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[ladymuck]

Scrambled egg on toast for lunch.

[NickFitz]

Ham toasties for lunch

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny out with an almost completely clear blue sky, at least from where I'm sitting. Quite mild again too, being 13°C with 19° coming along later. And the barometers are resurgent at 1022/1030mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with only minor wisps interrupting the blue. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer has crept up a little to 1027 mBar.

Refuse and food waste bins have been emptied.

The new fourth plinth on Trafalgar Square will be unveiled tomorrow morning. Someone I know has been involved in its creation and I might stroll along at the unveiling time to say hello. The Fail and its average readership will, no doubt, be horrified by it.

[WTFH]

Morning all
A bit cooler earlier, I had a light jacket on over my t-shirt on our perambulation

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

^^^ I'd never iRoned anything much before I retired, but now find I rather enjoy it to the extent of also iRoning the tea towels and pillow slips. :.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 16.4 deg, 18.5 deg in the kitchen, 15 deg in the leanto, 12.6 deg in the saltinghouse.

1027.5 mBar, 30.342 in Hg, 770.688 Torr, 14.9 psi, (up from 1025.5 last night), 74% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of November 2019 I was watching BTVS and Angel, whereas NF was watching Bab5, whereas snow was forecast, with rumours that it had fallen in Ystradgynlais that very evening.

[NickFitz]

This evening the filth have had a chopper out and Heathrow has been on easterlies so it's been a right bloody racket out there.

The joys of living in the fast-paced urban environment

Unlike yesterday, I survived today's trip south without being overwhelmed later by utter weariness, which I hope is a good sign. Looking back, my holiday so far seems to have proceeded roughly along these lines:

• Disease;
• Disease easing off but wedding in the far north;
• Disease made even worse by the stress of traveling to and from the far north;
• Disease continuing worse due to conveyancing;
• Disease easing off, leading to moving stuff, leading to revenge of disease;
• Moving stuff again, but disease finally at bay.

So this evening was the first time I finally felt both well enough and sufficiently unburdened by other responsibilities to relax and not have to worry about anything that needed doing tomorrow

I therefore decided to rewatch Galaxy Quest (1999). It's excellent

And as Alan Rickman is so good in it, I decided to follow it with his last film (well, he did voice a character in one more but the last one he appeared in): Eye in the Sky (2015) which I think is also excellent but which, as I've said before, no one ever seems to talk about

Meanwhile on Twitter, lots of people I follow seem to be excited about the new series (or season) of Slow Horses, which reminded me that I watched the first few episodes the other year. So I returned to where I left off (S1E5) and once I'd recollected what was going on, it too was very good. So I may carry on with that, now there's some catching up to do; I'd rather be in the position of being several seasons behind than get to the end of what there is and have to wait ages for the rest of it

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

This evening the filth have had a chopper out and Heathrow has been on easterlies so it's been a right bloody racket out there.

[WTFH]

TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

Tea has been pork belly slices slow roasted in Jack Daniels BBQ sauce, with chips

I was going to make sweet & sour pork and fried rice, but I decided that was too much hassle

This was accompanied by a thing on iPlayer called SAS: Catching the Criminals in which an ex-SAS bloke goes around with the police. Pretty standard drugs raid and some stuff about a bloke getting his motorcycle back because it had a tracker fitted, with incredibly tenuous links to anything related to the armed forces shoehorned in wherever possible, and in the most ridiculous ways. "A dog's nose is as precise as any piece of kit in the military", apparently

[NickFitz]

Home again!

And that looks like the last trip to collect stuff; I'll pop down next week to leave my key, and that'll be my final time in the old place

The ironing board ended up coming along for the ride, as there was room once I'd dropped the back seats down to fit other stuff in. I too almost never iron anything; last time was a shirt for the wedding the other week, and I suspect the time before that will have been the same for my Dad's funeral - though that was a new shirt, so it would have just been a case of getting the packaging creases out

I was doubtful about fitting everything in, and once some wire basket trollies that had lived in some cupboards had been squeezed in along with things like an uplighter, it was looking like the TV stand would require another trip. But upon investigation, it proved to be extremely easy to disassemble into its component parts (and, more importantly, will be easy to reassemble) so it made it after all

This meant I ended up with three sheets of glass stacked vertically in the boot which would tip this way and that when cornering, banging into either the metal frames of the trollies or the side of the boot. By the time I was halfway I'd mastered the art of taking roundabouts - of which there are many, especially on the Rushden bypass - with tremendous care, possibly to the annoyance of those behind who wanted to go faster than 10mph. But I made up for it with acceleration on the straights, so they can't complain too much

Once here, the trollies were offloaded into the garage for now. And I managed to get everything else up to the flat, despite increasing objections from my back, except the TV stand. That's out of sight in the boot, laid flat now, so it can stay there until the rather grotty old wooden one, inherited from some old housemates over twenty years ago, can be taken to the tip.

[ladymuck]

Lunch has been a couple of croissants with strawberry jam

This was mainly because they're quick and easy, and I have to head south shortly for the second carload of stuff from the parental home. Looking at the list, I suspect the ironing board may not make it due to lack of room. Oh well, I've got one anyway

That remind me: I really should get rid of my iron and ironing board. I haven't used them in years. I just hang stuff up as soon as it comes out of the WM and creases cease to be an issue.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a couple of croissants with strawberry jam

This was mainly because they're quick and easy, and I have to head south shortly for the second carload of stuff from the parental home. Looking at the list, I suspect the ironing board may not make it due to lack of room. Oh well, I've got one anyway

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all
Overcast but dry and quite mild.


Tell me why?

me too, don't like them.

[NickFitz]

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