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[xoggoth]

Couple free days, no (other) ghastly old farts. Do me toothpaste inspections under gray sky.

Got 1st 3 letters of Wordle on 1st geuss. Usually lucky with that thing. Nah, it's not luck, it's genius!

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and damp out. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Smattering of rain forecast. Barometer at 1011 mBar.

Yesterday started off bright and then turned dull and damp. It was cold, too.

HWMBO and I went to Harvey Nichols to spend the free £50 that one gets with Amex Platinum. We then walked around the corner to The Peninsula that recently opened to try out their Brooklands bar which is a mix of Concorde and motor racing themed. Fab views over Hyde Park (and the horror that is Winter Wonderland at the moment) from one aspect and over St James's Park towards the city from another. Drinks were hotel priced and not the best. I would say pop in if passing but don't make a special trip.

Today we're going to Old Kent Road (that's where my Dad was born!) to buy something from a Peruvian food shop and then onto Borough Market for other comestibles.

We thought the Knightsbridge area would be manic yesterday but it wasnt. I'd almost say it was quiet. Borough Market is always hectic on a weekend so I expect it will be much the same, if not worse, today.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny day out though with some bits of variously-formed cloud here and there. A bit warmer at 10°C, and going to reach 11° briefly. The barometers have dropped back to 992/1000mB

[NickFitz]

Sausages in finger rolls for lunch

[NickFitz]

NF was sans whatever they'd prescribed to replace the stuff he'd previously been taking due to some inefficiency with the prescription

In the end, the replacement turned out to be better than the other stuff - and not just because it didn't contain carcinogens

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, I went for a walk round to the kebab shop

[NickFitz]

Today saw the usual batch of Monkey Life and other stuff

And this evening I finished Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, being part two of the trilogy, in which George Sherston/Siegfried Sassoon makes a public statement against the continuation of the war and refuses to resume his duties; but rather than the court martial and imprisonment he expected, the authorities discreetly deem that he has shellshock and stick him in a military hospital in Edinburgh, well out of the way

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It was a bright and sunny start but almost immediately clouded over and is now very gloomy and… I was going to say raining, but it's snowing!

It's not going to settle or anything so it's functionally equivalent to rain, but it's definitely big, wet flakes and not raindrops. It's supposedly 3°C yet feeling like -6°, whatever that feels like, and getting as high as 6° this evening. The barometers are trivially down at 991/999mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Wet.

Sunny.

Windy.

Chilly in here at 11.4 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen, 9 deg in the leanto, 6.4 deg in the saltinghouse.

1006 mBar, 29.707 in Hg, 754.56 Torr, 14.59 psi, (up from 1005 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of December 2019 NF was making soup, and I was having liver, bacon & onion gravy, followed by viewing S4 of Angel where Jasmine appears, definitely not my favourite since a thing about model railways took over due to lack of appeal.

Shirts in the WM. Shirts out of the WM & flying horizontally on the line.

Smalls in the WM. Smalls out of the WM & flying horizontally on the line.

Sun.

Rain.

Sun.

Semigale.

April in December.

Shirts in off the line & in the TD.

Shirts out of the TD & smalls in off the line & in the TD.

Just had a ?sparrow hawk? on the lawn. Dunno if it caught anything but there's a lot of feathers about.

Lunch: brunch.

Towels & socks in off the line & in the TD. Still blowy out there but it's picking with rain too.

Everything out of the TD & airing upstairs. Shirts roughly iRoned ditto, along with those cottons requiring said iRon.

Done for another week.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked. It rained spits & spats on me for a while, but I was brave and carried on.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: some tosh on R4 that I've now completely forgotten.

More other book.

Some bollox on Sky Mix about dashcam vids. No one died, so no snuff vids. Mildly amusing and rather alarming in parts. Lots of WTF?

Bomb squad on More4.

[xoggoth]

Gordon Bennet! Just got Wordle in 2 goes, 4 out of 5 letters right on first geuss. The god of Wordle must like me.