Well I'm glad I decided to go and collect it earlier in the day.
The Metropolitan Line was on the wonk and it took a good 2 hours to get to Croxley. Then it started raining on me as I started the walk from the station to the trading estate.
However, on arriving at the garage, my baby car looked better than it did 17 years ago when I first bought her. They had done an amazing job. Expensive but I think worth it.
Photos here for thems that want to have a look: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQeqldOCHtI/?img_index=1
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Just added diced spuds to the beef & Guinness thing. I'd been in two minds about chucking them in or having it with chips, but decided in-stew was better. I'm gambling that the beef needs longer in there to be really tender, and will be just right by the time the spuds are done. And I sliced a bunch of small ones extremely thinly, so they'll break down and thicken it up when I give it a good stir an hour or so before serving
It's only been on for a couple of hours and already smells glorious!
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Morning all
Dull. Overcast. Signs of wet stuff on the ground. Currently 15 degrees ('feels like' 13) and that's the high for the day. Light rain expected for most of the day. Barometer down to 1002 mBar.
Sunrise 06:53; Sunset 16:36 GMT
Today is car pick up day
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Morning denizens
It's a grey day today, and there was some rain overnight so it feels a bit damp too. More rain is due this afternoon, and it's also a bit breezy so the current 14°C "feels like" 8° and is already close to the expected high of 15°. The barometers are down again at 988/995mB
Busy morning so far, as I just prepared a beef & Guinness casserole (or stew) and chucked it in the slow cooker to cook slowly
I'm not sure I need to go shopping. Really, the only difficulty arising from not going will be finding things to have for lunch over the course of the next week. But I daresay it won't really be a problem, and it seems a bit extreme to drive even to nearby Not as Big Sainsbury's just for the sake of a Pukka steak slice and a few baps
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Morning peeps and happy halloween. I've done my usual thing of buying loads of sweets and then planned to go out for the night. win win.
Wind 12 kt from the South
Temperature 14°C
Humidity 88%
Pressure 997 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Broken clouds at a height of 2200 ft
Broken clouds at a height of 2900 ft
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Backend fetch failed? That's a new one.
Morning.
Friday. Curiously quiet out there: I don't like it.
Damp.
Grey.
Sunless.
Chilly in here at 16.4 deg, 15.5 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto.
993 mBar, 29.3232 in Hg, 744.8 Torr, 14.4 psi, (down from 994 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 27th of February 2020 NF was watching stuff in Danish, whilst scruff, Brillo and Churchill popped in.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the fish thing: fish farming.
It was damp earlier: now it's pissing down.
The buses are on strike so that's fecked up the plan for today. I could have used the train but feck it, next week will do just as well.
Now wondering if I really need to read all those PK Dick books before donating them to Oxfam. I didn't bother rereading his non sf novels and can't say I'm sorry about it.
Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Entertainment: ThePrinceAndrew Mountbatten Windsor show on R4. <click a lot>.
The Nazi programme.
Possibly bits of The Repair Shoppe in the unlikely event they prove not to be about fecking teddy bears & soft toys.
Dear old Taggart. From a mere 40 years ago. Them were the days. Och ye'll have had yer tea and there's beet a muuuurder in Maryhill. or something.
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Morning all (properly this time)
TFIF, etc.
Very windy overnight and quite overcast this morning, but also warm at 14C.Leave a comment:
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After finishing the Bin Laden thing, I continued with Netflix's chosen theme of peaceful coexistence by watching A House of Dynamite (2025). I've seen assertions that this is adapted from the book Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen, which I read a while ago, but while it certainly seems to draw on it, I don't think it's officially an adaptation as such. Anyway, it's pissed off that moron in the White House and his cronies, who insist that the USA's missile defence system is 100% reliable. The film says 61%, but I believe the official figure from testing is 55%. Maybe his chum in North Korea will give them an opportunity of finding out which is the correct number? Anyway, I reckon it's a very good film in terms of entertainment; I've seen some people on Bluesky arguing that it's "unrealistic" and "inaccurate" and "things don't work that way", in response to whom I can only repeat the mantra "it's a story, not a documentary"
Goodnight all 
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Tea: sausages, chips and beans
More Bin Laden stuff on Netflix to go with this; they've finally discovered the house in Abbottabad so I expect the rest of this final episode will be explosive
And the mundane laundry is laundering
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Another day done, and it's the weekend!
By virtue of skipping a couple of meetings that weren't particularly important (or not in my opinion, at least), I got my prototype thing working
Only just remembered to submit my timesheet!
I've been considering whether I need to do any shopping. I think I can probably get away without it this week
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Yeh, U etc just do old stuff but there used to be a few things worth watching, rarely find anything now. Still, sticks are useful if you missed something recent and have an old TV that doesn't work with iPlayer, my5 etc catchups.The other problem with more TV channels is that they're all full of repeats and crap, and they don't really offer more viewing choice.Leave a comment:
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