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[NickFitz]

Tea has been a rack of smoky BBQ ribs with fries

I've just remembered I was going to have a glass of champagne with it, but I forgot. I don't really feel like champagne tonight anyway. Maybe I'll save it until I've finally got the official written confirmation from the Halifax that the mortgage is done and dusted

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cocktail sausages and crisps again

Just prodded the work laptop into life in case anybody had any messages for me about my resumption of service next week. No, it turns out, but the mouse battery was flat so that's now recharging. Better charge the keyboard before Monday as well

That done, I have put some bedding in the wash and made myself a coffee

[NickFitz]

I was thinking of going shopping, but on reflection, I'm not sure I need anything. There's quite a lot of stuff in the built-in freezer that needs getting through, for a start; certainly enough to see me through the next week or more. So I don't think I'll bother

I suppose I could do other stuff instead, like taking things to the tip or the storage unit. I may or may not get around to doing something; we shall see

TBH my back is playing up quite a bit at the moment, so I'm not sure further lifting and shifting is the best plan. Could go out to the countryside for a walk, but I'll probably get trapped in a flooded field or something

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day, but dry after overnight rain, at least for now. It seems quite breezy. Cold too: currently 9°C but "feels like" 0°, with an expected high of 12°. The barometers are back up a bit at 987/995mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull, wet, raining. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 13 expected. Rain supposed to cease by lunchtime. Barometer up to 996 mBar.

Tired. Stayed up late doing nothing productive.

HWMBO is at Glasgow airport, on his way down again. For a change, he's arriving around lunchtime rather than getting the last flight of the day.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Quite disturbed sleep but managed to stay there until 08:30 which is rather better than 06:05 etc.

Dry (as in it's damp but not currently in deluge mode).

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 16.4 deg, 16.5 deg in the kitchen, 14 deg in the leanto.

997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (up from 985 last night), 76% RH.

Meanwhile on the 17th of November 2019 I did the Sunday shop after cooking The Sunday Lunch of roast beef, whilst railing at the idle pair next door and their inability to clean any fecking thing, whereas LM was off on a jaunt in that London despite tube difficulties, and xogg commented on the propensity of cats to crap on his lawn.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine.

Lunch: yup.

Entertainment: some bollox on R4 about identifying as a cat, dog, or wolf. Or something.

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

Freecell score: dire.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM.

Ghosts.

Tina Turner in Barcelona 1990 (bits).

Freecell score: even more dire. Wall punching dire.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc.
Might go and wander round an old town this morning, might go visit in vineyard or two.
Suspect we’ll be back at the villa by early afternoon to crash at the pool.

[NickFitz]

Watched some more of the Gloucestershire police thing, though I've almost caught up with the broadcasting now

And I read some more of Burmese Days

I did think of watching a film, but I was feeling a bit tired for some reason - maybe just winding down after all the sorting out of stuff that's gone on over the last few days

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Walk with loony lady 3 bit of a disaster. Footpath I was planning to go down was a stream. Will have to plan a bit better next time. Loony lady 2 walk tomorrow off due to rain, Saturday looks better.

[NickFitz]

Tea: steak and Guinness pie with chips

The thunderstorm brought even more torrential rain, which exhibited the interesting characteristic that it would get even worse for a few minutes and then get even worse again, and continued doing that for about half an hour. It eventually eased off though. I think it's still raining a bit, and it seems it's likely to continue through the night

[NickFitz]

Thunderstorm!

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's been a dull, wet day today. Rained all day off and on (mostly on). Currently 14 degrees and the high was 17. Barometer down to 988 mBar.

Today I did half a day of work, to complete the two days I can bill this week for this faff of a gig. I shouldn't complain, but I can, so I will.

I did intend to pop to the shops but the weather doesn't make me inclined to want to leave the flat, so I won't.

Lunch was a bacon bap.

[NickFitz]

Depending on the bank you are paying from, somewhere between 30 seconds and 2 minutes. But, for safety sake and to justify the fee (£25 from memory for a large transfer), they will say a day.

Congratulations!

Cheers!

It took a few minutes for the money to come through to my account yesterday, but my sister's (which left the account a few minutes before mine) didn't arrive until today! Very odd

Halifax use one account for paying off mortgages with the mortgage account number as the reference. I don't know how automated the process of allocating the funds to the mortgage account is, but their documentation assures me that they'll acknowledge payment within fifteen days

[WTFH]

Not sure how long it takes for the money to arrive with the Halifax and be allocated to the account; the bankers here said that I might have just missed the cut-off for today in which case it would go through tomorrow, so I added a day's interest just in case. That'll be refunded if it does, in fact, get there today, so I'm not bothered about it

Depending on the bank you are paying from, somewhere between 30 seconds and 2 minutes. But, for safety sake and to justify the fee (£25 from memory for a large transfer), they will say a day.

Congratulations!

[NickFitz]

Mortgage paid off!

I popped over to one of the few remaining neighbourhood branches, which is over in an area with a mainly Muslim population, some Sikhs and Hindus, and very, very few people who would tick "White British" on a form. There was a steady stream of people coming and going during the thirty minutes or so it took to work through all the security checks and so on, doing what looked like business banking for small shops and the like, which is presumably what keeps the branch alive when all the others have been closed. I lived in that area a number of times over the years, on three of the four sides of Spinney Hill Park, and it's nice to go back there; I have lots of happy memories associated with that bit of the city

The bankers were a bit flummoxed at the way funds had gone back and forth between there and the Halifax over the last twenty-four hours, so I explained how I'd been led astray by the deceptive content on the web site and how all the different transactions fitted together, which satisfied them that it wasn't some kind of weird money laundering scheme that didn't actually achieve anything

Not sure how long it takes for the money to arrive with the Halifax and be allocated to the account; the bankers here said that I might have just missed the cut-off for today in which case it would go through tomorrow, so I added a day's interest just in case. That'll be refunded if it does, in fact, get there today, so I'm not bothered about it

It was still quite pleasant on the way over but it had gone dark and was starting to rain heavily by the time I got out. It's eased off a little now, but I think that's probably the sunshine done for the day