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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been Turkish leftovers

    To go with this, a further episode of the Netflix thing about people in London and its environs being hideously injured then patched back up

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  • NickFitz
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    I gave the duvet an extra half-hour, so 3½ hours total, and I think it may be done! It feels properly dry for the most part but there are some bits that still feel slightly damp, probably because they were folded into the middle or something. So I've taken it out and draped it over the clotheshorse, in the hall near the radiator. I'm hoping that airing will now be enough for the last bits of damp, which really are very slight, to dry out

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    I've never washed a duvet: am I a slut? Just askin' like. .
    I haven't either, or hadn't until I washed the one-third one the other week! But my researches indicated that the two-thirds one (9 tog, I think) is just about within the limits of what the machine (which has a nominal capacity of 8kg wash and 5kg dry) can handle so I thought I'd give it a go

    The washing succeeded and the drying is going well. As expected, it'll take a while though. The "Down-filled items" programme doesn't do any automatic assessment of how dry the stuff is like most of them; you have to set a duration. They recommend starting with a fairly short duration and checking after each run, to work out how long a particular item takes. Currently, we're in the third hour for this duvet and I suspect it'll take at least one more, and maybe even longer. With the one-third one, I didn't dry it enough initially, and sleeping under a slightly damp and clammy duvet is very unpleasant so I'll try to get this one right

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch: a sausage bap (white) again, as the rest of the sausages needed to be cooked. Still very nice, and there's a couple of cold sausages for lunch later in the week

    This was accompanied by an Apple Developer video. I'd been mucking around working out how to get useful debug information out of RealityKit, but it turns out there's an excellent RealityKit debugger built into Xcode!

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

    I've never washed a duvet: am I a slut? Just askin' like. .
    I do wash my duvets. The winter one has to go to launderette but the little summer one fits in the WM. Ideally I aim wash them around the time of changing them over so they go into storage all nice and clean. But I don't do it every time. It depends on whether I think they could do with a proper freshen up or if a good airing on a sunny day out in the garden for a few hours would suffice instead.

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  • ladymuck
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    Afternoon all

    Dull, overcast, wet. It's that fine 'mizzle' type rain. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 17 possible. There may be a hint of sun late afternoon. Barometer at 1020 mBar.

    Sunrise 06:57; Sunset 18:45 BST

    Long lie in. Didn't go to visit Mum. Reminded my brother to book flu jabs. Debating whether to leave the house to fetch more lemsips and other alleged symptom relieving chemicals. Will see if the rain stops in the next hour.

    One thing I do find frustrating is Sunday trading hours. They don't have such restrictions north of the wall.

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    . Now to have a lemsip and sleep in it.
    makes a change from asses milk i suppose

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    Ended up having a sleep in, for which much thanks! It's a grey day out with evidence of rain, or at least a shower, earlier. There was a brief sunny spell about twenty minutes ago but that was shut down very quickly. It's 14°C and aiming to reach 17°, so maybe quite mild for the time of year? Anyway, that's how it'll continue for the rest of the week, maybe even a bit warmer some days. The barometers are much the same at 1008/1016mB

    I've just put the two-thirds duvet in the washing machine, now with some detergent suitable for down-filled items. Once it's washed, it'll probably take much of the day to gently dry it completely, if my experience with the one-third one the other week is any guide

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  • xoggoth
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    Dunno if to spend day by meself or take loony lady 2 somewhere. Hard to find anywhere now she's so feeble. Problem with my area, it's all so hilly and rough. Can still feel that nettle sting today!

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Sunday.

    Dry.

    Sunny.

    Sort of hazy blue sky.

    Chilly in here at 17.4 deg, 16 in the kitchen, 14.5 in the leanto.

    1015 mBar, 29.97 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.72 psi, (up from 1011 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 19th of February 2020 I watched yet more ST, BR14 was watching S1 E8 of Hill Street and finding the angst too irritating, whereas NF was watching something Nordic with characters I can't find on the keyboard and everyone had a nice tea.

    Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Must remember to take Morrisons card out of shirt pocket since I don't want to wash it again this week.

    I've never washed a duvet: am I a slut? Just askin' like. .

    Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus, which is getting louder by the day.

    Freecell score: 88%, running average: 84%.

    Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine.

    Entertainment: Scotland Yard The Missing Man (1953) with that Edgar Lustgarten chap. And dear old Roger Delgado. .

    Look at life: the removals men. In the snow. Going to Scotland. Before motorways.

    Look at life: The Dustman. Narrator: Sid James.

    Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough.

    "Sapphire (1959)" with Nigel Patrick. A UK "Human Stain". A mixed race woman passing as white. Rather good. The days of "no dogs or Irish". . (Also spotted "Alice" from "The Ipcress File" as a WPC Sgt).

    Sergeant Cork: "The case of the stage door Johnnie (1963)". Far too much music hall in this one.

    The Great Fire of London on PBS. Think this one might go <click>.

    Dunno if the Mary Whitehouse thing might take its place. .
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  • NickFitz
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    I too succeeded in making my bed and lying in it

    The usual glut of wildlife stuff was on the box today. Mostly repeats though

    In Andromeda Breakthrough, the people involved with the message from space and matters arising therefrom have become the subject of international intrigue

    Early night now. Will I manage to Get Things Done tomorrow after a good night's sleep? We shall see…

    Goodnight all

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  • ladymuck
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    Back home in that London. Uneventful journey, just how I like it.

    The bed has been made. Now to have a lemsip and sleep in it.

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  • WTFH
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    Club suite on BA was nice, currently in the Al Mourjan lounge in Doha. They could do with cranking up the air conditioning.

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  • xoggoth
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    Had a bonfire earlier and got stung by damn nettles. Can still feel it over 3 hours later.

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea was brought from the Turkish place

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