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[NickFitz]

Tea: ribeye steak (thick cut) with chips, fried onions and beans

Accompanied by a bit of Trucking Hell

[NickFitz]

The sun arrived eventually, so it's quite a pleasant evening out there now. I celebrated by sorting out the recycling in the kitchen, which was getting out of hand due to my laziness over taking it to the bins, or even putting it out for the management people to take for me. So I ended up taking two bags over there myself

Possibly the final problem with the parental home was that the outside drain from the kitchen wasn't draining at all well. But my sister and her husband chucked some drain cleaner down it and it's OK now, saving us the trouble of getting Dyno-rod out

Yesterday, some telecommunications bods turned up wanting to run a cable to the house for broadband, starting by drilling a hole in the garden wall. Luckily the neighbours spotted them and stopped them before they did so, pointing out that the house wasn't yet the property of the new people. Turned out they were just in the area and had some spare time, knew the job was on the list for next week, and thought they'd get a head start on it

However, this reminded my sister that no wall drilling ought to be necessary. When our parents had the drive relaid with block paving, about twenty-five years ago, part of the installation was an underground conduit between house and pavement, specifically for use when new cables needed to be laid in future. The future is now here, but it'll be the new family that gets the benefit of their foresight - assuming one of us can work out exactly where said conduit is and how to access it

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

The day started off cloudy but brightened up considerably thereafter. Currently 23 degrees, and the high was 24. Looks like thunderstorms may occur overnight. Barometer down to 1018 mBar.

In a mirror to 15th November 2019, I did a jeans wash today. They have been washed in the intervening period, I hasten to add.

Job searching and applying continues.

Now watching Americas Cup highlights.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice

Bit of rain here in the last hour and no sign of the predicted afternoon sunshine, though the weather app claims it's "mostly sunny" at the moment

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day out, with even hints of fogginess in the air again. Chance of some drizzle in the next hour too, though it's expected to turn sunny this afternoon. Mild again, being already 16°C and a balmy 21° due later, while the barometers are down a little more at 1012/1020mB

[WTFH]

Morning all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny

Chilly in here at 17.9 deg, 19.5 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto.

1017.5 mBar, 30.047 in Hg, 763.2 Torr, 14.7575 psi, (down from 1018 last night), 76% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of November 2019 NF had a variety of casserole with rounds of French sticks replacing potato slices, followed by watching yet more Bab5, whereas I watched yet more BTVS and Angel, whilst LM was washing her jeans.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The End We Start From (2023) in which a woman gives birth just as British society is crumbling under an onslaught of storms causing massive flooding, and has a pretty wretched time thereafter. Extremely bleak stuff

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

3/4 packed for our little trip, but now TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

Tea has been M&S Southern not-fried chicken with chips and loads of ketchup

And I've remembered to make the bed!

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

Seen on this occasion for the first time in ages: another person wearing a facemask!

I went to M&S first, primarily because the slippers I bought when I got this place are falling to bits so I need new ones. Just under two years they've lasted, but I've been working from home all that time so they get worn all day rather than just for a few hours in the evening

[ladymuck]

It's a bit windy out. My weather app reckons it's just a light breeze

[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toasties

Might go shopping in a bit but there's a minor point about the house sale that cropped up this morning and our conveyancer is on leave, so I'm supposed to be getting a call from one of her colleagues. Been waiting since about eleven

Might strip the bed and leave that to air

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy start and a bit dull but the sun has started to break through. Currently 20 degrees with a high of 26 expected. My weather app has a thunderstorm warning for a vast swathe of the country but no such excitement is actually forecast for where I am. Barometer continues downwards to 1023 mBar.

This morning's excitement, so far, is changing the Brita water filter and putting away the dried bed linen.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I woke around eight and thought I might as well get up. Luckily, I then fell asleep again and woke for the second time nearer ten, and I reckon I feel better for it

It's a grey day out again, but also quite mild at 16°C with an expected high of 21° - though the breeze is apparently making it feel like 12°. The barometers are down a little but still fairly high at 1016/1024mB