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[NickFitz]

The flat's hallway has now been cleared of clutter, providing all the access they're going to get for delivering the washer-dryer short of taking a few walls out, which is forbidden by the terms of the lease. I even vacuumed it! Surprising how much dust gathers in a wholly interior space

And Amazon have just delivered some cheap runners which I'll put down to protect my lovely 1960s parquet floor

The tricky bit is going to be the kitchen door, where they'll have to sort of pivot it to get between the units within and the doorframe. There's a corner cupboard whose door I could remove, which would give them an extra couple of inches. But I won't bother with anything like that unless the situation demands it; it'll only take a minute to remove it if it's needed, but then I'd have the tricky business of putting it back on

If the whole kitchen door needs to come off…

[xoggoth]

Back from hotel stay after nephew wedding. As usual it was me got the loony dancing going.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start here, though there's also cloud around and it'll get cloudier by lunchtime. It's still warm enough but not too warm, being 16°C with a goal of 20° this afternoon. The barometers are back up a bit, at 1010/1018mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday?

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cooler in here at 19.3 deg, 19.5 in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto.

1016 mBar, 30 in Hg, 762.1 Torr, 14.74 psi, (up from 1015 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of February 2020 NF was unimpressed with the pace of the first eps of "Picard", WTFH was wondering if he could finesse another trip to Memphis, Brillo was railing at the lack of trains, BR14 popped in, opm declared it was raining in Manchester (quelle surprise), and it was equally fine around here (ditto).

[NickFitz]

I read some more of The Rewind Files tonight, in which confusion grows around who exactly is responsible for Watergate, and whether it's supposed to have been stopped or not

Early night now as I'll need to make sure everything's ready for the washer-dryer stuff tomorrow morning. This will include moving some stuff in the hall, which is really an L-shaped corridor running through the flat to the kitchen.

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Ah! That all connects up rather nicely.

The plot thickens! There's also Goose Bay Airport which is probably the one Shute was referring to, built during the war and now largely a military airfield, though it does have some commercial flights as well. According to that Wikipedia article, it was named Goose because they already had an airfield named Gander

[ladymuck]

I didn't know that specific fact, but thanks to Nevil Shute I did know that Gander is the location of an airport that was part of the transatlantic air routes in the days before planes could make it across in one go. And there's also a water aerodrome for seaplanes called Goose

Ah! That all connects up rather nicely.

[NickFitz]

As an aside, did you know that Gander is the name for the oceanic airspace between the east coast of Canada and roughly halfway across the Atlantic?

I didn't know that specific fact, but thanks to Nevil Shute I did know that Gander is the location of an airport that was part of the transatlantic air routes in the days before planes could make it across in one go. And there's also a water aerodrome for seaplanes called Goose

[NickFitz]

Tea has been sausages and chips

And I'm finally on to the new series of the motorway cops thing, which is now with Humberside police who at least have a few more motorways

[ladymuck]

Turned out sunny here too, this afternoon.

There's been a flurry of activity this morning/early afternoon.

The landlady turned up with a brickie to see what could be done about the garden wall that the tree was pushing over. They think it ought to come down entirely and be rebuilt. I can see a huge increase in my rent next year if I decide to stay put. If the quote is to her liking then hopefully the work could be done while I'm away at the beginning of September.

Then I called a car body workshop (what they'd call a coachworks back in the day and what the company call themselves too, I was pleased to observe) to see if they needed an appointment for giving my car a once-over for quotation purposes. They advised such formalities were not necessary so I off I toddled to the outskirts of Watford going past RAF Northolt and having a gander at Ruislip high street on the way.

As an aside, did you know that Gander is the name for the oceanic airspace between the east coast of Canada and roughly halfway across the Atlantic?

I also called a local independent optometrist to make an appointment for a sight examination.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a bacon butty

Turning sunny out now, though there's still a lot of cloud in the other direction

[xoggoth]

Nephew wedding this afternoon. Fortunately the moths had not eaten the gray suit I haven't worn in about 20 years.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day again and staying on the cooler side, being 17°C and getting no higher than 19°. It's still breezy too, giving a "feels like" temperature of 14°. The barometers are still dithering around 1008/1015mB

The new washer-dryer is arriving, and indeed the old one departing, tomorrow between 13:15 and 15:15! I'm glad it's not one of those 7am slots

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday?

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 19.9 deg, 21.5 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.

1013 mBar, 29.91 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.69 psi, (up from 1011 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 9th of February 2020 LM went to the BM via the underground, followed by a viewing of "Parasite", Brillo popped in, along with BR14, whereas WTFH visited TN (patron state of shooting stuff), Arkansas (where the toothpick came from), and Mississippi (where they burn a lot of stuff), and NF made a nice burger for tea, while I watched Doctor Who (no comment made), followed by Endeavour (naughty Morse).

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Walk (towpath) walked in the sunshine. Got hit in the eye by a bumble bee.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey change waffling on about light. Since I seem to be approaching this during the weekly iRoning session, no doubt I'll listen again in a few weeks.

3 lawns duly mown and yet more brambles cut back. Stone me they do grow really quickly.

Them next door (the relatives) have a work person in doing stuff. This is so remarkable that I've remarked upon it. Wot my late mother would say about the state of the house I really dread to think.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 83%.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg, which reminded me what I forgot to buy this morning: eggs.

Entertainment: PM <click> 18 o'clock news. <click>

"A day begins in Manchester" (1960s). Manchester docks. No wonder containers took over. Steam engines. 6% thermal efficiency. No wonder diesel took over. Newsprint. No wonder the interweb took over. . (Presumably the Manchester Grauniad).

Spent ages searching for this:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106948...=fn_all_ttl_17

Got there in the end: I'd correctly remember Lauren Bacall being in it, but its listed on imdb under "Screen One" rather than "A Foreign Field".

And the author:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32551660/?ref_=ttcnn_sm

Talking Pictures on BBC4: The Silence of the Lambs.

[sadkingbilly]

oh, forgot.
Morning all
still jacobs here, maybe i AM actually too old for this sh1t.