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  • NickFitz
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    Another day done; three days to Easter

    The weather continues to take a constantly changing variety of forms. Something for everyone!

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch has been a leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

    Very changeable weather today. It keeps going extremely gloomy, then turning sunny, then back again. It’s actually starting to look rather Simpsonesque at the moment, but will it last?

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  • NickFitz
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    Links are up

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  • Pondlife
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    Good morning all,

    Wind 12 kt from the West/Northwest
    Temperature 9°C
    Humidity 81%
    Pressure 1026 hPa
    Visibility 10 km or more
    Few clouds at a height of 2200 ft
    Broken clouds at a height of 2800 ft

    Went for an excellent walk in the beacons on Sat so decidedly achy today. Washing machine has started to make a god awful racket when it enters the spin cycle so that can't be good.

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Cloudy earlier which has mostly cleared, leaving occasional lumps of fluff. Currently 9 degrees ('feels like' 6) with a high of 12 expected. Cloud may return later with a chance of rain. Barometer down to 1023 mBar.

    Sunrise 06:41; Sunset 19:31 BST

    Dropped yea olde jalopy at the garage for its annual service. Not expecting any horrors to come of that.

    An easy enough time beckons at the various coal faces today.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Monday.

    Damp.

    Wanly sunny.

    Grey with spots of blue sky.

    Chilly in here at 13.7 deg, 12? in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

    1021.5 mBar, 30.165 in Hg, 766.2 Torr, 14.82 psi, (up from 1018 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 22nd of March 2020 BR14, LM, NF, LM, AndyGarbs and quackhandle popped in.

    Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Very busy in there this morning.

    Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 thing about Bosnia. Thing about radio astronomy. Techy stuff: makes a change.

    Shopping trip to Aldi and Tesco: only just had enough cash on me for that: done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

    By the time I returned I'd raised a fair old sweat.

    Now recovering by getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

    Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

    Skinwalker ranch bollox on Blaze. The Truth is in that mesa.

    NCIS S22 E11 "For better or worse".
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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    CBS, etc, although with the time change, the sun was still asleep when we went out. Lovely morning though.

    Time for all the new tax year planning, that I should really have done weeks ago, but never mind.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    About half-an-hour ago there was a thin patch in the cloud towards the east through which the sun, though not visible as such, was able to cast a bright diffuse light. But this mistake has been corrected, and it’s now uniformly grey with a shower spitting light rain, and potentially more to come. It’s also expected to be quite windy. It’s currently 6°C (“feels like” -1°) and expected to reach 10°, and the barometers are down to 1009/1017mB

    I awoke too early this morning, but only because the alarm went off at the usual time but they pulled the rug under the usual time to an earlier position. I was greatly tempted to just go back to sleep, but managed to force myself out of bed on the basis that I might as well get used to it, because they’re not correcting the situation until October

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  • NickFitz
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    This evening’s viewing was the latest episode of Ambulance

    And tonight’s reading was more of Death’s End

    Monday again tomorrow. But it’ll be Easter at the end of the week! Though a four-day weekend isn’t quite as cool as it used to be, given that I normally have a three-day one nowadays

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch earlier was a Pukka steak slice, and tea just now was chicken and chips, said fowl being seasoned enough to make it a bit zingy

    Lots of mucking around with the forum import stuff earlier. I ended up having to get vB5 running locally again which was a pain, but it was the only way to double-check something

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  • xoggoth
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    Got most of me clockies changed. Just one downstairs and me little van to do. Forgot to do it last night and got up late but fortunately nowt I had to do this morning.

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Cloudy. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 10 expected. Chance of rain. Warming expected over the next couple of days. Barometer up to 1029 mBar.

    Sunrise 06:44; Sunset 19:29 BST

    I had forgotten to press the summer time toggle button on my Sony Dream Machine ICF-C273L radio alarm clock before going to sleep so initially thought I had an hour more to lie in, until I checked my phone. I am therefore a bit behind my usual Sunday visiting schedule. HWMBO and I will be on our way soon.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    VCRs. Our ancestors clearly realised that concealing the instructions for how to do so in manuals that can't be found when you need them would baffle even such an other-worldly threat
    You'd have loved the clock setting & timer programming on the Grundig 2x4 Super. Very challenging. .

    Morning.

    Sunday.

    Dry, then damp, now drizzling.

    Grey.

    Sunless.

    Dark.

    Dank.

    Dreary.

    Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, ?12 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto.

    1026 mBar, 30.297 in Hg, 769.6 Torr, 14.88 psi, (down from 1028 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 22nd of March 2020 Brillo popped in more, AndyGarbs popped in, NF popped in, and I was watching a programme about the plague.

    Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the cold grey gloom in an effort to avoid the forecast rain: it didn't work, and despite an extra layer it was still cold.

    Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: TWTW. More news of the doings of the Orange Moron and the consequences thereof. Doomed etc. It appears more & more likely that he really is a Russian asset. .

    Tea: beans on toast with jacket spuds. Nice enough. Entertainment: Music quiz thing. History thing about Operation Mincemeat. Shorty's Dream Shop: 1955 DeSoto hemi V8.

    Beyond Skinwalker Ranch. So interesting I slept through most of it.

    Sergeant Cork S3 E10 "The case of the hero's return". Not one of the best. Bit meh really.

    Thing about rain on BBC Alba. Och ye'll have brought your Macintosh. .

    Thing on BBC2 NI in Irish Gaelic about a WWII Wellington bomber crash on a bog in the Donegal Air corridor.

    https://www.ww2irishaviation.com/hx737.htm

    More recently a white cross has been erected at the crash site.

    Sgt Court's son (84 years old) and his grandson visited the site.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    It’s another grey start and it's still a bit breezy, though not as much as it was. Therefore, the 6°C we’re getting right now “feels like” -2°; the expected high is 10°, but will presumably also be discounted. The barometers are up a touch at 1015/1023mB

    I see the BST Demon has visited in the night. Strange that such a powerful supernatural being can’t change clocks on older devices like cars, cookers, and VCRs. Our ancestors clearly realised that concealing the instructions for how to do so in manuals that can't be found when you need them would baffle even such an other-worldly threat

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  • NickFitz
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    Monkey Life and other wildlife matters graced the screen today, and did a much better job of it than any of our human leaders ever manage

    And tonight, I continued reading Death’s End

    Early night now which will, through the power of BST, be transformed into a late night

    ​​​​​​​Goodnight all

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