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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start again, and damp again after some more rain late last night or early this morning. Currently 3°C yet it's supposed to "feel like" -4°, so who knows what the predicted high of 4° will feel like, given that it's expected to coincide with the return of the wind. The barometers are almost the same at 1016/1024mB

[WTFH]

Tea has been chunky breaded haddock with chips and beans

Ours was chunky breaded haddock, but with cauliflower cheese.

[WTFH]

morning all
Rainy overnight leading to a wet walk this morning with quite a cold breeze, air temp of 4.5C felt "a lot colder"

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry damp with a hint of drizzle.

Wanly sunny.

Chilly in here at 11.2 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 8 deg in the leanto.

1022 mBar, 30.185 in Hg, 766.7 Torr, 14.826 psi, (down from 1026 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of December 2019 LM & HWMBO visited her parents & was surprised with the entire family turned up, with HWMBO feeling under the weather on the way back, NF noted that his local association football team was playing in Leicester with a distinct lack of interest, and I had chilli con carne for tea & finished of "The Dresden Files" & moved on to "Tinker Tailor" for amusement.

Gosh. The mention of breaded haddock brought back in a flash a memory of my very late Gran frying fish on a frying pan over the open fire in the kitchen next door. . Not a day less than 60 years ago. .

Trip to that Swansea to donate another 18" of books. X7 down, 58 back. Barclays visited as well.

Got off the bus in Neath and wondered if my legs would work.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: thing at 11:45: <click> Y&Y waffling on about why you can't find trading standards any more: the Tory bastards subsumed the peasant side to Citizens Advice.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey bloom. Extra layer made things more comfortable.

Tea: Brains faggots with peas etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: helicopter overhead, PM. <click> You'll never take me alive, copper.

The ft tester seems to have ground to a halt after a frenetic 3 or 4 days last week. Dunno why.

Freecell score (W95): 93%, running average: 80 something.

Oak Island nutjobbery. "Starry Knights": off on a jolly to Italy to look at some cave or other, undoubtedly Templar related, or Ancient Aliens or some similar total bollox. In the mean time the baby blob remains, and the blob blob. and the garden shaft. WTF. Does anyone think this bollox is anything but bollox any more? This week we ain't found tulip or even wood. The one good thing is that the metal detecting moron hasn't appeared as yet. And with that the feckwhit appears. With a Templar nail. . Or maybe it's Roman.

Secrets in the Ice: Deception Island, Antarctica. Volcanic Caldera. Whaling station. Peruvian mummy. Ampato volcano. Northbrook Island Franz Josef archipelago. Shipwreck. Icebreaker Eira. Wrecked off Cape Flora. Benjamin Leigh Smith. Crew managed to survive. Damask table clothes as sails. Shackleton 80 years earlier. Hokkaido. Round holes in the snowpack. Made by bats. The Ussurian tube-nosed bat hibernates in snowbanks.

[sadkingbilly]

And then some more of Character Limit. I either hadn't heard or had forgotten that immediately after taking over Twitter, Musk came to believe on the basis of no evidence whatsoever that lots of the company's employees were fake, so the HR department at the HQ in San Francisco had to waste huge amounts of time getting managers at all of their offices around the world to confirm that the people who worked for them were real humans

did they have to find pics of bicycles and traffic lights?

[sadkingbilly]

morning all
it's a blues tune today. miserable wet, windy king billy* Monday.
I think i'll stay indoors.

*4deg -feels like -1

[ladymuck]

Morning all, Frankfurt calling, local time 1124

Cloudy out. Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' 1) with a high of 6 expected. Rain showers forecast. Barometer at 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 07:45; Sunset 17:36

In the lounge waiting for our next flight, to Munich. Leaves in about an hour. The B747 from San Francisco was fun, had never been on one of those before. We were sat on the top deck and there were proper cameras so I could watch the final approach, landing, and taxiing to gate

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

did they have to find pics of bicycles and traffic lights?

I wonder how Musk would have responded if they told him they'd just put a Captcha on the intranet and told everybody to go and click it?

[ladymuck]

Greetings from Munich

In the boarding queue for today's last flight, to Tunis.