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[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy with spits of rain. But no more forecast for the rest of the day. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Barometer down to 1014 mBar.

Laundry about to go on the WL. Bed stripped and airing, and the linen will go into the WM soon. Deciding whether to hire a Zipcar and so some storage unit runs.

[WTFH]

Afternoon all

[DoctorStrangelove]

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).

Meanwhile on the 8th of October 2019 NF was watching more S3 eps of Breaking Bad (including that fan favourite "The Fly"), whereas in sunny Neath it was grey, gloomy, damp, & depressing, but oddly enough, rather warmer then that it has been recently.

Smalls in the WM.

Smalls out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Cottons in the WM.

Cottons out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

It picked with rain.

The ongoing cleaning of the salting house is now complete, or as complete as it's going to get.

Lunch: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: Moneybox waffling on about something or other.

The News Quiz.

Looks like the accursed honeysuckle infesting the bottom of the garden is the japanese variety.

Glyphosate kills it. .

Shirts in off the line & roughly iRoned.

Cottons need the iRon in off the line & roughly iRoned.

Smalls in off the line.

All now airing upstairs.

Bed remade.

Gosh my back is playing up but not in the usual way.

[NickFitz]

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

[NickFitz]

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

[NickFitz]

have a nice weekend peeps

And you!

[NickFitz]

Bed remade!

[NickFitz]

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

[NickFitz]

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...

Yes, we've got that in there, though we had to deduct the value of my Mum's jewellery, as that was all left to my sister separate from the "everything to Dad" provision. That wasn't worth very much though - they were too poor for jewellery when they were younger, and not inclined to throw money at it when they were older

Thanks!

[NickFitz]

Tea has been oniony chicken casserole and chips

Accompanied by Trucking Hell

[ladymuck]

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...

[NickFitz]

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

[ladymuck]

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.

[sadkingbilly]

oh, and lunch was local butcher's pork pie with pickled onions and English Mustard.
delicious and nutricious

[NickFitz]

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!