test please delete

[BrilloPad]

aye, - right.

Its true! They really do hate unnecessary work.....

[ladymuck]

Went to see this: Motherless Brooklyn (2019) - IMDb this evening. Twas a nice film. Not huge swathes of action but a solid cast, a bit of a whodunnit style investigation, and an overall nice story. Got me out the of the flat, which is a good thing.

[vetran]

tonight dinner was ham hock with potatoes & leeks another masterpiece by your author.

Miss V2 was sick so no chips.

I was taxi driver tonight as usual. Miss V3 to swimming, she kicked ass! A few lengths at near perfect then she ran out of oomph. She thoroughly enjoyed learning to dive.

Driving Mrs V back from a Girls night out.

[NickFitz]

A rewatch tonight, starting with The Raid (2011), in which there is a raid. Cracking stuff

And then a raid of a different kind and with a lot more buildup in Zero Dark Thirty (2012). Another cracking film in many ways, but a bit historically inaccurate; and by the way, filmmakers, showing the US of A torturing people makes it look weak, not strong. Nobody likes a bully

And finally, the final episode of S3 of The Wire, Mission Accomplished (TV Episode 2004).

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning all if all there be

Dry.

Grey.

Overcast.

Not windy.

Still this thing is hanging on like grim death.

Profuse sweating at some point during the night with added coughing and sneezing just to make it even more inneresting.

<walking down to town hiatus>

Just found out that the "family Xmas meal" is in Cardiff at lunchtime today.

Oh fecking hell.

I really don't feel up to that at the moment.

[BR14]

morning

grey
dry
warmer

[DoctorStrangelove]

It gets better and better, the train I was about to catch is cancelled and the next one gets me to Cardiff 20 minutes late, with a half hour walk.

Couldn't make this tulipe up you really couldn't.

The weather forecast is dry, so of course it rains on me on the way down to town.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Grey, mild at 9°C, and dry out there today

Not that I’ve been out there. I just look out the window and at my phone and report what I see.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was the rest of the pâté from the other day, once again on wholemeal toast

Looks like the weather is messed up again: it’ll rain tonight but not until about eleven o’clock, long after I’ve been to the Chinese and back. Won’t catch me that way, weather gods!

[NickFitz]

The Polish café has been decorated in the style of a Polish Christmas.

Apparently it’s a tradition in Poland to put hay beneath the tablecloth for the Christmas meal. I wonder if they’ll do that over there?

The traditional Christmas gingerbread sounds OK though