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[ladymuck]

The plumber refitted a few parts then ran off pretty sharpish. On inspection, I could see why. When pulling the new handle, the lever inside was bashing up against the lid of the cistern so you either had a pathetic flush or had to lift the cistern lid to get a full flush. Five minutes of investigation and two minutes with a junior hacksaw sorted the issue.

[NickFitz]

The plumber turned up 15 mins early!! Unheard of in my experience. He's busy replacing most of the innards of the cistern as it's all old and decrepit.

My old landlord did the plumbing himself, though after watching him at work on my cistern a few times, I figured he'd probably picked it up from a secondhand copy of The Reader's Digest Book of DIY he'd found at a jumble sale

Lunch has been Heinz chicken soup with white toast

[ladymuck]

The plumber turned up 15 mins early!! Unheard of in my experience. He's busy replacing most of the innards of the cistern as it's all old and decrepit.

[NickFitz]

Oh and in yesterday's news, the handle on the toilet broke off. Totally corroded. I have to lift the lid on the cistern and pull the lever to flush. Thankfully, the landlady is pretty responsive and a plumber is coming at lunchtime today to sort it out.

Mine has a button. It's not the main reason I bought the place, but it helped

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but bright enough. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Showers forecast this morning giving way to a sunnier afternoon. Barometer down a bit to 1017 mBar.

Tired this morning.

Oh and in yesterday's news, the handle on the toilet broke off. Totally corroded. I have to lift the lid on the cistern and pull the lever to flush. Thankfully, the landlady is pretty responsive and a plumber is coming at lunchtime today to sort it out.

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^Good show.

Morning.

Tuesday.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

18.5 deg in here, 19.5 deg in the kitchen, 18 deg in the leanto.

1009 mBar, 29.795 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.634 psi, (down from 1013 last night), 77% RH (GDR hair), 79% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of July 2019 PhilTheGreek had two soft boiled eggs for breakfast, whereas I fell asleep reading a book & then awakened with a bump (undefined).

Entertainment: The Long View on R4: compare & contrast the antisemitic Henry Ford (nice medal from dear old Adolph), Clive of India, and Elon Musk (medal from Putin?).

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Very grey and gloomy start out, with light rain just starting as I typed "but not raining yet". Currently 13°C and soaring to 21° later, while the barometers are down a bit at 1002/1010mB

I had a good night's sleep this time, for which much thanks

[NickFitz]

Tonight's opal hunters did their usual muddling through and seemed happy enough. And some of the gold diggers were doing fairly well for themselves

My tea has stayed where it was put, at least for now

And I'm exhausted after the lack of sleep last night, so an early night for me

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Oh, and today I found out that ClientGov have sorted out their cost codes and stuff, so I won't be getting next week off. Instead, I'll be the sole developer/technical person left on this project, dealing with any last-minute fixes and helping the team who'll support the service, until we finally go live around the end of October

But I raised the point that I needed to use up my leave, and they're wholly in agreement that I deserve a break. So as the next thing won't have the same urgency as this, they'll make sure it happens

[NickFitz]

Still very tired from lack of sleep, but the innards had subsided to the point where it seemed likely that the present discomfort was more from hunger than anything else. So I took the risk and had tea: oniony chicken casserole with just a few chips, because that's fairly mild. Very nice, and no adverse reaction in the five or ten minutes since finishing it

[NickFitz]

If you'd applied yourself you'd have gotten 100%

From an early age, I'd realised that "good enough" was better than most other people could manage

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky and lumpy fluff. Damp from overnight rain. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Rain forecast for the wee hours. Barometer up a bit to 1019 mBar.

One week of work and then off to Thailand. Hurray.

[ladymuck]

My sister has been going through our Mum's archives and, amongst other treasures, presented me with my school reports from our last two years in Liverpool, when I was aged 7 to 9

I find it amusing that my teachers' comments tended to be along the lines of "Must start to apply himself in class" and the like, while further down the same page it'll say things like "Exam results: 98%" and "Place in year: 1st of 70"

If you'd applied yourself you'd have gotten 100%

[NickFitz]

Swot!

Apparently I was more or less top of the 1st years in Grammar skool. By the time I got to Loogabaroo I was bottom of the class. Took a while to recover things and that didn't happen at Loogabaroo. Makes you wonder quite why I'm in their old farts thingie.

My status also declined in the ensuing years, though I think the move to Bedford and subsequent 11-plus scholarship didn't help as much as they might have. Back in Liverpool they were already commenting on my complete lack of interest in Sports, and I ended up at a school that was academically excellent but also extremely sports-focused