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[NickFitz]

The fridge may be full of meaty goodness, but I couldn't be bothered to cook. So tea has been delivered from Five Guys

[NickFitz]

I've barely recovered from disposing of 70 or so years of railway magazines hoarded by my dad: my collection of Practical Electronics, Practical Wireless, Practical Television, EPE, and Wireless World is destined for the same fate, the EXE mags and the Program Now! mags met the recycling a couple of weeks ago.

There's a couple of boxes of databooks (Siemens mostly with some Ferranti & Plessey thrown in for good measure) that could well go the same way.

I've still got a few copies of EXE, along with all the copies of Byte and PCW. I am beginning to wonder if there's much point hanging on to them; I think the Internet Archive has every issue of Byte from the years when it was worth reading. Not sure about Dr. Dobb's Journal either, as they gave away a free disc containing every copy up to that point, not long before it was killed off

[DoctorStrangelove]

I've barely recovered from disposing of 70 or so years of railway magazines hoarded by my dad: my collection of Practical Electronics, Practical Wireless, Practical Television, EPE, and Wireless World is destined for the same fate, the EXE mags and the Program Now! mags met the recycling a couple of weeks ago.

There's a couple of boxes of databooks (Siemens mostly with some Ferranti & Plessey thrown in for good measure) that could well go the same way.

[NickFitz]

Home again!

Made it to my brother's place without any undue delays, where I was able to sign the IHT form. Then we had a chat, and headed down into town (if town it be). The petrol station is also the Post Office, so we were able to post the form off, and that's all done and dusted.

Onwards to the local deli/café, where I had an extremely good pork, sage and leek sausage roll and a coffee for lunch. I have a spare sausage roll, just in case, which is now in the fridge

Then back to his place, which proved to be a much tougher walk than the way down, as he lives up an extremely steep hill. That's the Peak District for you; I suppose it would be the slight bump district otherwise

And so to look through a load of boxes of old magazines and newspapers that our Dad had stored in his loft. Many of them seemed of limited value, though he must have had some reason for keeping them. But then I found an old TV Times (older than me) of which there were two copies, which suggested they merited further investigation - and sure enough, they recorded the broadcast of a TV play he wrote for Granada!

So it was worth going through them all if only to save those from the recycling; I've got one copy, and my brother kept the other

Then I headed home, but I made the planned detour via the Chatsworth Estate Farm Shop. So as well as a sausage roll, there's a load of excellent chops, steaks, ribs, sausages, and bacon in the fridge. I'll have to sort it all out, and squeeze the stuff I can't eat in the next couple of days into whatever space I can find in the freezer

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy with spits of rain. But no more forecast for the rest of the day. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Barometer down to 1014 mBar.

Laundry about to go on the WL. Bed stripped and airing, and the linen will go into the WM soon. Deciding whether to hire a Zipcar and so some storage unit runs.

[WTFH]

Afternoon all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Intermittently sunny.

Simpsonsesque in parts.

Cool in here at 17.7 deg, 18.5 deg in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto, 15.6 in the saltinghouse.

1010 mBar, 29.825 in Hg, 757.56 Torr, 14.6488 psi, (down from 1015 last night if the barometer was tapped), 78% RH (GDR hair), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 8th of October 2019 NF was watching more S3 eps of Breaking Bad (including that fan favourite "The Fly"), whereas in sunny Neath it was grey, gloomy, damp, & depressing, but oddly enough, rather warmer then that it has been recently.

Smalls in the WM.

Smalls out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Shirts in the WM.

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

Cottons in the WM.

Cottons out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

It picked with rain.

The ongoing cleaning of the salting house is now complete, or as complete as it's going to get.

Lunch: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: Moneybox waffling on about something or other.

The News Quiz.

Looks like the accursed honeysuckle infesting the bottom of the garden is the japanese variety.

Glyphosate kills it. .

Shirts in off the line & roughly iRoned.

Cottons need the iRon in off the line & roughly iRoned.

Smalls in off the line.

All now airing upstairs.

Bed remade.

Gosh my back is playing up but not in the usual way.

Freecell score: 91%, running average: 86%.

Tea: chilli con carne etc. Meh.

Entertainment: Weatherman Walking: Devil's Bridge, Margam Park.

Dixon of Dock Green S21 E5 "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads (1975)". Ooooer, there's a Sweeney style Ford Consul in car chase. And Brian Glover as a naughty man. Well that was tedious. The car chase was the best of it.

Castles: Britain's Fortified History: E1.

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: "Solo for a sparrow (1962)". Glyn Houston. Cumberbatch's mum (Wanda Ventham). William "Champions" Gaunt. Jack "Nelson Gabriel" May. Neil McCarthy. Michael Caine. Murray Melvin.

Last 20 minutes of "Skyfall".

Last half hour of "The Equalizer (2014)" with that Denzel Washington chap.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Up betimes for a Saturday, ready (well, kind of) for the journey north. I see from the radar that there's some rain up there, but it should have cleared by the time I arrive. Here, it's overcast with a chance of light rain soon. It's 12°C right now and peaking at 16° later, while the barometers are down a bit at 999/1007mB

[NickFitz]

No further viewing tonight. In Nuclear Accidents, an early Canadian reactor using heavy water as a moderator managed to achieve the world's first power excursion in 1950, which happened because the operator became engrossed in a phone call and forgot what he was doing. Then, a few years later, the other reactor next door managed not only a power excursion but also the world's first core meltdown and first reactor hydrogen explosion, all in the space of about four minutes. This was also due to operator error, multiple ones this time. Interestingly, some of the human factors identified as leading to the incident were also found at both Three Mile Island and Fukushima, suggesting that our chances of getting better at this stuff may have been overestimated

The cleanup after the second one was assisted (in great secrecy) by a large number of American personnel, the naval contingent of whom was led by one Jimmy Carter

Early night now so I'm full of vim and vigour for the drive north, and indeed south again, tomorrow. I'll be coming back via Chatsworth farm shop, where I hope to obtain a variety of excellent cuts of meat

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

have a nice weekend peeps

And you!

[NickFitz]

Bed remade!

[NickFitz]

One thing I remembered to do after coming back from the doc's was to leave the bed to air. Suppose I'd better go and remake it

[NickFitz]

NickFitz I'm sure it's all in hand but assuming all of your Mum's estate essentially passed to your Dad then you can claim the IHT allowance that would have applied to her, but remains unused, which doubles the amount of tax free proceeds you have. IHT400 and its notes...

Yes, we've got that in there, though we had to deduct the value of my Mum's jewellery, as that was all left to my sister separate from the "everything to Dad" provision. That wasn't worth very much though - they were too poor for jewellery when they were younger, and not inclined to throw money at it when they were older

Thanks!

[NickFitz]

Tea has been oniony chicken casserole and chips

Accompanied by Trucking Hell

[ladymuck]

NickFitz I'm sure it's all in hand but assuming all of your Mum's estate essentially passed to your Dad then you can claim the IHT allowance that would have applied to her, but remains unused, which doubles the amount of tax free proceeds you have. IHT400 and its notes...