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[NickFitz]

Tea has been a roast shoulder of lamb dinner

This also marked the first outing of the Bluetooth meat thermometer, which you stick in the joint while it cooks and tells your phone to tell you when it's ready, according to the desired internal temperature you set. I made a slight error and didn't put it in the thickest part of the shoulder, so when it first said it was ready I checked with the manual thermometer and it was still a little underdone. That's entirely my fault though; I relocated it and kicked it off again, and it informed me about fifteen minutes later when it really was ready. I reckon it'll be very useful once I get used to it. I'm particularly looking forward to making properly rare roast beef, as I've failed miserably and ended up with medium the last few times

[xoggoth]

Food is no good unless it's BURNT!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Food is no good unless it's BURNT!

That certainly kills off ecoli etc. .

[NickFitz]

Food is no good unless it's BURNT!

When it's brown it's burning, when it's black it's cooked

[NickFitz]

As usual there was lots of Monkey Life this morning, and some Canadian borders stuff this afternoon. Then this evening, I watched the new Ambulance (last of the series, I suspect) and an old 24 Hours in A&E

In among all that, along with drain cleaning and making dinner, I did a bit more mucking around with the Bluesky stuff. I might even end up with an app at the end of it; the existing ones don't work the way I'd like, so I might as well make my own

Monday again tomorrow, but at least there's only three more weeks until I break up for Christmas

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS and about 9C out.
Water went off yesterday afternoon, suspect a pump somewhere got flooded and tripped out.
Back to normal now. Will try to re-roof the lawnmower shed today.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Partly cloudy start out, with the wind having dropped a fair bit. Still milder than it was for much of last week at 8°C with 9° due later, while the barometers are recovering at 983/991mB. Due to get sunnier later

[sadkingbilly]

morning all

i'll see your Sacroiliitis and raise you Osteorenalapathy.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Was dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Not too windy until the squalls blow through.

Intermittently rainy.

Chilly in here at 13.9 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 12 deg in the leanto.

997.5 mBar, 29.456 in Hg, 748.18 Torr, 14.4675 psi, (up from 988 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Walk (unabbreviated) walked for the first time since Friday.

Timed it right: raining now with the sun still out.

Meanwhile on the 4th of December 2019 I was railing about Xmas, LM agreed with me, the hoi polloi in the library were to be turfed out between the 24th and the 2nd of Jan, covbob was railing about baby pimps & their ineptitude, whereas I mentioned getting calls referencing a 15 year old CV, and there was a 4 hour hiatus in TPD posting.

Quite an irritating night's sleep: was dreaming about flying to Japan (WTF? me? very unlikely), woke at 04:00, sleep took forever to return even after reading more about Crazy Horse & Custard, only to find it was suddenly 08:45.

Lunch: brunch. This seems to be working as regards losing a bit of weight, which is good.

Shopping trip to Boots (didn't have wot I wanted) and Morrisons (didn't have the bread I wanted but found sommat else that'll do), discovered on returning that I'd failed to lock the back door, in fact hadn't even really closed it properly on the latch. The brain rot is plainly progressing well.

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 80%.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: thing about Rudolph Hess: no particular conclusion reached: did he jump or was he pushed etc.

Oak Island bollox: some nutter goes down the garden shaft. Will it be the Next Fatality that precedes the finding of the gold? And, at this late date, does anyone give a tulip? Just askin' like.

As it transpired the going down the hole is next week: this week was taken up with the metal detecting moron's latest discovery and some old nail they found in the "well" they discovered last week. Some mud was removed from the garden shaft but the water level is about 10 feet down so what the feck they'll see is moot.

Boring programme about Ye Greate Floode of 1607 in Ye Bristol Channel. Simon Haslett was in it again, though this one looked at Ye Floode from Ye Devon side of Ye Channel, rather than Ye Gwent Levels like wot ye previous prog did.

I wonder if the next door but one family have moved out. They've been there since 2011 and were certainly there a fortnight ago. Never said anything the last time I spoke to him. Odd.

Last 15 minutes of HIGNIFY which was showing on BBC1 NI.

[NickFitz]

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