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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Not currently precipitating.

Chilly in here at 11 deg, 9 deg in the kitchen, 8 deg in the leanto.

982.5 mBar, 29 in Hg, 736.9 Torr, 14.2499 psi, (up from 974 last night ), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of December 2019 covbob was in cold misty Manchester & looking for another contract, whereas NF was consuming spag bol to make room in the freezer for leftovers, and I was looking at flood maps before getting house insurance quotes.

Sun came out. Then it rained. A lot.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: thing on R4 about how to read newspaper articles.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine & occasional light drizzle.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc.

Entertainment: PM <click>.

Freecell score (W95): 91%, running average: 85%.

Oak Island bollox: S11 "well of secrets": the metal detecting moron finds a hook, identified as belonging to a block & tackle by that blacksmith chap. Some well or other is "900 years old". Tree ring dated to 1750 or so. And another well. No wood this week. So: this week we ain't found tulip yet again.

Secrets in the Ice: skulls found in Sweden in some sort of mesolithic site. Halifax Nova Scotia: anchor. Presumably from the 2.5kt WWI explosion. Little razorback Island, Antarctica. Anomalous freezing under ice floes: "brine-acles" caused by the salts freezing out of the ice and ending up in the sea. Massively more salty than the sea itself. Well there's a thing. Devon Island, Canada. Some ancient missing link fossil to seals found in a relic impact crater.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Wet and windy. Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' -1) with a high of 6 expected. The cloud is set to clear up and the sun to make an appearance mid afternoon. Barometer down to 982 mBar.

Sunrise 08:06; Sunset 16:09

Only a week of work and then I'm off on holiday. I definitely think a mid-January break in the sun is the best way to avoid the post-Christmas slump.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Scotch broth with a crust of wholemeal

It's the ideal thing for a wintry day, plus it helped to make enough room in the freezer for the remaining Matsudai ramen kits

It's not looking so wintry out there any more though, as the morning rain has washed away all traces of the snow

[ladymuck]

The clouds have indeed parted and allowed some sun to filter through.

Soup for lunch.

[ladymuck]

Bed linen put away and smalls laundered then draped about. Jumpers and other wearables are now in the WM. I may get my jeans done today too, or maybe tomorrow, I am undecided.

[NickFitz]

One day done, three days to go

It wasn't too bad today, as it turned out. Most of the time was spent poking around at something with between two and three other people, working out why it wasn't working. We eventually fixed it with the help of a couple of other people. The general consensus among the team is that nobody can expect much of anybody so soon after Christmas and New Year, so if things take a while to sort out, it isn't really a problem

[NickFitz]

Tea: ribs and chips

Accompanied by the not-much-motorway police thing. They must be running low on wholly irrelevant dashcam clips for this series, as there were only two or three of them chucked in

[NickFitz]

No additional telly tonight, but a bit of mucking around with GameplayKit, which is being very annoying (presumably because I'm doing something wrong)

And I read up to Sunday 5 February in February 1933, during which few days various people have been killed with impunity by local Nazis, and Hindenburg has willingly signed a decree handing control of the Press and the power to suppress political meetings in the hands of Hitler and his thugs. Or putting it another way, I read what will be in the news from the USA in a few weeks

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

No snow or rain this morning, though there's some low clouds on the horizon in the southern region and rather higher ones in the northern. Currently -1°C and feeling like -6°, with an expected high of 4°. The barometers are back up to 984/992mB

The first of the bin lorries has just arrived and is tending to our bins. Nature is healing