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[NickFitz]

Freezer defrosted!

The drawers have been washed and dried and reinserted, the fridge-freezer as a whole has been turned back on (because it’s all or nothing), and the SuperFreeze™ button engaged

It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes to get down to a point where it makes sense to transfer the stuff back from the other freezer

I was pleased to see that the fridge part hadn’t warmed up very much at all - it’s still at an acceptable temperature, so my sausages etc. are safe

[xoggoth]

Nice walk with (not) loony lady 3 yesterday by some lakes. Nowt on today except drink at village club maybe.

There's a tiny little spider wandering around on my monitor. Some company anyway.

[NickFitz]

Today’s big adventure is defrosting the freezer. It hasn’t got that icy in there over the three years I’ve been here, but it had built up to the point where it was starting to feel like Something Should Be Done. Then, the other day, it turned out one of the drawers hadn’t gone all the way back in because of ice, which in turn meant the door wasn’t quite closed. It was only a tiny gap but it had the unfortunate effect of somehow making the ice grow, making it even harder to get the drawer back in properly when I discovered what had happened. A good hard shove did the trick, but I can’t be bothered doing that every time, so I’ve turned it off, opened the door, and placed bowls of hot water within to help the thawing process along

The old freezer hasn’t yet been disposed of, but struggles to get any of its shelves below -10°C nowadays. But it’s able to serve as a temporary repository for the frozen stuff, because that’s better than leaving it all out at room temperature

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with high level wisps hanging about. Currently 8 degrees ('feels like' 6) with a high of 11 expected. Barometer down to 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 08:00: Sunset 15:52 GMT

Bed stripped and airing. The bedroom window is open a crack for extra airing. Laundering will commence when I get home from Mum's.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rather a grey and windy day, and expected to continue so. It’s 8°C, though that “feels like” 0°, and will only get as high as 10°. The barometers are heading back down again at 1004/1012mB

Looking ahead at the 10-day forecast, it appears that the weather in the buildup to Christmas Eve will continue in much the same vein, though with the added likelihood (65%-90%) of rain on six of those days and the possibility (unquantified) of sunny spells on just one of them

Anyway, it’s Sunday and I don’t have ClientGov work on Monday, so that’s enough reason to be reasonably content

[WTFH]

Morning all
Currently a 1 car family. Oh, the shame!

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ But at least he wasn't the Orange grandson of a pimp.

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Hints of sun.

Chilly in here at 14.1 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

1013 mBar, 29.91 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.69 psi, (down from 1018 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of March 2020 Brillo, eek, and AndyGarbs popped in, whilst NF took his car to the vets for an MOT then wandered around doing some shopping on the way back home.

Looks like they are having somewhat less than fun in Sydney. I wonder which brand of nutter is responsible for this one. Ho hum. Ah. That brand of nutter, who'd have guessed?.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. A layer less than yesterday so I didn't overheat.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about David Harewood. <click at the first bar of the music for next POS>

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère, which uses the evidence in the diaries (particularly the bits he wrote in a mixture of Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, and anything else that came to mind) to demonstrate what a thoroughly reprehensible person he was

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Turkish place

Consumption thereof was accompanied by Kingdom on iPlayer, being the final episode apart from the inevitable “making of” one

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

After yesterday’s gloomy grey skies, today it’s sunny - though somewhat attenuated from time to time by wisps and sheets of very thin, high cloud. The relatively open sky has let the temperature drop a bit: it’s currently on today’s high of 8°C, though even that “feels like” 3°. The barometers are back up to 1012/1020mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue skies are back. Currently 4 degrees with a high of 9 expected. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses. Barometer up to 1029 mBar.

Sunrise 07:59; Sunset 15:52 GMT

Decided to trace the director of a company whose post keeps coming to my address and ask them if they'd be so kind as to inform their creditors that they don't operate from it. I suspect I'll get either nothing or a load of abuse back. They're some kind of performing arts person with quite the list of credits but their registered office is some golfing activity centre. All very suss.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Hints of sun possibly existing.

Chillier in here at 13.6 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto.

Looks a tad frosty out.

1022 mBar, 30.18 in Hg, 766.6 Torr, 14.82 psi, (up from 1019 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of March 2020 WTFH found it frosty, Brillo popped in, along with Scruff and LM, with much talk of "Squawk 7700".

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Warm it wasn't.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC.

Feck feck feckity feck: the box containing Nut&Bolts (win95) has everything still in it apart from the licence number. Bollox. I loaned it to someone yonks ago & never checked that the registration thing came back. Ho hum.

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 84%.

Tea: 3 bean soup etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM with a presenter I can tolerate. . Can't say that very often.

"Operation Crossbow (1966)" with George Peppard. Apparently "they" had managed to build a Ernst Stavro Blofeld underground launch site for the A10 ICBM. Er, yeah, right.

Thing about sheep who live on a Shetland Isle by eating seaweed.

Weatherman Walking: Brynmawr to Abergavenny. I used to walk just across the road from that cinema. That new road down the Clydach gorge looks impressive. Even more impressive that it's 50 mph all the way. Well, then again, I'm sure the Sennedd could have made it 20mph if they'd turned their minds to it. I used to drive up the 3 lane version at 75 back in the long ago.

Scotland Yard: the chap blown up in a quarry one: Polish emigre cum spy.

Maigret "Murder on Monday (1962)". Apparently it's not a Done Thing to murder on a Monday. The one where the unemployed chap sitting on a bench is murdered.

If there's owt else to watch I ain't found it. .

[WTFH]

Morning all
frosty out.
car being delivered on 22nd

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Shadow (2018), a Chinese film. I assumed this would be full of martial arts and such, but more fool me: it was mainly about honour, and correct presentation at the Royal Court, and so on - though it did culminate in a load of martial arts stuff, and almost all of the main characters ended up dead in interestingly gory ways, so I’m not complaining

And then a rewatch of Battle: Los Angeles (2011) which is pure hokum from start to finish; but why shouldn’t it be? As they used to say, that’s entertainment

Finally, an episode - E6, apparently - of Alien: Earth. This is an OK series, but I had to keep remembering how various characters fitted into the story. If they’d made it good enough that I had to keep watching, or good enough that I remembered all of the context when I resumed watching, then it would have been good enough. But it seems that although it’s not bad, it’s neither gripping nor memorable; or not enough of either

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Today on scrambled maps, I made the mistake of selecting Medan, Indonesia.

I’ve been working round the countries, and have arrived at the last one, which is now state by state - and I’m at Maryland.
Overall 87.7%