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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

White.

Sunless.

Cold in here at 10.8 deg, 8.5 in the kitchen, 6 in the leanto.

1013 mBar, 29.91 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.692 psi, (unchanged), 53% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 9th of March 2020 WTFH was having problems cancelling stuff, it was drizzling on me, it had gone grey with LM, SimonMac was having problems with online banking, and NF posted the Monday links as is only right & proper.

Next door's kid(s) were excited to see the snow & went outside to make snowballs earlier.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus. Still snowy though it's melting a little.

Book. Other book.

Tea: beans on toast. Nice enough. Entertainment: "What happened to progress" on R4. Nothing good from the sounds of it. Cue Skynet etc.

Sergeant Cork. S2 E6 "The case of the silent suffragette". Odd one.

Bollox on Blaze: ship emerging from the sea on Iwo (the landing beaches are now 50 feet higher above sea level than in 1945), some tedious stuff about the Maya, some ancient footprints off the east coast made about a million years ago by Antecessor, stuff found off the Orkneys from the neolithic. Mildly inneresting apart from the Maya thing.

Book.

[NickFitz]

We got a modicum of wildlife stuff today, which I supplemented this evening with E2 of Planet Earth III

And this evening, I got back to reading The Confessions of Samuel Pepys. He isn’t getting any better. Getting worse, though: he’s definitely managing that

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

I bought that for my dad for Christmas.

I read the unredacted chapters of the first version. I wish I hadn't... :-o

I'll get v2 soon.

It’s definitely worth reading v2

[NotAllThere]

Finished There Is No Antimemetics Division v2. It definitely benefits from the rewrite, particularly in the final chapters

I bought that for my dad for Christmas.

I read the unredacted chapters of the first version. I wish I hadn't... :-o

I'll get v2 soon.

-6°C frost tonight, but it'll be a sunny day.

[ladymuck]

The darts final beckons. I skipped the majority of the waffle and preamble by watching something else for the first half hour of the coverage. It should be actually getting underway in the next few minutes.

[NickFitz]

I thought I’d try something new for tea. Caribbean, maybe? Thai? Vietnamese? But I spent so long dithering and unable to decide that in the end, I just got something from the south Indian restaurant past the park. Very tasty, as always

[xoggoth]

Sunrise 08:07; Sunset 16:05 GMT

Reminded me of this sad old song about gettin old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWVwVTFAs4c

[ladymuck]

The journey home was uneventful.

I have unpacked and started the returns process of some espresso cups I bought for HWMBO that weren't quite right (advertised as 90ml capacity but clearly only 80ml capacity per the manufacturer's product label). I found another source of what should be the right size cup but that would mean a visit to Belgrade to collect them, as I'm sure that would be cheaper than being stung for import duties.

Chilly out there.

Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' 0, and it does) and that's the high for the day. Barometer at 1010 mBar.

Now I'm back down south, I get about 48 minutes more daylight each day:
Sunrise 08:07; Sunset 16:05 GMT

[NickFitz]

Bacon butty for lunch

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a sunny day but still cold: 2°C which “feels like” -4°, and that’s as good as it’s getting. The barometers are up a bit at 998/1007

The road still appears to be extremely icy. I would have expected enough grit to have been carried down from the main roads to have cleared it by now, but maybe the council were caught out and didn’t do any gritting, or maybe it’s just that there’s less traffic because of the season of the year