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[NickFitz]

Tea: steak and caramelised onion burger in a toasted sesame seed bun with ketchup, and fries

[NickFitz]

Off to Not-Big-Enough Sainsbury's, where it transpired that the self-scan handsets were all offline

As I wasn't in the mood for scanning loads of stuff while being harangued about bagging areas by some robot, I grabbed the barest minimum of stuff I needed and left, spending just over £12 in total

Turns out they don't even sell Viz there, the new (last week) issue of which was one of my primary intended purchases. I'll have to find time to go to the big one instead

[NickFitz]

Kind of busy today, but it's a frustrating kind of busy, trying to ask people for what we need so they can explain to other people and so on down the line, until finally a response comes back which is clearly to a different question. That and fixing stuff other people have broken because it's quicker than explaining what they broke and getting them to fix it

Anyway, in the midst of all this nonsense, lunch - so, so long ago it seems - was a fish finger bap (wholemeal) with ketchup

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull, overcast. Not raining. The sun might make an appearance after lunchtime. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Barometer up to 1014 mBar.

Lots of viewings this afternoon. Saw a lovely flat yesterday but, on reflection, it wasn't right for me. The kitchen had hardly any storage and I really hate open plan kitchen / living rooms. I think that has become the one thing I refuse to compromise on. Also noticed that the flat I missed out on earlier in the month is still being advertised. I have a couple of viewings booked with that agent today so will find out why that is. Today I have six viewings across the Ealing area. I really hope one of them is worth going for.

[DoctorStrangelove]

He's German, so he doesn't have the excuse of being American and not knowing where anything is

Push comes to shove he could have asked his dad. .

Morning.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dry.

Cool in here at 18.4 deg, 18.5 in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto, 14.5 in the salting house.

1010 mBar, 29.82528 in Hg, 757.56 Torr, 14.6488 psi, (assuming I tapped it last night: up from 1005), 78% RH (GDR hair), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of October 2019 NF had chicken bits in breadcrumbs for lunch, I though all the freeview sets & set top boxes were fecked until the :lightbulb: moment when I retuned them all to find that fixed 'em, returning the 144 channels of tulip to choose from, whereas WTFH was awaiting some surgery, and there was some discussion of why certain places have "Brook" in their placenames & the dire consequences thereof.

I related the story of The Flooded Gardens of 1991, and I realised a couple of days ago that the water concerned was contaminated with sewage since at that time the sewer fed raw & untreated into the Llantwit Brook before passing under the canal into the river, or at least it did until that culvert was blocked. There's a pumping station there now that was installed in 1996 IIRC.

Fridge duly cleaned behind, cleaned inside, cleaned underneath, reassembled, reprovisioned & back in place. Knackered now. Memo to self: maybe doing it every 3 months might be quicker..

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom: it's chilly out there today. Nearly needed a scarf & gloves..

Lunch: baked spud etc.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about the Three Words thing. Then on to Sliced Bread <click>

Much cleaning of the leanto, upsetting many spiders. Even cleaned the lampshade (Wilko, el cheapo, £4 IIRC) which was looking rather grim, but some of the cillit bang crap hygene & bleach served to make it look almost like a new piece of crap rather than a 10 year old piece of crap.

I think there's a leak in the roof.

Veronica Mars S2 E16 "The Rapes of Graff". . The visiting the local uni one.

More cleaning.

Tea: chicken in white sauce with rice n peas etc.

Entertainment: PM. Vintage Voltate (subtitles): Porsche 944 electrickfied.

Dan Do. Houses yng Nghymraeg.

After which there was Mr Elizondo again, this time about civil aircraft having closer encounters that would seem whise.

War Walks 6/6: Professor Richard Holmes (who didn't live long enough to get his pension) talking of the Battle of Normandy: Operation Goodwood.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start but sans the rain that was such a feature of yesterday, though at least that gave us one of the defining images of a spectacularly dismal political career shambling to its end

Currently 11°C and only climbing to a mere 15°; the barometers are up again at 998/1006mB

[NickFitz]

Watched an old Police Interceptors earlier

And then read some more of Blitzed, in which the Wehrmacht has barrelled through the Ardennes and all the way to the Channel coast by dint of taking large quantities of crystal meth and not sleeping for several days

Mildly annoying that the author keeps referring to them aiming for "the Atlantic coast" though. I think he's referring to the larger goal of conquering France, but it would have made sense to use "the Channel coast" or "the North Sea coast" in the context of this particular offensive. He's German, so he doesn't have the excuse of being American and not knowing where anything is

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Giving a new medical documentary a try. Trauma Room One on Channel 5.

So far (10 mins in) it's less focussed on patient stories and more on the medical procedures, which I quite like. Will see if they do the human interest malarkey towards the end of the episode.

It did remind me that some consultants are not called "Dr". Is there something they don't do after getting their medical degree which means they don't get that?

Surgeons? Traditionally, surgeons are called "Mr" rather than "Dr"; something to do with the profession deriving from barbers rather than medics

That's when all of them were men, of course

[ladymuck]

Giving a new medical documentary a try. Trauma Room One on Channel 5.

So far (10 mins in) it's less focussed on patient stories and more on the medical procedures, which I quite like. Will see if they do the human interest malarkey towards the end of the episode.

It did remind me that some consultants are not called "Dr". Is there something they don't do after getting their medical degree which means they don't get that?

[ladymuck]

Told ClientGov I won't be in on Friday 5th July

Om

[NickFitz]

I thought there was some bol left in the freezer, but it seems not. Instead, tea has been chicken madras with rice and naan

[NickFitz]

Told ClientGov I won't be in on Friday 5th July

[ladymuck]

Here's a thing I learned today. The first three numbers on a diplomatic license plate means something:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tration_plates

[NickFitz]

'Afternoon all.

Poppin' in to doff my cap and scrounge some gen from the assembled masses.

Been a while. Hope all well. Will pop back soonish... I know; you can't wait.

Laters...

[NickFitz]

Lunch: pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce, and a bag of plain crisps

When I cooked these cutlets the other night, I sprinkled some harissa spice on them, mainly because I was wondering if that would go well with pork, which it did. I'd forgotten about this, and the added flavour was a very nice surprise when I took my first mouthful