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Back from another visit to little local art group. Better than dozing around at home.
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Local lone walk this morning, got back just before rain got too rainy. Managed to find a little pond me and kids used to go to, pretty inaccessible now and full of fallen branches.
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Magpie on the living room window ledge!
I've never seen a bird on there since I moved here, so it's pretty cool that it was one of the resident magpies rather than one of the multiplicity of pigeons
It completely ignored me though. Didn't even look in
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A rainy Sunday morning in Devon. Max and I have delayed going out for a walk, but I don’t think we can delay any longer. A good excuse to try out my new Fortis trousers.
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Morning denizens
Cloudy out but with some gaps starting to open up, and sunny spells likely. It's 12°C and will get up to 15° this afternoon - but this will be accompanied by a likelihood of rain, varying from 65% to 75% from mid-afternoon through to midnight, and accompanied by a bit of a breeze which is already starting to build up. The barometers are down to 993/1001mB
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^^^ LM OM.
Morning.
Sunday.
Wet.
Grey.
Sunless.
Chilly in here at 17.3 deg, 17 in the kitchen, 15.5 in the leanto.
997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 25th of February 2020 WTFH had broken a laptop when it was plugged directly into the client's network. Don't you just hate it when that happens.
Oh, and with that, we're back.
Freecell score in the grey gloom of the morning: 91%, running average: 84%.
Lunch: brunch.
Freecell score in the grey gloom of the afternoon: 86%, running average: 84%.
Entertainment: Look at Life: Potatoes (1961).
Tea: beans on toast. And something seems to have stuck in my throat & I can't seem to shift it.
Ho very hum.
Entertainment: Look at Life.
Sergeant Cork.
Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 16:18.
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Much dismay among the apes today, for the programme schedulers have cut the wildlife programming back to a mere three hours around teatime
But I found out about the orangutan documentary on Netflix, so I put that on for them this evening
Later, I finished reading Ossian's Ride, which was quite entertaining all in all. And then, as it's in a volume of three Fred Hoyle novels, it was straight on to October the First is Too Late, in which I've just go to the point where it turns weird
Goodnight all
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Tea has been brought from the south Indian place past the park. I had one of their curries that I hadn't tried before and it was very nice indeed, albeit very hot
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Loony lady 3 earlier. Got back to her place and she found she'd left her walking stick in the cafe. Said I'd collect it for her when I went on me walk tomorrow but she insisted we drive all the way back! She drives me nuts!
Mood improved by call in at a local art exhibition where I know a few of the artists. Lovely lady there who's a local burlesque performer. Cor! Chewy she is.
Close shave earlier, had to brake when a child shot right out across the road on a bike. Good job I'd just pulled out of the parking spot and was only doing about 10mph or he could have been killed.
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Lunch earlier was a sausage and bacon baguette (red sauce) - well, half of one, as a whole one seemed a tad excessive, and now I have the other half for another day
Preparation of this was slightly delayed as the baguette was one of those you reheat at home, and furthermore was starting from frozen. I popped it in the oven in plenty of time, but somehow managed to accidentally turn on the oven's child lock a few minutes later, which disabled it when it was still only slightly warm. Once I realised what had happened, I had to go and check the manual to find out how to turn the lock off again
So the sausages and bacon got to rest for a few minutes while the baguette was heated up on the second attempt
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After returning from being stabbed and having yet more blood taken for testing, HWMBO and I strolled down the road to have a look at the local shops. We stopped at a deli where cheese was purchased. We also had a look at the bakery which had a notable queue. We didn't need anything so just had a look through the window before taking a gentle pootle up to a tapas restaurant for a spot of brunch.
Now back home and ready for a nap.
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Loony lady 3 soon. Odd thing when went shopping earlier there was a big van with a US flag and MIAMI POLICE on the back. Surely, if it was just a joke, you wouldn't be allowed to write POLICE on a vehicle.
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Morning denizens
Unsurprisingly, it's an overcast sort of day. Currently 12°C and expected to be up at 14° for much of the afternoon. No rain expected before tomorrow (when there's a 90% chance of some) and the barometers are a little further down at 1012/1020mB
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Morning.
Saturday apparently. Woke early as is only right & proper these days.
Dry.
Grey.
Sunless.
Chilly in here at 17.1 deg, 16.5 in the kitchen, 15.5 in the leanto.
1017 mBar, 30.03 in Hg, 762.8 Torr, 14.75 psi, (down from 1019 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 24th of February 2020: as per yesterday.
Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the dehumidifier.
More welding practice. Not going very well. I have no idea what is going wrong but going wrong it certainly is. Ho hum.
Tea: soup etc. Nice enough.
Entertainment: PM. The Robinson thing <click>.
Maigret. Sommat to watch. "The triumph of Inspector Lognon". Pity I fell asleep in the middle.
Twilight Zone: "100 yards over the rim": from 1847 to 1961 & back again.
Twilight Zone: "The rip van winkle caper": gold robbers and a 100 year sleep in suspended animation.
Book. Next book.
I eventually realised that "Taggart" was in 3 1 hour eps back in the day, rather than one humungous lump of 2:45:00Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 22:29.
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Morning all
Dull and overcast. Currently 11 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Barometer down to 1025 mBar.
Sunrise 07:31; Sunset 18:01 BST
On my way to the GP for B12 stab no.3 and a blood test. No traffic on the roads so the bus is hurtling along. I'll be about 15 mins early at this rate
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