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[WTFH]

Morning all
After yesterday's monsoon which closed roads and caused a railway tunnel to collapse, today the sky is cloudy with no precipitation. The ground is sodden, but that is to be expected.
The text from out council last night was an apology for not collecting the bins and saying they will try today - along with garden waste, which was today anyway, and this is the last garden collection of the year.
Had my head torch switched on while out perambulating right up until 7:45. The dog had his disco light on for the whole walk, mainly because he doesn't have opposable thumbs and can't press the button to turn it off.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rainy grey start again. Currently 4°C and maybe reaching 6° this afternoon, though it's back below zero tonight. The barometers are up a bit at 996/1004mB

Off to the dentist in a bit. The most annoying thing about the time of the appointment past me accepted is that I need to travel across town in the rush hour. No earlier than ten should be my rule in future, I reckon

[NickFitz]

Not hugely exciting opal hunting tonight: a mechanical failure that was quickly fixed, and a tunnel collapse that didn't matter as they'd dug down to it with an excavator anyway. One lot accidentally dug down into the water table though, thereby rendering their mine too unsafe to continue

Other than that, I started reading The Battle of the Beams by Tom Whipple. Despite the title, it isn't just about R.V. Jones and stuff like Knickebein, but also about radar and other uses of electromagnetic radiation on both sides

Past me booked future me an appointment at the dentist at 9:15 tomorrow morning. Present me is not best pleased with past me

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: leftover KFC

Accompanied by the Highways Agency programme

[NickFitz]

Spent much of the day getting somebody else to set something up via the medium of Slack chat. It didn't work in the end. I went off and looked at various logs I had access to from Jenkins and so on, and it turns out the deployment of the first of said changes failed at lunchtime, but neither of us had thought to check, so it was never going to work. And by the time I'd tracked that down, he'd knocked off for the day. So I quickly fixed a thing I was working on first thing, before he became available to help with the other thing, and with that done I knocked off as well

Only six more working days until I'm done for the year!

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the Pukka steak slice that had a use-by date of yesterday. I'm sure it'll be fine; it tasted OK

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dark.

Damp.

Dreary.

NotSoCold in here at 11.9 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 9 deg in the leanto, 7.8 deg in the salting house.

993 mBar, 29.3232 in Hg, 744.811 Torr, 14.4 psi, (down from 995 last night), 71% RH (GDR hair), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of August 2019 WTFH described cyclists as "Too chewy", NF confirmed he'd seen the twatter feed of Pepys' diary & that it had wrapped around to the beginning, whereas I had located the wasp's nest in the garage & decided to leave it alone since they weren't bothering me so I wouldn't bother them. Live & let live but you wouldn't like me if I got angry. .

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. 34 out, 34 back.

Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about scams, people misbehaving in theatres etc. etc. etc.

TWATO.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM <click> <click> <click> <click> Feck me that twat is irritating.

Wheeler Dealers S9 E1 Fiat Dino Coupe. Feck me £395 for a distributor cap.

https://www.superformance.co.uk/fiat/ignition.html

£1450 for a distributor.

Abandoned Engineering. NY smallpox hospital, Roosevelt Island. Castle cum fortress Osaka Bay Japan. "Troy", Turkey, as excavated by Schliemann. Albanian submarine pen.

History's greatest myths: more Blaze bollox. Area 51. Roswell. Ameila Earhart. Harold Holt, PM, Australia. The pyramids, Egypt. Bermuda Triangle. Nostradamus. Bigfoot. Loch Ness Monster. Someone shoot me please.

The A.I.D. doctor who spawned 90 children at the last count.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and rainy start to the day, and it's expected to continue in that vein right through to this time tomorrow, which is as far ahead as the detailed forecast looks. A bit warmer than it has been, though: 4°C now and aiming for 5° later. The barometers are predictably down, at 984/992mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Filthy weather here, to the extent that Max looked at me and went into the garden for a poo, then wanted to come back in again.
Will take him out later

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 0950

Sunny, clear sky, dry. Currently -1 degrees (feels like -7) with a high of 3 expected.

Leaving Sofia this afternoon. Had a lovely time again.

[NickFitz]

There was some (repeated) Australian border stuff on this afternoon, though I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to it. Tonight: several old episodes of 24 Hours in A&E

Raining a bit here but I suspect that WTFH is correct and a lot more is on the way, which the rainfall radar seems to confirm

Penultimate working Monday of the year tomorrow

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Fresh monkfish tail with a fennel, garlic, absinthe and breadcrumb crust served with broccoli and potatoes for dinner, after writing a few Christmas cards and drinking sherry. (One must drink cherry when writing Christmas cards, apparently it’s a family tradition.)
Currently blowing a hooley with driving rain down here. You northerners will get it later, I suspect.

TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

Tea has been quite late, so is better described as supper: herby chicken, tomato and lentil soup with a crust of wholemeal

[NickFitz]

Lunch: sausage and bacon and white toast butty

And breakfast earlier was a couple of croissants with strawberry jam. Going to be a high calorie kind of day