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[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bacon bap, made even more bacony by the discovery of an extra rasher in the packet

[NickFitz]

Getting the festive vibe on by having a few M&S Scottish all butter shortbread fingers with my afternoon coffee

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, I made shepherd's pie again. Very tasty

This was accompanied by the motorway-adjacent cops and their merry band of tenuously-linked dashcam clips

[NickFitz]

Over in France a little more than a hundred years ago, George Sherston ended up invalided back to Britain for the winter of 1916-17 due to an attack of dysentery, probably brought from Galipoli by Australian troops, which allowed him to get some hunting in once he'd recovered and gone home on leave. Eventually, though, the army remembered he existed and shipped him back to France, where he has just received a minor bullet wound in the battle of Arras during his first couple of hours in action since his return, and has been packed off back to a hospital in London

Friday tomorrow, insofar as days of the week mean anything once one's knocked off work at this time of year

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all

TFIF, last officially billable day of the year for me.
Spelt in, so our walk was a bit shorter, and the overnight rain made it wet in some places, while the clear skies had then created frozen bits.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Wet.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Grey.

Gloomy.

Chilly in here at 11.2 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 8.5 in the leanto.

1016 mBar, 30.00 in Hg, 762.1 Torr, 14.735 psi, (down from 1019 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of December 2019 there was much voting early & often going on but the fecking government still got elected, whereas I avoided the rivers on the road outside by using the back lane, NF remembered to put the stock pot and the WM on, there was much discussion of coffee, coffee machines, beans, etc. by LM & DaveB, with LM also doing laundry.

Walk greatly abbreviated due to the inclemency of the weather which promptly cleared up by the time I'd got back home. Maybe try again later.

Tried again: started raining immediately thusly:

Lunch: brunch.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 81%.

Sun's out.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Almost took some photos. Met the chap I try to avoid.

Tea: Mr Brains faggots with peas etc.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Dalgliesh S3 E6.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's a fairly sunny start with areas of blue sky, though there's lots of that high streaky cloud here and there along with some lower, fluffier bits there and here. It's turned cold at 4°C which allegedly "feels like" -2°, rising to 7° later - though some rain may arrive around sunset and the temperature might rise to 8° briefly around that time. The barometers are up again at 1006/1014mB

[sadkingbilly]

where he has just received a minor bullet wound in the battle of Arras

oh, dear! - shot in the Arras!

[sadkingbilly]

morning peops.

I can almost see with both eyes!
Still not sure if that's a Good Thing or not though, considering what there is to see these days.
Retired again.*
This could be the last time (apologies to Jagger/Richards).
5 retirements in 4 years.
could be a CUK record?

[NickFitz]

oh, dear! - shot in the Arras!

The shoulder actually