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[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?

[eek]

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…

[NickFitz]

Lunch: zingy chicken, tomato and lentil soup with a slice of wholemeal

[eek]

First world problems So Newcastle Airport has a single lounge and it's as dire as it sounds and always has been...

Won't even see it at CDG as we have 1 hour to transfer during which we need to do a tiny bit of shopping before heading off on the 8 hour flight to Guadeloupe.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with spits of rain and windy. Currently 11 degrees ('feels like' 9) with a high of 14 expected. Rain forecast off and on this morning, easing up around lunchtime. Barometer down to 1002 mBar.

I think I might have a second coffee before stand up.

[DoctorStrangelove]

This evening's car was a Mustang brought over from the USA, but I was in the kitchen when they got around to attaching a British number plate to it, if they did

Not known at DVLA. Apparently the chap who bought it was actually Real from the thread on PistonHeads.

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry. (as in not currently raining).

Damp. (as in it's rained a lot overnight).

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts until it all went white.

Chilly in here at 13.1 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 12.8 deg in the leanto.

996.5 mBar, 29.4266 in Hg, 747.44 Torr, 14.453 psi, (down from 997 last night), 74% RH (GDR hair), 75% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of May 2019 next door's brave little soldier had managed to stir himself sufficiently to aid in the assembly of the new petrol self propelled lawn mower (which he must have used at least 10 times in the intervening years) whilst NF was still tidying the old flat and disposing of ancient computer mags including a mouse defiled copy of DDJ.

Getting a bit bored with waiting for the charity collectors to turn up.

Especially since it's currently looking like A Nice Day out there.

Picked some fallen over daffs and a sprig of forsythia to place on the parents' grave in place of the dead bunch of £1 daffs.

Walk (abbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine. Naturally enough the British Heart Foundation van driver phoned up as I was about halfway through.

Five ercol chairs, a drop leaf table, a mirror, and a linen basket thing now departed. I wonder if anyone will buy them. .

I retained the 6th chair since my rather large dad had sprung the back.

The hall seems rather empty now. . Broke my foot on the table leg back in 2019.

Lunch: scrambled egg and poached tomato on Morrisons sunflower and pumpkin seed toasted crust, red corner yog, bramble jelly and marmalade on slices of toast, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about building houses on the green belt, gambling shops, and some poor bastard who shares a name and DOB with some scrote who keeps running up debts which end up with him.

And as soon as the chairs have gone, her next door but one said she'd have bought them off me if she knew I was getting rid of them.

Minor potching in the car port getting ready for more major potching when I get a round tuit.

In a fit of unusual enthusiasm, the self propelled lawnmower was pressed into use for the first time this year to mow that bit of next door's lawn that I seeded with remarkably enthusiastic grass. It grows even faster than the moss and is impressively lush, much to my distress. Theoretically it ought to be the same stuff as the top end but it's obviously much too enthusiastic for my liking. Took two days to strim that bit last year when the brave little soldier next door couldn't face the stress.

Took a bit of effort to persuade the mower to start but it eventually agreed to go, mowed two strips & ran out of petrol. I eventually remembered where the petrol can lived.

Freecell score: 100%, running average 85% (85.17%).

Tea: chicken in white sauce with rice n peas, peach slices, 2 yogs (BBE 13/3), 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: PM.

Mercedes SLK Kompressor: bought (unseen): £2010, total: £2955, sold: £3650. MOT & tax until March 2024. Replaced: headlamp, relay, hydraulic pump for roof, compressor, 2 belts, brake master cylinder, lateral g sensor thingie, rust spots.

Who do you think you are? Anne Reid. Ancestor ended up transported to Tasmania.

The Repair Shoppe: paint drying (literally) on some sort of Ukrainian icon, kayak (ditto), a notebook calendar from 1963 belonging to someone with links to the Cavern in that Liverpool place, leather chair.

Bit of "Red (2005)" with that Brian Cox chap afflicted by yobs who shoot his dawg. A bit like John Wick, I wonder where they got the idea from?

Couldn't find anything I really wanted to watch so read more of the "Space Chronicles" book. It is rather repetitive being a collection of articles over nearly 20 years.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It was more grey than not earlier but it seems the trailing edge of a front is passing across us from the northeast, so it's clearing rapidly. Still a bit breezy, and will continue so all day. Currently 9°C, 14° on the cards for later, and the barometers are down compared to yesterday at 986/994mB, but maybe they'll be bouncing back with the passage of the aforementioned front? Though looking at the pressure map, perhaps not - it looks as if a low might be coming in behind it…

[WTFH]

Morning all

I got some sleep!