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**NickFitz** · 2024-12-28T13:32:27

Lunch has been a couple of Christmas leftover sausage rolls

I need to make turkey soup. I've got the leftover thigh from the other day and my sister donated a leg and some meat from the Christmas bird, so that should be enough to make a medium-sized batch

**NickFitz** · 2024-12-28T18:59:26

For tea, the usual "special offer" from KFC

**NickFitz** · 2024-12-28T23:50:39

Today's viewing was the usual Monkey Life plus other wildlife stuff

And I did a bit of mucking around with getting SpriteKit stuff working in SwiftUI, again

This evening, I finished reading the George Sherston (i.e. Siegfried Sassoon) memoirs. He'd got to the point of quite looking forward to going to the front because he was fed up with boring admin stuff, but then his brigade was struck down by flu. Once that had passed, they were moved north and finally went to the front. And on his second night, having led a few men forward on a sneak attack on a German machine gun post, an overeager sergeant from his own company who didn't realise they weren't back yet shot him in the head as he returned to his own lines! Only a graze on the scalp and he was able to walk to the medical post, but this resulted in him getting shipped back to hospital in England again and, of course, the German side collapsed that autumn and there was no war to go back to