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[DoctorStrangelove]

The Wife has decided it is not the lurgy, but that I have developed “hay fever” for the first time in my life, her first guess is hazel pollen.

Welcome to the club.

Hazel and Alder in my case. Haven't had a sniffle so far this year though.

The catkins aren't at their most fiendish yet.

Or I'm now too old & fecked up to notice anymore.

Long long ago it was confined to May & June & July, oh how I miss those years.

[xoggoth]

Came out on 30 January, though it's still called the March issue - number 34

Last one I got is 342. Was no Viz on shelf last week either. No Viz! May give up on Sainsburies.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was the unmotorway police. I'll be running out of that shortly

And then I finished reading The Forever War. Good book

I need to go shopping tomorrow morning, though I haven't yet decided which Sainsbury's to go to

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 0845

Blue sky, although my weather app says low visibility. Currently -1 ('feels like' -4) with a high of 6 expected. Barometer up to 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 08:00; Sunset 18:10

Yesterday we had a mooch around after a very delicious lunch. I follow a street artist called invader was here and they put up mosaics in the towns and cities they have 'invaded'. They have an app where fans can snap a photo of their art, it validates the image and awards points. Yesterday I earned 600 points by finding 9 out of 1500+ installations.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 11 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 7 deg in the leanto.

1017 mBar, 30.03 in Hg, 762.8 Torr, 14.75 psi, (down a tad from last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of December 2019 NF went to M&S only to discover there were no reduced pigs in blankets, then came home after the trauma of the car parking arrangements to find the bulb had gone in the bedroom & he was covered in dust when he changed it (no bunnies were distressed in this activity), followed by an erudite discussion of the origin of the Americanism (or Septicism if you prefer), BR popped in, and LM cleared things up nicely, with Brillo waffling on about something or other.

Sun is now wanly showing its presence. (That's now, not 2019, just to be clear).

Sun went: rain came.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the light rain & grey gloom.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: the thing on R4 at noon: this week all about a London railway sign in Bangladeshi. <click>

Freecell score: 91%, running average: 81%. That last game got me again.

Tea: spag with stuff I concocted out of the cuupboard. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM <click>. Sounds like Vance went down like a lead balloon. . Yeeeefeckinghaw & all that. Time for the 5% of GDP on defence from the sounds of it.

Part II of the "Broken Arrows" thing on PBS: Palomares and Thule: see? the Septics didn't need to own Greenland to scatter radioactive tulipe all over it. They still haven't found the 4th bomb. I couldn't face the following programme about Phan Thi Kim Phuc.

Some bollox on Blaze that I've seen before. The Repair shop on Quest+1 that I've seen before but is less annoying than the crap on Blaze.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Chilly start out with a not very warm day to follow, having just crept up from 0°C to 1° ("feels like" -4°) with an expected high of 4°. The barometers are trivially up at 1013/1021mB

Despite that, the cars and other stuff aren't at all frosty, so at least I won't have to be scraping the windows before I go shopping

[WTFH]

Morning all

[xoggoth]

Nice sunny morning doing my volunteery litter pick thing. Much nicer than it sounds, green areas round town. Loony lady 1 this afternoon. Same old place! Wish I could get her to be a bit more adventurous.

[NickFitz]

A-shopping I did go and despite the dire prognostications of the weather app, it felt perfectly OK out

The car also started first time without any difficulty despite not having been used for two weeks, so I think it's safe to say that the new battery is doing its job

I went to Big Sainsbury's, largely because I set off in that direction out of habit and only remembered that I'd thought of going to the nearer one when I was halfway there

I think I managed to get everything I wanted except sardines in tomato sauce, which I forgot because I didn't go down the relevant aisle

And so home, with lunch from the hot food counter of a couple of garlic & herb chicken thighs

[NickFitz]

Last one I got is 342. Was no Viz on shelf last week either. No Viz! May give up on Sainsburies.

Check they haven't moved it. My one rearranged the magazine racks last year and it took me a couple of minutes to work out where they'd put Viz. IIRC it was close to the New Statesman