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[ladymuck]

My accountant merged with another company a while ago and, in my usual manner, I did my accounts within a couple of weeks of year end. The new outfit has a 'client portal' for the secure upload of documents, etc. So I uploaded all the bank statements and trial balance.

About 10 days after I did that, some chap from the new company emailed me to say I needed to submit all my year end files. I replied that I had already done it. Three weeks, and three nudges, later I still haven't had a response to that initial reply.

Something tells me I'm not going to be sticking with this new accountancy firm for long if that's how things are going to run.

[xoggoth]

Group walk recce with 3 others and a stop at nice cafe by the reservoir. V rough water due to wind, looked like the sea. Then lunch at son's. Now back to f*** accounts!

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been Heinz chicken soup and white toast

I'm hoping its healing properties will help tide me over for the afternoon. Luckily there aren't any meetings, unless they've gone and scheduled any while I was eating

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Blue sky with fluff scurrying past in the stiff breeze. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 18 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer down to 1003 mBar.

Sunrise 06:36; Sunset 19:15 BST

Quiet day at the coal face today so I'm getting on with life admin while thinking about a document I have to write.

[WTFH]

Morning all
After a weekend up in Surrey, it was nice to see the queues going the other way on the A303 as the tourist all head back to the rat race yesterday evening. A few heavy showers but a fast drive home.
Max had a great time running on Leith Hill and Ranmore.
Blue skies with some cloud and a bit of a breeze today, but at least the overnight rain has abated.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day out, with a strong breeze still blowing and lingering signs of overnight rain. It's 13°C but "feels like" 5°, and only expected to reach 16°. The barometers are very much down at 985/993mB

I had a very poor night's sleep and arose a bit later than planned as a result. This appears to be due to a mild cold, which I thought I felt coming on yesterday evening and which definitely seems to be here now

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Wet: intermittently torrential.

Grey.

Sunless though there are hints.

Cool in here at 17.7 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 15.5 deg in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.47477 psi, (up from 995 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of February 2020: see above.

Managed to sleep until the usual working nightmare woke me up at 07:15.

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

Managed to avoid the rain.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in sunshine & shower, this last whilst in the trees so got away with that.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 waffling on about something. <click>.

Freecell score: 90%, running average: 84%.

[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.