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[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life this morning, but I didn't bother with any further telly for the rest of the day as it's all stuff that's been on innumerable times

This evening's viewing has been the first three (of four) parts of 7/7: The London Bombings which have covered the events themselves, the investigation to establish who the perpetrators were, and the failed bombing attempts two weeks later and subsequent manhunt, leading us to the point where the unfortunate Jean Charles de Menezes has been executed for the heinous offence of having a swarthy complexion in a public place, something the Met are known to regard as completely unacceptable

Back to work tomorrow, but it's not been a bad weekend. If nothing else, I got some laundry done

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Morning all, Gatwick calling

Dark. The sun is not yet ris. Currently 3 degrees with a high of 6 expected. Barometer at 1040 mBar.

Sunrise 07:59; Sunset 16:30

HWMBO and I are in the BA First lounge awaiting our flight to Funchal. Over there it's going to be 23 degrees and sunny.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rosy-fingered dawn outside and it's not even freezing, being 1°C with an expected high of 4° - though the extremely light breeze that's barely stirring the trees is apparently powerful enough at the moment to make it "feel like" -6°. The barometers are down a touch at 1025/1033mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
It's getting brighter in the mornings, the temperature was a pleasant 5C when we went out. Looks like it might be a pleasant day.
Recycling men wouldn't take the plastic of my old paper shredder, so we'll see if it will be taken by the black bin team. (It's an all-play bin week - recycling, black and garden)

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dry.

Chilly in here at 10.7 deg, 8 in the kitchen, 7 in the leanto, 5.6 in the saltinghouse.

1034 mBar, 30.534 in Hg, 775.56 Torr, 14.9969 psi, (unchanged), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 19th of December 2019 Brillo was posting a lot, NF was considering consuming a mince pie, whilst LM was discussing bathtub gin.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Smalls & cottons in the WM.

Smalls & cottons out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: thing on R4 about surrogacy. Well it was on.

Shirts in off the line, in the TD for a moment or two, then met the iRon: now airing upstairs.

Entertainment: The infinite monkey cage best bits, plus S28 E1 Octopuses.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom somewhere in there after brunch.

Cottons in off the line & in the TD.

The remaining items needing the iRon duly iRoned.

Tea: assorted sandwiches.

Entertainment: PM. Doomed as ever. AI? What could possibly go wrong? We've already got Skynet. .

Book. Other book.

Oak Island nutjobbery: quadrilateral: dug a hole. Found an iron hoop. Probably Roman. Wall looks like a Portuguese wall from 1555. Or something. Same old Same old.

Secrets in the Ice: more Blazean bollox, but slightly less bolloxy than Oak Island, unfortunately has that massively irritating narrator. They found bones. Strange pile of empty Nazi oil drums on an island off Siberia: turns out to be from the Japanese during WWII: the usual underground maze as per the rather warmer islands in the Pacific.

Oh look: Blind Frog Ranch on Quest+1: more bollox. $3B this time. Claim jumpers. <click>

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been turkey and barley soup with a crust of wholemeal

Nice soup that

[WTFH]

Lunch was home made butternut squash soup. After defrosting it, it looked a bit lumpy, but a good nuke and it went back to smooth. Quite spicy, so I added a dollop of sour cream.

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, homemade pork chow mein

[ladymuck]

It's been a lovely sunny day in Funchal. Day 1 of holiday has gone very well.