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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start yet again, though with a Bank Holiday on Monday it’s bound not to last; there’s a 10% chance of rain around teatime, though the cloud that will gather for that purpose is expected to clear again before sunset. It’s currently 12°C and this afternoon it’ll be soaring to 23° in celebration of May Day. But the barometers are noticeably down at 1008/1016mB

Happy May Day to you all!

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was more of Traffic Cops, though with that watched, they appear to have run out of episodes again

And later, I started reading Len Deighton’s Goodbye Mickey Mouse, which is about US fighter pilots in East Anglia during the war

There was a brief flurry of fireworks nearby earlier. Must have been somebody celebrating Beltane

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

My new Freesat box is annoying. It doesn't let you put recordings in folders like the old one did, program list scrolling is c*p and can't see any way to delete current viewed recording without stopping and finding it in long list again.

What make / model of box do you have?

[ladymuck]

Looks like a new series of Surgeons: At the Edge of Life starts on BBC 2 on Wednesday

[xoggoth]

My new Freesat box is annoying. It doesn't let you put recordings in folders like the old one did, program list scrolling is c*p and can't see any way to delete current viewed recording without stopping and finding it in long list again.

[ladymuck]

Catching up on Forensics: The Real CSI. iPlayer seems to have full series from S3 onwards. Currently watching a lovely one about a body in a freezer (S4E1).

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight was kebab and chips. I even went round to the shop for it myself!

[NickFitz]

The week is done!

Still nice and sunny out

[xoggoth]

U3A, AKA old farts, group leaders lunch earlier. Never that keen on those things, sitting for ages surounded by loud nattering. Relaxing for a while back home with me little puppet parrot in the garden.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was chicken breast with stuffing in a wholemeal bap

[NickFitz]

The new desk has arrived!

The delivery notifications had dire warnings about “kerbside-only drop-off”, not taking away pallets, and so on. Based on past experience of delivery people, I suspected I was going to end up out on the road with 70Kg of flatpack, and had roughed out a plan for dealing with it using the sack truck

But the guy couldn’t have been more helpful! He’d wheeled it in from the road to the door downstairs and rang the bell, so I told him I’d pop straight down. I’d already put the tape measure and Stanley knife in my pocket, just in case. When I got down there, about the first thing he said was “I assume you won’t want the pallet” and started stripping off all the sheet plastic bits holding it on there. There were two separate flatpacks, the big one being the desktop - it’s a corner desk, 160cm wide and 120cm deep.

He helped me get them both into the hall, and when I wondered aloud if the desktop would fit in the lift and started measuring it, he said “Let’s check, otherwise I’ll help you get it upstairs”. So we shifted the small box to the lift, where he took one look with his practised eye and said “Yeah, no problem” and went back for the big one. Got them both in, he said “There you go, all yours now!” and off he went. Excellent service, well above and beyond what I’d expected from the notifications!

[WTFH]

Ordered some stuff from my local garden equipment supplier and was £3 short of free deliver, so I looked at their sale section and saw they had Stihl gloves on offer at £3.50, so I ordered a pair.
They came with 11 pages of documentation/test certification.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky, barely any cloud, still breezy. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Barometer down to 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 05:35; Sunset 20:23 BST

Instead of laying in until I really had to get up, I was summoned from my bed at 8 am by a knock on the door. Amazon delivering a parcel that wasn't for me. I have something arriving today but that wasn't it. That's my good deed done for the flat upstairs today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Windy.

Blue sky.

16.4 deg in here, 17 in the kitchen, 14.5 in the leanto.

1014.5 mBar, 29.96 in Hg, 760.9 Torr, 14.71 psi, (down from 1015 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 BR14, Brillo, covbob, NF and I popped in.

Managed to get into the other fitted wardrobe in the front bedroom & found a big box full of keyboards. Some AT, some PS2. . I have several ancient systems that use AT. Must have bought them donkey's years ago. There was a brand new AT case in there too. That'll come in handy. . There's a Dragon 32 (new in box) in there too.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the nearly unbearable heat of the morning. Lots of gnats and tree seeds blowing in the wind like snow. Saw a funny little yellow/brown bird on the way home. No idea WTF that was. It completely ignored me whilst pecking at weed seeds.

Nearly scalded my leg whilst cooking brunch. The bag of frozen peas was employed to cool things down.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4. Scambusters. FB podcast scam. <click> Sliced Bread: vibration plates. It didn't say if they're more inneresting to sit on than the spin drier. .

More cleaning of the springs, this time in the "living room". Stone me there's a lot of books in here. And dvds. All of which needed moving, then putting back. Knackered now.

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Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. More gloom & doom. Knee surgery: the placebo is more effective than the real op. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

Still .

I wonder what's on the idiot lantern this evening.

"Pubs, Ponds, and Power": Warkworth. A thing on BBC4 about villages and the evil Normans. Good to know that the Northumbrians treated them with due respect & killed the mother****ers for a century or so. I fell asleep for some of it which bodes ill for the Leonardo thing at 21:00 on BBC Alba.

Couple of days ago I was asked if I knew a chap at skool back in the day.

Googling the name I was given led to a chap who lectured in IT, but he was too young.

Dug out Ye Olde Skool Mags and lo! there he appeared in the 1969 A levels: Latin (B), French (A), Spanish (A), off to Trinity, Oxford.

Further googling with the full name revealed another IT type, again too young, then voila! turned up a pdf in Spanish with his name and his birth in Neath.

He was a director of some property company for 6 months in 1996, and the Spanish thing suggested he was then living in Spain in 2001.

Well there's a thing. Now I'll be able to tell them wot asked wot I've found out. Which isn't much but filled an otherwise tedious half an hour or so.

The Almost Perfect Murders thing on True Crime. "Dr" Crippen. 1910. Less unpleasant due to distance in time.

Enterprise S2 E2 "Carbon Creek". For some reason I like that ep.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc with no breeze this morning, which made for a very pleasant walk earlier.