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[NickFitz]

Busy morning. Meetings plus car body shop research. In checking my car today, the damage isn't as bad as I'd feared. There's no dents or holes, just a nasty scrape. I took the car down to a garage just 10 mins away (convenient for drop off / pick up compared to the place that did all the work last year). They quoted £564 including VAT which is about what my excess is so, regardless of whether I get stiffed by the Uber driver, I'll get it done. That includes a full valet, which is almost worth it on its own

Excellent!

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dull, overcast. Damp in the air but no precipitation. Currently 11 degrees ('feels like' 9) and the high was 12. Barometer up to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:13; Sunset 18:07 GMT

Busy morning. Meetings plus car body shop research. In checking my car today, the damage isn't as bad as I'd feared. There's no dents or holes, just a nasty scrape. I took the car down to a garage just 10 mins away (convenient for drop off / pick up compared to the place that did all the work last year). They quoted £564 including VAT which is about what my excess is so, regardless of whether I get stiffed by the Uber driver, I'll get it done. That includes a full valet, which is almost worth it on its own

[covbob]

Afternoon denizens

Very grey and overcast here but at least it isn't raining right now. Middle child is off school sick which is making today fun.

Lunch was oxtail soup and bread.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a small pork pie

It brightened up earlier, but it’s gone quite gloomy and grey now

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday apparently.

Damp.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Chilly in here at 13.8 deg, 13 in the kitchen (pressed the lcd), 11 in the leanto.

1010.5 mBar, 29.84 in Hg, 757.9 Torr, 14.656 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 20th of March 2020 NF saw some persons in the Polish Cafe, LM took a trip with HWMBO to Tesco, BR14, eek, and quackhandle popped in, quackhandle with industrial quantities of bogroll, whereas I was doing the washing.

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

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the Eyerack disaster with another contribution from BLiar.

Just had the council tax. .

Just had the water rates. .

Trip to that Swansea to dispose of this month's readings and pop to M&S whilst it's still there, plus get some money out of the bank, and buy a book in Waterstones who only had one I was looking for: another Penelope Lively.

Completely forgot the intention to purchase the "Elementary" boxset.

X7 down, with a curious diversion off Fabian Way due to it being dug up: saw the back of Amazon & much else I'd never previously encountered: didn't know WTF I was for some of it. Then a 34 back with the idea of popping to Tesco which was duly cancelled due to the ongoing drizzle.

Popped into a couple of charity emporia in Neath just in case they might have a book: naturally enough they didn't.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough though the sauce isn't very white with additional chilli powder, peppers, curry powder, and hot smoked paprika. Entertainment: PM. The Orange Mother****er is busy railing against clouds in his usual demented way. Sad, so sad. .

Blaze: skinwalker ranch bollox.

5USA+1: NCIS S22 E9 "Humbug". No "Bah!" though. .

Ah, that's where I've seen Seamus Dever before: "Castle".

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast, but the rain that caught us at 6:30 on our walk has now stopped.

A good weekend in Cardiff, even if everything didn't quite work out the way I would have liked.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Layers of cirrus and cirrostratus cover a lot of the sky, though a large blue area has opened up between them to the west. The wind seems to have dropped a bit for now but it’ll be back for much of the day. Our current 5°C “feels like” -2°, with an expected high of 11°. The barometers are back up to 1000/1008mB

[NickFitz]

Tonight I started reading The Dark Forest, part two of the Three-Body Problem trilogy

Monday again tomorrow. Still three weeks till Easter!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

The drive to Mum's was uneventful. The drive back was uneventful until I reached Henleys Roundabout where the A30 becomes the A4.

An Uber driver caught the driver's side rear wing of my car as I presume they were following too close and not paying enough attention and I needed to quickly stop at a zebra crossing.

He insisted the damage will only take an hour to fix and he'll pay cash. I'll give him the opportunity to do that, as I bet my insurance company would prefer to write off my car than pay for repairs. I suspect he's going to be surprised at the cost of repair and respray of a bumper and rear panel. The same panel that had extensive rust repairs done on it 6 months ago.

Poor car

[ladymuck]

The drive to Mum's was uneventful. The drive back was uneventful until I reached Henleys Roundabout where the A30 becomes the A4.

An Uber driver caught the driver's side rear wing of my car as I presume they were following too close and not paying enough attention and I needed to quickly stop at a zebra crossing.

He insisted the damage will only take an hour to fix and he'll pay cash. I'll give him the opportunity to do that, as I bet my insurance company would prefer to write off my car than pay for repairs. I suspect he's going to be surprised at the cost of repair and respray of a bumper and rear panel. The same panel that had extensive rust repairs done on it 6 months ago.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a Pukka chicken & bacon pie with chips

To go along with that, I’m watching the new Ambulance on iPlayer

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

I got distracted by the forum import stuff earlier and forgot to post weather stats!

It’s cloudy and windy again. Currently 10°C which is as good as we’ll get, but “feels like” 1° because of the wind. The barometers are roughly unchanged at 993/1001mB, and showers are expected to start soon and carry on through the afternoon

On the forum import stuff, I sorted out the vB5-style quotes so they’ll end up with the correct values. I also checked video and image tags are converted correctly. And they’ve changed [noparse] to [plain], though their conversion code takes care of that OK. But I’m so used to [noparse] that I’m tempted to add it back as a custom code and point it to the same functionality, as that appears to be an option

Quick lunch break now though I’m not that hungry, so I’m making do with a bag of chicken crisps

Walkers have changed the packs to a slightly redder shade of orange. I assume this involved extensive consumer research and focus groups and such, but I’m sure it was money well spent

[xoggoth]

Family thing was ok yesterday, my favourite nephew was there. Sister staying for weekend, but I'll get a nice meself day tomorrow.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Dry. A bit of a breeze tickling the trees. Currently 9 degrees ('feels like' 7) with a high of 11 expected. Barometer up to 1014 mBar.

Sunrise 06:16; Sunset 18:06 GMT

Off to see Mum today. For a change, my brother will be there rather than gigging with his band. That means an opportunity to get him to do a job on my car