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[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

Not only did I get Viz, I was also randomly selected for a rescan at the self-scan checkout. And this wasn’t the usual one where they do eight or ten things picked at random out of your bags: this was the Entire Shop Rescan! So I had to go over to the counter where they keep the security-tag-removers and such and she went through every bag. But it was the nice lady who’s been there for years, long before Covid even, and she was very careful not to mix up things from different bags and mess up my System

Next: lunch

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Another dull, damp day. Currently 8 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Drizzle expected all day. Barometer up to 984 mBar.

Sunrise 07:32; Sunset 17:00 GMT

HWMBO is off home today. He wants to watch NFL things on his huge TV rather than my piddly one and, as it takes place in the wee hours, I'm grateful for the lack of sleep disturbance. He'll be back in just under a week as it's my birthday (a big one!) next Sunday.

Gig3 confirmed start date on Wednesday. Just getting the contract reviewed before I sign my life away.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rainy grey day again. The wind apparently is still quite windy too, so our 5°C “feels like” -2°; we should be getting 8°, but not until after dark - around nine or ten tonight, in fact, which is also when the rain will go away. The barometers are steady at 973/981mB

I see I neglected to sign off again last night so, for the record, I decided that after Stalingrad and Berlin, something lighter in tone would make a nice change. Hence the new book is The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn, in which a couple of time travellers return to the early nineteenth century on a mission to snaffle the manuscript of a novel that Ms. Austen destroyed. I do wonder if it will turn out that their real mission is something more, but it’s entertaining enough as it is seeing people of modern sensibilities trying to blend in with Regency society

I have to head off to do the shopping soon, rain or no rain. I thought it might be Viz week, but the festive break has thrown the timing out and it actually came out last week. So to Big Sainsbury’s I must go!

[WTFH]

Morning all
Mizzling out.
TFIF, etc.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Grey.

Dark.

Sunless.

Damp: now wet.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 13 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto.

980 mBar, 28.9394 in Hg, 735 Torr, 14.21 psi, (up from 977.5 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of March 2020, scruff, BR14, and Brillo popped in, NF's brother's trip abroad had been cancelled, and LM was doubtful about her imminent trip abroad, whereas I had the last of the rice pud for tea.

Woken at 05:something or other by the sound of something sliding somewhere. Got up & had a look around but didn't find anything, but sleep did not return despite the reading of the book.

Eventually got up at 08:05 after the news irritated me enough to stir my bones again.

It has, of course, rained sufficiently to put me off the idea of going for a walk.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom, wan sunshine, rain with added rainbow.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the Constable thing. Noon o'clock news. Antisocial: who the feck wants to remember 2016 FFS <click>.

Foyle's War S7 E2 "The Cage". The Burgess/Maclean one.

Vanished Wales.

Taggart S6 E7 "Rogue's Gallery". A short one, being an Xmas/New Year ep.

[NickFitz]

Tea, as predicted, was homemade kebabs things in a pitta bread with sweet chilli sauce, and some fries

To go along with this, new Police Interceptors - well, newish; they’ve got a bit ahead of me, pumping out quite a few recently

[NickFitz]

My mappy thing is just about perfect now, placing pins or lines with specified lat/lon etc exactly as Bing maps.

Excellent!

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

As soon as I finished, I was in the kitchen, where I blended lamb mince with finely-chopped green and red chillies and a load of spices and rolled them into sausage shapes. These are back in the fridge now to give the flavours a chance to mingle, and will be skewered and grilled later for tea

[xoggoth]

Old fart Mahjongy thing this morning. I won again! My mappy thing is just about perfect now, placing pins or lines with specified lat/lon etc exactly as Bing maps.

[ladymuck]

Finally received the contract for Gig#3. Now negotiating when to start. I'm aiming for Wednesday next week.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a ham toastie

The rain is becoming intermittent, but isn’t ready to give up just yet

I remembered to stick the mattress topper and pillow protectors in the wash. I split the load for drying, so the latter are now done and the former will be done in forty minutes or so

[Pondlife]

Good morning all,

Is it lunchtime yet?

Wind 13 kt from the East
Temperature 7°C
Humidity 100%
Pressure 978 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Broken clouds at a height of 300 ft
Overcast at a height of 1000 ft

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull, overcast, damp. Much rain overnight but none at the moment despite what the weather app says. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 3) with a high of 9 expected. Drizzle forecast for most of the day. Barometer down to 983 mBar.

Sunrise 07:33; Sunset 16:58 GMT

Tired this morning. Unsettled sleep. HWMBO getting up at 3.30 am for a widdle and then walking into the bed didn't help but wasn't the primary cause.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday judging by the Recycling and Waste Disposal Engineers making their merry way along the road.

Grey.

Blue sky in very very small parts.

Wanly sunless.

Damp.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 10.5 in the leanto.

976.5 mBar, 28.84 in Hg, 732.4 Torr, 14.163 psi, (down from 980 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of March 2020 Brillo popped in, LM wasn't in the mood for bloody marys but did the essay for her OU course anyway, whilst there was much discussion of Apocalyptic and Post Apocalyptic epics, including the almost forgotten "When the Wind Blows" (don't drink the black rain), and "Whoops! Apocalypse", whereas, even more alarmingly, there was no toilet paper in Morrisons or Tesco. .

Drizzling with the drizzle blowing down the valley rather than the more usual up the valley.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about Constable. More of the thing about "Taxi Driver".

Foyle's War S7 E1 "The Eternity Ring" (assuming it's not supplanted by something out of S1 of course).

Book. Other book. Other other book.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

If there's anything else on this evening it's not immediately obvious from the EPG.

"Digging for Britain" 6/6. A programme so inneresting I fell asleep several times. In the metal detecting bit I expected the moron from the Oak Island Nutjobbery to turn up, but thankfully it was all a dream.

UFO bollox on Blaze: <click> I seem to have lost all innerest in this.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Stormy last night, but it wasn't raining at the start of our walk. The overcast skies meant the dawn chorus didn't start as early as yesterday.
The rain started again just after 7am. Good job I was wearing appropriate clothing.