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[NickFitz]

NF reported that the Saisburys Local had its cash machine removed, along with the signage. I wonder what it became.

A Salvation Army shop and collection centre

[NickFitz]

Lunch: crispy duck with pancakes and hoisin sauce

I originally got this with the idea that I might need something to snack on while staying up overnight for the election, but I never got around to cooking it then. It needed eating by today and I have something else for this evening, so lunch seemed like a good plan. Half of it left for another time, too!

[ladymuck]

The water meter installation technician has just called and will be here within the hour.

Different person from the one who came last week so I wonder if they will also decide they don't want to do it and say it can't be done today.

[ladymuck]

^^ I miss Brillo. I should send him a note on LinkedIn and see if he's ok



Morning all

Cloudy, dull. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 19 expected. No rain forecast but the cloud is here to stay. Barometer down a smidge to 1014 mBar.

Was up early on account of a water meter fitting appointment starting from 8 am. While waiting for them to turn up, I have been job hunting. The excitement continues this afternoon with gas and electricity smart meters being fitted.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently. Where would I be without the Lidl(tm) clock that tells me this?

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Drizzly.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 18.5 deg, 19.5 deg in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.

1003.5 mBar, 29.63334 in Hg, 752.6868 Torr, 14.5545 psi, (up from 1002 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 20th of October 2019 NF had a sausage sandwich for lunch, Brillo made LM larf, I did some gardening & went for a walk after charging the battery on the Corolla, whereas the Oak Island nutjobs returned, finding an old penny, a lump of lead, a nail and a rock with a hole in it, NF reported that the Saisburys Local had its cash machine removed, along with the signage. I wonder what it became.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Friday!

Sunny start out today, with high, thin, streaky cloud such as one often gets trailing behind gloomier weather. It's currently 11°C and maybe reaching 18° this afternoon, while the barometers are up a little more at 1007/1015mB. The weather app gloomily asserts that it's "Mostly cloudy" which will "continue all day", but there's no way of telling if that means the wispy stuff we currently see hither and yon will hang around, or if it'll be replaced by something more substantial

[WTFH]

Morning all
A pleasant meal out with friends last night, but it’s a bit overcast this morning.

TFIF, etc

[xoggoth]

Bah! No raspberries at Sainsburies so went to Aldi and Waitrose and they didn't have any either. How can I live without me raspberries?

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was an old Traffic Cops, as they seem to have a small stash of ones I either haven't seen before or can't tell I have seen before - it's not as if it sticks in the mind, and they're all much the same anyway

Friday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

I think the end may be in sight for box clearing in the kitchen. There's four to go to storage.

Just need to to figure out where to put all the cleaning and laundry stuff, as there's insufficient space for it all under the sink.

A towel wash was done and successfully dried in the sunshine outside. I need to put a line up for easier laundry hanging.

[NickFitz]

Off to Big Sainsbury's, despite the drizzle which has returned. I was only able to glance quickly at the old place as I drove past, the pedestrian crossing being green for traffic, but it looks to me as if the idiot landlord has replaced the windows in my old flat with UPVC ones

He's going to wish he hadn't done that - it's a conservation area, and the council strictly enforce it. In my time around there, I've seen work done on surrounding properties that had to be undone at great expense. My old landlord used to say that he couldn't change the handle on the front door without the council coming down on him like a ton of bricks, and he wasn't joking, or not much

In the case of the windows, they can only be replaced with ones that look the same as the originals, which date to around 1880. He's going to find that paying for a full set of antique-style wooden sash windows that look right, on top of whatever he's already paid, will cost an arm and a leg, and he would have been better off just replacing the broken pane and maybe giving the rest a lick of paint

And on the way home, I stopped off at the VAT fraud chip shop, so tea has been cod and chips

[NickFitz]

Another day's work done. I'm completely out of enthusiasm for this project now, but at least the end is in sight - there's talk of a handover to the Live Services team in mid-September

I just hope they don't expect me to go with it

Meanwhile, solicitors have been instructed to deal with the sale of the parental home, so I just had to faff around taking pictures of my Driving Licence. Their website was very insistent that using a scan was not acceptable which was mildly annoying as I have one of those sitting on my laptop, but I had to go off and find the thing and take photos of the front and back to upload instead

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Scotch broth and a bit of wholemeal

Today's forecasted 20% chance of rain in late afternoon was way off, with continuous light and sometimes heavy drizzle all morning

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny and warm out although quite cloudy too. Currently 21 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Barometer at 1015 mBar.

So far, the day has gone exceedingly pear shaped. I left my friend's house shortly before 9am. I planned to swing by Waitrose on the way home to pick up a shopping order that was set for collection between 10 and 11. On getting a mere two miles up the road, everything came to a halt on account of a rather large accident on Kingston Road in Hampton Wick. Helpfully, a coach driver blocked the road so no-one could move. All adjacent roads were gridlocked and I sat in queues for a good 90 mins before getting through to a clear patch wherein I could enjoy the 20 mph limits our glorious mayor has seen fit to slap on every road with a tree on it. I got to Waitrose at 11.20 instead of the planned 10am. Fortunately they hadn't deemed me a no-show and my goods were still available for pick up.

Now home, sat, cooling off and deciding what to do next with my day.

[NickFitz]

Just had a look on RightMove and Zoopla, and the parental home is no longer listed