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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been lamb cutlets with chips and beans

    Accompanied by a new Police Interceptors. It's still from Northants, after the strange reversion to Notts for a couple of episodes

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  • ladymuck
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    Uneventful day at the coal face.

    Christmas cards have been written and I'll post them tomorrow. I have a birthday card that needs to be written too.

    I ought to pop to Sainsbury's and pick up some tonic (currently on offer) as HWMBO returns tomorrow.

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Still no delivery…
    The website still shows my parcel as "out for delivery" and no other contact (email, SMS) has been made. I finally decided they were unlikely to be here today and went to check out the "Collect from depot" option on the website. On that page - not on the order tracking page, but on the page you only go to once you're despairing of them - it showed that the delivery had been rescheduled to tomorrow

    It's only across town so I'm going to get it myself, on the way to do the shopping I would have done today if they'd told me what was going on

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  • xoggoth
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    Not been for me wonky today. I'll go round the village later to look at all the xmouse lights.

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  • NickFitz
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    Homemade sausage rolls for lunch

    Still no delivery…

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  • xoggoth
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    I was renewing the sealant around the kitchen sink.
    Ah! What fun he had back then!

    Me just back from old arty farty thing. Gave me neighbour a lift again. Must remember to send her my invoice.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Tuesday.

    Grey.

    Dark.

    Dank.

    Damp.

    Dreary.

    Sunless.

    Warmish side of chilly i here at 13.4 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 12 deg in the leanto.

    1018.5 mBar, 30.07 in Hg, 763.9 Torr, 14.77 psi, (down from 1025 last night). 68% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 11th of December 2019, long long ago and far far away, NF had a polish at the dentists, whereas LM was trumping in the library, and DaveB stole Brillo's zenchury rather than BR14 doing it, and I was renewing the sealant around the kitchen sink.

    Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.

    Lunch: brunch.

    Entertainment: book of the week on R4 about some scumbag Septic dystopian photosearch thing.

    Good news: 37 varieties of MK single & dual 13A sockets (made in China) recalled due to arc flash fire generating potential. Nice to know that outsourcing to China is so safe.

    Gosh. the 1990 box lasted well: turned it on: no video: ?monitor? nope another monitor still nothing, plug monitor into different box: works ok. Seek another VESA bus VGA card: still no go, try different VESA slop: still nothing. Mother board is screwed VESA bus wise thought the rest of it works, as determined by plugging a mono card and mono monitor in, which showed the boot sequence etc. , never mind, worse things happen at sea & all that. There's an EGA monitor in the garage but I don't think I'll bother fetching it up.

    Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough after labouring over this crap all afternoon.

    Entertainment: PM <click>

    UFO bollox on Blaze.

    The Bad Skin Clinic. not on.

    Shooter S2 E3, E4. Last week. Or this week by streaming.

    Shooter S2 E5, E6, E7, E8.
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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Damp and cloudy. It was raining when I left home but it stopped halfway to ClientCo's office. Further rain due off and on all day. Currently 8 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Barometer down to 1025 mBar.

    I really must phone the garage and get my car booked in for a service.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    Another grey but dry start, albeit with a bit of a dew. As so often nowadays, it's 7°C which "feels like" 3°, with an expected high of 10° later. And the barometers are down a bit to 1012/1020mB

    I'm expecting a delivery from Harvey's Brewery today, coming via APC. Last update was that it was at the local depot and "out for delivery" around half eight this morning, but no "live delivery information" is available "right now". So I've no idea if that just means it's been put in the back of a van and further info will be available when it actually leaves the depot, or if they just don't give any more details and I simply have to wait until they show up

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    Darkest morning walk for a long time, the clouds were heavy, preventing even the hint of morning twilight.

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  • NickFitz
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    I came to the end of Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man in which he's having an unexpectedly dull time at the Front, and started on Memoirs of an Infantry Officer which picks up from the point where that ends

    I may go shopping tomorrow. Then again, I may not. Tuesdays are usually a fairly quiet day at the shops, but I don't suppose any days are really quiet this close to Christmas

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas

    Accompanied by the motorway cops with no added motorway but with unrelated dashcam clips

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch: Scotch broth and a crust of wholemeal

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  • NickFitz
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    Links are up

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    MorningAfternoon.

    Monday.

    Grey.

    Damp.

    Dreary.

    Sunless.

    Warmish side of chilly in here at 13.6 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 13 deg in the leanto.

    1027 mBar, 30.327 in Hg, 770.313 Torr, 14.895 psi, (unchanged), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

    Shopping trip to Aldi & Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & almost put away. Made the mistake of buying more pitted dates and the bigger mistake of opening the packet. .

    Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.

    Bumped into a neighbour from down the road whose wife is in hospital with oesophageal cancer, the very thing that killed my grandfather in 1948 a year before he could get his pension.

    Meanwhile on the 11th of December 2019 there was much discussion of dentistry by xogg, opm, and NF.

    Lunch: brunch.

    The afternoon was spent fettling computers: the ancient 586 sprang to life fairly readily (bits of it date from 1990), the Win2k box from about 2010 required surgery to glue new 1000uF capacitors across the really dubious looking 1800uF 105 deg caps next to the processor.

    After which it sprang into life, though for how long is anyone's guess.

    Its brother (same mobo & processor) has developed a fault where the audio bit crashes the thing which is rather irritating. I wonder if similar surgery might help.

    Tea: soup etc.

    Entertainment: bits of "Christopher Robin (2018)". Stone me, he had a wonderful relationship with his parents: thank feck for Nanny.

    I am now utterly knackered.

    Some dumb car search programme: Rusty capri, a surprisingly unrusty Lanci Delta Integrale (it came from Japan so no salt on the road, apparently). Got bored. Turned it off.

    Oak Island feckwhits: the metal detecting moron finds a hatchet head: obviously it's Viking, innit. They're down the garden shaft drilling stuff sideways. Chap takes a wood sample from some random oak tree. Faffing about with some wall near that "unique well" near the pond near the sea. Now they're taking said walls to bits. Apparently they find gold in something or other. Probably 10 parts per billion.

    Looks like this one is the last until after Xmas. Bah fecking humbug.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 21:45.

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