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[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
CBS on the perambulation earlier, which covered a reasonable 7.65km. Looks like the blue skies may be drifting away as clouds are coming in from the north.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another cloudy start, and a windy day due with a chance of showers. It's 11°C now and only getting to 16°, but the barometers are bouncing back at 1007/1015mB

I awoke to an email from my siblings, who had a meeting yesterday with a property developer who's trying, as so many have in the past, to buy up chunks of the extensive back gardens at our parents' house and those of their neighbours. I'm dubious about the scheme; none of the previous schemes have got off the ground, but now everybody's older, some of those who stood firm in the past seem a bit more inclined to sell, or have died in my parents' case. Anyway, keeping an empty house for maybe two or three years in the vague hope of a bit more money at the end seems foolishly optimistic to me. If his plan has legs, he should find it easy to buy the place off us at the current market price and keep the extra money for himself once it comes to fruition. If he doesn't bite our hand off at that prospect, it says a lot about the plan, I reckon

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Chilly in here at 16.9 deg, 18 deg in the kitchen, 16.5 deg in the leanto.

1017 and a tad mBar, 30.03 in Hg, 762.96 Torr, 14.753 psi (up from 1014.5 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Woke unbidden at 06:10, read book, sleep did not return.

Meanwhile on the 4th of October 2019 WTFH was in discomfort, it was dry & breezy around here, NF railed a little against the 0.1% which seems rather restrained.

[NickFitz]

Nice to hear some good news from New York

Tonight's viewing was, of course, an old Police Interceptors

And in Blitzed, things are going even worse on both Eastern and Western fronts - but after the von Stauffenberg assassination attempt, the Führer has been treated for some slight injuries to his ears with a 10% solution of cocaine hydrochloride, applied directly to his nasal membranes with swabs by the ENT specialist a couple of times a day, and is feeling on top of the world, albeit totally divorced from the reality of what's going on in it

Friday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: pork shoulder steaks with chips and beans

Getting some blue sky again now. Unclear whether it'll last, though

[ladymuck]

The sun came out for a while followed by a very enthusiastic rain shower that came down at a rather jaunty angle. Now the sun seems to have reappeared.

[NickFitz]

I should stop being optimistic about the weather. Several showers, including a couple of very heavy ones, this afternoon. It's grey now

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bit of shepherd's pie

There's been rain off and on this morning but it's turned sunny and rather Simpsonesque now. Don't know if that will last though

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but quite bright. Dry at present but rain forecast around lunchtime and early evening. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer steady.

There is an electrician in, to fit an isolation switch for the cooker. The landlady is also here, fussing about nonsense. I've retreated to the safety of my office rather than make small talk.

[DoctorStrangelove]

And then more of Blitzed, in which things are going badly on the Eastern Front but the Führer doesn't really care because his personal physician has turned him on to Oxycodone

Maybe things might have been different if he'd stuck to brandy and cigars as did our Esteemed Leader. . Just as well he didn't then. .

Morning.

Thursday by reports.

Wet.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 17.3 deg, 18 deg in the kitchen, 17 deg in the leanto.

1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.44 Torr, 14.627 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 74% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of October 2019 I'd finished reading "The Mighty Micro" and had moved on to "The Silicon Civilisation" which was largely fantasy due to the greed of the 0.1%, on the 4th WTFH was relating the pain he was in after the op and had manly hugs all round (very carefully), whereas NF was watching yet more Breaking Bad, as you do.

Cleaning the cupboards under the stairs: looks like they needed it judging by the colour of the water afterwards. Ah the smell of chlorine in the morning, it smells of victory mould and damp.

Lunch: baked spud etc.

Entertainment: Gap Finders. Sliced Bread: car tyres. TWATO. The thing about thieving from the BM at 13:45.

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

Various charity shops visited in a futile search for John LeCarre epics. Bought an ancient tome on Philby instead.

Veronica Mars S2 E21 "Happy Go Lucky". The murder case finally comes to court.

Tea: sausage & mash etc. Did think to keep back a couple of sausages for a sausage butty but ate them all instead. They were Morrisons Lincolnshire of uncertain antiquity.

Entertainment: PM. Some UFO bollox about Roswell on Blaze.

The colourfully dressed train enthusiast was on whilst I did the dishes.

War Walks: Battle of the Boyne.

Timewatch on Bloody Omaha, as to why it was such a bloodbath.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start with a bit of drizzle at the moment, and that's how it's going to continue, allegedly. Mild enough, starting at 11°C and aiming for 17°, while the barometers are pretty much the same at 996/1004mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Precipitation curtailed the perambulation.
Or, to put it another way: there was blue sky and some light cloud when we left home, so I decided not to take a jacket. Half an hour later the heavens opened and it was raining stair rods - the kind of rain that gets you very wet very quickly. So we chose to come home.

[NickFitz]

This evening's only viewing was an old Police Interceptors

And then more of Blitzed, in which things are going badly on the Eastern Front but the Führer doesn't really care because his personal physician has turned him on to Oxycodone

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

There were a couple of showers this afternoon, but they'd cleared up by teatime. Then the bedding wash I'd had on finished drying shortly after six. So, as the auspices seemed good, to Big Sainsbury's I did go!

I was able to obtain the latest Viz, among other essentials

I'm having to be slightly more cautious about buying meat now though, given the much-reduced freezer space, as I don't have the option of just freezing stuff if I don't get around to cooking it

Then homewards via the VAT fraud chip shop. I was thinking of getting pie & chips, but the sight of freshly-fried golden batter seduced me as soon as I walked in and I went for fish & chips instead. They told me that they only had cod ready, which commands a premium, and I'd have to wait a few minutes for the standard haddock; but I assured them I was happy to pay the extra. So I was in and out of there faster than I ever have been, I think. And I'm glad I chose as I did, because it was really, really nice

[NickFitz]

Lunch: sweet chilli chicken in a sandwich (wholemeal)

Still quite breezy and cloudy out, but I think the sunny spells are getting longer and more frequent