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[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was M&S honey & mustard cocktail sausages with a bag of plain crisps. And tea now has been steak & Guinness pie with chips

I made the pie filling overnight in the slow cooker, then let it cool and develop its flavours through the day, and it turned out very nicely

[NickFitz]

Hey NickFitz the book drop off on Weds won't be happening after all. The friend I'm meeting that day wants to meet in Kingston which makes the logistics a bit tricky for a post work meeting time.

Oh well, it'll have to be the Christmas Do then

I got an email from Amazon the other week telling me that a new 10th anniversary edition of the trilogy has just been published

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Hey NickFitz the book drop off on Weds won't be happening after all. The friend I'm meeting that day wants to meet in Kingston which makes the logistics a bit tricky for a post work meeting time.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Some of the fluff is grey flecked but the forecast doesn't mention any precipitation. Currently 22 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Barometer up a smidge to 1016 mBar.

HWMBO arrived late yesterday evening ahead of another week of talking TOGAF.

It must have gotten chilly in the flat overnight as the heating came on this morning. The bedroom radiator make a right racket, so I did what all proper contractors do: bled the radiators.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny out, though apparently it'll get cloudier this afternoon - though not in a rainy way, in theory. The temperatures are picking up a bit this week too, being 16°C with a predicted high of 22°; the barometers are also up slightly at 1005/1013mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday apparently. It's very quiet out there even accounting for the blocked ear canal.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

Lots of grey clouds threatening rain across the valley.

Cool in here at 18.3 deg, 19.5 deg in the kitchen, 17 deg in the leanto.

1012.6 mBar, 29.902 in Hg, 759.5 Torr, 14.686 psi, (up from 1011 last night), 73% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of November 2019 preparation for The Next Bonfire took place. I like bonfires even when it's not November the 5th.

[WTFH]

Morning all

CBS, etc. Today will probably involve sawing/chopping wood then cutting the grass.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Mist (2007) in which a bunch of people are trapped in a supermarket when a mysterious mist descends outside, because it seems that there may be Something Out There… Excellent film, though maybe not for those of a nervous disposition

And then the final episode of S4 (which was longer than usual as all the loose ends were tied up) and first episode of S5 of The Wire

It's very nice not to have to "go to work" tomorrow, even though doing so merely means sitting in a different chair at home. I think I'm going to tell ClientGov that I'd like to switch to a four day week once the dust has settled around this project; they're generally supportive of such things, and I can afford it even before the inheritance comes in and disposes of the matter of the mortgage

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

It appears that having 3 sheds for indoor wood is a bit excessive, particularly when you point out that the two big piles are outdoor wood and will be stored separately.
New log store is now about 1/4 full and I think we’ve got 10+ years of outdoor wood and at least 4 years of indoor, excluding the pile of indoor to be split/sawn and the pile of tulip wood (not a swear word) from the tulip tree (not a swear word) at the other house.

If we had a log-fired electricity generator, we could go off-grid.

anyway, TFBSZ.

[NickFitz]

For tea, a cold chicken leg with a bag of plain crisps

Accompanied by S1E1 of Cheers because I've never seen all of them and now seems as good a time as any to start

Earlier, lots of Monkey Life this morning

And this afternoon, I eschewed the endlessly repeated Colonial borders and roads policing in favour of a four part documentary on All4: Merseyside Detectives, a fly-on-the-wall thing about the investigations into the unrelated 2022 murders of Ashley Dale and nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel

I think I'll watch a film tonight, but I haven't decided what yet

[NickFitz]

Lunch: sausages and bacon in buttered white toast

Turned gloomy out again, and looks very breezy too

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny, dry. Lots of lumps of cloud moving at pace, although the wind speeds at ground level are much gentler. Currently 20 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer notably up to 1015 mBar.

Not visiting Mum today so I called her instead.

Making some bread. I watched a video featuring Richard Bertinet yesterday to help me fathom how to work with high hydration dough that isn't amenable to the traditional kneading techniques. Let's see how much I remembered when today's loaf comes out the oven.

[NickFitz]

Meanwhile on the 5th of November 2019 WTFH was unRetired, I went for a walk to the viewless point & nearly fell over, NF went to Sainsburys and found a silver racing bike concealed by the SMC when he returned. Did we ever hear tell of the fate of the bike, I wonder?

It turned out it had a broken chain. I left it there for a few weeks in case the rightful owner had put it there temporarily and planned to come back for it, but that didn't happen - though somebody pulled it out from behind the car one day, presumably intending to steal it, but left it behind when they realised it wasn't ridable.

Eventually I took it in, vaguely planning to get a new chain, but that never happened. It was still in the back yard when I moved out

[WTFH]

Perambulation completed and a trip to the tip all before breakfast. Now to get back to log store construction.