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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky again. No significant wisps. Gentle breeze. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 22) with a high of 24 expected. Barometer down to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 05:33; Sunset 20:25 BST

Looks like a bit of a mixed bag weather-wise for the bank holiday weekend. More chance of rain in London on Sunday than down on the coast. This is good news as I was hoping to do a bit of sorting out in Mum's garden if it stayed mostly dry.

Back to today: not much going on. A bit of work to do, nothing too onerous.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday. May 1st.

Wet. Very wet. Wetter than wet & it started at midnight with a little picking with rain.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Sunless.

Dreary.

17.5 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto. (It was 27 in the saltinghouse yesterday afternoon).

1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.6 Torr, 14.7 psi, (up from 1013 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, and LM popped in, with the inhabitants of TPD being described as "strange and eclectic". No bog roll in Tesco. Lots of people with facemasks.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom and light drizzle. Nice enough. No funny yellow bird today (still dunno WTF that was) but the swans have hatched 4 of the 8 eggs and the cygnets were meeting the water for the first time with mum & dad looking on proudly. They were back on the nest keeping the rest warm a bit later.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing waffling on about the Telegraph click bait "moslems only" house share thing. <click>

[NickFitz]

Just noticed from the bedroom window that the oh-so-helpful delivery guy yesterday didn’t actually take away the small blue pallet the desk came on - he dumped it in our car park out the back, where it’s taking up one of the small number of spaces!

One star knocked off, because I feel that I have a moral responsibility to go and shift it

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
Overcast, and even had a few spots of light rain on our walk.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start yet again, though with a Bank Holiday on Monday it’s bound not to last; there’s a 10% chance of rain around teatime, though the cloud that will gather for that purpose is expected to clear again before sunset. It’s currently 12°C and this afternoon it’ll be soaring to 23° in celebration of May Day. But the barometers are noticeably down at 1008/1016mB

Happy May Day to you all!

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was more of Traffic Cops, though with that watched, they appear to have run out of episodes again

And later, I started reading Len Deighton’s Goodbye Mickey Mouse, which is about US fighter pilots in East Anglia during the war

There was a brief flurry of fireworks nearby earlier. Must have been somebody celebrating Beltane

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

My new Freesat box is annoying. It doesn't let you put recordings in folders like the old one did, program list scrolling is c*p and can't see any way to delete current viewed recording without stopping and finding it in long list again.

What make / model of box do you have?

[ladymuck]

Looks like a new series of Surgeons: At the Edge of Life starts on BBC 2 on Wednesday

[xoggoth]

My new Freesat box is annoying. It doesn't let you put recordings in folders like the old one did, program list scrolling is c*p and can't see any way to delete current viewed recording without stopping and finding it in long list again.

[ladymuck]

Catching up on Forensics: The Real CSI. iPlayer seems to have full series from S3 onwards. Currently watching a lovely one about a body in a freezer (S4E1).

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight was kebab and chips. I even went round to the shop for it myself!

[NickFitz]

The week is done!

Still nice and sunny out

[xoggoth]

U3A, AKA old farts, group leaders lunch earlier. Never that keen on those things, sitting for ages surounded by loud nattering. Relaxing for a while back home with me little puppet parrot in the garden.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was chicken breast with stuffing in a wholemeal bap

[NickFitz]

The new desk has arrived!

The delivery notifications had dire warnings about “kerbside-only drop-off”, not taking away pallets, and so on. Based on past experience of delivery people, I suspected I was going to end up out on the road with 70Kg of flatpack, and had roughed out a plan for dealing with it using the sack truck

But the guy couldn’t have been more helpful! He’d wheeled it in from the road to the door downstairs and rang the bell, so I told him I’d pop straight down. I’d already put the tape measure and Stanley knife in my pocket, just in case. When I got down there, about the first thing he said was “I assume you won’t want the pallet” and started stripping off all the sheet plastic bits holding it on there. There were two separate flatpacks, the big one being the desktop - it’s a corner desk, 160cm wide and 120cm deep.

He helped me get them both into the hall, and when I wondered aloud if the desktop would fit in the lift and started measuring it, he said “Let’s check, otherwise I’ll help you get it upstairs”. So we shifted the small box to the lift, where he took one look with his practised eye and said “Yeah, no problem” and went back for the big one. Got them both in, he said “There you go, all yours now!” and off he went. Excellent service, well above and beyond what I’d expected from the notifications!