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[NickFitz]

Tea has been the Turkish chicken, tomato and potato thing with lots of spices, out of the freezer, with rice. Very nice

The rice-cooking machine did a fine job again

[NickFitz]

The usual Monkey Life marathon kept the TV busy this morning. Didn't pay attention to much else until teatime, when I watched the latest episode of Ambulance

Oh, and I did a bedding wash, so the day hasn't been completely without purpose or achievements

Monday again tomorrow, but what can you do?

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start yet again. Getting a bit chillier overall too, being 8°C with no better than 12° expected. I seem to have neglected to record yesterday's readings, but the barometers are at 1015/1023mB today which I think is about the same as it has been

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull, cloudy, dry. Currently 10 degrees with a high of 12 expected. Barometer down a snifter to 1025 mBar.

On the drive home from Mum's yesterday I spotted what looked like a bird of prey on the side of the A24, with a mouse a few feet away in the road. Both very dead. Couldn't stop to see what bird it was or whether it had been ringed for tracking.

I'm used to seeing hedgehogs, foxes, pigeons, etc but this was my first "proper" bird.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Gloomy.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 15.4 deg, 16 deg in the kitchen, 14 deg in the leanto.

1021 and a tad mBar, 30.156 in Hg, 765.96 Torr, 14.81 psi, (down from 1021 and two tads last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of November 2019 there was a sunny afternoon around here, whereas there was much discussion of the elderly* with UTI & the resulting unpleasantness, BR14's contract was going tits up, I was watching yet more BTVS & Angel, this latter having the revelation of the presence of Summer Glau in the ballet ep (there was a ballet ep?).

*As an this term now applies to me. Shocking, innit?.

The dream before waking involved working at yet another unidentified location that appeared to be going bust in short order.

Shopping trips to Morrisons, Aldi, and Tesco, so I'm duly Allbran and pruned up for a while.

Lunch: there was brunch.

Freecell score: 63%, running average: 79%: it was down to 53% at one stage. I really should know how to cut my loses by now.

Should have done some gardening but couldn't be arsed.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: that quiz thing on R4 which came from Merthyr.

Simon Schama waffling on about Ambrosia or Arcadia or something. . Thankfully the last one.

Thing about architecture in NY.

Oak Island nutjobbery: this week we've still found tulip, not even wood. The metal detecting moron found some iron, a copper nail (narrator says it's ancient egyptian from the pyramids or something), some pottery which set the metal detector thingie off ?WTF?. Someone waffling about the location of the gold in the water. I was reading about radio receivers at the same time which was a good deal more informative all in all.

Apparently these portable traffic lights use 458MHz transmitters that are on 100% of the time which is fecking up all that telemetry stuff that sends data in bursts.

Thing on BBC4 about Hubble. Amazing to think there'll never be another shuttle launch.

I took a day off to watch the first one, then it was delayed by a day, so I was changing some brake pipes on the car instead.

[alluvial]

Bloody hell, is this thread still going?

Bloody hell, still going!
Maybe I'll drop in more often in future.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Bloody hell, still going!
Maybe I'll drop in more often in future.

Do!

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a roast pork bap (wholemeal) with apple sauce and a bag of plain crisps

[xoggoth]

Bloody hell, still going!
Maybe I'll drop in more often in future.

Nah! Damages yer brain.