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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another gloomy grey morning out. Currently 2°C heading for 5°, with the breeze being insufficient for the "feels like" temperature of 1° to be given any prominence. The barometers are a tiny bit up at 1008/1016mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
2C out, but felt warmer, and while there's no visible blue sky, the clouds are thin enough for it to have been bright on our walk.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Then this evening's reading was the first part of The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, a sci-fi tale about soldiers fighting aliens near Aldebaran but also an allegory for the Vietnam War, in which the author had served. It's very good so far

Got it. Haven't read it yet. Peace & War.

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 11.5 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto, 5.6 in the saltinghouse.

1016 mBar, 30 in Hg, 762.1 Torr, 14.735 psi, (down from 1017 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of December 2019 LM's HWMBO was very , NF was off out to M&S to buy more pigs in blankets, covbob was in work waiting for the heating to come on.

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

Smalls etc. in the WM. Ditto out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Goodness me, I realised today that it's 20 years since I started "work" at Ye Olde Sloughe of Desponde. Who'd have thunk? 5 years and 8 months since I left.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.

After yesterday's nuthatches, today's wildlife was a treecreeper.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about car insurance, complicated innit? TWATO on about The Nazi in MI5. As if he's the only fecker in there.

Shirts in off the line & in the TD.

Shirts out of the TD and roughly iRoned & airing upstairs.

Cottons & smalls in off the line & in the TD.

Cottons & smalls out of the TD & iRoned where necessary & airing upstairs.

Entertainment: Infinite Monkey Cage Hollywood Space, followed by Quantum Mechanics (part).

Tea: soup etc. Meh.

Entertainment: PM relating how the Orange Moron will piss on Ukraine to stay big buddies with the murderous scumbag Putin.

Stone me, my neck just went <click> with a vengeance. .

"Maigret goes Home" with Bruno Cremer.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been sardine toasties (olive oil ones)

I fancied the tomato sauce variant, but discovered I don't have any. Last year, they went through a period of not having any of the olive oil ones so since then, whenever I've been in that aisle, I've thought "Better get some olive oil ones while they have them" and neglected to get any of the tomato sauce ones

[xoggoth]

Nice morning at pub with local history group committee. Don't know much about history but on committee as I do the website. They were playing lots of nice old fart music as it was mainly just us old farts there.

PS Darn it, got Sam Cooke's What a Wonderful World in me head now.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in white wine sauce, with rice

This was accompanied by another Scottish Murder Trial involving the death of a chap whose skeletal remains were found on a derelict industrial estate by some urban explorers

[WTFH]

This was accompanied by another Scottish Murder Trial involving the death of a chap whose skeletal remains were found on a derelict industrial estate by some urban explorers

It’s been a good series.

The Wife had a bit of knee work done today, which meant mildly less pain tonight. Hopefully it will improve, but we shall see.

Now it’s TFBSZ.

[NickFitz]

Read some more of The Forever War, in which our protagonists have returned to Earth and been discharged from the military after what was subjectively two years for them, though relativistic effects mean many more years have passed here while they were away and things are very different…

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another grey day out, though it seems a bit less gloomy and damp. Still only 1°C and expecting to reach 4°. The barometers are back up a bit at 1012/1020mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast and allegedly 3C out, but by 20mins in to our walk it felt a lot warmer.
The Wife decided that she'd not take any pain killers before going to bed last night. That was not a good idea.