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[NickFitz]

Tea: pork cutlet, chips and beans

The RAC went away again after spending some time poking about under the bonnet of the sickly black car. And a while later, the car itself was gone; hopefully, it had left under its own power rather than being towed away or anything

[sadkingbilly]

Sunrise 08:02; Sunset 15:53 GMT

Contract negotiations ongoing. Good discussions being had.

same here they won't let me retire <again>

Sunrise 08:13 Sunset15:39

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

The day started off misty but gave way to just cloud. Currently 8 degrees ('feels like' 6) with a high of 10 expected. Slight chance of rain later. Barometer up to 1014 mBar.

Sunrise 08:02; Sunset 15:53 GMT

Contract negotiations ongoing. Good discussions being had.

[NickFitz]

Lunch, then, has been a cold roast chicken leg and a bag of crisps

The RAC are outside, ministering to a small black car on the other side of the lawn. I don’t think they really need their flashing orange beacons in this location, but I suppose it’s policy or something <- but orange

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

Big Sainsbury’s wasn’t too bad, though busier than I would have liked. When leaving, at maybe 11:40 or so, the car park was noticeably emptier than when I arrived! So maybe the trick is to get there around that time, rather than trying to be early

Tins of Quality Street are now competing with unread books to make it impossible to move around the flat. But the tins will be gone by the end of next week (except my one), and there’ll be even more books

I have stuff that Needs To Be Eaten™ for lunch today and tomorrow, so that decision is taken off my hands. This leaves me free to dither over what to have for tea tonight

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It was foggy last night but had cleared by this morning, leading to a rosy-fingered dawn. But there’s grey overcast stretching almost to the horizon so as the sun has risen, the light has become increasingly gloomy. The current 5°C supposedly “feels like” -3°, which seems harsh; the high of 10° isn’t expected until this evening, accompanying probable (70%) rain. There’s also a 45-50% chance of some rain at lunchtime. The barometers seem optimistic though, being up to 1002/1010mB

Still thinking of going shopping this morning. Might as well get it out of the way, unless I decide I can’t be bothered and it can wait until tomorrow - though it’s likely to rain all day then

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Wet.

Dark.

Dank.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 13.3 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto.

1009 mBar, 29.8 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.63 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of March 2020 Brillo popped in, AndyGarbs, NF, and LM remarked on the clemency of the weather with blue skies & suchlike, whilst NF retreived the car from the MOT station and discovered they'd changed 3 bulbs rather than just the one and he'd popped into the chemists on the way back for the monthly horsepill prescription.

Shopping trip to the barber: now a lot lighter. Last visit: July.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Discovering Francis McDormand. NZ customs thing.

During the trudge to the barber's I noticed that the puddle next door has disappeared but the gardens at the other end of the lane are still underwater, but rather shallower water than a couple of days ago.

Maybe it's due to them being lower or closer to the hill at the end of the back lane.

"Funeral in Berlin (1966)" with that Michael Caine chap.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. It went <click> a lot when the Orange Mother****er came up in conversation.

Scotland Yard. "The stateless man (1954)". The one about the illegal immigrant someone tried to frame for murdering his gf.

Abandoned Engineering. S15 "Suicide Island". The Divine Wind features in this, I'll be bound. I wonder if there'll be any actual engineering in this one.

Elementary S1 E7 "One way to get off".

[WTFH]

Morning all

Clear skies most of the night, but they clouded over earlier, so it was 4C when we went out. Had a dry walk, but there has been a slight shower since we got back in.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was part one (of two) of the latest 24 Hours in Police Custody. A rather nasty case

And then I started reading Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns, in which the residents of a small village are starting to go mad and kill themselves or each other, not long after the local baker decided to try his hand at baking rye bread

I spent several hours today investigating the URL handling in the new forum software. I think I can finally see how to bend it to my will, though it involves a few weird tricks. Luckily, they provide some rather elegant ways of stepping in and overriding the standard behaviour

I might go shopping tomorrow. I’ve still got a few bits to get for Christmas, and the shops will be getting increasingly crowded and unpleasant between now and then

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs, cooked in my mango chutney BBQ sauce, with chips. Exceedingly nice

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy and dull. Currently 9 degrees ('feels like' 7) and the high was 12. Barometer up to 1011 mBar.

Sunrise 08:01; Sunset 15:53 GMT

Busy morning at the coal face. In between meetings I decided a couple of my pillow cases were a bit to crumpled and this was prime opportunity to test that steamer I bought a while back. Not a bad outcome; they just look slightly dishevelled now. With a bit of practice I could do better but I've never been one for ironing bed linen so I'm not going to start steaming them to perfection.

Need to talk to potential new client but they've not responded to my messages. This could throw all plans awry as communication of decisions is of paramount importance!

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a cold roast chicken leg

The weather seems to be turning a bit milder, with some just-about-blue streaks visible behind the clouds

In other news, I tweeted (on Bluesky, of course, but I refuse to call them “skeets”) at the chap who’d first made me aware of Barbara Comyns’ work earlier this year, in response to something related he’d posted, to thank him for that. And my tweet has just been liked by… Jack Womack, author of the excellent Dryco novel series I finished reading the other week!

[sadkingbilly]

No, he says his name is Cyril.

oh, that's ok, then

[Pondlife]

Good Morning all,

Definitely a weird energy in my calls today. Nobody wants to start a new conversation that might result in actions this close to Christmas.

Wind 2 kt from variable directions
Temperature 8°C
Humidity 87%
Pressure 1011 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more

[NickFitz]

…whilst NF's car failed the MOT on a lightbulb, then passed when they put a new one in, though a rear tyre had a nail in it.

This confused me as I though I hadn’t noticed the advisory, but it turns out I had my timings all wrong!

And there’s an advisory for a nail in the nearside rear tyre, which is extremely annoying as that’s the one with the spare on as of a few weeks ago

So it must be that I had the flat, switched to the spare, then that got a nail as well before I'd had the flat repaired

I vaguely recall it now, but there was a lot of other stuff going on at the time to do with a pandemic so I’d forgotten the details