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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's a morning of wan sunshine filtered through bands of thin cloud near the horizon. There are clearer areas of sky higher up, but the sun won't be getting there. It's a bit breezy too, so the current 7°C supposedly feels like -2°, though it's one of those times when it'll get to 9° later this afternoon and then continue to rise through the evening and night, reaching 10° by the end of the year - though with a 40% chance of rain to see 2024 out. The barometers are continuing to head slowly downwards at 1005/1013mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Very, very wet. Breezy. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 7) with a high of 11 expected. Rain set to continue all day in varying levels of enthusiasm. Barometer down to 997 mBar.

Following the revelations announced by BA about their changes to the Executive Club from April 2025, I have been re-evaluating who I will choose to travel with in future.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning Afternoon.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Windy.

Chilly in here at 12.1 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 11.5 deg in the leanto.

1015 mBar, 29.97 in Hg, 761.313 Torr, 14.721 psi, (down from 1021 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of December 2019 Brillo had a shower & discussed respective other halves cooking with LM, scruff popped in & popped out again, and I was wondering quite why I was impressed with "Joan of Arcadia" back in the day because it certainly wasn't doing the job currently.

Walk (greatly augmented) walked in the grey gloom & wind.

Should have done the washing today since it'd dry well on the line.

Mouth still sore. .

Lunch: brunch. Nearly half the Weetabix BBE 2014 now consumed.

Entertainment: R4 book of the week: leveret & hares.

Book.

Freecell score in the grey gloom: 100%, running average: 81%.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Mouth even more sore. .

Entertainment: PM. Wombles.

Book.

If there's owt to watch I ain't found it.

The Talking Pictures TV version of CUK's dead celebrities thread. Never heard of some of them.

Last 15 minutes of "Unforgiven (1992)" again. You can never see too much of Eastwood blowing people away.

[NickFitz]

One of the tasks I've been putting off for ages, but particularly during my extended Christmas break, is moving the dining table and chairs that I never use to the storage unit, pending a decision on whether to just get rid of them altogether. I've already disassembled the table to make it easier to get the new recliner in, so it's all just stacked near the living room door waiting to be moved.

I just finally managed to motivate myself to get it done. Not too complicated: take two of the chairs down to the car, get the sack truck from my storeroom while I'm down there, take the other two chairs, then use the sack truck to take the rather heavy tabletop down.

So I shifted other stuff that was in the way, grabbed two of the chairs, went out to the landing, and… the lift's broken

It's stuck just above the ground floor, and I assume the chance of an engineer showing up before Thursday is minimal

Ah well, I tried

[eek]

Morning all

Very, very wet. Breezy. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 7) with a high of 11 expected. Rain set to continue all day in varying levels of enthusiasm. Barometer down to 997 mBar.

Following the revelations announced by BA about their changes to the Executive Club from April 2025, I have been re-evaluating who I will choose to travel with in future.

Given that I'm never going to do enough flights to retain lounge access with KLM I just got the Lloyd's / Halifax World Elite Traveller card.

That gives (basic) lounge access and priority security at most airports which is all I really need.

[ladymuck]

The sun came out for a short visit and then disappeared back behind the rain laden cloud.

[NickFitz]

After some leftover KFC hot wings for lunch, tea has been steak and Guinness stew that I found at the bottom of the freezer, unlabelled and forgotten

[NickFitz]

Very windy out now. Hope the trees are all OK

[xoggoth]

Just back from loony lady 1's dump. We plated Scrabble. I won as usual but only just.

[NickFitz]

Happy New year, denizens!