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[NickFitz]

After a light lunch of a bit of pork pie, I was feeling a bit peckish this evening. So I got some exercise by popping round to the kebab shop for tea

And the eating was accompanied by Prof. Hannah Fry explaining how Deliveroo and suchlike services work, which involved digressions to cover the history of GPS and so on

[ladymuck]

An uneventful journey home was successfully completed.

[NickFitz]

Later viewing has been Knowing Me, Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge which is still very funny, though it's a bit disconcerting to realise that it's from Christmas 1995 and that is, apparently, almost thirty years ago

I also read another chunk of Behold the Man. And I even managed to squeeze in a little bit of work on the SpriteKit/SwiftUI stuff

Time for bed now. With luck the lift engineer will come and fix it tomorrow, and I can resume the attempt to get the table and chairs out of here

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
Back to billing.
Overcast, but not raining. 2C, with overnight frost made some parts of the walk a little slippy.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with wisps of fluff here and there. Dry. Currently 1 degrees ('feels like' -1) with a high of 4 expected. Sunshine forecast all day, slight risk of a light drizzle in the evening. Barometer at 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 08:07 / Sunset 16:04

Back to billing today. Will also sort the CV out for a concerted push in finding the next contract. I can't see me having much more to do on the current gig beyond the end of the month.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's a bright and sunny day with a clear blue sky after a frosty night, the frost lingering on such cars as haven't returned to work this morning. We're currently at 0°C ("feels like" -2°) with an expected high of 3°, and the barometers are bouncing back at 1007/1015mB

The fairy lights broke when I turned them on this morning. Probably the fuse, but I haven't got a clue where the spare fuses are since I moved

[NickFitz]

The fairy lights broke when I turned them on this morning. Probably the fuse, but I haven't got a clue where the spare fuses are since I moved

I remembered that the fuses were probably in a box of assorted junk in the hall cupboard and I was right! But only the 5A ones, and I need 3A.

As I quite possibly never had any of that rating, there didn't seem much point searching further, so I went to order some off Amazon. Turned out the best option was a box of 64 of the damn things in assorted ratings. So that'll be something I can pass down to my descendants, yea, even unto the third and fourth generation

By adding assorted other bits of cheap household junk that might come in handy I was able to get the bill up to £20 which enabled same day delivery, so at least by tonight I'll know whether I need to get some new fairy lights next - well, this - year

[DoctorStrangelove]

With luck the lift engineer will come and fix it tomorrow, and I can resume the attempt to get the table and chairs out of here

Donated my dining table to the BHF along with some very expensive ercol chairs. The parents dining table & chairs went to the house clearance auction people.

Morning Afternoon.

Thursday apparently.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Frosty.

Icy in places: nearly went arse over tit once.

Chilly in here at 11.9 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen, 9 deg in the leanto.

1017.5 mBar, 30.05 in Hg, 763.2 Torr, 14.7575 psi, (up from 1009 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of December 2019 LM was Xmas shopping, discovering that Dorothy Perkins had disappeared putting a spoke in one plan, whereas I was getting the car MOTed, NF found his twitter feed thing had fallen over & covbob got what is now a zenchury but probably wasn't back then, and WTFH was on the slopes.

Shopping trips to Morrisons, Aldi, and Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

During which the body of a dead cat was observed on Pendydre, though it didn't look as if it had been hit by anything. Nice looking cat too, apart from being dead.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: part 4 of the R4 thing about the leveret.

Walk (unabbreviated but unaugmented) walked in the sunshine: about 5 miles today.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough, with some of the Xmas cake (Aldi, reduced) as an extra, plus a mince pie or two (Tesco reduced) as well.

Entertainment: New book.

Vera S14 E2: the end. Until it comes back as Vera's early career: shades of Morse.

Good news: according to the EPG Maigret is back next Wednesday and Shooter S3 is back on Tuesday at 23:00.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bacon bap

No sign of anything being done to get the lift moving

As it doesn't need a lift, I've put a towel wash on

[NickFitz]

Finally got around to unboxing and setting up the two HomePods I got before Christmas! Can't wait to… watch while they download a software update