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[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb cutlets with chips, peas and gravy

There was a bit of rain earlier and it seems likely there'll be more of it, perhaps heavier, overnight and tomorrow

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Sunny but cloudy today. No rain but some forecast later this evening. Currently 13 degrees and the high was 15. Barometer down to 1013 mBar.

HWMBO and I visited Mum. No dramas although she did accuse my brother of stealing a teaspoon.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bacon bap (white) again

The bed is airing and a bedding wash is on, as I decided a nice comfy clean bed would be conducive to a decent night's sleep ahead of the resumption of remunerated labour tomorrow

Though the morning I'm really looking forward to this week is Tuesday. That's when the mortgage payment would come out of the bank, and it appears from anecdotal online sources that the Halifax can be a bit slow about cancelling the direct debit and then even slower about refunding the overpayment. I'm not really bothered about the money as such, just curious to see whether they've improved this aspect of things as the anecdotes are from a couple of years ago, or older

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It was fairly sunny not long ago but is clouding over, and apparently it'll get windier later too. On the cooler side again at 9°C (feels like 5°) and aiming for 14°, with the barometers down the tiniest bit at 1010/1018mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chillier in here at 15 deg, 16 deg in the kitchen, 13 deg in the leanto.

1014 mBar, 29.9434 in Hg, 760.56 Torr, 14.7 psi, (down from 1020 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom & wan sunshine.

Lunch: definitely.

Entertainment: book.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 77%.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: some crap poetry thing <click>

Book.

Different book.

Another book.

Vernor Vinge short story.

Clifford Simak short story.

Talking Pictures TV: thing about the Vulcan bomber from 1960 about training a new crew.

Said Vulcan was scrapped in 1968.

[NickFitz]

Today there was a bunch of Monkey Life and then assorted other wildlife stuff, though I suspect the latter is sliding into endless repeat territory now - unless the wild dog thing is a new series, which I don't think it is

No other telly this evening, but I finished reading Burmese Days

And now it's time for bed, as I have to be up early for more Monkey Life tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Got through to the Chinese on the fourth try (engaged the first three)!

Must be a quiet weekend for them too, as it'll only take fifty minutes - I was expecting to be told to turn up around half seven, or even eight

And very nice it was too, as always

[NickFitz]

Got through to the Chinese on the fourth try (engaged the first three)!

Must be a quiet weekend for them too, as it'll only take fifty minutes - I was expecting to be told to turn up around half seven, or even eight

[NickFitz]

Lunch: bacon bap (white)

Still nice here, though there's more clouds now

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny and dry! Lumps of fluff abound. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 15 expected. Barometer notably up to 1021 mBar.

Yesterday I had the silly notion of meeting friends at Heathrow who were off on holiday to Singapore. This meant finding either a redemption flight ticket or buying a fully flexible ticket. The latter ended up being the better option. HWMBO and I met them in the First Lounge at T5 and guested them into the Concorde Room. We had a very lovely evening until we realised we couldn't actually travel to Paris that evening would have to cancel our ticket! Shame. Ticket cancelled, we had to get an escort landside which involved being dumped in the arrivals corridor and passing through the UK border. I didn't have my passport on me so I had to use my driver's license and a photo of my passport to prove I wasn't an illegal immigrant. The whole evening, including train fare cost £29 each. Bargain.

This morning HWMBO and I went to the farmers' market for essentials like venison, bacon, and chicken.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny with the merest wisps of cloud here and there today, though still a bit breezy. The temperature continues to be autumnal though; 10°C now with a high of 13°. The barometers have soared to 1011/1019mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Sunny.

Dry.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 15.3 deg, 15.5 deg in the kitchen, 13 deg in the leanto, 9.5 deg in the saltinghouse.

1020 mBar, 30.12 in Hg, 765 Torr, 14.793 psi, (up from 1014 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile the 17th of November 2019: see yesterday's post.

Shirts & smalls in the WM.

Shirts & smalls out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Shirts in off the line & roughly iRoned: airing upstairs.

Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey Cage S24: Astronauts (continued). Brains.

Lunch: there was.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the increasingly grey gloom with wan sunshine.

Smalls in off the line and airing upstairs.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 77%.

Tea: Spag "bol" etc.

Entertainment: book.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), being the origin story of the eponymous character from Mad Max: Fury Road. It was excellent, though it didn't achieve the same sense of utterly battulip insane non-stop mayhem from start to finish that the earlier film evokes. Then again, there's probably a physical law that in all the innumerable galaxies with all their innumerable stars with all their innumerable planets, in the unimaginably immense duration of time that they have existed, do exist, and will exist, something like Mad Max: Fury Road can only happen once or the entire cosmos will implode from the mass of awesomeness created thereby. So that isn't a criticism of Furiosa, just an acknowledgement of the limitations of the Universe

And then a further episode of the final season of The Wire

I received an email from the Halifax at around half past midnight, advising me that there was a Very Important Message that I had to go and read. So I did, and it told me that I'd registered my voice for the Voice ID feature on their phone line, which I already knew because it was me that had registered my voice for the Voice ID feature on their phone line

However, on backing out of the Inbox bit of the app, I realised there was something different about the home screen: my mortgage has vanished! Gone, leaving not a trace behind

I think they should give you a day or two of it still showing up with a big fat "£0.00", so you can go and look at it and feel smug, or relieved, or whatever it is you feel upon seeing that the millstone is no longer around your neck. But it just isn't there any more, and I suppose that'll have to do

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a rack of smoky BBQ ribs with fries

I've just remembered I was going to have a glass of champagne with it, but I forgot. I don't really feel like champagne tonight anyway. Maybe I'll save it until I've finally got the official written confirmation from the Halifax that the mortgage is done and dusted

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cocktail sausages and crisps again

Just prodded the work laptop into life in case anybody had any messages for me about my resumption of service next week. No, it turns out, but the mouse battery was flat so that's now recharging. Better charge the keyboard before Monday as well

That done, I have put some bedding in the wash and made myself a coffee