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[ladymuck]

Rain has commenced.

Trying to wrap up loose ends before taking a long weekend off work.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toasties

Just after I'd finished that, the mutilated fox turned up again, wandering around the lawn. A magpie and a pigeon were out there and completely ignored it even when it limped in their direction, so they must know it and regard it as mostly harmless. At one point it settled down for a good long scratch, when I was able to see that the nearside hind leg that dangles uselessly as it walks does in fact still work, if only for that purpose

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Windy and intermittently sunny although the cloud cover has increased since I got up and looks decidedly grey now. Currently 13 degrees ('feels like' 11) and that's the high for the day. Rain forecast from early afternoon onwards. Barometer down a touch to 1001 mBar.

Received a water bill from Thames Water. They've reduced my monthly payments to £5 from £36 as my account is in credit. I checked the meter reading in the bill and it was correct so I guess all that shower dodging is paying off.

[DoctorStrangelove]

The car earlier was a Mercedes SLK. They didn't do much to it, which may explain why it's still going strong with tax and MOT until the end of next February

Considering how rusty it was underneath, it's somewhat of a miracle. Pistonheads was not impressed.

Morning

Thursday.

Damp.

White sky blue in parts.

Sunnyish.

Chilly in here at 13.4 deg, 13 deg in the kitchen, 12.5 deg in the leanto.

993 mBar, 29.3232 in Hg, 744.811 Torr, 14.4 psi, (up from 992 last night), 74% RH (GDR hair), 74% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of May 2019 NF watched an ep of Bab5 "The Long Dark" followed by an ep of "Hanna", whilst on the 13th of May it was sunnyish and I stashed a bookcase full of books in plastic boxes in the garage, said plastic boxes having previously contained half a ton of databooks which met, in turn, the recycling skips, NF having tidied up the remaining untidy tomes left over from the disposal of the two little bookcases.

Walk (abbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine and semigale.

Lunch: baked potato with cheese & baked beans, a red corner yog, bramble jelly and marmalade on slices of rather more toasted toast slices again, 0.91*1.51 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: Y&Y Gap Finders: the japanese knotweed/bamboo/horse tails eradication man.

[NickFitz]

Three years ago today:

The good chip shop up the way in Jessop’s former HQ closed down tonight. I might venture across town to Grimsby Fisheries for a Pukka Pie and chips this week, assuming Boris doesn’t close everything down at 20:30

But he did

Grimsby Fisheries is now my second-closest chip shop, and still of superlative quality

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Today, after last night's wind and rain, it's a bright and sunny morning. Currently just 7°C but 14° is on the cards, and the barometers are roughly the same at 983/991mB. The forecast reckons it'll get windy again with a 40% chance of more showers in an hour to two, but there's only a tiny patch of the kind that tends to dissipate before it gets here on the rainfall radar

[WTFH]

Wet & windy overnight. Blue skies this morning, but still breezy

[ladymuck]

It's wet and windy here too.

Dinner was very nice and I had a second helping.

[NickFitz]

The car earlier was a Mercedes SLK. They didn't do much to it, which may explain why it's still going strong with tax and MOT until the end of next February

And the gold diggers are well and truly into seen-it-at-least-twice-before territory now.

After that, I decided I wasn't in the mood for any more telly. Instead, I read a load more of The Power

Very windy out again, with showers

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Guess whose Wife^TM has just tested positive for Covid?

Anyway, TFBSZ

Hope it's a mild case

[WTFH]

Guess whose Wife^TM has just tested positive for Covid?

Anyway, TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

Tea: shepherd's pie. Or maybe cottage pie, as it was made with beef rather than lamb. Either way, it's the acceptable face of mince with gravy and mashed spuds, and was very tasty

Couple more portions to go in the freezer too

[ladymuck]

On plane 2 - we landed 30 minutes late so no shopping but French border staff were waiting at the gate to allow us to enter the EU.

got to say this isn’t the CDG airport I remember…

Maybe it's easier to meet people off the plane so they can be quicker about deporting you back to the UK

[ladymuck]

I changed the bed linen on Saturday but never got around to washing it. As the sun actually came out this afternoon and there was a good breeze, I decided to press the WM into service and managed to get all bar the duvet cover on the washing line. The duvet cover went on the airer as, by the time the cycle finished, I didn't see the benefit of putting it out. I remembered to bring everything in around 6pm before it got too dark and chilly.

HWMBO has made a curry for dinner.

[WTFH]

On plane 2 - we landed 30 minutes late so no shopping but French border staff were waiting at the gate to allow us to enter the EU.

got to say this isn’t the CDG airport I remember…

Hold on... are you going to replace DI Neville Parker?