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[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas

I was going to have oniony chicken casserole, but there isn't any left. So that'll need to be made again soon

[NickFitz]

My bedroom here has a "wardrobe" with sliding mirrored doors taking up one whole end. But within, it's just got a bunch of metal frames with baskets and rails, which are quite rickety and don't really make good use of the space. So I went looking round the IKEA website and found one of their design tool thingies, and have now planned out a bunch of units to go inside that will make much better use of it and generally be nicer

Not going to order them yet though, given I haven't actually checked how I currently use the space. I may need to adjust the number of drawers and so on

Meanwhile, the lurgy continues to not improve, though I don't think it's got any worse

[ladymuck]

The sun has indeed come out and it's a lovely afternoon. Temperature has reached 22 degrees.

The 2pm thunderstorm was postponed to 4pm and then cancelled.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cold sausages in a white bap with red sauce

The expected rainy grey continuation of the day appears to have been cancelled, as it stopped raining and rapidly brightened up by mid-morning and is now sunny and Simpsonesque out there

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Still cloudy. Damp. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 19 expected. The sun might make an appearance later this afternoon but there's also a chance of a thunderstorm. Barometer down to 1003 mBar.

Last night, well about 2.15 am, there was a big thunderstorm overhead and much rain. Lots of thunder and lightning. I thought it was moving away as the thunder wasn't so close for a while and then a huge crash bang startled me.

Not visiting Mum today but I will give her a call this afternoon.

[DoctorStrangelove]

The lurgy is still lurging; sore throat, feeling muzzy. I didn't have a particularly good night's sleep, being plagued by vivid dreams involving peculiar situations, which woke me several times

Sounds remarkably similar to my last couple of lurgies, though both of which required me to get up & take cough mixture during the night. The weird dreams were disturbing, one particularly so.

Morning.

Damp.

Dreary.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 18.8 deg, 20.5 deg in the kitchen, 17.5 deg in the leanto.

999.5 mBar, 29.515 in Hg, 749.686 Torr, 14.496 psi, (down from 1003 last night), 79% RH (Lidl electric),83% RH (GDR hair).

Meanwhile on the 10th of November 2019 I cooked a lot, NF cooked stuff, LM was on a plane again coming home from hols, WTFH's Mrs asked him to go out for a walk 3 times, and it was Remembrance Sunday.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rainy grey day out, and expected to continue so. Slightly less warm too, being 15°C with a predicted high of 20°. The barometers are down to 993/1000mB

The lurgy is still lurging; sore throat, feeling muzzy. I didn't have a particularly good night's sleep, being plagued by vivid dreams involving peculiar situations, which woke me several times

[WTFH]

Morning all
Cold and raining out.

[xoggoth]

Won on National Lottery for the second week running. Another 5 quid! Wow! Zero sleep last night, maybe shouldn't have been watching The Six Wives of Henry the Eighth so late.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday apparently.

Damp.

Dreary.

Grey.

Misty.

Cool in here at 18.9 deg, 20 deg in the kitchen, 18 deg in the leanto.

1005.5 mBar, 29.692 in Hg, 754.18 Torr, 14.583 psi, (unchanged but a tad), 76% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 9th of November 2019 NF went to the Chinese and was disturbed to find two other people waiting for their orders, one of whom broke into conversation, this always being disturbing, though the meal was very nice, much BTVS and Angel were watched, along with bits of MI and The Wire, and some obscure Chinese film had a mention.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the greyish gloom.

Lunch: there was.

Entertainment: more Kung Fu S1 dvd 1: at least this dvd played, dvd 2 & 3 not so fecking much, even after the toothpaste treatment.

More gardening: I hacked some of the accursed honeysuckle off the forsythia and the other two bushes: the pile of stuff to burn is now enormous.

Fringe S4 E22. Finally got to the end of this. At least it played.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: more irritating Kung Fu S1: one side of the dvd plays, the other has problems. Which is Really Irritating. Especially since I paid £12 for this. In 2009.

Well that's par for the course today. As per fecking usual.

[NickFitz]

Having watched an old Traffic Cops, I once again found myself feeling too lacklustre to watch anything else

I had watched the usual wildlife stuff this afternoon though

And in Australia in 1986, Thatcher's Cabinet Secretary, Robert Armstrong, has been made to look a fool repeatedly in court - and has also knowingly perjured himself on several occasions, though that wouldn't be known for sure until the relevant documents were released decades later

Early night now, in the hope it helps conquer this lurgy. And, of course, Monkey Life is on early tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

A couple of paracetamol seem to have staved off the potential migraine

Meanwhile, torrential rain has arrived. But one brave man on a bicycle was willing to battle through it and bring me my tea from Nando's

[NickFitz]

Ah, migraine aura, it's been a while

[ladymuck]

And in other news, I think I need to the prescription checked on my reading glasses. Things are looking a little fuzzier than I'd like.

I had read that, once you succumb to wearing glasses, your eyesight can deteriorate more rapidly for a while as the muscles have less work to do. Dunno if that's true.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dull and overcast again. Dampness out but no active precipitation at present. Rain is forecast but my app is not willing to say when. Currently 20 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer up a snifter to 1009 mBar.

Lazy day today. Emptied another box by throwing away most of the contents and then refilled it with things that may/should go to storage. Or be thrown away.

I'm thinking I might sell most of what's in storage rather than hang onto it, with the holy grail being getting rid of the unit or at least scaling down its size. This means a visit to catalogue it all and figure out how to take photos and measurements without bringing it all home and assembling it.