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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Foggy! A touch of frost as well but the main feature of the new morning is fairly thick fog, at least by the standards of this locale. Currently 0°C (no "feels like") with a performance target of 7° this afternoon, and expected to be sunny - though the weather app thinks it's sunny now, so who can tell? The barometers have soared to 1033/1041mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Frosty overnight - it was only 1C when we went out earlier, but a lovely crisp morning with a great sunrise as we headed back home.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Frosty.

Chilly in here at 11.1 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 5 deg in the leanto, 3.3 deg in the salting house.

1039 mBar, in Hg, Torr, psi, (up from a tad under 1039 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 25th of December 2019 Bah! Humbug! and something I wish had stayed there but now it's on earworms as well.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the bright sunshine. Glorious day.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Evan Davies waffling away about D&I in the kitchen.

Sliced Bread: boiling water taps. I'll stick with the kettle: oh look! the kettle is more efficient. Who'd have thunk? And the water in the kettle is likely to be rather fresher than that which has been kept at boiling point for who knows how long. Another magick gadget crossed off my list.

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

Cottons in the WM. Cottons out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Cue the rain, hail & snow from a blue sky.

Shirts nearly dry, and they haven't been out there long.

The ft tester is progressing, which is better than it not progressing. The physically smaller variable capacitor has a threaded boss: naturally enough said threads are not the same pitch as the threaded boss on a variable resistor, of which I have many. May have to get "creative".

Shirts in off the line, in the TD, out of the TD, roughly iRoned & airing upstairs.

Cottons in off the line, in the TD, out of the TD, & airing upstairs. Half a cup of water. Everything dried really well on the line.

Discovered I'd lost a sock. Again. Not in the WM. Not in the TD. Not on garden path.

Discovered I'd lost the charger for the led lamp. Feck feck feckitty feck.

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

Entertainment: "At your peril": the thing from R4 at 13:45 so an Infinite Monkey free iRoning and tea.

Dunno what else there is, shall find out shortly.

The ancient aliens guy visits Loch Ness. <click> over to the Musk thing <click> Ugly evil mofo.

Possibly the Musk thing on 4+1. no fecking chance. Deer Hunter. <click>

Freecell score: 90%, running average: 81%.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the rest of the big pork pie

The fog has dispersed, the frost has defrosted, the sky is Simpsonesque, and the gardener is mowing the lawn with a brief pause now and then to weed the flowerbed in the middle thereof

Not sure why he doesn't get the mowing and weeding done separately. Maybe he just feels like chopping and changing; and why not?

[WTFH]

Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

Just noticed you got a Mod Pali!
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[xoggoth]

Bluddy roadworks! Went out for me walky and road was closed so followed diversion and ended up near Gatwick airport. Had to duck every time a plane went over in case it bonked me head. Plus side, passed a pub I remember going to on a work do about 40 years ago.

[NickFitz]

Another week survived!

Quite a nice sunset here

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local tim 0650

Clear blue sky from my vantage point. Currently 22 degrees with a high of 29 expected. No interruption to the clear sky expected. Barometer down a bit 1012 mBar.

Sunrise 06:23; Sunset 19:56

Yesterday we went to the Australian Museum to look at an exhibition about Macchu Picchu. Then a bit of a mooch around town. Then back to the hotel to freshen up before heading to Coogee Beach to meet a friend of HWMBO's for a glass of wine or two.

I found postcards which I need to write and post today, it being our last day here before we start travelling back.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the Turkish spicy chicken leg and potato stuff

This was accompanied by Inside the Factory which this time was about sausage rolls, along with some good side quests looking into such varied topics as black pudding, Zeppelins, and fridge recycling

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Zone of Interest (2023) in which the commandant of Auschwitz leads a pleasant family life next door to the camp. When this came out, I saw a lot of people saying it must be seen in the cinema because so much of the import of the film was in the background soundscape, where one can hear the day to day sounds of the camp in the distance although nothing of its operations is really shown. But I think what these people were really saying or revealing was that at home, they can't turn the telly up too loud for fear of disturbing the neighbours, or maybe just can't afford a decent soundbar. I listened to it on my AirPods Max headphones, as I usually do with films, and the soundscape came across very well. The last time I was in a cinema, it was painfully loud, and that would have been worse. Anyway, none of that is really the point of the film, which I thought was very powerful

And then a couple more episodes of Masters of the Air, which continues to confuse anachronism with drama. In one of these episodes a flyer gets a weekend pass and goes to London for the weekend, where he experiences an air raid along the lines of those of 1940. By the summer of 1942, which I think is the time he was supposed to be there (it couldn't have been any earlier given how long it took for the Yanks to get involved), the Nazis had most of their bombers tied up on the Eastern Front and London wasn't seeing very much of that kind of thing at all; I believe the last major air raid there was in May 1941. But why let the facts get in the way of a TV show

Goodnight all