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[Pondlife]

Good morning all,

Wind 9 kt from the South/Southeast
Temperature 9°C
Humidity 87%
Pressure 977 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Broken clouds at a height of 2400 ft
Broken clouds at a height of 3200 ft
Broken clouds at a height of 4300 ft

I need to find something decent to watch on TV. Trying to get into the Agatha Christie remakes on iPlayer but they're a bit pants tbh.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday apparently.

Wet.

Calm.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 12.7 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto.

975 mBar, 28.79 in Hg, 731.31 Torr 14.14 psi, (down from 982 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of March 2020 NF was following Apollo 13 in RealTime(tm), whilst covbob, LM, and LondonManc popped in, whereas I was finishing off the iRoning.

[WTFH]

A tad stormy overnight, woke up this morning to a bit of a puddle in the utility room, and signs of water ingress by the disused chimney in the ceiling of bedroom 2. Remarkably all the shed/summerhouse roofs remain intact and the greenhouse looks OK too.

Still wet and windy as we went out on the walk, but both have died down now. Meanwhile The Wife went to Pussers bar last night for a painkiller.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a cloudy, windy, rainy morning out there; 5°C “feels like” -7° and with the rain set to continue till lunchtime and the wind carrying on after that, I doubt the 8° we’re promised towards sunset will feel much better. The barometers are also taking a pessimistic view, being down to 971/979mB

I had a rubbish night’s sleep for the most part. Annoyingly, I kept finding myself too hot to sleep but when I finally gave in and got up to take my temperature, the thermometer claimed it was a little below normal if anything. Anyway, I seem to have slept OK for the last few hours before getting up, so I’m hoping the lurgy is mild and will soon pass

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was (part of) Police Interceptors

And in Stalingrad, the Germans have finally surrendered. Hitler’s last-minute promotion of Paulus to Field Marshal, on the basis that no German Field Marshal had ever surrendered so he’d kill himself instead, didn’t work

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Me too NF. Had horrid cough for a while, then thought it had all gone away on Saturday but it's back. May have to skip my arty thing tomorrow.

PS Maybe I could have passed it to you via tpd. I bet that green vomiting emoji at the right is passing things on.

Mine doesn’t seem to be getting much worse, so I’m hoping it’ll be a mild one

[ladymuck]

Only a 15 minute warning to Connect to the Final reading from Paradise Lost for this season. (Let’s see if this post gets 5k likes)

Sadly likes were disabled some time ago.

They did well. The other team got a few more early answers. The rest of the time they were well matched.

[NickFitz]

Tea: oniony chicken casserole. Haven't had that in a while

It almost ended up not being very oniony, as I forgot to chop up and fry an onion before browning the chicken. Luckily I was using the very big frying pan, so I was able to sort that out while the chicken was doing and get it to a reasonable state before chucking everything in the Remoska

[WTFH]

Only a 15 minute warning to Connect to the Final reading from Paradise Lost for this season. (Let’s see if this post gets 5k likes)

[xoggoth]

Me too NF. Had horrid cough for a while, then thought it had all gone away on Saturday but it's back. May have to skip my arty thing tomorrow.

PS Maybe I could have passed it to you via tpd. I bet that green vomiting emoji at the right is passing things on.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a cold roast chicken leg with a bag of plain crisps

I’m feeling a bit out of sorts today. The kind of feeling where one might be coming down with a cold (or worse) or it might just go away after a day or two

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast, slightly damp. Currently 4 degrees with a high of 7 expected. Unlikely to rain but the threat persists. Barometer at 1002 mBar.

Sunrise 07:48; Sunset 16:40 GMT

The journey home yesterday was uneventful, despite having to use the Piccadilly instead of the Lizzy Line from the airport. I purposely blocked my diary out until 10 am to have a gentle start to my Monday and it seems no-one noticed nor cared.

Still waiting on gig 3 to produce a contract. At this rate, I might tell them to sod off.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry. (For the moment).

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto, 6.8 in the saltinghouse.

995 mBar, 29.38 in Hg, 746.3 Torr, 14.43 psi, (unchanged but a tad), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of March 2020 Brillo, BR14, and Churchill popped in (the latter having a pot noodle), whilst LM observed that Ocado was doing well and I observed that the weather was too inclement to bother with the washing, whilst NF locked the back gate then unlocked it after discovering the bins hadn't been done, whereas WTFH went for a drive.

Washing frenzy in progress. Everything pegged out on the line: currently mostly horizontal.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about dry stone walls.

Stuff in off the line & in the TD.

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

Timed to the second: came back & the rain arrived on cue.

Entertainment: Foyle's War S4 E3 "Bleak Midwinter". The shell filling factory one. Not a favourite.

Everything requiring the iRon now iRoned & airing upstairs.

Tea: Mr Brains faggots and peas. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM.

STNG: "The chase": the Prometheus one: mildly amusing with Klingon, Romulans, Cardassians, Uncle Tom Cobley & all.

Panorama: The Post Office Horizon scandal.

Oak Island nutjobbery. S11 "Wet and Wild": cut to the chase: Garden shaft floods when they drill a horizontal hole at the bottom. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. Plus the iron identifying nutter they subtitle. Plus the Tree of Life nutter. Next ep they're off to Europe again & the garden shift will never be mentioned again.

NCIS S22 E2 "Foreign Bodies". Venezuela. . Next sunday: Secrets in the ice

Some other bollox on Blaze: it's very likely to go <click> rapidly.

Currently raining. A lot. And horizontally judging by the noises the chimney is making.

According to Derek the Weatherman, tomorrow will be worse.

Just as well I did the washing today then, innit? Barely half a cup of water out of the TD today, so the semigale did a fine job of drying the washing, which is usually the case. Grey still days are practically useless in that regard. NCIS is so inneresting that typing this twaddle is keeping me awake.

[WTFH]

Morning all
After days of rain, it's dry and 4C out. A pleasant walk was had, even if the fields were still quite boggy.

Just a little reminder: Today is Monday, which means it's quiz night tonight. It's the final of Only Connect.