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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dark.

Grey.

Dreary.

Misty.

Foggy.

Drizzly.

Chilly in here at 11.8 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 9.5 deg in the leanto.

1027 mBar, 30.3272 in Hg, 770.313 Torr, 14.895 psi, (up from 1026 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of December 2019 see yesterday.

Walk (greatly augmented) walked in the grey gloom, mist, fog, and drizzle, eventually the sun deigned to come out on my way back home.

Why does this look familiar:

https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=216621

Stone me it's like this house.

Lunch: brunch. Stone me (again), my mouth is sore. .

House roughly vacced after quite an interval* of not bothering. Had to dismantle vac, bang filter on wall, clean out various bits and improve its effectiveness no end. Seemed quite clogged up, which was odd.

Entertainment: "D Day minute by minute" on PBS. There'd be nothing to watch without Adolph. .

*Last vaccing was on the 27th of November if TPD is to be trusted these days. . We won't mention when the place was last dusted.

Tea: beans on toast etc. with added boiled eggs.

Entertainment: Impossible Engineering: Falkirk boat lift. Neat.

Impossible Engineering: stratolaunch: one of the late Paul Allen's projects.

A Welsh Xmas.

Thing about Cary Grant on ITV. Stone me.

The bit of the thing about the Falkirk Wheel that I missed whilst making tea.

[NickFitz]

Just had a couple of KFC hot wings to tide me over until the soup is ready

Big Jet TV is at LHR 27R watching planes taking off (and sometimes landing) in the fog

Meanwhile, the sky has mostly cleared here

[NickFitz]

The turkey and barley soup has turned out very nicely

[ladymuck]

Looking for something to watch and perusing what's included with Amazon Prime. I think it's going to either be The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) or Black Adam (2024){2022).

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribeye steak with fried onions and chips

No beans this time, because variety is the spice of life and a change is as good as a rest

[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life this morning

In the afternoon, they'd run out of North American border stuff so had switched to the Australians

And this evening, I read Part One (of two) of Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock. I read this back in 1981, and only vaguely remember it. But the premise was entertaining back then, so I thought it would be worth revisiting; it's not very long

Tomorrow, I may do things. We shall see…

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all

[DoctorStrangelove]

And this evening, I read Part One (of two) of Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock. I read this back in 1981, and only vaguely remember it. But the premise was entertaining back then, so I thought it would be worth revisiting; it's not very long

The first of those I read was "The Sundered Worlds" (aka "The Blood Red Game") which was purchased from Woolies at 9d, being remaindered. He wrote them fast & they read fast.

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dreary.

Drizzly (slightly).

Damp.

Chilly in here at 11.8 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto, 9.6 in the saltinghouse.

1025 mBar, 30.268 in Hg, 768.8 Torr, 14.866 psi, (down from 1026 last night), 69% RH (Lid electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of December 2019 it was curiously warm in here for some reason, after waking early I watched commentaries on BTVS S7 E22 and Angel something or other, LM had made the mistake of weighing herself & decided it was back on gruel up to Xmas, while NF had discovered that the earliest time of sunrise had happened a couple of days earlier, though why that mattered when he slept until noon , and some daft Tory bint was waffling on about sunlit uplands on the wireless. Remind me how that turned out again?

Shirts in the WM. Shirts out of the WM & pegged out on the line in the light drizzle.

Smalls etc. in the WM. Smalls etc. out of the WM & pegged out on the line in the light drizzle.

Change of plan: all in off the line & meeting the TD. Ho hum. Hang the expense.

Shirts out of the TD & awaiting the attentions of the iRon after lunch.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Violence. <click> Enough of that.

Those of the cottons requiring the iRon received its attention: now airing upstairs.

Shirts roughly iRoned: now airing upstairs.

All done for another week, rather more than a cupful of water out of the TD this week. hang the expense.

Since the drizzle continues unabated the walk is cancelled for today due to lack of innerest.

Tea: soup etc. Stone my mouth is sore.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Archie Part 3 & Part 4.

Faking it: analysis of Bunter, the Fat Owl of the Remove & his ever doubtful veracity. And what a surprise: the lying **** is a lying ****.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy sort of day but with blue gaps here and there. Some waving about of the trees suggests a breeze, though nothing excessive. It's 7°C and will be 9°, with the barometers down somewhat at 1013/1021mB

[NickFitz]

Advance notice that BBC2 tonight has Knowing Me, Knowing Yule, the excellent Alan Partridge Christmas Special from 1995 (and on iPlayer afterwards, one assumes)