Morning.
Saturday.
Dry.
Intermittently sunny.
Simpsonsesque in parts.
Cool in here at 17.7 deg, 18.5 deg in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto, 15.6 in the saltinghouse.
1010 mBar, 29.825 in Hg, 757.56 Torr, 14.6488 psi, (down from 1015 last night if the barometer was tapped), 78% RH (GDR hair), 69% RH (Lidl electric).
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Morning denizens
Up betimes for a Saturday, ready (well, kind of) for the journey north. I see from the radar that there's some rain up there, but it should have cleared by the time I arrive. Here, it's overcast with a chance of light rain soon. It's 12°C right now and peaking at 16° later, while the barometers are down a bit at 999/1007mB
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No further viewing tonight. In Nuclear Accidents, an early Canadian reactor using heavy water as a moderator managed to achieve the world's first power excursion in 1950, which happened because the operator became engrossed in a phone call and forgot what he was doing. Then, a few years later, the other reactor next door managed not only a power excursion but also the world's first core meltdown and first reactor hydrogen explosion, all in the space of about four minutes. This was also due to operator error, multiple ones this time. Interestingly, some of the human factors identified as leading to the incident were also found at both Three Mile Island and Fukushima, suggesting that our chances of getting better at this stuff may have been overestimated
The cleanup after the second one was assisted (in great secrecy) by a large number of American personnel, the naval contingent of whom was led by one Jimmy Carter
Early night now so I'm full of vim and vigour for the drive north, and indeed south again, tomorrow. I'll be coming back via Chatsworth farm shop, where I hope to obtain a variety of excellent cuts of meat
Goodnight all
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One thing I remembered to do after coming back from the doc's was to leave the bed to air. Suppose I'd better go and remake it
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Originally posted by ladymuck View PostNickFitz I'm sure it's all in hand but assuming all of your Mum's estate essentially passed to your Dad then you can claim the IHT allowance that would have applied to her, but remains unused, which doubles the amount of tax free proceeds you have. IHT400 and its notes...
Thanks!
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Tea has been oniony chicken casserole and chips
Accompanied by Trucking Hell
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NickFitz I'm sure it's all in hand but assuming all of your Mum's estate essentially passed to your Dad then you can claim the IHT allowance that would have applied to her, but remains unused, which doubles the amount of tax free proceeds you have. IHT400 and its notes...
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Popped over to the bins to deposit a bag of recycling. On the way over, those two blackbirds were fronting up to each other again. So engrossed were they in this battle for territory that they completely ignored me as I passed them only a couple of feet away
And on the way back, I stopped to check the car's tyre pressures and oil. The latter was fine, and only one of the tyres wanted a small number of psi to get it to where it should be.
This was ahead of a trip tomorrow - this time north, to my brother's place in the Peak District. He and I are executors of our Dad's will, and he's just got the Inheritance Tax form ready for submission. So I need to go over it and append my signature, and then it can be submitted
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Measuring up has been done. Glad we went for a revisit as I noticed that there is absolutely nothing in the flat that would facilitate broadband. Luckily the fibre product I've ordered wouldn't use it but it's annoying to now have to request permission to install fibre whereas I could have simply used an existing point of entry to get the cable inside.
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oh, and lunch was local butcher's pork pie with pickled onions and English Mustard.
delicious and nutricious
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The surgery has been visited, and some of my blood extracted. On the way back, I made a minor detour to the chemist's to pick up the usual monthly selection, and then home.
And with that: green ring closed!
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g'day all
(thought i'd try a bit of strine)
well, retirement hasn't gone away. I think the end client is WTFH's, since the PM's don't seem to be able to decide whether to have a haircut or a sh1t.
But when have PM's ever been any fecking use?
Small consultancy is attempting to swap me onto another project (same client), i told them only if they come up with a definite offer/start date, and any more p1ssing around and they can stuff it at any price.
ho hum.
wouldn't have minded a bit of engineering to play with, getting a bit bored.
maybe i'll go and annoy the racist twats in general some more (and get banned by the holy killjoys)
have a nice weekend peepsLast edited by sadkingbilly; Yesterday, 13:51.
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Lunch has been a bit of leftover shepherd's pie out of the freezer
Off to the doc's in a bit for the followup thyroid blood test
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