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[NickFitz]

Tea has been brought to me from KFC

The "limited time offer" hasn't ended yet, so there's plenty of leftovers. The time limit seems to be a few months at the least

[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life today, followed by lemurs and baboons and such

This evening, in addition to a bit of mucking around with the SwiftUI/Bluesky stuff, I read more of Shepperton Babylon, specifically all about Gainsborough Studios and its stars

Early night now, ready for more Monkey Life in the morning

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rather grey day out with traces of overnight rain and the chance of more showers any time now. Pretty mild at 11°C (albeit "feels like" 5°) and expected to reach 13° later, but the barometers are down a bit more to 999/1007mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Damp.

Misty.

Sunless.

Warm side of chilly in here at 14.4 deg, 13 deg in the kitchen and the leanto.

1007.5 mBar, 29.75 in Hg, 755.687 Torr, 14.61 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of December 2019 LM posted a nice youtube vid so we could all go Ooooooommmmmm together, I was still though there's no confirmation it was early Chinese Bat Plague of course, NF observed that it was windy though the rain was holding off until he went shopping, and Brillo congratulated WTFH on his Millennium though he still couldn't it.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 80%

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: TWTW.

Freecell score: 92%, running average: 80%.

Book. Other book.

Tea: beans on toast etc. with an added boiled egg just for the fun of it.

Entertainment: something or other on R4: it went <click> when it started talking about county lines.

Am Dro. Yng Nghymraeg with subtitles: Chepstow: Offa's Dyke. Harlech. Aberystwyth. Highest waterfall in England & Wales.

"Rise of the Freemen" on PBS.

Some bollox or other, probably on Blaze about the Moors Saladin and the Templars or something. About a Crusader Castle that was slighted by Saladin et al, who, oddly enough, before slighting it, offered to buy it and let the Crusaders feck off without killing them all. They turned his offer down & he killed them all.

As regards Xmas trees: mine's been perched on top of a video recorder for at least 2 years, maybe 3, replete with baubles, fairy lights, and the mandatory Fairy Liquid bottle on top. It was a right bugger getting the hole big enough to fit the ornament through said bottle: touch things these Fairy Liquid bottles.

[NotAllThere]

Afternoon.

Cold, clear, blue sky. 2°C.

Cat just got chased into the house by a newly arrived bully boy. Actually, quite a sweet cat to humans, but a terror to our little lady.

[NickFitz]

Light lunch of some leftovers (popcorn chicken, hot wings)

[xoggoth]

Nice longish walk with neighbours this morning with cafe stop at local vineyard. Nowt this afternoon. Feeling lazy.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Overcast. Damp. Currently 13 degrees and that's the high for the day. The sun might make an appearance before it sets. Barometer down to 1012 mBar.

Last night HWMBO and I went to The White Horse in Mayfair for a champagne and English sparkling wine tasting. We then took a walk to Nipperkin and had some very fine cocktails there. Ended the evening with dinner at Bebe Bob in Soho. A long lie in was required this morning.

[NickFitz]

It turned sunny this afternoon, but of course it then set almost immediately

As it's the first Sunday of Advent, it's the correct date for putting up the Christmas tree. I've never had one but my parents' one was passed along to me so I just assembled it and hung some baubles (which had been kept in an old Roses tin, as is traditional) on it

Then I put it back in the corner where it had been sitting in pieces in a bag since it arrived, as I can't be bothered to sort out a place for it to be prominently displayed right now. There are fairy lights in the bag too, so I suppose I'll have to find it a space where they can be plugged in

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a bowl of Scotch broth, followed by a nice strawberry tart