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[NickFitz]

Laundering of the bed linen hasn't gone well. I thought the WM was a bit quiet but I hadn't heard it beep. When I went to check, all its lights were flashing and the on/off button didn't do anything. Although it looks like the cycle was complete, it won't release the door lock.

A quick squizz at the manual says I need to turn the machine off at the mains, wait a couple of minutes and turn it back on. If the error doesn't clear then it needs a repair person to attend. There are five fused switches in the kitchen, two of which are located in a position I'd consider sensible as a means of controlling the WM power. None turn it off. This makes me think the switch is behind the WM and I'll have to work out how to pull it out of the cupboard. This would be easy if I could get the door open!

Now on the hunt for some contraption that can slip under the WM and do some kind of lift and slide manoeuvre so I'm not dragging it across the floor. There's got to be something that runs on bearings.

My washing machine turned out to be plugged in to a socket lurking at the back of a cupboard, down near ground level. I couldn’t work out where it was for ages because it was concealed by the stuff in the cupboard!

Washing up liquid is good for lubricating the feet to slide it out. You can get smooth plastic boards that go under the feet and can be used to drag it out, but the question then is how to get them under there. If I ever have my kitchen redone, I’m going to insist that the washer-dryer isn’t boxed in - it’s a pain

Oh, and there’s almost certainly a manual release for the door; they're usually hidden away behind a flap or something, somewhere down the bottom of the front

[NickFitz]

Lunch: pâté on toast

[ladymuck]

Laundering of the bed linen hasn't gone well. I thought the WM was a bit quiet but I hadn't heard it beep. When I went to check, all its lights were flashing and the on/off button didn't do anything. Although it looks like the cycle was complete, it won't release the door lock.

A quick squizz at the manual says I need to turn the machine off at the mains, wait a couple of minutes and turn it back on. If the error doesn't clear then it needs a repair person to attend. There are five fused switches in the kitchen, two of which are located in a position I'd consider sensible as a means of controlling the WM power. None turn it off. This makes me think the switch is behind the WM and I'll have to work out how to pull it out of the cupboard. This would be easy if I could get the door open!

Now on the hunt for some contraption that can slip under the WM and do some kind of lift and slide manoeuvre so I'm not dragging it across the floor. There's got to be something that runs on bearings.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a sunny day with just a few wisps of very thin cloud here and there, and the snow has almost completely gone - just a few traces left on the lawn. It’s 1°C and not getting any warmer. Looks like a warm spell will be kicking in tomorrow though, and lasting for a few days! The barometers are recovering from the storm at 1007/1015mB

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but quite bright. Cold and dry. Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' 2) and that's the high for the day. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 08:04; Sunset 16:14 GMT

Lazy morning. Bed has been stripped and is airing. The first load is in the WM. I toyed with going to the farmers' market but didn't bother in the end.

[xoggoth]

Saw an odd white trail across my lawn, turned out to be feathers. Went up the garden and saw a pigeon wandering about, looked fine but clearly unable to fly. Darn cat maybe. Got me oil tank topped up. Anyway, ll1 bit later.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, a rather chilly 4C right now and I’ve delayed the walk as long as possible.
After that it will be: empty the Wife’s car of the garden tools I picked up from her uncle’s house - he’s about to move into an apartment and his daughter wants family to take everything. I’ve got my name on a pressure washer, petrol brush cutter and petrol edge mower (its deck is only 51cm), but they might still be used at his house in the next month before he moves out.
Next job is to finish the apple trees.
And that’s probably my day done.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Blue sky.

Sunny.

Frosty. Chilly in here at 10.7 deg, 8 in the kitchen, 4 in the leanto, 3 in the saltinghouse.

1013 mBar, 29.91 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.69 psi, (up from 1006 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 11th of March 2020 SimonMac and BR14 popped in, LM was railing at the disruption of the tube trains and having to work 5 days onsite, WTFH met a chap who'd lost £350k due to cancellations and eek popped in to agree that The Ides of March bode ill and worse was to come. .

Rather than a) doing the washing or b) going to that Swansea on the bus, I chose c) go for a walk. Cold out there & slippery on the pavements. Nearly went arse over tit a couple of times.

Big funeral up at the cemetery.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Goebbels and the Führer (2024). This addresses the rise and fall of the Third Reich from the perspective of Hitler’s propagandist, and the filmmakers state at the start that although they realise that presenting the views of these people is risky, they think it’s important to do so in order that we can recognise it when such opinions arise again. Given that in the last couple of days I’ve seen reports of people in Trump’s inner circle endorsing assertions that are mere paraphrases of things Goebbels said, I conclude that they are right to sound a warning, and that Trump’s cronies don’t have any creative abilities and can only recycle what those they admire have said. I don’t know whether this will make it any easier to destroy them and grind them into the dust they deserve to be. It’s a very good film, but it did make me wonder where we’ll end up this time; as somebody said, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme

After that I felt the need for something more lighthearted, and what’s more lighthearted than That Thing You Do! (1996)? Not many things is the answer! It’s a great film, and ever so much fun to watch even if it does mean I’ll have the song as an earworm for the next few days. It’s a good song!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: ribeye steak with fried onions and chips. Very nice steak, that was

This was accompanied by Kegworth: Flight to Disaster on iPlayer, about the plane that crashed on the M1, just short of EMA, back in 1989

For many years afterwards there was a big V-shaped gap in the trees pointing up the embankment there, but it seems to have grown back now.

[ladymuck]

I did venture to the great outdoors and returned the poorly sized coffee cups.

The person serving in at the till recognised immediately that I was the customer who had emailed in to advise of the need to return and why. They said they did some investigations and discovered that the cups range in size from 70ml to 90ml capacity so they've updated the info on their website as a result. This is why I like independent shops.

Bitterly cold out, biting wind. Thankfully dry.

[xoggoth]

Quite good little local talk from a lady who's spent her life rescuing elephants and things, followed by boring shopping. LL1 walk tomorrow.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice

Most of the snow on the cars has melted away, though there’s still some on the lawn

[ladymuck]

Ooh this looks interesting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...r-byd-pennod-1

All about the conman Kenner Elias Jones.

[ladymuck]

Morning Afternoon all

Dull. Overcast. Wet. Currently 5 degrees ('feels like' 0) with a high of 6 expected. Not currently raining but more expected. A bit on the breezy side. Barometer down to 993 mBar.

Sunrise 08:04; Sunset 16:13 GMT

Meetings this morning. Time sheets to submit. Then I need to decide whether to head off to South Kensington / Knightsbridge way this afternoon or tomorrow morning. The coffee cups I bought for HWMBO need to be returned.

Oh, and contract no.3 start date postponed to w/c 19 January.