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[NickFitz]

Tea was a pork cutlet with chips, peas and gravy

And it was accompanied by 24 Hours in Police Custody: The Siege

I was interested in this one as it was about two blokes holed up in a high rise flat in Bedford. There aren't many 1960s blocks of flats in Bedford so I figured I'd know where it is, and it turned out to be a place I remember well, being just down the road from where we lived when we first moved there.

It was a pretty sad story really: both the guys had serious mental health problems and had basically received no support at all.

It was also noteworthy for the fact that one of them fired an air rifle at a police car, and the copper inside the car described the one that did it, but the investigation team decided it must have been the other one. So the misidentification was blithely dismissed: "Only human, easy to make a mistake in a stressful situation" and so on. I bet when the shoe is on the other foot and a suspect says something contradicted by other evidence, they're immediately saying "Obvious liar, can't believe a word they say"

They also ignored the copper's assertion that he'd seen a muzzle flash; not something you get from an air rifle

[NickFitz]

is anyone having issues reading this message....... D'OH!

Just don't try to read it when the server's down!

[Dactylion]

FYI, the forum might be up and down a bit while some server reconfiguration goes in to try and get rid of those annoying errors. When it was me and admin, we'd wait until late at night to do this stuff, but plus ça change and all that

is anyone having issues reading this message....... D'OH!

[NickFitz]

FYI, the forum might be up and down a bit while some server reconfiguration goes in to try and get rid of those annoying errors. When it was me and admin, we'd wait until late at night to do this stuff, but plus ça change and all that

[Dactylion]

Morning all, Glasgow calling

.........................................BA lounge at Glasgow airport from which to attend the meeting.

Oh No! You have brought back BAAAD memories and trauma!!

Many a time I was sat, sitting at Glasgow airport, sobbing into my Costa coffee, waiting to be crammed onto a smelly EasyJet plane to the tulip hole that is Luton (airport).

I suspect it's slightly "better" in a BA lounge but Luton was much nearer home for me than any BA airport (or EasyJet was much cheaper - I don't really remember)

Anyway just the thought of Glasgow reduces me to tears.
Not JUST Glasgow airport, not even ONLY Glasgow it's self, but the contract was for C&W for Tesco Bank... which was worse than the Airport, Glasgow and all the Sweaties combined!

I do remember finding it very difficult to communicate with many of my oppo's thick Glasgee accents made them uninteligable!

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Scotch broth with a crust of wholemeal. Just the thing on a rainy grey day

That said, the rain has now stopped. There may be another shower or two, but other than that we should be OK until later in the week, when it'll start again because I want to go outside

[NickFitz]

Morning all, Glasgow calling

Bright and sunny. Clouds here and there. Currently 2 degrees with a high of 4 expected.

HWMBO went off to Amsterdam for work first thing and I'm at his place working until I leave for the airport around 3pm. Annoyingly, I booked a 7pm flight so I could work until about 4.30pm uninterrupted. Then a meeting was put in that would start shortly before I need to leave and would risk me arriving late through rush hour traffic. So now I have to leave early to avoid the post school rush and find a quiet spot in the BA lounge at Glasgow airport from which to attend the meeting.

Don't forget to ping your heating so it's warm when you get home

[NickFitz]

I think I shall have a
New project plan has been agreed (but not released, it just happens to have been saved to a server folder I happen to have access to), which would extend the time of my involvement in the project through for at least a further 5 months.
Time to warm up my negotiating skills.

[WTFH]

find a quiet spot in the BA lounge at Glasgow airport from which to attend the meeting.

Good luck with that - although do they still have the fake fireplace bit past reception, turn right, past the newspapers and on the right?

[ladymuck]

Morning all, Glasgow calling

Bright and sunny. Clouds here and there. Currently 2 degrees with a high of 4 expected.

HWMBO went off to Amsterdam for work first thing and I'm at his place working until I leave for the airport around 3pm. Annoyingly, I booked a 7pm flight so I could work until about 4.30pm uninterrupted. Then a meeting was put in that would start shortly before I need to leave and would risk me arriving late through rush hour traffic. So now I have to leave early to avoid the post school rush and find a quiet spot in the BA lounge at Glasgow airport from which to attend the meeting.

[WTFH]

I think I shall have a
New project plan has been agreed (but not released, it just happens to have been saved to a server folder I happen to have access to), which would extend the time of my involvement in the project through for at least a further 5 months.
Time to warm up my negotiating skills.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Dry.

Sunny in parts.

Blue sky in parts.

Cold in here at 10.8 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 9 deg in the leanto, 5.4 deg in the salting house.

1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.44 Torr, 14.627 psi, (up from 1002 last night), 72% RH (GDR hair), 65% RH (Lidl electric).


Meanwhile on the 2nd of August 2019 in those halcyon warm summer days before the plague NF was contemplating the curious pricing of crisps in Sainsbury's, while I was leaving the wasps' nest alone, and LM was wondering if I was cleaning the place up a bit to move in a laydee (no, as it happens), and I met two ex neighbours in town who cleared up the name of the daughter I couldn't remember.

Shirts in the WM.

Shhirts out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Smalls in the WM.

Smalls out of the WM & pegged out on the line (this last has reached replacement time, it's sagging rather, I suspect one of the apple tree branches landing on it didn't improve its lifespan much).

Cottons in the WM.

Walk (abbreviated) walked with the excitement of a helicopter apparently landing somewhere out of view.

Cottons out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Lunch: baked spud etc.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about something. TWATO <click>.

The thing about Tea at 13:45.

Shirts in off the line & into the TD.

Shirts out of the TD & roughly iRoned.

Smalls in off the line & in the TD.

Cottons in off the line & awaiting the TD.

Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey Cage S15 Science's epic fails.

Smalls out of the TD & airing upstairs.

Cottons in the TD. It went from 0:01 to 1:36 so I pulled out the wetest & started again. Got there eventually.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Wheeler Dealers S9 E2 Morgan Plus 4: the one with the rusty chassis that tub o'lard thinks is a good idea. But then that feckwhit isn't doing the spannering.

Scotland Yard 1960 "Evidence in Concrete".

Classic Literature & Cinema: War.

Maigret and the Elusive Witness 1997

Massive Engineering Mistakes.

[NickFitz]

Dentist done. No problems identified, so I'm good for another six months, apart from a visit to the hygienist in a couple of weeks. They'll just do the polishing bit and go on about floss

I allowed enough time to get there, arriving about three minutes before the appointed time, the traffic having been as bad as expected at the places I'd expected

I parked by the old place, in a spot that's got no restrictions until 9:30. Turns out the resident permit scheme doesn't apply to the next road where the dentist is, being apparently unable to go under a railway line, like a witch not crossing a river. But there's never anywhere to park along there anyway.

On the way back to the car, I noticed the big back gate had been left open so popped in for a nosy around. Not a lot's changed in there, apart from the garage that "went on fire". It's now got a sturdy padlock securing what remains of its door, though the adjacent ones haven't and there's nowt left to burn in that one so I don't know what the point is

And then over the road to Iceland, where I secured frozen Greggs goods for home baking

And so home again, a little faster than the journey over

[WTFH]

Morning all
After yesterday's monsoon which closed roads and caused a railway tunnel to collapse, today the sky is cloudy with no precipitation. The ground is sodden, but that is to be expected.
The text from out council last night was an apology for not collecting the bins and saying they will try today - along with garden waste, which was today anyway, and this is the last garden collection of the year.
Had my head torch switched on while out perambulating right up until 7:45. The dog had his disco light on for the whole walk, mainly because he doesn't have opposable thumbs and can't press the button to turn it off.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rainy grey start again. Currently 4°C and maybe reaching 6° this afternoon, though it's back below zero tonight. The barometers are up a bit at 996/1004mB

Off to the dentist in a bit. The most annoying thing about the time of the appointment past me accepted is that I need to travel across town in the rush hour. No earlier than ten should be my rule in future, I reckon