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  • eek
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    Always thought that given a family friend the work was a bad idea and now he’s successfully confirmed to me that he was the untrustworthy slimy “Christian” I thought he was

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  • eek
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    Well today we should be completing on twin A’s house but our solicitor has failed to sort the mortgage money out.

    trouble is last email he sent said the delay was with the vendor’s solicitor - cue me being very annoyed

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Wet. Raining. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Rain expected off and on all day. Barometer up to 1010 mBar.

    My offer on that flat I saw was accepted! The other people failed referencing, namely the affordability checks. So today will be about sorting my referencing out to ensure I don't suffer the same fate.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Friday.

    Dark.

    Dank.

    Dreary.

    Wet.

    Sunless.

    Grey.

    Chilly in here at 14 deg, 13 deg in the kitchen, 13.5 deg in the leanto.

    1005.3 mBar, 29.686 in Hg, 754 Torr, 14.58 psi, (up from 1004.7 last night), 77% RH (GDR hair), 74% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 24th of September 2019 LM had returned from Scotlandshire, I'd been up the loft gluing bits of slate over the hole in the roof left by the scaffolders some years earlier, and NF was unsure that his windows would be unstuck, whereas NF had forgotten the Roman numerals from Monday links.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 08:47.

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  • covbob
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    Morning all

    Barely awake here - kept waking up dreaming last night. Eldest child wouldn't get ready for school. Grey, overcast. TFIF or something.

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    After yesterday's weather, this morning started with a very pleasant walk. Overcast skies and a cool temperature meant we could have had a long walk if I hadn't stayed in bed as late as I did.
    Instead it was only 8.2km

    TFIF, etc.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    Grey start again, but already at 10°C. Not getting much past that though as today's high is a mere 13°, and there's also chances of rain varying from 40% to 45% from lunchtime until midnight. The barometers are slightly up at 994/1002mB

    I see weariness once again caused me to fail to sign out last night, so: viewing was the third and, it seems, final episode of the Pompeii thing on iPlayer. Very good, though the suggestion that it's bad to enslave people and then leave them locked up in the face of a volcanic eruption is clearly part of the BBC's woke agenda, intended to undermine support for the government's plan to intern refugees in a lava-spewing fissure in Iceland. And I was going to read some more of The Illusionist but didn't, due to said weariness

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea: a steak and caramelised onion burger in a sesame bun with ketchup, and fries. Very nice

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  • NickFitz
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    Popped round to the polling station and cast my ballot. It's only a PCC one here this time around, but it all helps contribute to a crushing defeat

    And then I circled back via Sainsbury's Local, as I forgot to get wholemeal baps yesterday. Luckily they still had a few left, so that'll see me through.

    Oh, and on the way out, I took a bag of recycling over to the bins.

    Very nice sunny evening out there now

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

    Nice diphthong, bro. .
    Unicode FTW!

    Lunch was another couple of Southern not-fried chicken drumsticks that had been in the freezer for ages

    And this afternoon brought yet another call from a pharmacist at the GP's, though she didn't have the list of blood pressure readings for the past week that I delivered there this morning, as due to the flood damage she was in an office at the General Hospital a couple of miles away in the other direction, and nobody had got around to scanning and uploading it

    Luckily, my blood pressure monitor is Bluetooth-enabled and uploads all its readings to my phone, so I ran through a bunch of them with her. She agreed that they were absolutely fine and no change to medication was needed. This is exactly what happened last year, so I look forward to going through the same palaver twelve months from now. Perhaps I should point out to them that measuring it while you're waiting for them to stick a big spike in you and suck out your blood is likely to lead to an unusually high reading due to the stressful nature of the situation

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  • covbob
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    Another walk to school and back - green ring closed. The sun is really out now. It's entering scorchio territory now.

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  • ladymuck
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    I have done my civic duty. It was quite a pleasant walk to the polling station and back. There was a mini rush of three people all trying to put their slips of paper in each box which made the people watching proceedings to have to pay a bit more attention.

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  • covbob
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    Afternoon denizens!

    Was bright and sunny earlier but clouded over a little now. Took the littles to school and stopped to vote on the way back (via Asda). Now on with being a Civil Service wage slave... starting to sap my sanity a bit tbh.

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Dull and damp. My weather app says it's foggy but it isn't. The sun is scheduled to make an appearance this afternoon, just before the rain comes back. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Barometer down to 1003 mBar.

    Unsurprisingly, I am a bit tired this morning. The thunder and lightning rumbled on for quite some time in the end.

    Turns out the house has already gone on the market and the letting agent was on the phone at 9am wanting to book in a viewing for this afternoon. I reluctantly agreed and then mentioned it to my landlady who then vetoed the viewing, saying that the agency were supposed to be bringing all viewing requests to her first.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    a link to a PDF that you have to print out and fill in with a pen, like some kind of mediæval scribe
    Nice diphthong, bro. .

    Morning.

    Thursday.

    Wet. No overnight donner und blitzen but it sounded like it was raining a lot.

    Grey.

    Sunless.

    Chilly in here at 14.5 deg, 15 deg in the kitchen, 14 deg in the leanto.

    999 mBar, 29.5 in Hg, 749.3 Torr, 14.489 psi, (down from 1005 last night), 77% RH (GDR hair), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

    The recycling engineers made their merry way along the road earlier, proving today to be Thursday.

    Still feeling a little weird. . But there you go, worse things happen at sea.

    Meanwhile on the 24th of September 2019 it was wet & windy for WTFH, apparently the Gnoll Brook had done its overflowing overnight, though not of any great consequence (unlike the 1950s when there was a torrent of water flowing through the town), whereas NF's downstairs neighbours were having the bathroom replaced by the landlord, presumably to fix a leak, and BR14 suggested helpfully that NF might get his windows unstuck while they're at it.

    Lunch: scrambled egg again, etc.

    Entertainment: Y&Y Toast: Safeway. Most of which became Morrisons, a few becoming Waitrose IIRC.

    Veronica Mars S2 E1 "Normal is the Watchword" retitled from "Urine Trouble". .

    Charisma Carpenter in a little black bikini. What's not to like. .

    The Mentalist S1 E18. WTF? "Russet Potatoes".

    Last bit of "Galaxy Quest" where Mr Monk kisses an .
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 18:10.

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