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[NickFitz]

Popped round to the polling station and cast my ballot. It's only a PCC one here this time around, but it all helps contribute to a crushing defeat

And then I circled back via Sainsbury's Local, as I forgot to get wholemeal baps yesterday. Luckily they still had a few left, so that'll see me through.

Oh, and on the way out, I took a bag of recycling over to the bins.

Very nice sunny evening out there now

[NickFitz]

Nice diphthong, bro. .

Unicode FTW!

Lunch was another couple of Southern not-fried chicken drumsticks that had been in the freezer for ages

And this afternoon brought yet another call from a pharmacist at the GP's, though she didn't have the list of blood pressure readings for the past week that I delivered there this morning, as due to the flood damage she was in an office at the General Hospital a couple of miles away in the other direction, and nobody had got around to scanning and uploading it

Luckily, my blood pressure monitor is Bluetooth-enabled and uploads all its readings to my phone, so I ran through a bunch of them with her. She agreed that they were absolutely fine and no change to medication was needed. This is exactly what happened last year, so I look forward to going through the same palaver twelve months from now. Perhaps I should point out to them that measuring it while you're waiting for them to stick a big spike in you and suck out your blood is likely to lead to an unusually high reading due to the stressful nature of the situation

[covbob]

Another walk to school and back - green ring closed. The sun is really out now. It's entering scorchio territory now.

[ladymuck]

I have done my civic duty. It was quite a pleasant walk to the polling station and back. There was a mini rush of three people all trying to put their slips of paper in each box which made the people watching proceedings to have to pay a bit more attention.

[covbob]

Afternoon denizens!

Was bright and sunny earlier but clouded over a little now. Took the littles to school and stopped to vote on the way back (via Asda). Now on with being a Civil Service wage slave... starting to sap my sanity a bit tbh.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and damp. My weather app says it's foggy but it isn't. The sun is scheduled to make an appearance this afternoon, just before the rain comes back. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Barometer down to 1003 mBar.

Unsurprisingly, I am a bit tired this morning. The thunder and lightning rumbled on for quite some time in the end.

Turns out the house has already gone on the market and the letting agent was on the phone at 9am wanting to book in a viewing for this afternoon. I reluctantly agreed and then mentioned it to my landlady who then vetoed the viewing, saying that the agency were supposed to be bringing all viewing requests to her first.

[DoctorStrangelove]

a link to a PDF that you have to print out and fill in with a pen, like some kind of mediæval scribe

Nice diphthong, bro. .

Morning.

Thursday.

Wet. No overnight donner und blitzen but it sounded like it was raining a lot.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 14.5 deg, 15 deg in the kitchen, 14 deg in the leanto.

999 mBar, 29.5 in Hg, 749.3 Torr, 14.489 psi, (down from 1005 last night), 77% RH (GDR hair), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

The recycling engineers made their merry way along the road earlier, proving today to be Thursday.

Still feeling a little weird. . But there you go, worse things happen at sea.

Meanwhile on the 24th of September 2019 it was wet & windy for WTFH, apparently the Gnoll Brook had done its overflowing overnight, though not of any great consequence (unlike the 1950s when there was a torrent of water flowing through the town), whereas NF's downstairs neighbours were having the bathroom replaced by the landlord, presumably to fix a leak, and BR14 suggested helpfully that NF might get his windows unstuck while they're at it.

Lunch: scrambled egg again, etc.

Entertainment: Y&Y Toast: Safeway. Most of which became Morrisons, a few becoming Waitrose IIRC.

Veronica Mars S2 E1 "Normal is the Watchword" retitled from "Urine Trouble". .

Charisma Carpenter in a little black bikini. What's not to like. .

The Mentalist S1 E18. WTF? "Russet Potatoes".

Last bit of "Galaxy Quest" where Mr Monk kisses an .

[NickFitz]

Doctor's perambulated to (and from), green ring closed

Nice out there on the park early, before the foot traffic to the University becomes overwhelming. The trees I remember them planting when they added that path in 1981 look as if they've been there for ever, but I suppose it was over forty years ago

Not so impressed that the appointment they offered me for the thyroid blood test is in the first week of June, over a month from now. But it's exam time at the University, so they'll be busy handing out Valium to overstressed students all this month, I suppose

[WTFH]

Morning all
A foreshortened walk this morning due to the inclemency of the weather, also about 4km in we got to a lane where the water was flowing fast over the whole width of the lane. I knew that meant we'd arrive at a pool of similar size to the one "man of the people, not one of the elite" Sunak put in to his Yorkshire home.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start again, but no sign of rain. Warm again, being 11°C already and likely to reach 20°. The barometers are down some more though, at 991/999mB

I have to pop over the park to the doctor's shortly to drop off a week's worth of blood pressure readings. I'm pretty sure that last year I was able to log them online, but maybe funding cuts led to them instead supplying a link to a PDF that you have to print out and fill in with a pen, like some kind of mediæval scribe

[ladymuck]

Well that was a fun thunderstorm.

Much lightning, lots of thunder, torrential rain. Lasted about an hour but there's still some flashes as it moves away to bother another area

The conservatory leaked and I had to spend half an hour mopping up. Fortunately HWMBO's eldest is here at the moment and they helped.

[NickFitz]

There was a new episode of the Brighton cops thing tonight, including an interesting bit where a guy's rucksack had been pinched from the railway station. He'd used Find My to track his iPad to a hotel and, upon checking with the receptionist, had even sussed out which room it was in. When the cops went to the room, the occupants had already scarpered in a hurry (having presumably seen the police car pull up outside), leaving the rucksack behind

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

I'm currently bleeding radiators. No, seriously.

That's the spirit!

[NickFitz]

The Nectar card shenanigans has been sorted out (well, partially, with completion of the process expected soon) so I went a-shopping!

In fact, I went to M&S first, solely because the chocolate peanut cluster things I got from there last week were so nice that I've scoffed the lot and wanted more

I got other stuff as well while I was there, though. For a start, right next to them were some chocolate honeycomb things which looked rather nice

Onwards to Sainsbury's, though in fact I didn't need a huge amount from there - didn't even get the bill over £100 which is a surprise nowadays, particularly given that I bought razor blades, which cost more than the crown jewels on their own

Homewards, then, via the VAT fraud chip shop, so tea has been fish & chips

The chestnut outside the old flat is now in bloom, and the Polish café seems to be doing OK

[NickFitz]

It's HWMBO's birthday today.

Happy birthday HWMBO!