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[NickFitz]

Tea: sausages (the oniony ones) with chips and beans

Been quite an oniony few days: casserole, burger, now sausages

And delivered a little after six: Emily Wilson's new translation of "The Iliad"

Dunno if that has any onions in it

[NickFitz]

Lunch was going to be hastily crammed in between meetings, but one of them turned out much shorter because it was about going over what remains of the Kanban board, and everybody's still in the middle of finishing things off so there wasn't much point doing that

So it was a slightly more relaxed beef bap (wholemeal) with a bag of plain crisps

Then I had the meeting with the guy in charge of the new team/project. Very interesting, it turns out, and most importantly, he has a relaxed attitude to me taking some time off in the immediate future

[ladymuck]

Realised at 2.50 pm that I'd not had lunch, so a cheese and mushroom omelette was made and eaten. Then I sat on the sofa for a bit listening to the screaming of the children going home from the primary school opposite before grudgingly making my way back up to my office.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday apparently.

Dry.

Windy.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool.

18.4 deg in here, 19 deg in the kitchen, 18 deg in the leanto.

1006 mBar, 27.707 in Hg, 754.56 Torr, 14.59 psi, (down from 1012 last night), 77% RH (GDR hair), 79% RH (Lidl electric).

Walk (abbreviated due to inclemency of weather & aches & pains) walked.

Meanwhile on the 15th of July 2019 covbob enquired about janey, and I spent a brief period in with the hoi polloi in the library.

Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

Entertainment: the Companies House Chinese scammers thing on Y&Y. It went <click> when the useless Tory* bastard started spouting excuses.

*Other useless politicos are widely available: none of them have actually done anything useful in their entire meaningless existence.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Lots of cloud but quite bright. A bit of a breeze. Dry. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer remains steady at 1017 mBar.

Not sure what task I wish to avoid doing today. Will have to see how the day pans out.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start but the cloud seems to be thinning out quite rapidly, leading to some wan sunshine gilding the cedar tree next door. Currently 12°C and aiming for 20°, with the barometers up a little at 1004/1012mB. There's still a yellow warning of strong winds from lunchtime on, but we're right at the edge of the affected area so maybe it won't be too bad

[NickFitz]

Varying fortunes for the opal hunters tonight, but old Les was finally able to afford a new truck so he can visit his granddaughters

And then The Murder of Jill Dando which I didn't see when it was first shown in 2019. Reasonably interesting, though no exciting revelations

There's a meeting tomorrow about something, though I can't remember what; some aspect of the handover of the project. Lots of meetings like that this week, and probably next. But there's also a meeting between me and the delivery manager for the thing I'll be gradually moving on to, so I'll finally have some clue what that's going to be about - I literally know nothing at this stage

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: steak and caramelised onion burger in a toasted sesame bun with tomato and chilli relish, and fries

[NickFitz]

The plumber refitted a few parts then ran off pretty sharpish. On inspection, I could see why. When pulling the new handle, the lever inside was bashing up against the lid of the cistern so you either had a pathetic flush or had to lift the cistern lid to get a full flush. Five minutes of investigation and two minutes with a junior hacksaw sorted the issue.

[ladymuck]

The plumber refitted a few parts then ran off pretty sharpish. On inspection, I could see why. When pulling the new handle, the lever inside was bashing up against the lid of the cistern so you either had a pathetic flush or had to lift the cistern lid to get a full flush. Five minutes of investigation and two minutes with a junior hacksaw sorted the issue.

[NickFitz]

The plumber turned up 15 mins early!! Unheard of in my experience. He's busy replacing most of the innards of the cistern as it's all old and decrepit.

My old landlord did the plumbing himself, though after watching him at work on my cistern a few times, I figured he'd probably picked it up from a secondhand copy of The Reader's Digest Book of DIY he'd found at a jumble sale

Lunch has been Heinz chicken soup with white toast

[ladymuck]

The plumber turned up 15 mins early!! Unheard of in my experience. He's busy replacing most of the innards of the cistern as it's all old and decrepit.

[NickFitz]

Oh and in yesterday's news, the handle on the toilet broke off. Totally corroded. I have to lift the lid on the cistern and pull the lever to flush. Thankfully, the landlady is pretty responsive and a plumber is coming at lunchtime today to sort it out.

Mine has a button. It's not the main reason I bought the place, but it helped

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but bright enough. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Showers forecast this morning giving way to a sunnier afternoon. Barometer down a bit to 1017 mBar.

Tired this morning.

Oh and in yesterday's news, the handle on the toilet broke off. Totally corroded. I have to lift the lid on the cistern and pull the lever to flush. Thankfully, the landlady is pretty responsive and a plumber is coming at lunchtime today to sort it out.

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^Good show.

Morning.

Tuesday.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

18.5 deg in here, 19.5 deg in the kitchen, 18 deg in the leanto.

1009 mBar, 29.795 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.634 psi, (down from 1013 last night), 77% RH (GDR hair), 79% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of July 2019 PhilTheGreek had two soft boiled eggs for breakfast, whereas I fell asleep reading a book & then awakened with a bump (undefined).

Entertainment: The Long View on R4: compare & contrast the antisemitic Henry Ford (nice medal from dear old Adolph), Clive of India, and Elon Musk (medal from Putin?).

Followed by Mr Palin's book about his uncle.

Walk (abbreviated) walked in the intermittent rain.

Lunch: baked beans & baked potato etc.

Entertainment: TWATO.

Trip to that Swansea & Oxfam to get rid of a pile of books. Bought 2 more to make up for it plus a pair of shoes.

More "gardening" done: the massacre of the honeysucking****le and more of the cursed brambles.

Tea: soup and such.

Colonel March of Scotland Yard E24: "death in the dressing room". Tedious Java dancing mystery. Apparently one of the 3 pilot eps. It gets good reviews but not one of my favourites, the tedious dancing going on far too long. Richard Wattis as the villain.

Scotland Yard "The Tyburn Case" with that Edgar Lustgarten at his lugubrious best. The lady dead in a sewer one, solved by invisible mending.

JoP. JoP: yet another black canvas seascape, no in this one.

The Human Jungle "Wild goose chase". Vladek Sheybal & Francesca Annis in this one.

Maigret's War of Nerves (1996) S5 E4. The one about the incredibly clever Superior Being.

Abandoned Engineering: S10 E1 the Nazi massacre of a French village, Alcatraz, Sealand.