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[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb scouse and a couple of crusts of white bread

Obligatory BST-related thought: seems odd to have finished it while it's still daylight outside

Earlier, I had to go to the new GP surgery as I'm going for the annual blood tests on Wednesday and they've decided they want an early morning urine sample as well. No accounting for taste

As I don't want to have to cup my hands all the way there, I had to go and get a sample jar from reception. I've never been there before, and Google Maps suggested the best walking route was over the park to the university, then double back past the Engineering Building (which once appeared on a stamp, not that that's relevant) to where the surgery lurks in a remote corner of the campus. So I went that way and it brought me to the staff entrance, which had a notice explaining that the main entrance is actually from the park. And there's no way to get around the building from there

So I had to walk down through the adjoining sixth form college, and round by the road, and back into the park on the path at the bottom and finally found the gate in the railings that lets you get in there. Ah well, I know now, and it's a slightly shorter walk than going through campus. And that bit of campus isn't very interesting to walk through anyway, being mainly a car park, though one does pass close to the house where David and Richard Attenborough grew up when their father was Principal, which sits incongruously surrounded by towering 1960s and 1970s buildings

[NickFitz]

Lunch was herby chicken, tomato and lentil soup with a bit of wholemeal

Minor panic halfway through it as I suddenly remembered there were various meetings this afternoon. But it turned out I had thirty minutes left until the first one

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

For those who like such things, The Chain (1984) written by Jack Rosenthal and starring such luminaries as Nigel Hawthorne, Leo McKern, Warren Mitchell, and Anna Massey is on Talking Pics TV at 11:15

[ladymuck]

And I got up early enough to get the last of the laundry done and hung about.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Lovely sunny day, warm in the sunshine, chilly in the shade. Currently 8 degrees with a high of 9 expected. Light showers forecast overnight. Barometer significantly up to 1024 mBar.

Off to Sofia again today, back this evening. Currently delayed but the bonus is that the flight has changed to T3 for the summer schedule so I get to visit the Cathay Pacific, Qantas, American Airlines and the BA lounges (although why bother with the BA lounges when there's CX to go to).

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto, 7 deg in the saltinghouse.

1022 mBar, in Hg, Torr, psi, (up from 1017 last night), 75% RH (GDR hair), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of May 2019 I donated some books to Oxfam (that must have been a long stagger from the docks to Castle street), while the SS Galatea, a buoy vessel, was leaving the docks, and someone had found some work for me to do, while NF had scored some cumberland sausages by mistake.

Smalls in the WM.

Smalls out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Cottons in the WM.

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Walked down to catch the 34 rather than waiting for the X7, but the 34 was late, so I missed the 34 on the way back by a second, caught the 204 instead.

Cottons out of the WM & pegged out on the line in the sun.

Lunch: poached tomato and scrambled egg on Morrisons sunflower and pumpkin seed toasted crust, bramble jelly and marmalade on slices of lightly toasted toast, red corner yog, 0.91*1.51 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about the usual whines & complaints.

TWATO.

Shirts in off the line & roughly iRoned whilst listening to

The Infinite Monkey Cage: Magic Materials.

Walk (abbreviated) walked in the sunshine: warm on the way up, not so warm on the way back down with the wind in my face.

Those cottons that were dry in off the line & those that required iRoning duly iRoned, now airing over the banisters.

Tea: chicken in white sauce with rice nn peas, the last of the mango slices, a yog, 0.91*1.51 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: as much of PM as I was able to tolerate, which wasn't much. Apparently some scot who's never done anything other than politics (aside from about 5 minutes in an O2 call centre) is now the leader of the SNP.

Wheeler Dealers S10 E3 Range Rover. Unknown on MOT site. Bought: £5k, total: £9565, sold: £10k5. Paint job. DeGary-ed. New injection loom. New airpump. Refurb wheels.

Everything in off the line & airing upstairs, smalls & cottons.

NCIS S19 E5 "Face the strange": GibbsGibbsGibbsLess.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Ripply clouds with gaps letting the sun through quite often out there this morning. Chilly still at 2°C, maybe reaching 8° later, and the barometers have soared upwards to 1013/1021mB

Feeling rather BST-lagged today; a night plagued by odd and occasionally unsettling dreams hasn't helped

[WTFH]

morning all

[NickFitz]

There was supposed to be a new episode of 24 Hours in A&E but it started with an old introduction from St. George's in London rather than the Nottingham one, and the first patient was a woman who fell backwards into an empty swimming pool, who I saw in an old one a few weeks ago. So it's either a clip show or a repeat. Therefore I watched an old one I haven't seen instead

And then I started reading Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood, which is about a young oracle who's sacrificed to Poseidon by the prince of Ithaca, only for Poseidon to save her life, albeit changing her into something not quite human, so she can avenge him for something Odysseus had done centuries before that had annoyed him.

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The bed was made earlier when doing one of many trips with laundry.

Just remembered that the WM beeped a good while ago and I've not rescued the contents for draping about. This means that the last load, HWMBO's shirts, have not been washed but he's not back until Wednesday so I've plenty of time yet. I'm not putting another load on now as that means I'll have to stay up to wait for it to finish.

[NickFitz]

And on a 'chury too! (Not that WTFH will appreciate that, being on a different post count an' all)

I like the tag on the birthday thread

Tea has been a nice big fry-up

And TV has been the usual Canadian customs and New Zealand traffic cops

[ladymuck]

Much laundering has been done. Although it took several hours for me to get started on it because I was updating my naff travel blog with my travels.

[ladymuck]

Fixed

And on a 'chury too! (Not that WTFH will appreciate that, being on a different post count an' all)

[NickFitz]

I remember this forum when lickspittles used to wish mods a happy birthday in the hope of us looking favourably on them. Doesn’t seem to happen any more.

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