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[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but with enough gaps for it to be quite bright. Currently 16 degrees and the high will be 17. Barometer down a bit to 1024 mBar.

Rubbish day at the office. I just seem to deal with complaint after complaint. I never signed up to work in customer services.

Tapped up various contacts in the hope one of them has something on the go.

[wattaj]

A cool start to the day has warmed considerably. Now comfortable without being overbearing.

Weather same.

Dog walked in the cool of the day. Dog now asleep.

"Hunters 2" now finished following a child free evening luxuriating in the peace and my first beer(s) in over three years (Amstel thanks for asking).

Will scour Amazon Prime later for the next big thing whilst waiting for season 2 of "Reacher", "Peripheral", and Season 4 for "The Boys".

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been Scotch broth, accompanied by seedy wholemeal as that's the only sliced one they had when I was shopping

The disabled fox was wandering around earlier but the lawn is now deserted. Nice roses of various colours in the central flowerbed though

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another grey start, currently 11°C, 17° expected, and the barometers are stuck on 1014/1022mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Awakened unbidden at 05:30. Sleep did not return. Book read. Sleep still did not return.

Freecell score: 89%, running average: 85%.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Clouds. .

Cool in here at 19.9 deg, 21 deg in the kitchen, 19 deg in the leanto.

1018 mBar, in Hg, Torr, psi, (unchanged), 69% RH (GDR hair), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of June 2019 it was raining, and covbob's unfortunate cat was about to lose an eye. .

Massacre of the brambles 2023 version. Stone me they grow fast.

Lunch: baked potato with cheese & baked beans, red pippy corner yog, bramble jelly & marmalade on slices of almost toasted hot bread, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

No Glengettie tea bags in Tesco yesterday. Must be another world shortage.

Entertainment: Y&Y <click>.

Flagging a bit now. .

[NickFitz]

No idea what the car was as I was watching the Apple thing. I recorded the gold diggers, but didn't pay much attention to it as it was much the same as usual.

Then, in the new gold diggers, Shane was back without Russell, as the gold company that's offered to buy his land wants him to prove it's got a decent amount of gold left in it, so he gets to do some more prospecting on his own. But the main thing was that his digger had been left in a sort of depression that had been subject to heavy rain and had sunk deep in the mud, leading to a kind of Trucking Hell scenario where he had to get it lifted up far enough that a friend could then haul it out with a very large piece of earthmoving machinery. He found some decent gold after all that though, as did the others

Another early night against the early sunrise now

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb scouse with ends of both seedy and non-seedy bloomer

This was accompanied by Apple's WWDC keynote. The Vision Pro alternative reality thing looks pretty cool - well, it looks pretty ridiculous from the outside as these things always do, but it looks like an impressive bit of kit. Won't be available in the UK until at least a year from now though, which will at least give me a chance to save up the three or four grand it'll cost

[eek]

Laundry has been done and put out on the line.

Actively looking for another gig as changes are afoot at client co. Better to jump than be pushed.

Good luck.

Given that I have 6 weeks left probably should do the same just to see how things are...

[NickFitz]

Laundry has been done and put out on the line.

Actively looking for another gig as changes are afoot at client co. Better to jump than be pushed.

I've just put the mundane laundry on

No jumping or pushing though

[ladymuck]

Laundry has been done and put out on the line.

Actively looking for another gig as changes are afoot at client co. Better to jump than be pushed.

[NickFitz]

It's another roaster up here in the Northern provinces.

Still overcast here in the East Midlands. Our DM lives near Blackpool and was saying this morning that it's a nice sunny day up there

[wattaj]

It's another roaster up here in the Northern provinces.

[wattaj]

Twin B is in Iceland for 3 months (left Saturday)
Twin A is in Germany for 2 weeks (fancy Scouting badge)...

It's quiet here but too much clientco work to do to make the most of it.

"Thanks/Likes off temporarily :-("

So have a hearty *thumbs up* whilst we're waiting.

[NickFitz]

Dentist gone to. Nothing drastic needed, though they pull the stunt of booking you in for a hygienist to do the old scale and polish rather than the dentist doing it, because that way they make more money. Oh well, can't blame them for it really; they must have spent a bomb on the refurb, and the place is looking better under the new regime

I had planned to pop round to Greggs for lunch on the way back, as it's just up the road, but it was closed

I didn't go there so often that they would have ceased to be profitable once I moved away, but it seems it's temporarily closed for refurbishment or something.

And I saw from the local rag's website that the road was closed by my old flat last night, and residents warned to keep their windows shut, because of a fire in a garage. I had my suspicions about where this might be so I nipped in the big back gate (I'd parked on the side road near the flat as it usually has more spaces free than the next road where the dentist is) and sure enough, it was the derelict old garage next to which the Super Monkey Car has parked for so many years until it finally got a garage of its own here. The door's been broken for yonks and one or more junkies have got into the habit of using it for whatever purpose over the last year or so, which was why I suspected that would be the place. Good job I moved before it went up - at least it gave the fire brigade more space to work, assuming nobody else was parked there

Anyway, now I need to decide what to have for lunch. I've got one chicken bake left in the freezer, I think

[eek]

Boy off for a week's outward bound thing with the school. His first time away without a parental. Empty nest for a few days. Laithwaites on speed dial.

Twin B is in Iceland for 3 months (left Saturday)
Twin A is in Germany for 2 weeks (fancy Scouting badge)...

It's quiet here but too much clientco work to do to make the most of it.