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[NickFitz]

The odd creature I saw outside a couple of weeks ago is back! This time I was able to get the binoculars on it and confirm that yes, it is a fox. Its tail is missing, its nearside back leg is useless and maybe shorter than it should be, as it dangles a couple of inches above the ground; and there's a large area of missing fur on its nearside shoulder and another near the middle of that side, as well as around its rump. So I think it's been run over and grievously injured some time in the past, yet managed to survive and is still out there going about its business

It's also chowing down on what looks like a bunch of dog treats or something scattered on the grass next to the second entrance of the block opposite, so somebody over there must be looking out for it - and probably for any rats that fancy its leftovers

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Grey.

Chilly in here at 13.1 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 13 deg in the leanto.

1004.5 mBar, 29.662 in Hg, 753.43696 Torr, 14.569 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 74% RH (GDR hair), 73% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 11th of May 2019 I watched MI something or other & railed at the inaccuracy of the nuclear physics, whilst NF watched Red Sparrow & railed at the Septic educational system such as it is. Enough rails to make a railway.

[ladymuck]

Sleep seems to be evading me.

Maybe join this club, that'll soon get you back on track...

https://forums.contractoruk.com/gene...mnia-club.html

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with sunny intervals and flashes of blue sky. Damp from overnight rain. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 8) with a high of 14 expected. More rain expected overnight. Barometer down to 1011 mBar.

Tired

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start after quite heavy rain late last night, but it already seems to be brightening up a little as some gaps turn up here and there. It's expected to be quite breezy throughout the day though. Currently 10°C, aiming for 14°, and the barometers are down at 994/1002mB

Feeling perhaps marginally better, though I haven't really done anything yet. My nose seems a bit bunged up

[WTFH]

Sleep seems to be evading me.

[NickFitz]

The car earlier was an Isetta BMW 300RH, or a bubble car to you and me. Sold to BMW for inclusion in their private fleet of classic cars from their range, and thus SORN ever since.

And some of the gold diggers managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat at the very ends of their seasons, but not all.

Then later, the old and young opal hunter found some opal of reasonable quality, and also went out with an aboriginal police officer to hunt a kangaroo and then cook it whole (well, apart from the guts, though they made a sort of haggis from the stomach) on a fire

Early night now as I'm still feeling a little out of sorts and generally tired

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

TFBSZ - I could do with a night’s sleep.

[NickFitz]

Tea: pork cutlets with chips and beans

[NickFitz]

I'm feeling a bit under the weather today after a poor night's sleep. I also had a bit of a tickly cough before lunch, so I did a Covid test. Negative, but I might try again later

In the meantime, lunch has been a Cumberland sausage cob

[xoggoth]

No they aren't. I just bashed 'em all down again with a sledgehammer.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast and damp out today with rain forecast from early afternoon onwards. Currently 12 degrees ('feels like' 10) with a high of 13. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.


I see I forgot to press the Post Reply button yesterday. HWMBO and I went down to Sussex to meet up with my brother, SiL and nephew to take my Mum out for lunch. A good time was had by all. The drive down was a faff, lots of traffic and people using the chevroned off area at junctions to decide at the last minute that they don't want to turn off the M25 and then just pulling into the live lane of traffic without looking for a safe gap. Saw a Lantern recovery truck but couldn't tell who was driving. They were taking the M3 exit at the time.

Work is being busy and I'm very tired. Not a good combination.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Telex machine gleaming this morning.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Drizzly.

Dire.

Chilly in here at 12.3 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto.

1003 mBar, 29.618 in Hg, 752.3 Torr, 14.547 psi, (down from 1005 last night), 73% RH (GDR hair), 73% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 11th of May 2019 I was shattered, however OPM managed to refelt his shed roof.

It would appear that I slept, but not well, being very for some reason.

Increasingly drizzly, leading to the X5 down to town, followed immediately by the 34 over to that Tesco, a hyperefficient round of shopping, then the 34 back to Neath again, followed by a damply unpleasant walk back home.

Lunch: scrambled egg and poached tomato on Morrisons sunflower and pumpkin seed toasted crust, bramble jelly and marmalade on slices of rather more toasted toast than I prefer, a red corner yog, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about railways until it started waffling on about parking fines when it suddenly went <click>.

dunno wot to do this afternoon, I suspect Freecell might be on the cards. .

Dear deity it's a miserable afternoon & no mistake. grey grey grey grey drizzly and grey.

Freecell score: 94.7%, running average 85%, so at least that was positive.

Tea: chicken in white sauce with rice n peas, some apricot halves, a yog, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: PM until the theme to "Jaws" came on.

Wheeler Dealers S9 E13 1963 BMW Isetta. Bought: £6k8, Total: £10k5, Sold: £12k to the BMW museum. After he bought it it was trailered back to workshop coz it broke down with smoke from the rear brake. The tax disc was 04/13. MOT expired May 2013. They haven't informed the DVLA of the colour change. And it's SORN.

NCIS S19 E4: "Great Wide Open": Gibbs Gibbs Gibbs goes to Alaska.

And finally, something worth looking at on Blaze: Secrets in the Sky: The untold story of Skunk Works. With that Kelly Johnson cove who started in 1933 with piston engined planes & designed the SR71. Repeated this Sunday at 19:00.