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The car programme has suddenly skipped back to S7 from 2010, for no obvious reason. Anyway, they did a Jensen Interceptor and it seems to have worked, as it's taxed until next January
And the gold diggers had their standard ups, downs, and machinery problems
Another grey day but even milder this time: 11°C no less, though that's our lot for the day. The barometers are back up a trivial amount at 1012/1020mB
Meanwhile on the lawn, some pigeons are bimbling about in the far corner. No sign of crows, magpies, blackbirds or squirrels at this time
Thursday apparently. If it wasn't for the clock I'd have no idea wot day it is.
Dark.
Gloomy.
Grey.
Dank.
Drizzly.
Sunless.
Dire.
Cold in here at 12 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 10 deg in the leanto.
1026 mBar, 30.29776 in Hg, 769.56 Torr, 14.88 psi, (unchanged but a tad of a tad from last night), 66% RH (GDR hair), 67% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 22nd of April 2019 it was a fine sunny Bank Holiday Monday. Surely there're laws against such things?
Woke unbidden at 05:58. Gave up. Read more of current book. Went back to sleep until a more reasonable 08:45.
Just wondering WTF it is in my CV that made some pimp in Regressive think I'm innerested in Mechanical Engineering Design contracts considering that I'm an electronics engineer with experience in embedded software.
Maybe it was the FORTRAN IV that's on there. .
Walk (abbreviated) walked in the drizzle free grey gloom.
Lunch: baked potato with cheese & baked beans, a yog (non corner until the price comes down again), bramble jelly and marmalade on slices of Morrisons sunflower & pumpkin seed toast, 0.91*1.59 pints of good Glengettie tea.
Entertainment: Sliced Bread (Y&Y) about detergents & saving the earth or something. Nothing to see there then.
TWATO.
The thing about the Mafia & waste disposal.
House roughly vacced. Found an 8BA countersunk screw that had appeared from somewhere.
Freecell score: 87%, running average 85%. (it was down to 71% at one stage).
Tea: chilli con carne with rice, the remainder of the apricot halves, a yog, 0.91*1.57 pints of good Glengettie tea.
Entertainment: PM.
Wheeler Dealers S7 E1 Jensen Interceptor. And back to dear old Edd we go. Get them rattle cans ready. Hole in the floor. Brake master cylinder, steering rack, leather food. Bought: £5k, Total: £5430, Sold: £6k5. MOT ran out December 2020. Previous advisories: it's fecking dissolving. .
Dear old Fred Dibnah waffling away about steam engines.
Joy of Painting. Misty evergreens, blue sky, and birch trees. I'm nodding off just thinking about it. . 19:35 and . It's a record.
The car was a VW Golf special edition cabriolet that, rather oddly, doesn't show on DVLA for either current status or MOT history. No idea what's going on there; maybe they just made it all up?
And the gold diggers just had the usual woes
Later viewing: the rest of S2 and a fair chunk of the early episodes of S3 of The Handmaid's Tale. They should have made it a bit worse so one didn't have to keep watching until far too late; Line of Duty has the same problem
It did occur to me, though, that the scenes of a supermarket with shelves barely half-filled probably made a real impact when this was first shown in 2019, but now just reminds one of going shopping in 2020
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