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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Rain forecast this evening. Barometer down to 1009 mBar.

Sunrise 06:01; Sunset 18:16

Much excitement at the news of Heathrow being closed today due an electrical sub-station fire. Looking at Flightradar24 earlier there were two helicopters loitering over the area for BBC and Sky News. Funny how the news on the radio is focussed on the airport being shut and very little about the 100k homes also without power or any detail about the fire itself.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day for a change, but still mild: already at 10°C and trying for 16°. Chance of a shower or two this morning though! The barometers are noticeably down at 998/1006mB

Apparently today is the day of completion of the sale of the house in Liverpool where my Mum used to live with extended family (her own mother having died when she was a child), and from where she was married. She inherits 5% of the sale price so that comes, via her estate and Dad's estate, to my siblings and I. But there are some cousins who were close to the great aunt and uncle who lived there but weren't included in the will, so we're going to share it with them. And once that's done, I believe it's the last bit of business re the estates of our parents, and my duties as executor will come to an end

[WTFH]

Morning all off to the airport shortly

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Grey.

Wanly sunny (using imagination: actually grey).

Dry.

Chilly in here at 14.2 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 13 in the leanto.

1002.5 mBar, 29.6 in Hg, 751.94 Torr, 14.54 psi, (down from 1008 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of January 2020, Brillo popped in, my funny rock was identified as a bit of ancient coral, being black with embedded white spots, NF had finished off the M&S pate after 3 days of trying, WTFH was in a quandry over proposed solutions, whereas LM was with HWMBO & his kids who were watching that dancing prog & making a racket whilst doing it.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's TV was more of the RAF thing, in which they bombed the crap out of Yemen

And then I finished Between Two Rivers, the final chapters covering the subject of war, and then back to Ennigaldi-Nanna the High Priestess of the Moon in Ur and museum curator, together with other examples of what we know of the day-to-day lives of women in Mesopotamia. It's a good book; it's strange to think we know the names and daily activities of ordinary people - schoolchildren learning to write, smugglers dodging duties by hiding tin in their underwear, even priestesses (not high) running sidelines as BTL landlords - who lived thousands of years ago

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

TFBSZ.

Travelling tomorrow for a memorial service on Saturday that has both of us on edge. 59 is too young.

And as we are preparing for that, got a message from friends up in Surrey that Millie’s best friend, Teasel, was put to sleep this morning. She will be pleased to see him.

[WTFH]

TFBSZ.

Travelling tomorrow for a memorial service on Saturday that has both of us on edge. 59 is too young.

And as we are preparing for that, got a message from friends up in Surrey that Millie’s best friend, Teasel, was put to sleep this morning. She will be pleased to see him.

[NickFitz]

Delivery arrived!

It's all three volumes of The Gulag Archipelago which for some reason you can't get in the UK other than in an abridged one volume form, so it's an import from the USA

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken madras with rice and naan

Waiting for Royal Mail to deliver an Amazon parcel. They're late. TBH I wouldn't mind if they came tomorrow instead so I could stop waiting

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It was a lovely warm and sunny day with a high of 21, and still warm now at 16 degrees. Barometer continues downwards to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:04; Sunset 18:15

Yesterday was the first night this year I kept the bedroom window open overnight. Outside noises woke me up a couple of times.

Today I went to ClientCo offices for an all day workshop. After that was done with, I went to my storage unit to pick up the air bed and spare bedding as HWMBO's eldest is stopping by this weekend. Finally, I went to Waitrose to pick up a grocery order. With yea olde jalopy full to the brim, I drove home, parked outside the garage next door to unload and then found a more suitable parking space further down the road.

[NickFitz]

Done for the week, timesheet submitted, and timesheet approved!

Still a very nice day out. I even had the windows open in the living room this afternoon to get some fresh air through the place

[NickFitz]

Today has far too many meetings, to the extent that I've had to break for lunch early: the ever-popular Heinz tomato soup and white toast

When I was about six or seven, my Mum accidentally spilled boiling hot Heinz tomato soup on my leg as she was dishing out our lunch, scalding me quite badly. It's a testimony to the soup that despite the lifelong trauma this might have caused, I still really like it

And I found time to put a towel wash on - deep colours, as I still organise them that way even though there's no need because they're all ancient

Back to the meetings now…

[sadkingbilly]

Happy equinox everybody

CBS but a bit king billy here.
I really must find something constructive to do.
a bit bored TBH.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Slept well due to being knackered after the lawn raking.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 12.5 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto.

1015 mBar, 29.973 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.72 psi, (down from 1017 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of January 2020 WTFH exploded a baked potato with Millie helping with the clearup, whilst also replacing the wheels on a samsonite suitcase with some off an inline skate, LM told covbob that he did have a career, just not a standard permie one, Bluesharp popped in, and I went for a nice walk & repaired some of the paths at the viewless point and collected some more funny rocks.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. It was warm, I wore at least 1 layer too many. Bit of a change from the day before yesterday when it was 1 layer too few.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about railtours or some such, followed by a thing about lawnmowers. <click>

Thing at 13:45 about Lise Meitner.

More moss raking. 4 so far today, Despite all the eye protection managed to get some crap blown past the goggles & into my eye. . And another 4 binbags. Strewth, I've only done a third of the lawn & the garage is half full of binbags of moss. 47 here we come.

Tea: beans on toast. Oh the fibre.

Entertainment: the science thing. PM. Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge: the silicon arc, or should that be "ark"? Just askin like.

A400 just flew down the valley. there's tidy then.

Thing on Sky Arts about Michael Caine & his career: German made & dubbed into English. Inneresting enough to while away an hour and 15 minutes.

Ancient Aliens: <click> as soon as the fright haired Swiss git appeared.

Endeavour final ep on ITV3.

Currently reading "Sagittarius Rising": feck me he was lucky to escape the mincing machine by joining the RFC.

Refers to many early flying machines: back when I first read it I had no means of finding out anything much about them: now the delights of the BE2C, the Avro (in production from 1913 to 1931 WTF?), the Maurice Farnham "Longhorn", this last a most remarkable piece of construction that has to be seen to be believed: a mere 50 years separates that bag of string from the A12 Oxcart.

[NickFitz]

The daffodils in the flowerbed in the middle of the big lawn have flowered this morning! Bit on the nose, flowering for the equinox