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[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Turkish place

Consumption thereof was accompanied by Kingdom on iPlayer, being the final episode apart from the inevitable “making of” one

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

After yesterday’s gloomy grey skies, today it’s sunny - though somewhat attenuated from time to time by wisps and sheets of very thin, high cloud. The relatively open sky has let the temperature drop a bit: it’s currently on today’s high of 8°C, though even that “feels like” 3°. The barometers are back up to 1012/1020mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue skies are back. Currently 4 degrees with a high of 9 expected. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses. Barometer up to 1029 mBar.

Sunrise 07:59; Sunset 15:52 GMT

Decided to trace the director of a company whose post keeps coming to my address and ask them if they'd be so kind as to inform their creditors that they don't operate from it. I suspect I'll get either nothing or a load of abuse back. They're some kind of performing arts person with quite the list of credits but their registered office is some golfing activity centre. All very suss.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Hints of sun possibly existing.

Chillier in here at 13.6 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto.

Looks a tad frosty out.

1022 mBar, 30.18 in Hg, 766.6 Torr, 14.82 psi, (up from 1019 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of March 2020 WTFH found it frosty, Brillo popped in, along with Scruff and LM, with much talk of "Squawk 7700".

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Warm it wasn't.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC.

Feck feck feckity feck: the box containing Nut&Bolts (win95) has everything still in it apart from the licence number. Bollox. I loaned it to someone yonks ago & never checked that the registration thing came back. Ho hum.

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 84%.

Tea: 3 bean soup etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM with a presenter I can tolerate. . Can't say that very often.

"Operation Crossbow (1966)" with George Peppard. Apparently "they" had managed to build a Ernst Stavro Blofeld underground launch site for the A10 ICBM. Er, yeah, right.

Thing about sheep who live on a Shetland Isle by eating seaweed.

Weatherman Walking: Brynmawr to Abergavenny. I used to walk just across the road from that cinema. That new road down the Clydach gorge looks impressive. Even more impressive that it's 50 mph all the way. Well, then again, I'm sure the Sennedd could have made it 20mph if they'd turned their minds to it. I used to drive up the 3 lane version at 75 back in the long ago.

Scotland Yard: the chap blown up in a quarry one: Polish emigre cum spy.

Maigret "Murder on Monday (1962)". Apparently it's not a Done Thing to murder on a Monday. The one where the unemployed chap sitting on a bench is murdered.

If there's owt else to watch I ain't found it. .

[WTFH]

Morning all
frosty out.
car being delivered on 22nd

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Shadow (2018), a Chinese film. I assumed this would be full of martial arts and such, but more fool me: it was mainly about honour, and correct presentation at the Royal Court, and so on - though it did culminate in a load of martial arts stuff, and almost all of the main characters ended up dead in interestingly gory ways, so I’m not complaining

And then a rewatch of Battle: Los Angeles (2011) which is pure hokum from start to finish; but why shouldn’t it be? As they used to say, that’s entertainment

Finally, an episode - E6, apparently - of Alien: Earth. This is an OK series, but I had to keep remembering how various characters fitted into the story. If they’d made it good enough that I had to keep watching, or good enough that I remembered all of the context when I resumed watching, then it would have been good enough. But it seems that although it’s not bad, it’s neither gripping nor memorable; or not enough of either

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Today on scrambled maps, I made the mistake of selecting Medan, Indonesia.

I’ve been working round the countries, and have arrived at the last one, which is now state by state - and I’m at Maryland.
Overall 87.7%

[NickFitz]

Spag bol for tea

Must remember to put the mundane laundry on

[ladymuck]

Today on scrambled maps, I made the mistake of selecting Medan, Indonesia.

[WTFH]

Car is now showing on the government website. it's getting closer.

[NickFitz]

There were a couple of slices of gravy-coated beef and a solitary roast spud left over from dinner last night. So that was lunch

[NickFitz]

Meanwhile on the 6th of March 2020 Brillo popped in, LM & NF shared concerns with him, NF took the car for its MOT, and I was doing the washing.

That was the MOT which mentioned a nail in a rear tyre in an advisory that I didn’t notice at the time, resulting in a flat tyre a few weeks later, and a load of hassle to get it sorted out while the country was in lockdown

[NickFitz]

That sounds far too complicated

It is complicated! Each day worked accrues 0.965 hours (approximately, it turns out) of leave. Then when leave is taken, the accumulated total to that point is reduced, but those days also don’t accrue any additional leave. So it gets very confusing when you’re trying to work out how much there’ll be at some given time, several months in advance. I ended up creating the spreadsheet the other year because I was trying to work out in February how taking a week off for my birthday in April and another for my niece’s wedding in September would affect the time I planned to take off for Christmas

[ladymuck]

I realised the other day when “booking leave” that the agency’s “holiday year” ends on the last Friday of the month, so my carefully-calculated plan to include 29 to 31 December was foiled. They’ll just pay what’s outstanding anyway so it’s not like I lose anything by it, but it means I made a mistake setting up my leave-accumulation-and-consumption spreadsheet back in January

Mind you, I haven’t got the calculations absolutely correct anyway, as there’s an additional two hundredths of an hour (1.2 seconds) in the official figure that isn’t showing up in the spreadsheet. This demonstrates why it’s a good thing I’m not an accountant

That sounds far too complicated

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dull. Damp, Drizzly. Overcast. Currently 13 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 07:58; Sunset 15:53 GMT

Long meeting this morning and now I'm in the hairdresser's getting the greys painted over. ConsultancyCo have their Christmas party today, which I never intended to attend and so booked this "personal appointment" into my calendar instead.