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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Cooler in here at 16.6 deg, 17.5 in the kitchen, 13.5 in the leanto.

1009 mBar, 29.795 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.634 psi, (down from 1010 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Left knee with toothache in it for much of the night so sleep was less than satisfying. It's not complaining now I'm up & about. .

Meanwhile on the 27th of March 2020 DaveB, LM, WTFH, NF, and I popped in, as did Brillo.

[NickFitz]

Today’s viewing was David Attenborough again, though at least it included his programmes about Singapore, which featured the otters of that parish

Monday again tomorrow. Still two weeks till the next Bank Holiday

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a chicken traybake with cherry tomatoes, shallots, and Middle Eastern seasoning. This was accompanied by spicy potatoes roasted in duck fat

[DoctorStrangelove]

Om. Well no one else seemed to be innerested.

[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was some hot wings with ketchup

I ventured over to the bins to see whether there was room for all the cardboard that came with the desk. No, was the answer; all the bins are full to overflowing. Looks like I was right to suspect they’d failed to account for the Bank Holiday

So when Wednesday comes around and the bins are all empty, I’ll have to make a few trips over to get rid of everything while the getting rid is good

More moving in has been happening across the way

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all, CBS here today. wind's a wee bit KB, but a nice day, all in all.
Garden & pond pottering done, complaint to amazon about using Nevri as a courier, as all they do is lose stuff and can't find you anyway.
full refund and £5 voucher obtained.
I see someone's stirred up the tax dodgers again
Oh, dear, oh dear.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Overcast with flecks of grey. Breezy. Currently 13 degrees ('feels like' 11) with a high of 14 expected. Barometer up to 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 05:17; Sunset 20:39 BST

Took the car up the road, came back home. Decided I didn't like the way the clutch pedal is behaving and I'd rather not push it. Informed my brother that I wouldn't be visiting today. He said Mum is in a really cheerful mood today, unlike yesterday!

HWMBO is on his way down from bonnie Scotlandshire.

The bed has been stripped and left to air, the first load is just finishing its spin cycle.

The floors have been swept but not mopped.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s cloudy again, but seems a bit gloomier with it than yesterday and is noticeably breezier, though some slivers of blue sky are to be seen here and there. The current 11°C “feels like” 5° because of the wind, and the expected high is only 14°, coinciding with a sunnier spell of an hour or two this afternoon. The barometers are still tiptoeing upwards though, being up to 1008/1016mB

I ended up having a bit of a sleep-in this morning, which was nice

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cooler in here at 17.2 deg, 17.5 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

1013 mBar, 29.91 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.69 psi, (up from 1012 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of March 2020 DaveB, LM, WTFH, NF, and I popped in, as did Brillo.

Sleep returned following on from the 05:50 awakening, with the dream before waking involving some sort of large Septic car with brakes that didn't hold on a slope.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom & cold wind, followed eventually by sunshine and cold wind.

Observed another (or the same) little yellow bird with greeny brown wings, singing away on a gate post, totally ignoring me.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus. Who the feck is that on the Archers? I turned it on by mistake.

Minor doze during the afternoon due to an overwhelming feeling of .

Then I did a bit of vaccing in the kitchen, leanto, and living room, though this last without moving anything of note.

For some unknown reason I also decided to tidy up a row of muffin fans that have accumulated dust, spider's webs, and, indeed, spiders for some years since they were extracted from blowing air over the radiator in the front room junk room cum office.

Ran a quick check to see if they were worth retaining and all but two were working well.

The spider was irritated.

Tea: beans on toast etc. sans scrambled egg since I forgot that part of it.

Entertainment: thing about reading novels on R4.

No Beyond Skinwalker since we had the clip show last week. History thing instead: Bigfoot.

Sergeant Cork S4 E2 "The case of the wounded warder".

Hazardous History with The Fonz: Stunts. Bear wrestling. Octopus wrestling. Downhill skateboarding (57 mph the max speed reached before they banned it). wing walking. The Human Fly. Locomotive crashes. The usual Septic madness.

Ancient unexplained files: Finished last week.

BBC2 NI: Inside Britain's National Parks: Dartmoor.

St. Fagans.

[NickFitz]

No Monkey Life today as they continued their reruns of anything they could lay their hands on that had David Attenborough in it. Oh well, he’s always good

Later, I read more of XPD. This stands for “Expedient Demise”, BTW, and even the guy from MI6 is starting to wonder whether his own bosses might be making such arrangements for him

I also bought a secondhand printer's lead cutter on eBay. Back when I was in the 6th form I did a Graphic Design O Level on the side, for which we travelled down to Dunstable College for an afternoon every couple of weeks, where they had an excellent printing department full of letterpress equipment. One time the guy who ran it let those of us who had our own presses help ourselves to freshly-cast leads, reglets, and rules (leads are for normal line spacing, reglets are thicker leads, and rules are for printing lines and borders). I still have a load of this stuff which was cast in lengths of about thirty inches or so, so I need some way of cutting it to size if I’m to make use of it in my Adana 8-5

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

After a quick call in at local fair took infirm old LL2 to one of those NGS garden things this afternoon, very nice place. We called in at art exhibition afterwards, 3 ladies I know from my art group had stuff up and had sold a few things. Don't think anyone would buy my monstery pics.

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought from KFC

Still nice out. It became quite Simpsonesque during the afternoon

[NickFitz]

Somebody’s moving into the former dogs’ flat!

He’s using a van from a local arts organisation based nearby, down New Walk; they do youth outreach projects and the like, and have a vegetarian café in their premises a few days a week. The van appears to be a work of art in its own right because it’s been painted so that it looks as if it’s spent the last forty years gathering muck in a railway arch with a leaky diesel tank overhead

It seems to drive perfectly well so it must look like that on purpose. I’ve already spotted one of the neighbours pausing to look askance at it. It’ll be quite amusing if it turns out he intends to keep it here

[ladymuck]

With the unexpected free time, I have had a very productive afternoon so far.

Jeans washed and hung out in the garden to dry in the glorious sunshine.

Went to the farmers' market for sausages, asparagus, and strawberries.

Took a bus to Ealing Broadway and got secateurs sharpened, a watch battery fitted, generic cards bought for my stash, and collected my H&B order. I walked back.

Trying to decide whether to drive Mum's tomorrow, as I didn't get to see her today, or just get the car booked in and find out what's wrong with it. The complicating factor is that HWMBO and I will be going on holiday next week so that'll be two weeks I don't see Mum.

[ladymuck]

Well. Neither I nor my brother and Mum made it to the wedding.

Mum refused to get ready and eventually resigned herself to getting dressed so late that my brother couldn't get her there on time.

I got to my car only to discover that someone had tried to rip one of the wing mirrors off. It was left dangling by the wires. I wasn't going to drive it with that hanging off so had to figure out how to make it safe. Fortunately, the garage next door to me was open and the young lad in there was happy to help. However, by the time that was done, there was no way I'd get to the wedding on time.

Why people feel the need to vandalise other people's belongings is something I'll never understand.