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[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover onion bhajis and a samosa, along with a poppadom and a bit of mango chutney

My parents' house is on the market as of this morning. They've already got three viewings lined up for this afternoon

[NickFitz]

Raining now

I ventured outside earlier, as there were some forms that the estate agent needed signing by the executors, who are my brother and I. He's been away this weekend so we got them to send them to me first, and I did my bit and have now posted them on to him. Once they arrive, he can do his bit and send them back to them.

It's a shame there isn't some kind of digital communications infrastructure that would allow these things to be done without the trouble and expense of having sheets of paper shuttled around the country over the course of several days. Oh well, we can but dream

[NickFitz]

Tea: sausages, chips and beans, being some of the remaining Chatsworth sausages. British cuisine at its finest

[NickFitz]

Tonight's only viewing was an old Police Interceptors, just for a change

Very tired this evening

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and a bit drizzly out today. It's 12°C and maybe getting to 18° later, with the barometers up a bit at 1007/1015mB. The forecast doesn't say anything about the drizzle continuing, but it also doesn't say anything about the drizzle now even though I can see it

[WTFH]

Morning all
Cooler this morning, and at one point on the walk it looked like we might get rained on, but it stayed dry. Sunshine now streaming in my office window.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts,

Cool in here at 19.5 deg, 20.5 deg in the kitchen, 19 deg in the leanto.

1016 mBar, 30.0 in Hg, 762.06 Torr, 14.736 psi, (up from 1015 last night), 79% RH (GDR hair), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of October 2019 NF expressed his boundless gratitude for a Dr Pimplepopper vid, whilst watching the first 3 eps of Breaking Bad S5, the sky was blue around here and the sun was out, whereas LM had a bit of a hangover, and SimonMac had found a reference to a large bag of godemiche which had been found in Somerset.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom & chilly wind.

Lunch: cheesy beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: Y&Y <click>

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 86%.

Veronica Mars S2 E7, E8.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Scotland Yard: "The White Cliffs Mystery (1957)": the one with the rocket scientist and the evil Marxist student.

The Capone Investment E3 "The citizen from Chicago (1974)". More from John Thaw & Peter Sallis without Grommet.

With the ending of Maigret last week:

Veronica Mars S2 E9.

"The Great Escaper (2023)" with that Michael Caine chap & that Glenda Jackson chapess, being the true story of an ex RN sailor who was on a landing craft on D Day & decided to go to the 2014 70th anniversary.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a couple of chicken bits

The drizzle ceased, but it remains very grey out there

[NickFitz]

Forty years ago, I lived at the top of a steep hill at the end of a terraced street. Halfway down the hill was a corner shop, which sold really nice frozen lamb burgers with chilli and such in them. It turned out that these were made by a business at the bottom of the street, so from being made to being sold to being eaten involved them in a journey of about 250 yards, all on the same road. They were also sold in the nearby halal chip shop, where you'd be offered chilli powder on your chips as well as salt and vinegar - and still are, for it's still going. That was quite a novelty to me back then.

Having recently recollected these burgers, I was inspired to try to recreate them. So tonight's tea was lamb burger, in a brioche bun, with fries. I mixed the mince with finely diced red and green fresh chillis and various spices and seasoning, and I got a burger press so I can make ones that don't fall apart when cooking. They turned out very nice - a bit zingy but not too much. I don't think I've got the seasoning right yet, but it was OK for a first attempt, and there were a couple left to go in the freezer

Sunny out now, with the clumps of cumulus that were very large a couple of hours ago giving way to wispier bits

[WTFH]

Stay safe, ladymuck

TFBSZ