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[NickFitz]

The mundane laundry is now being laundered

Despite that being the original and correct use of the word, it conjures images of clothes being moved through a series of offshore washing machines before finally returning in an unrecognisable form. I daresay there's a fancy word for a metaphorical usage overtaking the original in everyday parlance, but I don't know what it is

[NickFitz]

The interlopers* having slunk away** from the drive, I was able to retrieve the Corolla from the car park round the back, and now it proudly stands out front next to the big lawn again, in the preferred space

I took it for a drive around the neighbourhood; just enough to warm it up properly. My Dad told me many years ago that this was necessary to avoid condensation damaging the catalytic converter. I have no idea if this is true or not; he probably read it in the paper or saw it on telly, as he wasn't really mechanically inclined. But I don't suppose it can do any harm, unless I crash into something or somebody, which I try to avoid doing

* Neighbours who are just as much entitled to park out there as I am
** Gone to work, probably

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

A bit less cloudy today, so the sunny spells are a bit more frequent. Still quite breezy though. It should carry on much the same for the rest of the day. It's quite mild too, being 17°C ("feels like" 13°) and expected to soar to 23° for a bit this afternoon! The barometers are up some more at 1005/1013mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Warmish side of cool in here at 19.4 deg, 19.5 in the kitchen, 18.5 in the leanto.

1011 mBar, 29.855 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (down from 1012 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).


Meanwhile on the 17th of February 2020 I was still collecting litter: no good would come of this in 10 days time, NF had a Greggs pasty/whatever for lunch, LM had a free cake and was 85% out the door at her then current gig, WTFH popped in, as did LondonManc, and I updated Churchill on the state of the garden and the river and the waters therein.

Walk (slightly abbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.

River less in spate today & a lot less brown, canal not so close to overtopping the bank, water sitting in next door's garden has subsided a lot: you could probably avoid getting your feet wet today by using a bit of my garden path.

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
Overcast earlier, and quite humid. Now the clouds are burning off, might be a pleasant day. The Wife has gone out to work, I have a load of washing on, and this day next week I'll be getting ready to shut down to go on holiday.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture was a rewatch of Limitless (2011) in which a failing writer comes into a supply of a new, illicit drug which confers access to the mythical unused 80% of the brain's capabilities and, with its assistance, starts to build a new life - though problems inevitably arise, ranging from side effects to Russian gangsters to oleaginous American capitalists. It's an enjoyable yarn, notable for featuring that Anna Friel off of Brookside and also Abbie Cornish, the Australian who was so good in Sucker Punch; though it also has some American actors in it (Bradley Cooper, Robert de Niro, and so on)

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Yes, i noticed that too, loads of them on the lane.

[xoggoth]

Lots of acorns falling like bullets with a resounding plop! into the canal

I've never seen so many acorns as this year before. Big one donked me right on the head yesterday.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a rack of ribs, this time with the honey BBQ sauce, and chips

In fact, it was about 0.75 of a rack, because I decided to save a bit for lunch tomorrow rather than being my usual greedy self and eating the lot

This was accompanied by Air Crash Investigation S7E1, about China Airlines Flight 611, a 747 which basically snapped in two in midair

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

It was Not-as-Big Sainsbury's this time, but I still managed to get most things I was after as there wasn't anything too exotic or outré needed this week

Returning, I found that some vile person - well, one of my very nice neighbours, I assume - had snaffled my preferred parking spot!

Adding insult to injury, there weren't any other spaces free on the drive around the big lawn. So I had to go and park in the small car park out the back, which luckily still had a couple of spaces free

I still haven't had to park on the road at all since I moved here

[ladymuck]

My document is mostly done, pending someone reviewing it and demanding sweeping changes.

I intended to listen to the playback of a meeting with OtherClientCo that I couldn't attend this afternoon but the recording was stopped a couple of minutes after it started. There was some gossip to be discussed and so recording was stopped. Sadly, no-one thought to restart the recording once the gossiping was done, so I have no idea if there's anything I need to care about.

The reason for non-attendance was because I finally got my behind (and the rest of me) to the GP to enquire about the frequency and type of headaches I've been having of late. We have a plan for a bit of monitoring, a few tests, etc. No caffeine for a while, which is disappointing.

[xoggoth]

No Mahjongy thing this morning due to a funeral.

Got my business accounts to add up, really relieved as the £2k discrepancy in balance sheet is now only £21. After some minor editing I'd been adding the stock cost of sales instead of subtracting! Idiot! What a relief, it was really stressing me out.

Nowt this PM except walky and boring shopping. May try and put up with loony lady 2 again tomorrow. I shall email her the terms and conditions she must agree to.

PS

I'm trying to decide whether to do the shopping at teatime, or leave it till the morning

Me too.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz oxtail soup and white toast

Been an OK morning, mostly pairing with the other dev as we add a new feature which requires some meddling around with areas of the app I haven't had much to do with yet. So she's driving, and I'm following along

Sunny spells now, though there's still a lot of cloud in big clumps

I'm trying to decide whether to do the shopping at teatime, or leave it till the morning

[ladymuck]

Morning Afternoon all

Dull and overcast. Currently 20 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 22 expected. Unlikely to rain despite it looking very grey out. Barometer up to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 06:41; Sunset 19:08 BST

This morning the builder who sorted the garden wall stopped by to bring the person charged with painting it. They have prepped the surface and applied a base coat, returning tomorrow (weather allowing) to finish it off. The collection of rubbish that had been left in the front garden was taken away.

Also this morning I have made some progress on that document I've been avoiding for some time. You can tell the delivery deadline is looming when I actually start doing something.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Wet. Wet. Wet. Standing water at the bottom of next door's garden (fortunately it's a foot lower than my garden). Can't say that it has rained that much but there you go.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Drizzly.

Cool in here at 19.1 deg, 19 deg in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.

1010.5 mBar, 29.84 in Hg, 757.9 Torr, 14.656 psi, (up from 1009 last night).

Meanwhile on the 17th of February 2020 Brillo, BR14, and Churchill popped in, Diver and his hand were mentioned, NF commented, WTFH did too, and LM eventually appeared.

It appears that the garden next door was flooded more deeply on 16th of February 2020 as recalled in my post of the 14th of September. Well there's a thing. Looks, from a distance since the drizzle remains extant, that it's getting a little deeper down there. No whales yet.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus, which is growing much stonger since one ear blocked.

In other news, next door managed, after many weeks, to get the box of sodden newspaper and the overfull box of wine bottles out to the kerb for collection. Well there's a thing.

Both must have been too heavy for the female half, so presumably my idle nephew managed to stir his sticks at last & bend his fecking back & do something.

Or course the emptied bins & wheelie bin will remain out the front for ages since he has a world class talent for ignoring stuff.

Wonder of wonders: it was all back in when I returned from my walk. Such dynamism.

Walk (towpath, abbreviated slightly) walked. It didn't drizzle on me which was good.

Canal very full with the sluices doing their thing: odd to remember it was empty in places 3 weeks ago.

Lots of acorns falling like bullets with a resounding plop! into the canal.

River in spate.

Wasps nest in the compost heap with some very energetic workers flying to and fro.

I thought they'd be dying back by now but this lot seem not to have got the memo.

Very amusted watching one wasp toying with an orb spider which wasn't having anythiing to do with it, fending it off with a leg or two.

They seem smaller than the usual wasp.

Freecell score: 95%, running average: 84%.

Tea: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: PBS: Edwin Land and Polaroid. Inneresting. A prime example of someone representing himself in court having a fool for a client. .

UFO bollox on Blaze. Rendlesham Forest was mentioned so I washed the dishes on the principle that would be more inneresting by far. .

Steam: Fort William to Mallaig behind a Black Five with Miles Kington (1986) (now the late: he died in 2008).

"The train now departing (1988)": The Settle Carlisle controversy: The Milk Snatcher planned its demise: she never took a train. But she sacked the minister who was interviewed on the train.

Ancient Aliens bollox on Blaze: looking for ETI.

The proof is out there. Really? Nah. It's bollox.