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  • NickFitz
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    There was yet another new Traffic Cops to watch earlier

    And later, some more of Inventing the Renaissance

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea: beef & Guinness casserole with chips and peas

    In other news, we have a confirmed date for the interment of Mum & Dad's ashes in a family grave in Liverpool: two weeks on Friday, 7th March

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  • NickFitz
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    Popped round to the pharmacy, where they'd neglected to fill the prescription despite having received it nearly a week ago so I had to wait

    Coming back, some aromas were missing: the Indian restaurant doesn't open Tuesdays, and the tapas bar was quiet. But there was a nice one lingering around the Korean place, mainly ginger I think

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  • ladymuck
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    Afternoon all

    Dry with blue sky poking through the clouds. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 5) and the high was 8. Very slight chance of some rain in the wee hours overnight. Barometer down to 1019 mBar.

    Sunrise 07:09; Sunset 17:22

    Feeling a lot better today but still occasionally getting nasty cramps in the abdominal region.

    Work has been quite dull.

    Had a call from a chap who runs his own mini consultancy with one client and wants me to do some work for him a couple of days a week. Contract based on Swiss law and invoiced in USD. Need to do a bit of due diligence before signing any dotted lines

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch: a Greggs steak bake

    It looked like it might cloud over earlier, but it changed its mind so it's still quite sunny out

    I've got to go round to the pharmacy for the monthly drug supply, but I think I'll leave it until teatime so I can get a whiff of nice food from the various restaurants and takeaways on the way back

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Tuesday.

    Dry.

    Sunny. .

    Chilly in here at 11.1 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 8 deg in the leanto, 5.6 deg in the saltinghouse.

    1015 mBar, 29.973 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.721 psi, (down from 1016 last night/yesterday), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 28th of December 2019 there was further discussion of "dust mice", and the Germanic version (in German: Wollmäuse), shopping was done, walks were taken, & not much happened during the day, though NF spent the early hours watching yet more Bond.

    Washing in the WM. Washing out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

    WTF is wrong with this today? Can't access the ignore list.

    Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine. Washing drying well in the breeze.

    Lunch: brunch.

    Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about dentistry and the lack of NHS dentists.

    Freecell score: can't remember, running average: 81%.

    Washing in off the line, shirts iRoned & airing upstairs, smalls in, cottons requiring the iRon iRoned though I forgot a couple so had to get the iRon out again to finish off. Bye the end it was 12 deg in the saltinghouse.

    Tea: Tesco battered cod: I thought it tasted a bit odd this week but it might have been due to using a bit more cooking oil.

    Entertainment: PM.

    Can't find anything to watch on the box until the thing about the Cold War appears on Alba later on.

    Thankfully no staying up until 02:00 watching Shooter(2016) since it finished last week.

    Apparently an ex colleague from Ye Olde Sloughe of Desponde has been found expired on Langland Beach.
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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    A few clouds earlier, with the moon peaking out between them. About 4C when we headed out, and by 06:45 I'd turned my head torch on. Didn't really need it much before then, but there is one bend on a lane where cars sometimes come round quite fast, and if they see your light reflecting off a hedge, they slow down.

    Didn't sleep well last night, been awake pretty much since 01:45. Might have an afternoon snooze today.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    Another clear(ish) start, with some low bands of cloud on the horizon and a hazy sort of thing going on higher up, but a reasonably bright sun starting to climb above the neighbouring block. It's concomitantly chilly again though, being -1°C ("feels like" -4°) with a predicted high of 5°. The barometers are steady at 1010/1018mb

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  • NickFitz
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    Tonight's viewing was some medical thing on All4, which I eventually realised I'd watched before but long enough ago that it no longer showed up as watched. IIRC the old chap with the serious neck injury dies. Might not bother watching the rest of it again

    And then Inventing the Renaissance, with some good stuff about the extremely peculiar way Florence was governed: choose nine guys by drawing lots, lock them all in a tower, give them absolute power but everything they do has to be agreed unanimously, replace them with a fresh batch every two months. It doesn't seem to have had any worse results than we tend to end up with

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been takeaway leftovers

    I realised today that I'd inadvertently arranged matters such that I was going to be eating chicken in various forms almost all week, so I've frozen some bits and will try to get a bit more variety into the menu

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  • NickFitz
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    Another day done, and the sun hasn't even set yet!

    Quite a nice, if hazy, golden orb thing going on in the west

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  • xoggoth
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    Nice sunny walky followed by tea and biccies with couple lady neighbours.

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  • ladymuck
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    Afternoon all

    Dry and bright with quite a bit of cloud. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) and that's the high for the day. Barometer up a snifter to 1021 mBar.

    Sunrise 07:11; Sunset 17:20

    Yesterday afternoon there were three parking enforcement officers all closely inspecting the multitude of Toyota Priuses that the garage next door has cluttered half the street with. I wonder if someone complained as they do tend to take over most of the street with parking of cars that are being worked on or waiting for their time in the garage. There aren't any parking restrictions on a Sunday but it is a good time to have a look at the scale of the problem.

    Today I have been under the weather. On getting home from dinner yesterday I was beset by unpleasant abdominal cramps. These continued overnight and throughout today. They have started to ease up a bit but I would like to know what triggered them.

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch: a roast pork and apple sauce bap (wholemeal) with a bag of plain crisps

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  • NickFitz
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    Links are up

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