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[ladymuck]

geez. - I have a kettle.
It boils water.
hot water = tea/coffee/mocha/whatever I like.
not a fairy hipster in sight.

I ain't no bearded hipster but once I tried coffee from a bean to cup machine, there was never any going back to instant tulipe.

The faff to clean it once a month is a minor price to pay for tasty coffee.

[ladymuck]

Yerevan, Armenia done in 23 moves (5x5 grid). Would have been 22 if I hadn't accidentally dropped a square one place lower than I'd intended.

Towel wash on. Dishwasher emptied and the washing up HWMBO did before he went off to work yesterday has been put away.

[DoctorStrangelove]

MorningAfternoon.

Monday.

Grey.

Damp.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Warmish side of chilly in here at 13.6 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 13 deg in the leanto.

1027 mBar, 30.327 in Hg, 770.313 Torr, 14.895 psi, (unchanged), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Shopping trip to Aldi & Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & almost put away. Made the mistake of buying more pitted dates and the bigger mistake of opening the packet. .

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.

Bumped into a neighbour from down the road whose wife is in hospital with oesophageal cancer, the very thing that killed my grandfather in 1948 a year before he could get his pension.

Meanwhile on the 11th of December 2019 there was much discussion of dentistry by xogg, opm, and NF.

Lunch: brunch.

The afternoon was spent fettling computers: the ancient 586 sprang to life fairly readily (bits of it date from 1990), the Win2k box from about 2010 required surgery to glue new 1000uF capacitors across the really dubious looking 1800uF 105 deg caps next to the processor.

After which it sprang into life, though for how long is anyone's guess.

Its brother (same mobo & processor) has developed a fault where the audio bit crashes the thing which is rather irritating. I wonder if similar surgery might help.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: bits of "Christopher Robin (2018)". Stone me, he had a wonderful relationship with his parents: thank feck for Nanny.

I am now utterly knackered.

Some dumb car search programme: Rusty capri, a surprisingly unrusty Lanci Delta Integrale (it came from Japan so no salt on the road, apparently). Got bored. Turned it off.

Oak Island feckwhits: the metal detecting moron finds a hatchet head: obviously it's Viking, innit. They're down the garden shaft drilling stuff sideways. Chap takes a wood sample from some random oak tree. Faffing about with some wall near that "unique well" near the pond near the sea. Now they're taking said walls to bits. Apparently they find gold in something or other. Probably 10 parts per billion.

Looks like this one is the last until after Xmas. Bah fecking humbug.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Scotch broth and a crust of wholemeal

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas

Accompanied by the motorway cops with no added motorway but with unrelated dashcam clips

[NickFitz]

I came to the end of Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man in which he's having an unexpectedly dull time at the Front, and started on Memoirs of an Infantry Officer which picks up from the point where that ends

I may go shopping tomorrow. Then again, I may not. Tuesdays are usually a fairly quiet day at the shops, but I don't suppose any days are really quiet this close to Christmas

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
Darkest morning walk for a long time, the clouds were heavy, preventing even the hint of morning twilight.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another grey but dry start, albeit with a bit of a dew. As so often nowadays, it's 7°C which "feels like" 3°, with an expected high of 10° later. And the barometers are down a bit to 1012/1020mB

I'm expecting a delivery from Harvey's Brewery today, coming via APC. Last update was that it was at the local depot and "out for delivery" around half eight this morning, but no "live delivery information" is available "right now". So I've no idea if that just means it's been put in the back of a van and further info will be available when it actually leaves the depot, or if they just don't give any more details and I simply have to wait until they show up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Damp and cloudy. It was raining when I left home but it stopped halfway to ClientCo's office. Further rain due off and on all day. Currently 8 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Barometer down to 1025 mBar.

I really must phone the garage and get my car booked in for a service.