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[DoctorStrangelove]

Why is it that when I have work on a Monday, I start thinking of all the useful and enjoyable things I could be doing with that time instead; yet when I had time off, I didn't do any of them?

Just wait until you're retired: then you realise you did more in the 3 weeks holiday than you've managed in the 3 years since..

Morning.

Monday.

Drily damp.

Sunny. .

Cooler in here at 19.1 deg, 20 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.

1009 mBar, 29.795 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.634 psi, (up from 1005 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of February 2020 Churchill, SimonMac, scruff, vetran, Brillo, LM, NF, and BR14 popped in with a discussion of varieties of P38 from potato peelers through aircraft to Isopon filler.

A curiously good night's sleep which was dream free IIRC, with an awakening at 08:35 which made a pleasant change.

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

The attempted trip to Tesco called off due to non arrival of bus.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: nothing.

In other news, it's now pissing down again. Earlier there were individual rain drops that sounded like hen's eggs dropping on the leanto roof.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start, with some white fluffy bits hither and yon, and expected to continue so all day. It won't be as warm as yesterday though: 13°C now, 19° for a while this afternoon. The barometers are up again at 1002/1010mB

Why is it that when I have work on a Monday, I start thinking of all the useful and enjoyable things I could be doing with that time instead; yet when I had time off, I didn't do any of them?

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing, as was foretold, has been Battle of Britain (1969) and the BBC had, in fact, got a better print than Amazon had managed. IIRC Amazon had also somehow managed to mess up the subtitles, such that whenever there was a scene in German (and there are quite a few) it was necessary to turn off the closed captions in order to see the English translation in the open captions; I'm not sure how they managed that, as the BBC's copy appeared to have the open captions in the print itself. Anyway, it's showing its age a bit but it's still a pretty decent film

Later, another Rumpole story was read

Monday again tomorrow, but an interesting problem came up last Thursday that I'll get to work on (assuming the other developer didn't grab it on Friday) so I don't mind too much

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

^ I got it at 15.11. Bah! Surely in an emergency xoggoth should be the priority! My neighbour up at the club kept getting the warning over and over.

Eleven minutes! The monsters will have eaten everybody by then

Tea has been KFC leftovers

And the bed has been made, so no risk of an unpleasant surprise later on

[ladymuck]

Back in blighty, on the Lizzy Line home. Thank goodness that's not caught up in this week's strikes.

I am very much looking forward to my bed.

[NickFitz]

I see Battle of Britain is on iPlayer, though only until Wednesday afternoon! I watched it on Prime a while ago, but it was a poor quality print with a lot of scratches and so on. I assume the BBC will give us something of better quality, so I might watch it again tonight

[xoggoth]

^ I got it at 15.11. Bah! Surely in an emergency xoggoth should be the priority! My neighbour up at the club kept getting the warning over and over.

[NickFitz]

Funny coincidence, I had a prawn cocktail that was a day out of date for lunch. Expect we'll both be dead by tomorrow.

Just back from walk, discovered a permissive path I've not noticed before, that's tomorrow's walky planned. Been deluged with texts from loony lady 2 this morning, including apology. Suppose I'll have to put up with the old ratbag a bit longer. Off up to the village club shortly.


PS Anyone had this emergency alert thing on their phone? I ain't.

I'd probably be a bit warier of seafood, but if it tasted OK then you'll probably survive

I got the emergency alert at 15:01; somebody on Bluesky said they were in a pub and while some people got it bang on 15:00, others were getting it at thirty second intervals over the next few minutes. I suppose it makes sense that they can't actually hit everybody with it simultaneously

[NickFitz]

The one-third duvet has been successfully washed and dried!

The bed's been airing since this morning so I'll have to make that in a bit, now everything required is clean

[xoggoth]

Its Use By date was yesterday, but it tasted OK so I'm sure I'll be fine

Funny coincidence, I had a prawn cocktail that was a day out of date for lunch. Expect we'll both be dead by tomorrow.

Just back from walk, discovered a permissive path I've not noticed before, that's tomorrow's walky planned. Been deluged with texts from loony lady 2 this morning, including apology. Suppose I'll have to put up with the old ratbag a bit longer. Off up to the village club shortly.


PS Anyone had this emergency alert thing on their phone? I ain't.

[NickFitz]

For lunch, a pork pie that I'd forgotten about until I found it behind something in the fridge last night. Its Use By date was yesterday, but it tasted OK so I'm sure I'll be fine

[NickFitz]

Meanwhile in here, the washer-dryer is now tackling bed linen

Well, that didn't take long!

Next up: duvet

The instructions say such things should have the air squeezed out of them first. So I chucked it in one of those vacuum storage bags and hooked Henry up to it, and there's definitely no air in it now

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 1055

Sunny with high level wispy fluff. Currently 25 degrees with a high of 27 expected. Barometer down to 1016 mBar

Sunrise 07:47; Sunset 20:36 CEST

Currently at the airport. Heading home via Paris, of course. Feeling well enough to travel but am still taking things easy. HWMBO remains in Madrid for a few more days to indoctrinate some more unlucky souls.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There's quite a bit of rather wispy cloud about but the sun's getting through the gaps and thinner patches enough for it to be considered sunny out, albeit in a slightly muted way. Going to be rather warm too: it's already 18°C and will get up to 23° this afternoon. The barometers are plummeting though: 995/1003mB

Meanwhile in here, the washer-dryer is now tackling bed linen

[DoctorStrangelove]

But for some reason they once again stopped the wildlife at six in favour of a documentary about Steve McQueen followed by The Great Escape

Nice hagiography. . Particularly the approach he took to The Great Escape. Rewrites to make his part bigger. Oooer, mrs.

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Grey.

Cool in here at 19.7 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 19.5 in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.4747 psi, (down from 1001 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of February 2020 BR14 and Brillo competed for a pali, NF congratulated the latter, whilst I was in with the hoi polloi after going shopping.

Raining.

Freecell score: 95%, running average: 84%.

Lunch: brunch.

Freecell score: 88%, running average: 84%.

Tea: beans on toast.

Entertainment: some bollox on R4 about the Gulf.

Nixon in the Den on PBS.

25 best Westerns on Sky Arts.

Sergeant Cork S1 E2 "the case of the girl upstairs". Didn't like that one much.

Looked to be VTR judging by the dropouts. Does no one know how to adjust a dropout compensator any more? Though some defects looked like film.

Forbidden History bollox on Blaze: CIA mindcontrol. followed by the turgid search for King Solomon's Mines.

Well it set me up for a decent night's sleep which can't be bad.