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[ladymuck]

Oh, and I've won £50 on the Premium Bonds!

[ladymuck]

No sign of any snow here.

Flat was still too chilly so I thought I'd check the boiler and I saw the pressure on zero. Re-pressurised the system and it seems to be warming up now.

I wish there was a way for the boiler to issue an alert when the pressure is too low.

[NickFitz]

After the usual Monkey Life there was the usual batch of wildlife repeats; they're getting back into the shark thing, among others

No later telly, but I did a bit of mucking around with SpriteKit and GameplayKit stuff. It isn't working, probably because of a trivial error on my part, but I couldn't be bothered to get any further into it today

Instead, I started reading February 1933: The Winter of Literature by Uwe Wittstock. It's about the four weeks and two days from Hitler being appointed as chancellor to the promulgation of the emergency decree that criminalised those the Nazis regarded as enemies, whereupon the process of arresting people and throwing them in concentration camps could begin. It's examined primarily in the context of writers and artists, those who fled in time and those who stayed until it was too late, because they are the people whose letters, journals, and memoirs have been preserved in archives and so on.

Snow has come, but not in a particularly cataclysmic way; a pretty light sprinkling so far

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

The snow must have carried on for a bit last night as there's a decent sprinkling. Not a total covering though, with the drive already clear, the tufty bits of the lawn poking through, and various cars showing some signs of thawing out. It'll all be gone by tonight, as it's already 1°C ("feels like" -2°) and will keep getting warmer even after dark, reaching 11° by midnight - possibly accompanied by rain too. The barometers are way down at 975/983mB

[xoggoth]

Lot of snow on ground when I went to bed last night. Nextdoor thing said crashes and holdups at road through village. All gone today, wet and grey again! Walky will be a bit wet today.

[WTFH]

Cold yesterday, sleet overnight, turned to rain at some point. Now trying to decide if I take the dog for one big walk and get absolutely soaked, or two normal length ones and get absolutely soaked twice.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Raining, and has been for quite some time. Noisy precipitation overnight, maybe sleet or possibly hail? I didn't get up to look. Currently 7 degrees with it warming up to 13 by late afternoon/early evening. Rain set to continue all day. Barometer down to 987 mBar.

Sunrise 08:06; Sunset 16:08

Off to see Mum today. Down there it's 12 degrees and raining. Sunrise 08:03, sunset 16:12. What a difference 60 miles makes.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Snowless.

Very wet.

Unpleasant.

Cold in here at 10.1 deg, 9 deg in the kitchen, 7 deg in the leanto.

984 mBar, 29.06 in Hg, 738.1 Torr, 14.27171 psi, (down from 992 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of December 2019 the walk up the hill was cold, some nuthatches were twittering, optimists were fishing in the res, LM was off up north again, NF was receiving & redirecting xmas cards for people living in a road 2 miles away, including one from Australia.

Oddly, the house being colder that the atmosphere all the windows are fogged up. On the outside.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: "Abilene Town (1946)" with that Randolph Scott: haven't seen this one before. Meh.

Smoke & steel on U&Eden: Saltburn funicular railway. Septic wooden roller coaster ride. Mt Wilson observatory. Samson silver mine: invention of wire rope and man engine (lift). Ski chair lift.

HMS Warrior. USS Intrepid (aircraft carrier with unarmoured wooden deck). Prague waste water treatment system designed by William Heerlein Lindley: removed the "solids". Bazalgette's London sewer system: the loss of "The Princess Alice" in 1878 or how to drown in raw sewage. San Francisco Mint. Didn't burn down or collapse in 1906.

Marc Brunel's Thames tunnel. (It's the one with that spidery cornish beam engine and Bletchley Park).

Tea: beans on toast plus a couple of boiled eggs etc.

Entertainment: nothing I can recall.

Freecell.

Book.

Some bollox about Mediaeval Deaths on Blaze. Chap made a sword. Pretty meh all in all.

It hammered down with rain for a while but it's "dry" at the moment.

In contrast with yesterday the temperature in the salting house is 11 deg as against 2.6 deg, in fact the air outside is warmer than the air in here (aside from the living room) which explains the condensation on the outside of the windows.

[ladymuck]

Not a very nice drive down but the roads were quiet so the flow was good. Some nasty patches of flooding here and there on the A24.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning.

Sunday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Snowless.

Very wet.

Unpleasant.

oh, dear, - sounds like Wales then