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[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny, occasional wisps, breezy. Currently 20 degrees ('feels like' 23) with a high of 21 expected. Barometer down to 2014 mBar.

Sunrise 05:41; Sunset 20:18 BST

Woken up in the wee hours by windy noises. I refused to look at the clock to see what time it was.

Busy morning of meetings. This afternoon is looking much more reasonable.

Off to the theatre to see The Authenticator this evening.

[xoggoth]

Eggcellent! Just got a cheque in the post for nearly £1300 from an investment company I used to use following a review of their advice service. Hadn't noticed any major problems with it.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[DoctorStrangelove]

Tonight, I’ve read quite a chunk of SS-GB. He has a way of drawing you in, this Deighton chap

Have you read "Goodbye Mickey Mouse"?

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

16.6 deg in here, 17.5 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto, 12 in the saltinghouse.

1019 mBar, 30.09 in Hg, 764.3 Torr, 14.78 psi, (up from 1018.5 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 Brillo, BR14, LM, NF, scruff, and I popped in.

Washing frenzy in progress.

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

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some thing about 1850s sailing ships <click> Noon o'clock news. Y&Y waffling on about covenants re permitting later development in 1960s housing estates. <click>.

Everything requiring the attentions of the iRon have come in off the line and are now airing upstairs.

Entertainment: Archive hour about "Rover" by which they meant British Leyland, Austin Rover, and finally "Rover", which had about as much relevance to The Rover Car Company as one might imagine: the only reference being to its acquisition in the 1960s by Leyland: the kiss of death was Tony Benn forcing the merger of Leyland and British Motor Holdings to make the abortion known as British Leyland.

About to get outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Now quietly debating mowing the lawns.

[WTFH]

Monring all
CBS etc.
Phil Collins walk today, although I wish I'd taken a pair of gloves as the old Reynauds flared up.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start, albeit with mare’s tails hither and yon in the sky. Already at 10°C, it’s expected to climb to 18° by lunchtime and stay there all afternoon, maybe getting a little cloudier too. The barometers are much the same at 1013/1021mB

As usual, having a week off has left me feeling refreshed and invigorated, with the energy I need to get started on those various tasks I wanted to get through during my week off. But it’s back to work instead

[NickFitz]

There was some wildlife stuff on around teatime, to keep the apes happy

Tonight, I’ve read quite a chunk of SS-GB. He has a way of drawing you in, this Deighton chap

Monday tomorrow, and back to work. I switched over to the work laptop for a quick look at Teams late last week, and the tricky end-of-year stuff that was causing so many problems was sorted out by the other dev, so I’ll be able to get back to the thing I’ve been working on. And next week is a Bank Holiday, so there’s that to look forward to

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

There was some accident on the M25 this evening that brought it to a standstill. Both sides by the looks of it but I think all the real activity was on the other side.
EDIT: according to websites that seem to track such things, there was only congestion today anti-clockwise, nothing clockwise, and nothing to support the 'slow down incident ahead' signs on the gantry.

On setting off again, my clutch started playing up with the pedal not feeling right and then developing a nasty clunk noise. I pulled over at the first lay-by on the A30 after getting off the M25 and called my brother who posited a few theories but ultimately reassured me that I'd be safe to drive home. It got better as I drove but will take it for a spin in the week and see if it persists. Yea olde jalopy tripped over to 99k miles when passing through Dorking on the way home; maybe it's in shock.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been shepherd’s pie out of the freezer

Accompanying this, What Happened at Chernobyl? on iPlayer, which featured much of the same contemporary footage as the programme last night, but less of it because it’s thirty minutes rather than two hours. There’s also interviews with various people involved in different aspects of the matter and a look around the place now, including inside the New Safe Confinement and the control room for Reactor 4, where it all started

My TV went mad earlier, with the things in the so-called “Smart Hub” (the foolish name given to the main menu) becoming disassociated from the things they claimed to be: selecting TV started iPlayer, the iPlayer button started the Blu-ray player, something else would start the Apple TV, and so on. I had to dig through the settings menus until I eventually found a way to reset the menu without resetting everything else, then set it back up again

[NickFitz]

Delicious aroma in the kitchen

Unfortunately, it’s coming in through the window. I’m considering going round knocking on doors until I find out which neighbour it’s from and asking for the recipe

[xoggoth]

Took ghastly old ll2 to garden centre to look for a parasol. Waste of time, she didn't see one she liked.

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all
After a bit of general pottering and hydraulic engineering around the garden, lunch was a ginster's cornish pasty.
wiv lashings and lashings of manly HP sauce.
lovely day, - CBS, but the wind is decidedly protestant.
Start project #3 tomorrow, I wonder if I'll ever get round to retiring again?
we'll see...................

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover bits from last night

[ladymuck]

^^ Mum had robins nesting in her bird box earlier this year (they nicked all the moss off my brother's bonsais) but on recent visits I haven't seen any comings or goings so I suspect it's been abandoned. I'll wait a few more months before clearing it out though.



Morning all

Sunny with high level wispy fluff. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Barometer up to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 05:43; Sunset 20:16 BST

Off to see Mum today. My brother has texted with a few instructions of things he forgot to do before he went out for the day. Mainly little stuff such as where he's put the biscuits and to put an extra toilet roll in the bathroom. (Mum will eat all biscuits and we don't know what she does with loo roll)

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy, but they’re unsubstantial and letting a lot of sunlight through. It’s already 10° and aiming for 18° later; the barometers are back up to 1014/1022mB

Having still been using the electric blanket to keep my toes warm a couple of weeks ago, I’m now contemplating switching to the two-thirds duvet, as the bed was a bit too warm last night. There also appears to be a monster of some kind in the bedroom, probably a mosquito or the like, as there are a number of what seem to be small bites on my right arm. At least the loratadine I take at night to guard against hay fever has prevented them becoming itchy