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[NickFitz]

Another old Traffic Cops was watched earlier, for want of energy to think of something else to watch

Friday tomorrow! About time too!

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Isn't it amazing how many things one wishes one had asked that can no longer be answered.

There was one today about a rare book my late mate had sold to the Bodleian Library.

[NickFitz]

Today in thorny questions on which I would have sought my Mum's advice but now can't: how much to give for my niece's wedding present?

They haven't bothered with a list of household appliances and crockery and such, sensibly in my view, instead soliciting donations of actual money to the "Honeymoon Fund". My sister is also unsure but suggested a figure that seems reasonable (and is towards the low end of what I was thinking the range might be) so I'll go along with that

[NickFitz]

Tea: homemade sweet & sour pork and fried rice. Not going to win any prizes in the Chinese equivalent of Masterchef (General Secretary Chef?) but it's nice enough

[NickFitz]

Raining here, though not torrentially

[xoggoth]

Fraud call from "Natwest security" but they gave my full name which is a bit worrying.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

It's been an intermittently cloudy day and I think there may have been a shower or two here and there. Currently 22 degrees and that's the high for the day. Showers due this evening / overnight. Barometer still at 1012 mbar.

Much pottering about this morning and not much achieved. My brother texted me to say the gardener had arrived at Mum's - she called him in a panic wondering what the hell was going on . Once she realised she wasn't in mortal danger, she made the chap a cup of tea.

In other news, the job hunt continues in fruitless fashion.

[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was a sausage bap (white, no sauce, cold sausages)

Still grey out with the occasional threat of drizzle, though no drizzling has happened yet. The wind's got up though

[xoggoth]

Exciting trip to the dump this morning, box full of stuff I have cleared from the shed very heavy, knackering to carry it to me van. Prob. ll1 later, if I'm not feeling so tired from another grotty night sleep.

[NickFitz]

Haircut done!

Despite getting there at 7:45, I had to wait until past 8 before I was seated, due to there being a bloke already there who was having one of those complicated trims and also having his beard styled or some such nonsense. He still looked like a scaffolder's mate once she was done with him, so I'm not sure it was worth the effort. Still, if it makes him happy…

Anyway, I finally got my turn, and I was out in time to get back before the traffic was too bad

[WTFH]

Morning all
Cut the grass yesterday evening, it got to the point that the beam from the headlights on the mower was actually visible.
Light, wispy cloud this morning.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Very grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 20.7 deg, 23 deg in the kitchen, 20 deg in the leanto.

1007.7 mBar, 29.757 in Hg, 755.84 Torr, 14.615 psi, (untapped: was showing 1002 from ?yesterday morning?), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of November 2019 LM went to watch "Terminator: Dark Fate", NF changed his hotel booking to one night so he could make a quick escape after the conference, xogg nearly joined a walk until he found it was for gay, bi, and trans persons, WTFH had an interview, NF couldn't decide what to have for tea, whereas I had M&S breaded haddock as is only right & proper.

Martin duly sent off on his way. X5 down, 36 up, 36 back down, and a 34 home (this last a mistake: the T6 would have been much better).

Lunch: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: R4 play about Clive Pontin and the Belgrano affair. I wonder if Hilda Murrell gets a mention. .

The Mentalist S7 E3, E4.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc.

Entertainment: The Mentalist S7 E5, E6.

Trucking Hell S8 E14.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start again though not as completely overcast, with a bit of low sun breaking through the gaps now and again. Going to be quite warm today: only 13°C now, but 23° expected by mid-afternoon. It's expected to get quite breezy too. The barometers are pretty much steady at 1002/1009mB

Up very betimes this morning to go for a haircut, so I look suitably neat for my niece's wedding in three weeks. The cutting may not happen though: the going will, but if the hairdresser's husband has died since I was last there or she's had to stop work to care for him, she may not be working and the shop will be shut this early

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was an old Traffic Cops, just for a change

Early night now. Quite tired, as it goes

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Just heard that we've got probate!

It'll take up to two more weeks for the grant to arrive with my brother, but overall it will have taken about six weeks - a lot faster than we expected! So we may be able to get the house sale completed by October, if not before