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[ladymuck]

Lunch was a jacket potato with lashings of butter and a sprinkling of a sharp cheddar.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Humid. Currently 20 degrees with a high of 24 expected. Barometer up to 1013 mBar.

I received a call about a job this morning. Client in Clapham, outside IR35, 100% on site. Document digitisation project, experience of rollouts of such things with DocuSign needed. £150 a day. That's less than the very first rate I was on when I started in 2005. I doubt I'll be hearing back on that one.

Have been on hold with BT for nearly 45 minutes while I wait for another person to tell me that the service cease that should have happened a month ago isn't closed and it's because of a "system issue" and they'll put in a request and that request will take 24 hours to complete, so call back tomorrow.

[xoggoth]

Feeling cr*p after another grotty night's sleep. Was no worse than previous but I felt ok yesterday. Anyway, loony lady 3 later, after exciting trip to the dump with bits of wood and other junk I've been piling up in me shed for 40 years.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast but dry out.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday apparently.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Drizzly.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 20.7 deg, 21 deg in the kitchen, 19.8 deg in the leanto.

1007.5 mBar, 29.751 in Hg, 755.687 Torr, 14.61 psi, (unchanged), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile the 24th of October 2019 page was unchanged from yesterday.

Turning over in bed caused much angst in the back, though higher up than lumbago.

It's been like this since the last meeting with the chinese plague, for which much thanks.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start out but with gas where the sun is getting through, at least partially, from time to time. It's getting warmer, being 16°C with a predicted high of 22°. The barometers are much the same at 1000/1008mB

[WTFH]

700kgs of oak sleepers moved, cut, drilled, etc, and then held together with what I am told are “tree nails”, i.e. long pieces of dowel hammered into them to keep them in place.
I am currently absolutely William Buggered and up to my eyes in pain killers.

Anyway, TFBSZ, back to sitting at my desk tomorrow, recovering.

[NickFitz]

I did a bit of mucking around with SpriteKit this afternoon which led to me missing the US borders programme, though I caught a bit of the Australian one later. And this evening, Trauma Room 1 followed by a couple of new episode of 24 Hours in A&E

And, of course, keeping an eye on Twitter to see what the Americans are making of the latest developments in their rebellious little colony

In domestic appliance news, I noticed this evening that the alarm light was no longer blinking on the freezer from the old place. I wondered if the LED had finally burnt out or something. There's nothing much in there apart from various bits of bread now, as I'm gradually working out how to adjust my lifestyle to the limited capacity of the resident fridge-freezer. So I opened it up and had a look at the thermometer I keep in there - and it was at -21°C!

So it appears to have started working again, perhaps reminded of its duties by the warm weather. Good news if it remains stable, but I'll wait and see how it goes for a week or three before I risk stocking up…

Monday again tomorrow

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Ants!

[NickFitz]

Tea has been pork cutlet with chips and beans

The cloud has largely cleared off again, so it's quite Simpsonesque out there for the evening

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Still cloudy but bright, dry and warm. Currently 22 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Barometer up a snifter to 1000 mBar.

After a lie in, this morning was spent figuring out what was causing some ants to visit my kitchen, and clearing it up.

Not visiting Mum as I want to watch the final stage of the Tour de France in its entirety, rather than just the evening highlights.

[NickFitz]

More pork pie for lunch

As promised, it's cloudier out. But it's more of a wispy state of affairs than a gloomy overcast one

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damply dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Warm in here at 21.3 deg, 22 deg in the kitchen, 20 deg in the leanto.

1006 mBar, 29.707 in Hg, 754.56 Torr, 14.59 psi, (up from 1001 last night), 73% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 24th of October 2019 LM found it was curry day in the canteen and to celebrate she had soup, later she ventured to Greenford with HWMBO, NF had shredded chicken breast for lunch, after which he cleaned the deep fat fryer and did the laundry, whereas I pruned the apple tree & failed to kill it, following this with chilli con carne for tea & BTVS "The Wish" as entertainment.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine & cool breeze which reduced the sweating considerably.

Scalded finger due to stupidity: the frozen peas helped a lot.

Lunch: baked spud etc.

Entertainment: Mark Steele's in town: Stoke.

TWTW.

The Mentalist S1 E17, E18.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: The Mentalist S1 E19, E20.

Digging up Britain with that Alice Roberts from 2016ish.

Disasters: the 1999 Paddington train crash caused by a signal that was difficult to see when the sun was shining on it in the morning, which had experienced a significant number of SPADs previously.

, my mate has popped his clogs. Ho hum.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start, expected to become cloudier, then go back to sunny this evening. The temperatures are more civilised, being 15°C with an expected high of 20°, while the barometers are up a little at 999/1007mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast but dry day, after a walk it will be time to start constructing the wall. I believe the unwritten rules are no noisy power tools before midday on a Sunday, but I have some digging and other prep to do, along with moving the sleepers.