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[NickFitz]

The usual US borders and NZ police stuff was on this afternoon; repeats, and largely ignored

Later, an episode of Trauma Room 1 followed by an old 24 Hours in A&E

Monday yet again tomorrow. The distortion of the weekend caused by my trip northwards yesterday has left me feeling discombobulated and unready for yet another week, but I don't suppose they'll accept that as an excuse

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Not showing edits again, so...

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 17.1 deg, 18 deg in the kitchen, 16.5 deg in the leanto.

1012 mBar, 29,884343 in Hg, 759.1 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (down from 1013 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 8th of October 2019 WTFH went for a walk, was off the painkillers, and was searching for a missing guineafowl, I got wet on the walk to Tonna lock after which the sun came out, whereas NF was waiting for the rain to arrive whilst ravelling the sleeve of care by knitting some soup. Or something. .

Getting concerned with some of the stuff that's coming out of my sinuses, I'm sure there was a bit of brain in that last one. .

Walk (unabbreviated) walked during which an acquaintance from years ago appeared, he seems to be the only one of the Sunday morning crew apart from me who's still alive.

Lunch: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: some bollox on R4 about that Rylan chap. When Jack Dee came on it went extremely rapidly.

The last 15 minutes of a thing about the Pacific War complete with nuclear explosions. I wonder what Glyn the ex POW would have thought of this, he was at Nagasaki on the day.

A brief viewing of some Mini (Austin not BMW) race with nutters hurtling around some track or other on ITV4, prior to the BTCC.

Yet more D Day stuff, this time on PBS.

Freecell score: dire, walk away before

The dvd library on the stairs has been moved, cleaned behind & under, then replaced more or less where it was before. . WTF did I buy all this tulip for?

Tea: soup etc. with added chilli to attempt to make it a little more inneresting. Not that it worked particularly. .

Entertainment: thing on R4 about some film director chap. The one that did Michael Collins & Mona Lisa, the latter of which I think I've seen, the former residing unwatched in one of the piles on the stairs.

For some unknown & unknowable reason I've had a desire for a boiled egg sandwich, said desire has been satisfied yesterday & today. I discovered I can boil said egg in the kettle (you can't cook them in the poppity ping because they explode.

Skinwalker Ranch bollox on Blaze: "Something's Up".

I've decided to give the subpar Flipping Bangers a miss, it's about a Merc SLK this week.

Ancient Unexplained Files: More bollox but on DMAX instead.

[ladymuck]

Just heard an announcement on Channel 4 that there will be an "all new" episode of 24 Hours in A&E tomorrow evening

[NickFitz]

Tea: a nice big fry-up, involving sausages and bacon from Chatsworth

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Cloudy day out. Currently 15°C which is as good as it'll get, while the barometers are up but not by an amount that's likely to matter much, at 1000/1008mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Got somebody from Freecycle coming to collect a load of old metal shelving things shortly. Why I brought them I have no idea. One buys so much stuff in life that never gets used.

You & me both, Xogg. Why did I buy all this crap? Most of it has never been used.

Anyone want a couple of Racal RA17 receivers? Light at a mere 67lbs.

There's a Murphy B40 too, but that's slightly heavier at 114lbs. They made techs strong in the navy.

[xoggoth]

Sold a sofa bed on eBay and that has been picked up this morning.

Got somebody from Freecycle coming to collect a load of old metal shelving things shortly. Why I brought them I have no idea. One buys so much stuff in life that never gets used. Toothpaste, ie footpath, inspection this afternoon. Most exciting thing in me life wobbling signposts, can think of things I'd rather be wobbling. LL1 off to US tomorrow, so 6 weeks with only yacky LL3 for company. Aaaagh, need some new earmuffs.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny, clear sky with occasional fluff. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 17 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer steady at 1014 mBar still.

Sold a sofa bed on eBay and that has been picked up this morning. Off to see Mum today with HWMBO who is very kindly going to make her a nice dinner.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 17.1 deg, 18 deg in the kitchen, 16.5 deg in the leanto.

1012 mBar, 29,884343 in Hg, 759.1 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (down from 1013 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 8th of October 2019 WTFH went for a walk, was off the painkillers, and was searching for a missing guineafowl, I got wet on the walk to Tonna lock after which the sun came out, whereas NF was waiting for the rain to arrive whilst ravelling the sleeve of care by knitting some soup. Or something. .

Getting concerned with some of the stuff that's coming out of my sinuses, I'm sure there was a bit of brain in that last one. .

Walk (unabbreviated) walked during which an acquaintance from years ago appeared, he seems to be the only one of the Sunday morning crew apart from me who's still alive.

Lunch: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: some bollox on R4 about that Rylan chap. When Jack Dee came on it went <click> extremely rapidly.

The last 15 minutes of a thing about the Pacific War complete with nuclear explosions. I wonder what Glyn the ex POW would have thought of this, he was at Nagasaki on the day.

A brief viewing of some Mini (Austin not BMW) race with nutters hurtling around some track or other on ITV4, prior to the BTCC.

Yet more D Day stuff, this time on PBS.

Freecell score: dire, walk away before

The dvd library on the stairs has been moved, cleaned behind & under, then replaced more or less where it was before. . WTF did I buy all this tulip for?

Tea: soup etc. with added chilli to attempt to make it a little more inneresting. Not that it worked particularly. .

Entertainment: thing on R4 about some film director chap. The one that did Michael Collins & Mona Lisa, the latter of which I think I've seen, the former residing unwatched in one of the piles on the stairs.

[WTFH]

Morning all
A pleasant perambulation was had earlier before it gets too hot. Successful day’s gardening yesterday and hopefully more today.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was True Lies (1994), a humorous thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. I suspect this relied to a certain extent on the popularity of its stars at the time it came out, as parts of the film seemed to play on that, and of course that doesn't play so well thirty years down the line. But that's a minor niggle as it's a good story, and builds to a highly entertaining climax in which (spoiler alert, if one can spoil something three decades on) excellent use is made of that great British invention, the Harrier. Good stuff

And as there's a Hunger Games prequel out, I need to reacquaint myself with the originals before watching it; for although it comes before chronologically, it will doubtless reference or foreshadow stuff from the stories that happened later. So a rewatch of The Hunger Games (2012) was necessary, though also welcome, as they really are very good films

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

The fridge may be full of meaty goodness, but I couldn't be bothered to cook. So tea has been delivered from Five Guys

[NickFitz]

I've barely recovered from disposing of 70 or so years of railway magazines hoarded by my dad: my collection of Practical Electronics, Practical Wireless, Practical Television, EPE, and Wireless World is destined for the same fate, the EXE mags and the Program Now! mags met the recycling a couple of weeks ago.

There's a couple of boxes of databooks (Siemens mostly with some Ferranti & Plessey thrown in for good measure) that could well go the same way.

I've still got a few copies of EXE, along with all the copies of Byte and PCW. I am beginning to wonder if there's much point hanging on to them; I think the Internet Archive has every issue of Byte from the years when it was worth reading. Not sure about Dr. Dobb's Journal either, as they gave away a free disc containing every copy up to that point, not long before it was killed off

[DoctorStrangelove]

I've barely recovered from disposing of 70 or so years of railway magazines hoarded by my dad: my collection of Practical Electronics, Practical Wireless, Practical Television, EPE, and Wireless World is destined for the same fate, the EXE mags and the Program Now! mags met the recycling a couple of weeks ago.

There's a couple of boxes of databooks (Siemens mostly with some Ferranti & Plessey thrown in for good measure) that could well go the same way.

[NickFitz]

Home again!

Made it to my brother's place without any undue delays, where I was able to sign the IHT form. Then we had a chat, and headed down into town (if town it be). The petrol station is also the Post Office, so we were able to post the form off, and that's all done and dusted.

Onwards to the local deli/café, where I had an extremely good pork, sage and leek sausage roll and a coffee for lunch. I have a spare sausage roll, just in case, which is now in the fridge

Then back to his place, which proved to be a much tougher walk than the way down, as he lives up an extremely steep hill. That's the Peak District for you; I suppose it would be the slight bump district otherwise

And so to look through a load of boxes of old magazines and newspapers that our Dad had stored in his loft. Many of them seemed of limited value, though he must have had some reason for keeping them. But then I found an old TV Times (older than me) of which there were two copies, which suggested they merited further investigation - and sure enough, they recorded the broadcast of a TV play he wrote for Granada!

So it was worth going through them all if only to save those from the recycling; I've got one copy, and my brother kept the other

Then I headed home, but I made the planned detour via the Chatsworth Estate Farm Shop. So as well as a sausage roll, there's a load of excellent chops, steaks, ribs, sausages, and bacon in the fridge. I'll have to sort it all out, and squeeze the stuff I can't eat in the next couple of days into whatever space I can find in the freezer