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All finished work wise. I'm now a benefits scrounger as my late Dad would have said despite not claiming any such benefits.
Dinner was had in Heathrow Terminal 5's Concord Room and very nice it was too. My flight is delayed so I had time for three courses. With accompanying beverages.
Now waiting for when the plane up to Glasgow actually turns up.
That's the way to do it!
I could really do with a break; I'm fed up to the back teeth with this project. I'm thinking of taking a week off soon, but I'll also be taking a week off for my niece's wedding in September so I'll probably just end up sticking it out until then
Tea: steak & caramelised onion burger (plus sesame bun etc.) and chips
Still very warm here, and the decorative clouds have cleared off. There's a slight breeze though, which is keeping a bit of air circulation going through the flat
All finished work wise. I'm now a benefits scrounger as my late Dad would have said despite not claiming any such benefits.
Dinner was had in Heathrow Terminal 5's Concord Room and very nice it was too. My flight is delayed so I had time for three courses. With accompanying beverages.
Now waiting for when the plane up to Glasgow actually turns up.
Sunny, no cloud from my vantage point. Currently 25 degrees with a high of 29 expected . Forgot to look at the barometer before I left the house this morning so my weather app says it's down to 1017 mBar.
Busy morning. Met with a potential new client on a little project. Handover meetings. Spreadsheet wrangling.
Meanwhile on the 13th of October 2019 there was a new series of HIGNIFY, NF dried his washing on the clothes horse and had a nice fry up for tea with Coop sausages which met with his approval but was thinking of investigating sausage made by local artisans, whereas I was upset by the death of Stephen Moore, of Marvin the Paranoid Android fame, having refused to listen to the latest H2G2 due to him not being in it any more.
This morning's dream before waking involved some sort of IC tester that needed work doing on it. I was glad to wake up.
Shopping trips to Aldi, Tesco, and Morrisons done dusted, washed, dried, sanitised & put away. I wonder what that Aldi Islay single malt is like.
Lunch: beans on toast etc.
Entertainment: TWATO.
"Buried: the last witness" on R4: all the PCBs and other toxic indestructible crap that's been buried in assorted Welsh landfills.
Veronica Mars S3 E17 "Debasement Tapes". Downhill all the way to the EOS3.
A cold war of spies E2 on PBS.
Tea: some very old Morrisons faggots and peas. Nice enough.
Dear old Edgar Lustgarten in Scotland Yard "The Tyburn Case (1957)".
Capone Investment "The grass is greener (1974)". John Thaw without Carter or Lewis. Wallace without Grommit.
Veronica Mars S1 E15, E16, this last with the first appearance of Willow.
Maigret and the Etoile du Norde: the final appearance for Bruno Cremer's Maigret: he was dying of cancer of the throat & his voice is dubbed. . Sad. He looked unwell but lasted another 6 years after making that.
The Oak Island Nutjobbery: "Deeper Digs, Bigger Stakes": more fecking wood.
The Aldi single malt was nice enough but I prefer Laphoaig.
A warm and sunny start again, being already up to 19°C and aiming for 27° by mid-afternoon. The barometers are down though, at 1008/1013mB
Last night's switch to the one-third duvet proved to be a smart move, as although it was still a bit too warm to start with, it seemed to be about right when the daylight coming in woke me up at a quarter to five. I pulled the blind back down, and it didn't feel too hot for the next couple of hours
I've performed an emergency transition to the lightweight duvet. Probably still too warm, but I vaguely hope for it to cool down a bit in here overnight
Oh and the workmen on the pavement this morning were fixing the connection twixt house and whatever is under the man hole cover. It looks like a bit of glorified tube has been laid along the wall but if that's all that I need then it's fine by me.
Now I need to get the installation technician back as soon as possible after I get home from holiday.
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