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[NickFitz]

Lunch: Scotch broth and a bit of wholemeal

Today's forecasted 20% chance of rain in late afternoon was way off, with continuous light and sometimes heavy drizzle all morning

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny and warm out although quite cloudy too. Currently 21 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Barometer at 1015 mBar.

So far, the day has gone exceedingly pear shaped. I left my friend's house shortly before 9am. I planned to swing by Waitrose on the way home to pick up a shopping order that was set for collection between 10 and 11. On getting a mere two miles up the road, everything came to a halt on account of a rather large accident on Kingston Road in Hampton Wick. Helpfully, a coach driver blocked the road so no-one could move. All adjacent roads were gridlocked and I sat in queues for a good 90 mins before getting through to a clear patch wherein I could enjoy the 20 mph limits our glorious mayor has seen fit to slap on every road with a tree on it. I got to Waitrose at 11.20 instead of the planned 10am. Fortunately they hadn't deemed me a no-show and my goods were still available for pick up.

Now home, sat, cooling off and deciding what to do next with my day.

[NickFitz]

Just had a look on RightMove and Zoopla, and the parental home is no longer listed

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Cool in here at 18.3 deg, 19 deg in the kitchen, 17 deg in the leanto.

1013.5 mBar, 29.92 in Hg, 760.18 Torr, 14.6995 psi, (up for 1011 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 20th of October 2019 I met the late Frank on my walk in the woods: the only other of the 4 of us who did those long walks on a Sunday morning who was then still alive, now I'm the last, and I was wearing some new walking boots (Chinese crap), and I roasted some lamb which shows how things have changed, whereas NF watched "The Thing (1984)" "The Accountant" and MI II, and LM was dealing with VAT.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom during which it picked with rain.

Five lawns mown while it was picking with rain: I've irritated a horde of little bumble bees by removing those orange weeds they seem to like.

Lunch: baked spud etc.

Entertainment: TWATO. <click> when it started waffling about association football.

[WTFH]

Morning all

CBS, etc. A very pleasant walk earlier, no jacket required.

[NickFitz]

And I see I forgot to bid everybody good night last night! I was feeling tired, but I didn't realise I was that tired

For the record, last night's viewing was the Gloucestershire police night shift thing, followed by reading Black Box on the subject of Concorde and its Russian counterpart

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's a grey start again, and not expected to brighten up either - in fact, there's a moderate chance of showers this afternoon. It's fairly mild at 13°C though, with 17° likely later; the barometers are up a bit at 1004/1012mB

[WTFH]

Hoglet on the cameras tonight

TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

Another day done, yet apparently I'm supposed to do two more this week!

I managed to get a towel wash done and they're drying now, so at least there's a vague sense of accomplishment from that

Sunny spells out and although it's a bit breezy, we aren't getting the cataclysmic winds the weather app seemed to be hinting at this morning

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

This morning started off cloudy but has brightened up considerably. It's currently 22 degrees and that's the high for the day.

Cat sitting has gone ok so far. I popped (is an hour's drive considered a 'pop'?) home this morning to do a load of laundry and generally faff about. Then drove back this afternoon. Cheekily using my friend's tumble dryer to get things dried faster.

[ladymuck]

Pali!

[NickFitz]

Pali!

[NickFitz]

And coming up…

[NickFitz]

Lunch: salmon baps and a bag of plain crisps

[NickFitz]

They must be keen: they came in £25K below asking, we went back with £10K below, and they've made a final offer of £15K below and are also willing to wait for probate. My sister and I are ready to bite their hands off, but we're waiting for our brother to OK it - he's probably off walking on a moor or something as he does that most days, but I reckon he'll agree with us when he returns to civilisation

Offer accepted! And it's for a decent bit more than the estate agent thought we'd get too

We'd pitched the price fairly high, on the basis that if it didn't sell we could bring it down, but you can't realistically put it up. And we've found a buyer in just nine days

Even better, it's a family who really like the place and want to make a home out of it. Our parents would be much happier with that than if it had gone to some developer or BTL landlord