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[eek]

baby bp went to 2017 calendar the other day. Marked 25th December in huge letters "CHRISTMAS DAY". Like we could forget.

What he could do is ring the other 25th and say 10 months to Christmas, 9 months to Christmas..... Mrs BP will love that...

[NickFitz]

Just started precipitating. I think it's rain, but f* knows how as its been sub zero for the last couple of days. It does appear to be pissing down in Leicester, if the footy pictures on BBC1 are any indication so maybe things are warming up.

It is, or was. It stopped while I was eating my dinner just now (ribeye steak and chips), though I don't think the two events are connected. I believe it's scheduled to start again soon, though

[NickFitz]

Edit: And how is Fitzmater - did I miss an update?

They reckon she had a small heart attack, but there wasn't really anything they could do - the cardiologist was the one who put a couple of stents in for her last year, so he knows her case, and he said she simply wouldn't survive bypass surgery. But the problem spontaneously sorted itself out without any additional treatment (she said she literally just suddenly started feeling better and all her symptoms went away really quickly) so she was sent home, where she's feeling quite OK and taking it easy while my dad runs around looking after her

[NickFitz]

Right, time to have a beer and watch some gubbins on the telly

[zeitghost]

Sweet dreams, if any

Last night I dreamed of Manderley an exam.

And, oddly, it wasn't the Finals dream where I've done no work and can't answer any of the questions.

Rather it was some curious exam, which I got Very Good. Try to spread your answers out less to use less paper.

And I had to hold the marked paper very close because I couldn't read the green ink very well.

Most strange.

[zeitghost]

Just received the survey of ZeitParentsTowers from last Wednesday.

£95k.

Well there's a thing.

I could buy this one for cash too.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Quite sunny out

[vetran]

I had to buy a new version of my electric lawn mower after 10 years. The reviews on Amazon was that it was cr*p as it didn't last however they didn't say the main fault with it was the cut grass doesn't actually go properly into the grass box.

Can't beat a Bosch in my opinion

https://www.bosch-garden.com/gb/en/g...472-199956.jsp


I had a previously loved one (about 6 years old) which lasted 10 years on rough ground and bought another one about 7 years ago, changed the blade but that's it.

[NickFitz]

A new archive of photos of Leicester has just been put online. Looking at one of nearby Braunstone Gate in 1971, you can see the "Hot Pukka Pies" logo beneath the words "Fish and chips" on the sign projecting from the front of the chip shop on the far right

When I mention seeing Pukka Pie signs on chip shops during brief family visits here in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that's the kind of sign I'm thinking of

That chip shop expanded by knocking through into the shop next door and by the mid 1980s was in the hands of a chap called Mario, who made a fortune by staying open until four in the morning to cater for the late night drinkers trade - people would have their taxi home from the club make a detour to go there. He finally sold up around the turn of the century, gambled much of his money away in a casino in town, and died of an alcohol-related disorder. The most recent owners of the chip shop paid even less attention to basic hygiene than he did and also abandoned any effort towards food quality. The place is currently closed

Surprisingly, those buildings have all survived the general destruction of most of that area by the city council: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.63...8i6656!6m1!1e1

[BrilloPad]