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[NickFitz]

Just realised I forgot to do Wordle et al. yesterday

Ooh - the tab had reloaded yesterday so Wordle was there and, having completed it and reloaded again to get today's, it retained my streak!

I've lost my 209 streak on Globle and Globle Capitals though

[NickFitz]

Lunch: pork pie, and extremely nice it is too

Followed by a few Quality Street, just to tide me over

[NickFitz]

There's a new series of Inside the Factory, without Gregg Wallace!

IIRC he "stepped back" from the programme a year or so ago after he'd insulted the female members of the pie factory workforce, so well before the latest round of allegations

[DoctorStrangelove]

Among my presents were a couple of my father's unpublished novels, now available via Amazon print-on-demand

I was aware of The Hunting of the Queen, said queen being the ocean liner Queen Mary, the story being set in the North Atlantic during the war when she was being used to ferry troops.

Ambrose mentions that The RMS Queen Mary sank the HMS Curacoa with the loss of 337 lives in one of those remarkably dumb accidents during said troop transports.

[NickFitz]

Ambrose mentions that The RMS Queen Mary sank the HMS Curacoa with the loss of 337 lives in one of those remarkably dumb accidents during said troop transports.

I wonder if that made it into my Dad's story?

Tea has been homemade pork chow mein, which turned out nice again

[ladymuck]

It was quite misty in parts on the drive through the South Downs National Park towards Surrey. The meal with the family was good and my uncle paid, which was even better.

I had an uneventful drive home. On getting indoors, I wrapped presents and packed a bag for my trip to Glasgow tomorrow evening.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's only TV was Inside the Factory in which Belgian chocolatiers explained how those Guylian chocolate seashell things are made

And then I read more of Sherston's Progress (the third part of the trilogy) in which he and his comrades were sent from Ireland, across France and the Mediterranean to Egypt and on up into Palestine, at which point they reversed course without ever going into action against the Turks and went all the way back to France, where the German Spring Offensive of 1918 required their attention

I'm feeling very glad to have all the "doing stuff" and "going places" parts of Christmas over

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

The rather foggy conditions in which I drove home yesterday persisted, getting even foggier by evening. And they've remained overnight, so today is foggy. Out of idle curiosity The distance to the block opposite (measured on Google Maps) is about 55m or 60 yards, and the fog isn't concealing it but is making it look slightly diffuse; so that's how foggy it is. It's 5°C at the moment and will creep up to 6° later, while the barometers are, I think, down a little at 1021/1030mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Damp but no active precipitation. Currently 6 degrees with a high of 7 expected. Low chance of rain all day. Barometer at 1033 mBar.

Working today. I think I may be the only one.

's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands was completed in 21 moves (5x5 map). I've been there, a lovely little walled city where the bonkers artist Hieronymus Bosch lived for most of his life. They have a fab (or did when I was last there) exhibition of his works there. All reproductions but that doesn't make them any less enjoyable to look at.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning Afternoon (if only just).

Friday.

Dry.

Grey.

Gloomy.

Misty.

Foggy.

Haar, Jim Laaaad.

Chilly in here at 12.7 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto.

1029 mBar, 30.38 in Hg, 771.8 Torr, 14.924 psi, (down from 1029.5 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of December 2019 NF eventually made it home but missed his brother, LM was subjected to 2ndary search of handbaaaag for no discernable reason & partook of the gin to make up for it whilst waiting, and the library computer room was replete with stinky again. Unknown to us all at the time, There Was A Storm Coming.

Walk (greatly augmented) walked in the grey gloom in the reverse direction to yesterday: this proved to be a mistake with the hilly bit at the end rather than the beginning.

Lunch: brunch. Nearly half of those BBE 2014 Weetabix are gone.

Freecell score: 82%, running average: 81%.

Tea: soup etc. Meh. And I've bitten my tongue so there's an enormous blood blister. Ho fecking hum. Seems to happen quite frequently now.

Entertainment: surfing the web for criticisms of Doctor Who. There's rather a lot. .

Book. Other book. Other other book: 3 lines & put back whence it came.

Having scanned the EPG it looks like another dreary Friday night's not viewing, though AC/DC on Sky Arts may warrant a look.

Freecell score (W95): 82%, running average: 83%.

Book (out of Normandy to the Siegfried line).

Other book: Dark forces from the Across the River lot. Stone me there's another 250 pages of this. I can see why the reviews on Goodreads aren't exactly glowing.

AC/DC. Back in Black man. No SR71 touch & go though. <click> Exceeded my tedium threshold. .