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[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was some new thing called Street Cops: Catching the Yobs on Five, which is about the police officers who don't get to drive fast on the motorway. It's with Northants Constabulary, but the ludicrously over-the-top narration attempts to make it sound like Beirut in the 1980s. Dealing with a solitary drunk person in Kettering town centre on a sunny afternoon is not, in fact, a sign that civilisation has finally crumbled and we should all start spraying our mouths with silver paint and seeking admission to Valhalla on the Fury Road

And then a couple more Rumpole stories were read. I keep thinking I'm getting near the end of this book, but apparently there are three more stories left. I'm wondering if Penguin are sneaking in when I'm asleep and sticking extra ones in at the end

Monday again tomorrow! I'm quite looking forward to finishing off the thing I was working on last week if I'm honest, though it's also possible that my colleague who knows a lot more about React than I do will tell me I've done it all wrong and should start again

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a fish finger butty with red sauce

These were Sainsbury's TTD chunky battered fish fingers, recently introduced. I remember when Bird's Eye started selling battered fish fingers in the late Sixties or early Seventies. Our Mum got them for us once but we never had them again; I don't know if they were more expensive or if I was the only one that liked them

Anyway, these were nice but I also like the ones with breadcrumbs, so it looks like I'll have to stock two kinds of fish finger in future

[ladymuck]

I did check my tyre pressures before driving today. I'm glad I did as the nearside rear was very low. I checked it before leaving Mum's and it stayed up so there doesn't seem to be a puncture.

No dramas in Sussex. Helped my brother make a lasagne for their dinner. Much rain on the drive home but a good enough run there and back so won't complain.

[NickFitz]

Heavy rain this afternoon, so I made a nice pot of tea and watched One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) while the washer-dryer got on with washing (and drying) several pairs of jeans

Still very gloomy out, with the rain likely to persist and strong winds also forecast

[xoggoth]

Volunteery thing at local nature reserve this morning. Damn sight better than this afternoon that I've spent doing damn business accounts. Error of about £1000 in the balance sheet, tearing me teeth out trying to find the cause.

[NickFitz]

Turkish leftovers for lunch

This was accompanied by the third part of Limbs in the Loch, which is a pretty bleak story even by the already bleak standards of BBC Scotland's true crime obsession

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Wet.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cooler in here at 16.8 deg, 17 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

1004 mBar, 29.65 in Hg, 753.1 Torr, 14.56 psi, (down from 1005 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of February 2020 it was very wet: WTFH had 8 litres of water out of his roof, BR14 popped in, along with Brillo, Churchill and LM, whilst NF watched the Prada film again, and the bottom of next door's garden had 6" of water, whilst there was an inch or so in my pig sties: high tide was at 11:38 and the marsh was fullish at 11:15 with the river making a roaring noise as it flowed towards the sea, with the canal overtopping the bank in places.

Odd dream before waking: seemed to involve some sort of heist and a repeat of same. Most odd. 2nd time through was unsuccessful & I woke up.

Walk (towpath, abbreviated) walked. It sprinkled rain on me for a while.

Fair departed hence.

Lunch: brunch: entertainment: Mandy followed by Just a Minute.

Freecell score in the ongoing deluge: 70%, running average: 84%. Not in the zone at all this afternoon: approaching wall punching mode when I paused for a cup of mediocre coffee just in time.

"Look at Life" the cinema. (1960).

Tea: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: some university thing on R4.

"Look at Life": recycling iron: (1960): from totter to scrap yard to crushing machine to railway wagon to Ebbw Vale open hearth steel works (heavy end closed 1978, strip mill 2002) then back to steel strip to washing machine factory (probably Hoover Merthyr Tydfil (closed 2009).

Sergeant Cork "The case of the two drowned men (1963)". Pretty meh all in all.

Barometer down to 993 at the moment.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start out, more featureless and flat than the clouds yesterday, which at least had some form to them. It's 13°C and expected to soar to 16° this afternoon, but accompanied by some rain. The barometers are back up a bit at 999/1007mB

I awoke around ten to eight, but decided that was far too early for a Sunday and went back to sleep

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but dry and reasonably bright. Slightly damp. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Rain forecast late afternoon/early evening. Barometer up to 1012 mBar.

Sunrise 06:35; Sunset 19:18 BST

Off down south to visit Mum and brother today. I keep thinking I should check my tyre pressures as I've not done it in a while.

[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff on the box again today, and they didn't switch to Steve McQueen at teatime

Tonight, I read a couple more Rumpole stories

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Turkish place. Very nice as usual

I had a voucher for £8 off that needed to be used up, and there was also a promotion offering £7 off, so I ended up saving £15 on the whole deal

Lunch, for the record, was a sausage roll

[DoctorStrangelove]

I've got one of those. They're very good, and all you need most of the time

Wot? A linen dress?

That's a change from the board standard gingham version. .

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all
i'm glad I'm retired<sort of>. none of my stuff needs an I-ron or any fancy treatment whatsoever.
All cotton, no fancy dress/suits/ties/other nonsense.
jeans/shorts and Tshirts/track tops/fleeces. bliss.

Pleased with my continuing ability to make mainframes perform, though , Although I reckon I'll either go part time from now, or chuck it if the consultancy don't agree.
I've proved I can still cut it, and I don't really need the money*.


**oops, I'll upset the whingeing, greedy, tax avoiding Torys??
never mind eh?

[NickFitz]

Then over to Argos-in-Sainsbury's to treat myself to a clothes steamer. I got rid of my ironing board and iron as I didn't use them but I do have a couple of linen dresses that would look a lot better for a bit of de-creasing every now and then. A steamer takes up much less room.

I've got one of those. They're very good, and all you need most of the time

[NickFitz]

It goes shopping??

WlmS:

^^ nearly! HWMBO had reason to replace his WM recently and I suggested he looked at a combined washer-dryer. His has reservoirs for the liquid detergent and fabric conditioner that you fill up and the machine determines how much to use based on the load. He did some tests and determined it was dosing appropriately so now he lets the machine deal with it. Next stop will be to automatically order when running low, I'm sure.

Though it doesn't do the shopping, they sent me a load of the two kinds of stuff for free which is intended to last a family for six months, so it should see me through at least a year

I can still chuck a pod in if I choose, or even go old school and pour powder into the drawer. But the stuff it handles automagically works and smells OK, so why bother?