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[NickFitz]

More of Shepperton Babylon has been read, pointing out (among other things) that Ealing Studios made a lot more films in genres other than comedy, which was something they only really got into after a number of years making things like Went the Day Well? and Dead of Night

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[eek]

Back at hotel after a rather enjoyable visit to the ENO to see Elixir of Love.

£30 for second row seats in the Grand Balcony is not a bad deal...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rosy fingered dawn out there, and a little frosty too: -2°C now, aiming for +5° later. As with last week, it's expected to warm back up at the weekend. The barometers have shot back up, to 1015/1024mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ OM.

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Frosty.

Cold in here at 11.5 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 7 deg in the leanto, 2.5 deg in the salting house.

1023 mBar, 30.2 in Hg, 767.3131 Torr, 14.837 psi, (up from 1020 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of December 2019 I'd had my first 's flu jab and my arm still hurt along with feeling quite (as has happened every year since due to the added shark in the jab), whereas eek had found some inneresting coding to do, whereas LM offered to do the boring stuff for him, having cancelled a 09:00 meeting the next day, and opm was off out on an xmas jolly that evening. And DaveB suggested acupuncture on my sore arm after it made his bad knee betterer.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM.

Everything else in the WM.

Everything else out of the WM & pegged out on the line to accompany the shirts which got there first.

It was sunny but now it's overcast. And my hands nearly fell off with frostbite when pegging stuff out.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the increasingly grey gloom & brisk breeze. This latter seems to be drying the shirts rather well.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y: Gapfinders: Penetration expert (Mitnick style): surprise! from that Liverpool. .

Toast: phones4you.

TWATO was interrupted by rain so the washing came in off the line & met the TD.

Shirts roughly iRoned & airing upstairs.

Cottons roughly iRoned where required & airing upstairs.

Smalls airing upstairs.

Not quite what I'd planned but there you go & there I went. .

Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey Cage: "Are we what we eat?": apparently we are. "Supervolcanoes": when one goes off we are fecked. Little bit of "Wasps vs Bees".

Freecell score: 90%, running average: 80%.

Tea: Brains faggots & peas & such, etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: Wrecks: Toxic wrecks: SS Richard Montgomery: just waiting for the Russians to "accidentally" set it off. . SS SKYTTEREN: Operation Performance 1943: a Cunning Plan to liberate 10 ships in Sweden from the Nazis: 2 escaped to UK, 2 returned to Sweden, the other 6 were sunk: not a stunning success all in all:

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~tree...amily/anc9.htm

UFO bollox on Blaze: Alaska & the Alaska Triangle where you freeze to death or randomly disappear. 10 times as many people disappear in Alaska as in the lower 48. Then again if you venture into the wilderness alone to test some crazy Black Pyramid theory or to test your very own survival invention it's possibly not altogether a surprise. There's a lot of feck all in Alaska, and what there is is quite keen on eating you.

Currently reading the 1951/2 Short Wave Magazines: turns out there was a Neath & Port Talbot Radio Amateur club, and one up in Rhigos (which seems even odder).

These days the closest one that does the exams is in Pyle Carmarthen.

Just looked up Richard Montgomery: he was a major general in the continental army, unsuccessfully invaded Quebec, and was from Ulster.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Pukka sausage rolls

It's turned sunny out, though with various high wisps trailing across the sky

I found a few minutes this morning to pop down and put the door trays and salad crisper back in the fridge. The shelves can go down when I'm taking it out for collection this evening, as the door needs to open wide to get those in and out which means dragging it out of the storeroom. Said storerooms are more like deep cubicles, albeit with solid brick walls separating one from another. Wide enough for a fridge with a foot and a bit to spare, but not wide enough that you can swing the fridge door all the way back

[xoggoth]

Nice sunny wonky today. Brought meself a new PC with monitor, keyboard and mouse. Shall set it up tomorrow as a spare in spare room and get it sorted before I make it me main PC.

[NickFitz]

Another week done, two more to go!

Today wasn't too bad as I paired with a chap on some data migration stuff, which was at least something to do

[NickFitz]

The fridge-seeker arrived, so the fridge has set off on the journey to its new home

They were about fifteen minutes late, but I think he'd come from down Hinckley or Nuneaton way and there's no guarantees about travelling times on that route

He seemed like a nice enough chap; a bit on the aged and decrepit side, so probably about the same age as me. Anyway, he and his mate managed to lift the fridge into the back of their estate without any help

[NickFitz]

Tea, rather delayed by fridge-related activities, has been ribs and chips

This was accompanied by a new 24 Hours in Police Custody about a very unpleasant stalking case

Worth it just for the bloke's reaction when he asked, in interview, "Where was that on my phone?" and they replied "In your deleted notes". It seems many people still don't realise that "Delete" just moves stuff to a holding area, and he clearly realised right at that moment just how utterly ****ed he was

[NickFitz]

Read some more of Shepperton Babylon, about Ealing's great run of films in the 1940s and into the 1950s

Early night now, so I can have a bit of a lie-in in the morning yet still be up early enough to Get Things Done

Goodnight all