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[NickFitz]

Leftover onion bhaji and meat samosa for lunch

The bhajis from that place are good, but not as truly excellent as the ones from the place round the corner

Autocorrect keeps turning "bhajis" to "hajis". They're nice, but not worth going on a pilgrimage over

[NickFitz]

Low water pressure earlier, so off to Severn Trent's website to see what gives. They insisted that there was nothing going on hereabouts, despite their map showing a leak just round the corner, so I reported it as a new fault. Now they've updated their "Incidents" page with the admission that they're doing some work in the area, but hadn't realised it would affect anybody

[ladymuck]

Morning all

It's been raining off and on since 3 am. It's taking a break at the moment but more is forecast early evening. The sun is valiantly trying to break through the cloud. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Barometer down to 1013 mBar.

Yesterday evening I did what turned out to be well timed faffing in the back garden.

Bed stripped and airing. The washing will be done later. Off to see Mum today. HWMBO arrives back this evening.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning. None of that petrichor nonsense here. .

Sunday.

Wet.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Cool in here at 17.8 deg, 18.5 deg in the kitchen, 18 deg in the leanto.

1005 and a tad mBar, 29.686 in Hg, 754 Torr, 14.58 psi, (down from 1008 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 71% RH (GDR hair).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of October 2019 I was knackered after the laying of the cable on the first, said cable being a feed to the tv in the bedroom, though I still managed to stagger down to town to the library computer room and Morrisons, before a nice walk up the canal towpath to Tonna for some gentle exercise, WTFH had a date for his op, and NF was Having Fun With Maps, whereas I killed the maidenhair fern that had survived for decades until it moved in here. Painting the porch with masonry paint finished it off though its children survive even yet in the pot that once had a flowering plant in it that died due to frost.

Freecell score: 92%, running average: 86%.

Lunch: baked spud etc.

Entertainment: TWATO <click>

[WTFH]

A short walk has been walked (just over 5km), as I expect some more gardening will be done today. While out walking with the sun blazing and blue skies, my phone pinged me to say that thunderstorms were expected 10:00-18:00 today. Let’s hope the forecast is wrong.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

A hint of petrichor in the FreshAir™ outside my bedroom window this grey morning, along with other signs of showers overnight; and some more light rain is expected soon, though then it'll peter out and just be rather cloudy for the rest of the day. It's 12°C now and only getting to 18° this afternoon, while the barometers are down to 998/1006mB

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff on the box again today, including Monkey Life of course

And I read some more of Blitzed, in which Goering's cunning plans are causing problems - hardly surprising when he mainly comes up with them after injecting morphine, to which he was addicted

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been more Indian food than was strictly necessary from the restaurant past the top of park. Very nice, and there's enough leftovers for a lunch or two

[ladymuck]

The viewing went well and, although smaller than I'd like, the flat has a good feeling about it that left me feeling very positive.

I need to do some garden tidying but it's a bit warm out there.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Sunny spells amid clumps of white fluffiness out there today. There seems to be a light breeze too, from the gentle undulations of the huge sycamore beyond the art deco block opposite. It's 18°C which is the peak for today, and the barometers are up a little bit to 1006/1013mB

The lawn is being visited by thrushes (for there are at least two) a lot more than I remember seeing last year. The blackbird seems to be spending more time on there and ranging further than I recall (i.e. this side of the flower bed) as well. But the crows aren't coming round very much just now; I vaguely remember them only making occasional visits in the summer last year. No idea where they're going instead. It's unlikely to be the park, as that's where the seagulls tend to hang out, and I don't suppose proud corvids would want to be seen mixing with a rabble like that

[DoctorStrangelove]

Apparently there are worms.

Morning

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 17 deg (verging on chilly), 18 deg in the kitchen, 16 deg in the leanto, 13 deg in the saltinghouse.

1013 mBar, 29.914 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.69 psi, (down from 1015 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of October 2019 I watched the ep of Jeremiah that had the elephant in it, followed by various skin problem epics, then there was much discussion of the borders laid down by colonial powers, NF watched a couple of eps of Breaking Bad, and WTFH found out how much his op would cost.

Shirts & smalls in the WM.

Shirts & smalls out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Cottons in the WM.

The bit of DIY from yesterday regarding the painting of the brackets for the shelf above the sink was completed & the shelf returned to position.

I am utterly knackered for some reason. I wonder if it's long plague. Or just hayfever.

Cottons out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

It's considerably more cloudy now than it was earlier.

Walk (slightly abbreviated) walked in the sunshine.

Lunch: baked spud etc.

Entertainment: NZ Highway Patrol for the nth time: the one where a lady drives her car off the road, down a steep bank into a lake/river/sea/whatever and manages to get out safely. Plus the one where some oik in a Toyota something gets into an argument with a trucker driving a truck with a mass about 50 times that of his car, in addition the driving on the wrong side of the road thing they seem so keen on, and some recently import Chev pickup that failed to get its NZ mot thing.

Shirts in of the line & roughly iRoned, airing upstairs, along with the smalls in off the line, uniRoned, and airing upstairs.

Freecell score: abysmal.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: Nick wotsisface talking to someone or other.

Iolo Williams looking at stuff again.

Bit of Doctor Who. <click>

Dixon of Dock Green S21 E1 "Target (1974)" with Floella Benjamin and Anthony Steele. The one where the Branch are staking out a house where some mercenary is expected, they having lost him at Heathrow. Apparently the stripey tent in the road trick went out with bicycle clips according to the wooden tops (as Jack Regan referred to the uniformed branch).

'Tis raining: the prognostications of the weather prognosticator proved correct. Well there's a thing.

The Edgar Wallace mystery theatre: "Number Six (1962)". He's not a prisoner he's a free man. Oh. Sorry. Wrong programme.

[ladymuck]

Tonight's major motion picture experience was Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), which turned out to be the right order because the latter starts just after the end of the former, so it was rather like watching a Saturday teatime Brookside omnibus

I still haven't seen Dune: Part Two yet.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny, blue sky with occasional lumps of fluff. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer has slipped a bit down to 1018 mBar.

Up early to visit the GP for a routine 'women's things' appointment. In and out in 5 minutes, perfect. A flat viewing booked in at lunchtime, after which I don't think I'll be able to stall much longer on the flat I'm not so sure about.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Did you miss me?

Back from our little jaunt and I see the weather is quite nice this morning. Lots of gardening to catch up on, and dog walking.