very good. So tea tonight was brought from there, and what I'd heard is true: really good food, generous portions, and cheap too! I'll definitely be ordering from them again

[ladymuck]

The optician seemed a bit puzzled by my prescription vs my test performance. They finally came to the conclusion that it was a little on the strong side but I was sufficiently used to it that changing to a weaker prescription wasn't worthwhile, as I wasn't reacting well when being tested with it. I certainly don't need anything stronger. My distance vision is perfect.

The winter duvet was dropped off for cleaning and, as I don't need it urgently, will be ready on Friday.

I had a mooch around the various shops on that road as, although I've lived here a year, I've not really bothered to see what's there. The bakery was nice, and I picked up a loaf to try. There's lots of coffee shops, a deli, little gift shops, restaurants, etc. I tried the tapas restaurant for lunch (very nice), booked myself in for a pedicure (also on Friday), and bought some greetings cards for my general stash.

I was a bit worn out by the time I got home. The bed linen was put out on airers in the back garden (just been brought in) but the duvet cover didn't go into the WM. I'll do that tomorrow morning.

The rest of the afternoon, up to now, has been spent watching tat on TV.

[NickFitz]

Sausage bap for lunch

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There's a lot of cloud out again, but today it's in the form of big white fluffy clumps with gaps between to let the light in, so it's a lot brighter. It's 18°C and thinking about getting to 21° so very slightly warmer as it builds towards Monday, which will be a hot one. The barometers are down a bit at 1009/1017mB

[xoggoth]

As usual, did far better with crossword than quick crossword. Walk with another loony lady this afternoon.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with varying levels of fluff coming and going. Currently 19 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Barometer down to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 06:00; Sunset 20:07 BST

I was considering getting a second opinion on the car repairs but the company I selected didn't answer the phone when I called to enquire whether I could stop by to get a quote. I'll try again next week as the Saturday before a bank holiday is likely to be quite busy, I'd imagine.

Today's activity will be an eye sight test with a new optometrist, located just up the road. I notice there's a dry cleaners / launderette on the way where I can drop off my winter duvet for a clean, so that's another job that'll get done.

The bed has been stripped and left to air, with the first load in the WM.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday?

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 19.5 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 18.5 in the leanto.

1015 mBar, 29.97 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.72 psi, (unchanged), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of February 2020 BR14 popped in, NF remarked that someone had been busy tagging posts, eek popped in to remark on Mudskipper's tagging app, WTFH had a poor night's sleep due to the ceaseless thunder storm overnight, SepticLand does everything bigger, the hoi polloi in the library were accessing the .GOV site with some difficulty, and it drizzled on me on the way home before the deluge began in earnest.

Walk (towpath) walked in the grey gloom.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Toast: the demise of Homebase.

Look at Life: HMS Hermes, aircraft carrier. Back in the day when the British invention of the steam catapult was still in use.

"One step beyond: Doomsday". 1959 tosh about a witch's curse, death of the first born & all that.

Freecell score: 85%, running average: 83%.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM.

Maigret.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was F1 (2025), also known as F1: The Movie, presumably so we don't confuse it with what they have on C4 now instead of Time Team. I enjoyed it! It's not exactly Citizen Kane but then again, it's not as if anybody watches that for fun nowadays, and this was pretty good fun. Lots of clichéd tropes in there, but I expected that going in so no problem

And then a rewatch of Resident Evil: Extinction (2007). This is one of the weaker ones of the six, maybe the weakest. It has a story, but not much of one, and it doesn't really go anywhere. Still, IIRC, the series picks up a bit after this

I wonder if they'll try to deliver the thing again tomorrow? I hope they don't turn up in the middle of the programme about the baboons

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

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I was unimpressed with AO or whatever they're called, but they did deliver on time IIRC even in getting the fecker fixed took months.

Currys delivery, on the other were rapid, pleasant, & did the job well.

I still have some of the bits of wood from the deliveries.

You just never know when it might come in handy.

Better luck next time. Whichever month that is. .

Cheers! I found both Currys, from whom I got the telly, and AO from whom I got something else, to be OK, though the latter were a bit annoying by refusing to install the gas cooker at the old place because it was too near an electrical outlet. The chap who did the annual gas inspections hooked it up for me instead, partly on the basis that it would "probably be fine", and partly for cash in hand

[DoctorStrangelove]

Oh FFS, the "Reply-To" address just sends an email back saying it won't be read

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I was unimpressed with AO or whatever they're called, but they did deliver on time IIRC even in getting the fecker fixed took months.

Currys delivery, on the other were rapid, pleasant, & did the job well.

I still have some of the bits of wood from the deliveries.

You just never know when it might come in handy.

Better luck next time. Whichever month that is. .

[NickFitz]

Tea has been shawarma and chips brought to me from the Turkish place past the park, by somebody who apparently had no difficulty finding the place

[NickFitz]

Oh FFS, the "Reply-To" address just sends an email back saying it won't be read

[NickFitz]

The lorry is now heading south on the M69

I discovered that the email with all the details on has an actual reply address, albeit to a CRM system, so I've sent a snotty email explaining my observations and the postcode theory and demanding satisfaction

And as I am clearly not getting a washer-dryer today, I'm going to move the furniture back to where it's in their way, and order dinner to be delivered because I'm not starting cooking at this time

[NickFitz]

I'm pretty certain they've cocked it up

I was keeping a watch as they made various drops around the northeast of the city until I was next. Then map showed them on the next road, over by the park! So I headed downstairs and out to the road, ready to meet them… except then the site stopped showing me as next, and they were off delivering somewhere down near the station. Further investigation shows that the place they stopped nearby for a few minutes has the same postcode as my place except for one letter - and the differing letters are right next to each other on the keyboard

So I'm now convinced, as I watch them making their fourth delivery since they came within two hundred yards of here, that they've fat-fingered the postcode, somehow failed to notice that the name of the road they were on was different, shrugged, and given up