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[NickFitz]

Belated breakfast of a buttered bacon bap

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but reasonably bright. Dry. Currently 22 degrees with a high of 24 expected. Barometer down to 1010 mBar.

Lazy morning had so far. Off out later to meet friends who have dinner at 5pm.

[NickFitz]

The air conditioner has arrived!

The very helpful Amazon delivery guy was willing to carry all ~30kg of it up the stairs for me, but I reassured him that getting it to the lift would be more than sufficient

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Up betimes for a Saturday, as the air conditioner is on a different Amazon delivery run to the usual one for small stuff that doesn't even leave the depot until around 11am. This one was on its way up the M1 by a quarter to nine, and is now only seven stops away

It's a drizzly grey start but warm for the time of day at 18°C, though it won't get any higher than 21°. The barometers are down some more at 998/1005mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Thunderstorm!

Om.

Morning.

Saturday.

House stinking of cuprinol all night even with the upstairs windows open, though the bedroom was ok with the door closed.

Drily damp.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Warm in here at 21.7 (was 22.5 before I opened the doors), 22 in the kitchen, 20 in the leanto, 18 in the saltinghouse.

1006 mBar, 29.707 in Hg, 754.56 Torr, 14.59 psi, (up from 1005 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of October 2019 LM found it chilly on her walk to the tube, NF put the Monday links up and had sardine toasties for lunch whilst observing how quiet the Polish shop was now the leaves had fallen off the horse chestnut tree, and WTFH was trying to get himself blocked on twatter by some Tory MP or other, the one for somewhere in Devon, whereas I had a walk to the viewless point and discovered another couple of what used to be footpaths until they chopped all the trees down.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM.

Smalls in the WM.

Smalls out of the WM.

All the above pegged out on the lines.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Blue skies and sunshine, but Mad Max the Spannerhead is exhausted after running on the beach and swimming yesterday, so after I let him into the garden, he then went back to bed.
In the meantime, I’m wondering if my new mower will arrive today.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Flight (2012) in which Denzel Washington demonstrates that being pissed and coked up is the best preparation for landing an ailing airliner. Sully probably wouldn't agree. It's pretty good though

And then a rewatch of Cast Away (2000) in which Tom Hanks gets some alone time with a volleyball. Very good, as everybody probably knows by now

Finally, a further episode of S4 of The Wire in which the secret of the vacants is about to come to light

I should have got to sleep earlier as my air conditioner is being delivered tomorrow, with no suggestion of the time other than "before 10pm". I hope they don't turn up first thing

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Visit to sunny Sussex by the sea completed and I scored a parking space right outside my flat, so I am very happy about that.

Popped into a car repair shop on the outskirts of Littlehampton that has a very good reputation, as endorsed by my Dad and brother, who have previously done repairs on yea olde jalopy. They quoted £500-600 to sort the rust on the rear wheel arch (same price as when they repaired the other side, pre-covid) and another £400 to sort out the front bumper if I get it done at the same time. Very good price and I know the work will be excellent so now I just need to work out a good time to travel down to leave the car there.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been corned beef hash

Accompanied by a bit of Trucking Hell. I see further episodes (well, at least one) of the latest series thereof are starting to appear

[NickFitz]

Weekend!

Timesheet already approved as well

[WTFH]

PS just noticed it's favorites in Edge, why can't those yanks learn to spell?

What version of Edge are you using, and what is your user profile set up for as the primary language?

It's "Favourites" on my work laptop (Windows 11 Pro)

[NickFitz]

Took an early lunch break and went to Big Sainsbury's, so the new Viz has been secured, along with more mundane groceries

Lunch was a couple of garlic & herb chicken thighs from the tepid food counter. Not had those ones before and they're rather nice

It clouded over for a bit but thinned out again so it's sunny out, albeit filtered a little by a high haze

[xoggoth]

The reason for the low flights, Xog, was probably to avoid thunderclouds

Good point LM, but they seem to have been be lower for some time. Seem quite slow too. Maybe I'm hallucinating. Anyway put that flight radar thing in my favourites. PS just noticed it's favorites in Edge, why can't those yanks learn to spell?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Warm in here at 22.9 deg, 24.5 deg in the kitchen, 22.5 deg in the leanto.

1006 mBar, 29.707 in Hg, 754.56 Torr, 14.59 psi, (down from 1006 and a tad last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of October 2019 LM was watching TV, NF had a roast beef dinner, sales of M&S haddock were remarked upon, as was the ex German submariner I worked with in 3M back in the 70s, one of the 20% who survived.

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

Much cooler out there today though I did raise a sweat on the way back.

Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

Entertainment: someone waffling on about climate change. TWATO.

More cleaning in the office junk room: in a fit of insanity I decided to move a bookcase (large) from the alcove it's lived in for the last 20 odd years: much spraying of black mould killer ensued along with much brushing of cuprinol kill 'em all it's the only way to be sure stuff on the floor boards & skirting boards. Last time I used that stuff I was ill for a week.

Tea (after a shower: water still unpleasantly warm): soup etc. That loaf of Morrisons bread is distinctly unfresh: I'll have to use it up quickly before it starts going blue.

Entertainment: PM. 18 o'clock news.

The Mentalist S4 E4, E5, E6, E7, E8.

Pulse.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Humid. Currently 19 degrees with a high of 28 expected. Weather app says it's foggy. No rain forecast. Barometer at 1012 mBar.

There was some rain early yesterday evening and I saw one flash of what might have been lightening. Horrible, sticky nights sleep.

The reason for the low flights, Xog, was probably to avoid thunderclouds. Heathrow was on easterlies yesterday and departing aircraft were taking off over my house well after the airport was supposed to be shut. I complained on twitter, as is my right.

Up early to drive down to Mum and take her to the doctor's for a B12 jab.