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[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was some leftovers

I’ve gone through some stuff in the study. But my back is a bit grumbly today and doesn’t like me bending or hunching over sorting through stuff, so I’ll leave it for now

Yesterday, my back was OK! I ended up with complaints from my wrists and hands, and from one knee, about the desk assembly business. But they’re generally fine again today while the back has had a delayed reaction

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

I like the idea of nobody being allowed in but me. I hate people!

That’s the ideal!

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull, overcast. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 18 expected. The sun is set to make an appearance this afternoon. Barometer up to 1009 mBar.

Sunrise 05:28; Sunset 20:29 BST

I ache today. My hands are also sore, and covered in scrapes and grazes. Mum doesn't seem to have any decent secateurs any more; I'm going to get one of my spare pairs sharpened and will drop them off next time I'm down.

Despite it being a bank holiday, the hairdresser is open so I will be getting the greys painted over. This afternoon I have a meeting with someone at gig2 who is based in a non-UK country. Getting to bill half a day for a one hour meeting is fine by me.

My car is parked in one of the few spots that isn't tree adjacent but I think it's best I look for a rudimentary cover for it.

Did I mention clutch pedal issues on driving home last Sunday? That reoccurred. Trying to decide if I need to get it to garage asap or if it can wait until I drop it in for its MOT in June.

[sadkingbilly]

I like the idea of nobody being allowed in but me. I hate people!

Strange, - they all speak highly of you.

[xoggoth]

I like the idea of nobody being allowed in but me. I hate people!

[NickFitz]

…NF popped to Sainsburys and had to queue to get in, with limits of 3 on each item purchased and other customers finding it difficult to stay the mandated 2m apart.

Strange days indeed! It made a change though, and I’m still quite taken with the idea of not letting too many people into the shop at the same time

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey start here, and there might have been the odd shower overnight. None predicted for today though, and it doesn’t seem noticeably windy. Despite that, the current 10°C allegedly “feels like” 7°; the expected high for the day is only 14°. The barometers are bouncing back at 1003/1011mB

Nice lie-in this morning, but not too late as I need to continue dealing with the fallout from the rearrangement of the study. I just saw somebody from one of the neighbouring flats head over towards the bins with a bag of recycling and return empty-handed. But for all I know, they could be the kind of monster that dumps the bag there if the bins are full. The bins may even have already been trundled down to their collection point on Friday, because of the Bank Holiday! I reckon I can’t be sure of anything without going over there and checking for myself, but if the situation isn’t favourable, I might have to keep on bagging stuff up and stockpiling it here until Wednesday

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

17.7 deg in here, ?19? in the kitchen, 16.5 in the leanto.

1008 mBar, 29.766 in Hg, 756 Torr, 14.62 psi, (up from 1006 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, LM, NF, and I popped in, whilst NF popped to Sainsburys and had to queue to get in, with limits of 3 on each item purchased and other customers finding it difficult to stay the mandated 2m apart.

Today's dream before the first waking involved some strange railway station where I was once again lost. Thankfully sleep returned eventually.

The NF travails with the corner desk reminds me of having to dismantle mine when the central heating sprung a leak in the wall between the hall and the front room office cum junk room.

It was remarkably hard work.

Guess which room is next on the cleaning of the springs endeavour. . I may be some time.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Jim Al-Khalili waffling on about quantum physics.

Currently very grey & picking with rain.

Thought of going out to Aldi & Tesco but the grey was verging on black to the south so I decimated some brambles and suchlike instead. Then unravelled a tangled ball of string, whereupon the rain started: not heavy but looking as if it might be if it tried a bit harder.

All the trimmings are in the greenhouse for drying off in anticipation of the next bonfire.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

[NickFitz]

There was more David Attenborough on today; I gather they’ve been rerunning it because of his 100th birthday

Later, I watched the first episode of Breaking the Bank: One Trader, 50 Billion on HBO Max, a French documentary series about the rogue trader at Société Générale who’d set up that amount (in Euros) in trades at the time things started falling apart in early 2008. Ironically, he’d made 1.5 billion the previous year by anticipating the subprime crisis, having been given a target for the year of just 12 million; but he'd hidden that from his bosses in the belief he could do even better

And then some more of Goodbye Mickey Mouse

Bank Holiday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Computers, monitors, and so on will have to be moved back in. I might have tea before I bother with that, given that I didn’t get around to having any lunch

I decided I couldn’t be bothered to cook, being too knackered. But there was stuff in the hall blocking the door, so I couldn’t get out to collect a delivery! So I ended up getting the various computers and things back in there, then moving the junk back in too. At least it’s arranged more conveniently for going through now

I also set up the UPS I bought the other week, so the important things are now powered by that

And with that done, I was able to order tea from the Turkish place. It didn’t arrive as quickly as it sometimes has but it was here within twenty minutes, which was fine

[ladymuck]

The parking spot I had secured over the road was under a tree. I expected bird poop but didn't expect the level of tree sap and bits of tree flower completely smothering my car. I managed to get the windscreen clear enough to see out of but the rear was impossible and I didn't fancy driving down the motorway unable to see what's going on behind me. This meant I had to stop at the hand carwash on the A30 to get the muck cleaned off. For a mere tenner they did a fab job. I might stop there more often.

Cloudy but warm and occasionally sunny down on the coast, which meant gardening did get done. The task for the day was to remove, as best as possible, a plant that has taken over the rockery. Mum also got stuck in.

It wasn't going to be possible to get all the roots out without taking all the rocks out and digging the whole thing over. A bit OTT when there were lots of plants that could remain. I added some new planting and left my brother a note to water them in the week if it doesn't rain.

Sorted out an outfit for Mum to wear to my cousin's wedding next weekend. Whether she will want to go on the day remains to be seen.

[NickFitz]

The desk is done!

And I am knackered!

I’m not sure the stuff I moved out of there to have room for assembly will all go back in. But I think I’ll worry about that tomorrow, and put up with stuff cluttering the hall, kitchen, and bedroom for now

Computers, monitors, and so on will have to be moved back in. I might have tea before I bother with that, given that I didn’t get around to having any lunch

[xoggoth]

Usual people missing from local club today so didne bovver. Heard one Dave is having an op and other Dave depended on him from lift so prob. can't make it. Stopped at village cafe where there was a guitarist playing and sat with lady I know from history group. Quite nice.

[NickFitz]

All the parts of the desk have been unpacked. I was beginning to wonder if they’d dispensed with old-fashioned notions like including instructions, but the bottom of the smaller of the two boxes turned out to contain a placcy bag with the fixings, and folded up tightly in there was an A4 sheet with diagrams. So I’m taking a break to digest those. Apart from anything else, it’s far too warm and close for this kind of thing today

I was initially dismayed at the amount of corrugated cardboard I was going to have to deal with. But once I got stuck in with the Stanley knife, the whole lot reduced to a bit less than a foot cubed, so it’ll be easy to get it all in the recycling bins once they’ve been emptied on Tuesday - they’ll be too full now