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[NickFitz]

^^^ Mine has the Mazda 1952 Coronation lights set on it, with a Fairy Liquid(tm) bottle stuck on the pointy star thing at the apex with a red light bulb illuminating it from the inside.

It stays there all year since I can't be arsed to take it down again.

I wouldn't be surprised if mine is still there at Easter

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Cumberland sausages with chips and beans

This was accompanied by the motorway cops thing that avoids motorways

Not sure what, if anything, to watch this evening. I may get stuck into the Quality Street though

[NickFitz]

Oh, and before tea I sorted out the remaining Christmas presents - just writing names on gift cards and putting stuff in gift bags, but it means that's all done and dusted and won't have to be attended to in a frantic rush tomorrow morning

I'd put the various gift cards "somewhere safe", so it took about five minutes to work out where that was

[NickFitz]

Those who have enjoyed the #DuvetKnowItsChristmas posts on Twitter over the last fourteen years might like to know that it's happening on Bluesky this year

[NickFitz]

Tonight's festive motion picture premiere was Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010), a Finnish film in which a mining company discovers the original Santa, frozen into a block of ice deep under a mountain. But it turns out he'd been put there because he's a cannibalistic force of evil, and children start disappearing from neighbouring villages… Rather amusing twist on the whole notion, I thought

And then another episode of Chernobyl

Happy Christmas everybody!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens, and Happy Christmas!

It's a cloudy day but with a hint of a gap here and there that might lead to it brightening up later, and a bit breezy though not drastically so. Currently 9°C (feeling like 6°) with an expected high of 11°; the barometers are up yet more at 1020/1028mB

[NickFitz]

The perennial Christmas conundrum: do I take my laptop, or will the iPad do? I'll only be gone for twenty-four hours, most of which will involve driving, eating, drinking, or sleeping, so I'm not even going to bother taking a charger

Anyway, best be off. Have a good one everybody!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning Afternoon.

Wednesday.

"Dry", yeah, right: wet wet wet, the drizzly wet that's wetter than a monsoon.

Grey.

Dark.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 13.2 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 12 deg in the leanto.

1029 mBar, 30.386 in Hg, 771.8 Torr, 14.924 psi, (up from 1026 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of December 2019 NF was on a remarkably convoluted journey to that Manchester, from the sounds of it for a CUK pissup of some kind, whereas I was watching yet more BTVS & Angel, though by this stage both were well past their best.

Walk walked in the grey gloomy drizzly misty fog: rather shorter than last year's trek: a mere 2 hours or so up to that Tonna, back down the tow path to that Neath, avoiding swans where necessary, then back home via a twisty path through town and no one mention the M X thing until half a mile from home when some miserable fecker came out with it. Bah Fecking Humbug I didn't say, being somewhat irritated.

Them next door were out for a while visiting somewhere or other but they're back now. Hope they stay there & leave me alone.

Season's TV: "Walking with the Ancients" on PBS.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Wallace & Gromit on BBC1: that just about justifies the licence fee for this year.

"Ghost Ships" on Blaze: the Halifax Nova Scotia 2.9kt explosion in WWI.

Maigret's War of Nerves with Bruno Cremer on Talking Pictures TV.

[xoggoth]

Bum! Supposed to be at son's for xmas dinner but he had a power cut when meal was half cooked. Not back until after 18.30. Checked on power networks so not an invented excuse to avoid ghastly old father.

Update
About 1 min after above posterior got message from him to say power back. Going round in 30 mins.

[NickFitz]

Shout out to the occupants of the three cars that had come too close together and formed an unholy trinity just by Rothwell Lodge Farm on the A14 westbound

This incident, which looked as if it had damaged mostly metal and composite materials rather than people, delayed me by about twenty-five minutes, thereby reducing the number of peanuts I was able to get through before being called to the table for a very nice dinner