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[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bit of shepherd's pie

There's been rain off and on this morning but it's turned sunny and rather Simpsonesque now. Don't know if that will last though

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but quite bright. Dry at present but rain forecast around lunchtime and early evening. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer steady.

There is an electrician in, to fit an isolation switch for the cooker. The landlady is also here, fussing about nonsense. I've retreated to the safety of my office rather than make small talk.

[DoctorStrangelove]

And then more of Blitzed, in which things are going badly on the Eastern Front but the Führer doesn't really care because his personal physician has turned him on to Oxycodone

Maybe things might have been different if he'd stuck to brandy and cigars as did our Esteemed Leader. . Just as well he didn't then. .

Morning.

Thursday by reports.

Wet.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 17.3 deg, 18 deg in the kitchen, 17 deg in the leanto.

1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.44 Torr, 14.627 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 74% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of October 2019 I'd finished reading "The Mighty Micro" and had moved on to "The Silicon Civilisation" which was largely fantasy due to the greed of the 0.1%, on the 4th WTFH was relating the pain he was in after the op and had manly hugs all round (very carefully), whereas NF was watching yet more Breaking Bad, as you do.

Cleaning the cupboards under the stairs: looks like they needed it judging by the colour of the water afterwards. Ah the smell of chlorine in the morning, it smells of victory mould and damp.

Lunch: baked spud etc.

Entertainment: Gap Finders. Sliced Bread: car tyres. TWATO. The thing about thieving from the BM at 13:45.

Veronica Mars S2 E21 "Happy Go Lucky". The murder case finally comes to court.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start with a bit of drizzle at the moment, and that's how it's going to continue, allegedly. Mild enough, starting at 11°C and aiming for 17°, while the barometers are pretty much the same at 996/1004mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Precipitation curtailed the perambulation.
Or, to put it another way: there was blue sky and some light cloud when we left home, so I decided not to take a jacket. Half an hour later the heavens opened and it was raining stair rods - the kind of rain that gets you very wet very quickly. So we chose to come home.

[NickFitz]

This evening's only viewing was an old Police Interceptors

And then more of Blitzed, in which things are going badly on the Eastern Front but the Führer doesn't really care because his personal physician has turned him on to Oxycodone

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

There were a couple of showers this afternoon, but they'd cleared up by teatime. Then the bedding wash I'd had on finished drying shortly after six. So, as the auspices seemed good, to Big Sainsbury's I did go!

I was able to obtain the latest Viz, among other essentials

I'm having to be slightly more cautious about buying meat now though, given the much-reduced freezer space, as I don't have the option of just freezing stuff if I don't get around to cooking it

Then homewards via the VAT fraud chip shop. I was thinking of getting pie & chips, but the sight of freshly-fried golden batter seduced me as soon as I walked in and I went for fish & chips instead. They told me that they only had cod ready, which commands a premium, and I'd have to wait a few minutes for the standard haddock; but I assured them I was happy to pay the extra. So I was in and out of there faster than I ever have been, I think. And I'm glad I chose as I did, because it was really, really nice

[NickFitz]

Lunch: sweet chilli chicken in a sandwich (wholemeal)

Still quite breezy and cloudy out, but I think the sunny spells are getting longer and more frequent

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with patches of blue. Breezy. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 20 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer down to 1011 mBar.

Busy meeting-heavy start to the day and now it's all about updating documentation.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday apparently.

Happily no dreams of new jobs last night, merely a dream of find a five centime coin whilst paying for something in the sub postoffice up the road.

Dry (currently).

Sunless.

Grey.

Cool in here vergining on chilly at 17.1 deg, 18 deg in the kitchen, 17 deg in the leanto.

1006 mBar, 29.707 in Hg, 754.56 Torr, 14.59 psi (untapped), 79% RH (GDR hair), 74% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of October 2019 Xogg was misled to thinking Tonna lock was in Minnesota rather than a mile or so up the valley, boyo, NF was Having More Fun With Maps, this time the Pripyat Big Wheel, all of which led inevitably to mention of working for 3M and Things You Can Buy In Walmart, including a Winchester Model 70 (but only for hunting of course rather than generalised mass murder which is difficult with a bolt action rifle), following which there was more viewing of Jeremiah (well I'd bought the R1 dvds so had to get my money's worth like), whereas NF found a gammon steak in the freezer & had that For Tea, sans the pineapple ring since it was raining.

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away, during which I met an old friend, asked how his mrs was, only to find she popped her clogs last September, a bit like finding one of my cousins had died purely by accident when googling the demise of a colleague from Siliconix.

Then met some ex neighbours in Tesco and had a conversation with a chap I talk to in Penydre on my stagger back home.

So that's 3 conversations in one day. . I can normally go weeks without that happening.

Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

Entertainment: TWATO. More or Less. The thing at 13:45.

Veronica Mars S2 E20 "Look who's stalking". The mayor's daughter thinks she's being stalked. The senior prom is cancelled and replaced by a private prom.

Tea: soup: couldn't be arsed to cook.

Entertainment: PM <click>

The Human Jungle E3. The one about the religious nutter.

BBC4 thing about the XX committee, Treasure, Tricycle, Brutus, Artist, Bronx, from 2012 with Ben Macintyre.

10 minutes with the late Bernard Hill relating the making of "Boys from the blackstuff".

[WTFH]

Morning all
A slow star by me meant we only managed 5.93km on our perambulation. Sunny and humid out.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start with some lingering cloud of the kind that suggests the dodgy weather has cleared off. Maybe not for long though as the barometers remain dubious, being down to 996/1003mB. Temperature is currently 12°C and aiming for 17°

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was Police 999: Clear and Present Danger which all sounds very exciting. It isn't, though. It's one of those bodycam things, but it manages to render every incident it shows exceptionally tedious by constantly intercutting with ex-police talking heads, uttering platitudes you've heard a thousand times: "A police officer has to make a decision", "Members of the public may be in danger", "This is something every police officer has to deal with", on and on. Even when they're talking specifically about the incident in question (and it's obvious that they usually aren't) there's no additional insight beyond the standard clichés. Also, the programme makers use this cutting back and forth as an excuse to repeat the same bits of the action over and over again, so you'll see a couple of seconds of a copper waving his taser around (which, by the way, usually completely obscures any view of the person he's approaching, as the bodycams are worn on their chests), then waffle, then the same couple of seconds, then waffle from somebody else, then the same bit again! Honestly, they're milking about five minutes of actual stuff happening to make a programme that's an hour long. Not worth it

Meanwhile in 1941, Hitler's personal physician is keeping himself in the chap's good books (and thus out of the hands of the Gestapo) by daily injections of ever-increasing doses of assorted drugs and other stuff. By 1944, apparently, he'll be using up to eighty different things that he mixes and matches in an attempt to address the symptoms of the day. Which very naturally leads to the question, was it this that caused Hitler's mental and physical decline over that period? An interesting hypothesis, and one which biographers apparently haven't considered, assuming that the medication was treating the decline.

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Severn Trent Water phoned earlier to check that my water pressure was OK now after the problem the other day. Nice of them to follow up on it, but they have my email address so I don't know why they couldn't just use that

[NickFitz]

Tea: beef short rib in Guinness gravy with chips and peas

I definitely got that beef short rib recipe just right when I made that batch, so I hope I can remember what went in it next time