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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 17.4 deg, 16 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto, 10.5 in the saltinghouse.

Slight condensation on the bedroom window. 2nd time this autumn.

993.5 mBar, 29.34 in Hg, 745.2 Torr, 14.4 psi, (up from 990 last night assuming I tapped it), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 25th of February 2020 BR14 popped in with discussion of Hill Street Blues, NF mentioned it was on Amazon Prime, I didn't mention I had the dvds, LM couldn't be bothered to make pancakes.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start yet again, though there are some gaps and we may get some sunny spells, in theory. It's mild enough for October again too: 9°C and aiming for 13° this afternoon. The barometers are back up a bit at 985/993mB

Thinking of heading out to the countryside for a walk. Would make a nice change, and God knows I need the exercise

[WTFH]

Morning all
6C when we got back from our walk earlier. Mist in the valley is slowly burning off.

[NickFitz]

Finished Fifth Planet. It did indeed get better, though the ludicrous attitudes towards women persisted; an underlying tone of astonishment when the female cosmonaut proves capable of using a spanner and so on

Still some Diwali fireworks going off from time to time. Go to bed!

An email from Zoopla earlier informed me that one of the flats has sold (STC), and it proved to be the one on the top floor opposite where they always seem to be watching sport of some kind on the telly. A close examination of the photos also revealed that this must be the flat where the dogs live with their two servants! I like seeing the dogs coming and going; it's a shame they're moving

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been leftover Turkish bits, which needed to be finished off before they went off

To go with this, part two of the new 24 Hours in Police Custody which is about a thoroughly wretched affair

[NickFitz]

can't get your bike into the car??
roof/boot rack?
wait........... you're a contractor. get your driver to take it!
honestly, i don't know What the world's coming to.

I did realise after I'd posted that I could use the bike! I'd scoped out the bus stuff when I was first thinking about the wheel problem, back before the bike arrived

And a further check suggests that I can miss the worst of the uphill bits coming back by taking an obscure but still fairly direct route along some little-known suburban roads that I remember because a friend lived on one of them when I was a student

[NickFitz]

afternoon

HiHOOOOOO!
got invited back, must being doing something wrong.

oh, well...........................

Boomed!

[sadkingbilly]

I need to get the Toyota's alloys sorted out. There's a few places round and about that do it, but I'll probably end up choosing the one that's on a bus route that passes the end of my road, so I can get back easily

can't get your bike into the car??
roof/boot rack?
wait........... you're a contractor. get your driver to take it!
honestly, i don't know What the world's coming to.
<shakes head>

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon

HiHOOOOOO!
got invited back, must being doing something wrong.

oh, well...........................

[NickFitz]

The beauticians working on my car just contacted me to say that sorting the alloy wheels out will be more effort than initially estimated, to the tune of an extra £50 +VAT per wheel.

I so hope this all ends up worth it

I need to get the Toyota's alloys sorted out. There's a few places round and about that do it, but I'll probably end up choosing the one that's on a bus route that passes the end of my road, so I can get back easily

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the rest of the sausage and bacon baguette

After some bright spells, it's turned very gloomy out. Still no rain forecast though

[ladymuck]

At least in more positive news, the tardy client has paid so I didn't need to do more chasing.

[ladymuck]

The beauticians working on my car just contacted me to say that sorting the alloy wheels out will be more effort than initially estimated, to the tune of an extra £50 +VAT per wheel.

I so hope this all ends up worth it

[NickFitz]

I needed some bits of shopping, in the sense of having run out of some stuff, but I didn't fancy going all the way across town and doing the planned getting-of-special-things from M&S then crossing over to Big Sainsbury's. I've got some things I want to do here, and by the time I was ready to set off, I was in danger of ending up there at lunchtime. So I popped down to Not-as-Big Sainsbury's instead and did a stopgap shop

The wind's getting a bit stronger now, judging by the shimmy on the big sycamore

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's a day of overlapping layers of cloud out there, but here and there are gaps where occasional sunny spells are getting through. It doesn't seem exceptionally windy from the movement of the trees but there's a bit of a breeze which is apparently having an effect, as the current 11°C supposedly "feels like" 6°; the expected high this afternoon is 14°. The barometers are up a trivial amount at 978/986mB