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[ladymuck]

Water meter removed successfully.

Zipcar have refunded me for the fuel I had to buy and the late return fee.

Job hunting not turning up anything.

Picked up new laundry airers from Argos this morning and one is already being pressed into the service of drying the duvet cover.

A light shower of rain came and went.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

And lunch has been leftover crispy duck

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Wet.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 18.8 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.

1002 mBar, 29.589 in Hg, 751.56 Torr, 14.533 psi, (down from 1006 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Shopping trip to Morrisons and Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Meanwhile on the 22nd of October 2019 there was discussion of Terminator Genesis by vetran, wherease NF was Breaking Bad, I fed the cat so them next door were still away somewhere, LM was working from home, and I was in with the hoi polloi, afterwards buying som M&S breaded haddock, something that'll never happen again.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Another cloudy day beckons. Currently 19 degrees with a high of 20 expected. Rain forecast from lunchtime onwards. Barometer down to 1007 mBar.

The chap from Thames Water is due to come back today to remove the water meter and make good the pipework as best he can.

I am currently being very vexed by poor search results when looking for reasons why my front door lock has a feature that means it has to be slammed really hard to close the door. There's a little mini bit that pokes out the top and locks into place. I presume that's to stop people accidentally locking themselves out but the downside is that you have to get some major force/momentum going to shut the door when you do want to close it. I hate slamming doors and I wince every time I have to do it.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start out, with just a few wisps and strands of high cloud here and there. The weather app has this marked down as "mostly cloudy" so maybe it knows something I don't. It's 14°C and expected to reach 20°, but also expected to get cloudier with rain arriving tonight and stopping over. The barometers are down a little bit at 998/1006mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast with a yellow warning of rain for 8am, so we kept the walk to about 5km. V. humid out.

[ladymuck]

HWMBO made a very nice dinner comprising black pudding and tomato sausages form the farmers' market (very good) and a tray bake of Cyprus potatoes, bell peppers and Turkish peppers from the local grocers.

It's late and the bed has not been made...

[NickFitz]

Speaking of not getting things done, Sundays have reverted to a reasonable mixture of US borders, Antipodean borders, and NZ police being far more polite to people than they deserve

And this evening, I returned to Sam Pepys' diary for 1667, getting through the first half of February - he went in to a lot of detail for most days this year, as is clear from looking at the thickness of this volume compared to the others

Monday yet again tomorrow

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Something something coming home.

TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

Your body is used to you being up at the weekend until 3-5am. It simply can't cope with you going to bed at 11pm on a non school night.

That tends to be just Fridays nowadays, though the plan to "get things done" on Sunday never seems to come to fruition

[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb shank with chips and peas, again, the shank being the leftovers from Friday

I gather there's association football on multiple channels this evening. Luckily, there are plenty of others to choose from

[ladymuck]

I emptied some boxes of booze onto a shelf, creating no additional space whatsoever and still have four boxes (24 bottles) that have no home. These are ones that are rarely used and only useful for cocktails so they might go into the cupboard under the stairs for now with better labelling than the the "random" I've currently scribbled on the box.

HWMBO has rebuilt the BBQ ready to use tomorrow.

Decided to visit Mum on Tuesday rather than tomorrow as we're going to the cinema tomorrow evening.

[sadkingbilly]

Hi people.
today has been mostly plumbing and IT related.
fitted new karzy seat, fixed flush and cistern level.
resurrected an old, creaky* win98 laptop by replacing battery, installing 16Gb memory (I had old SODIMMs in a drawer), and installing Linux Mint64. - cost 35 quid for the battery.
works fine for what my mate wants(email,chrome,libreoffice).

*just like me, this entropy thing is overrated.
nice lazy sunday

[ladymuck]

The bed has been stripped and left to air while the laundry gets laundered.

[ladymuck]

Millenium x10