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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another grey, windy day. It's 8°C yet allegedly "feels like" -1° and there's a chance of rain soon, and increasing likelihood of more of the same through the evening and overnight. The barometers are up some more though at 1005/1013mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Must have had a restless night judging by the bed clothes this morning. .

Was Dry, now raining.

Grey.

Sunless.

Breezy.

Chilly in here at 13.1 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

1012 mBar, 29.884343 in Hg, 759.1 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (down from 1015 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of December 2019 I managed to get a post on a page otherwise occupied with Brillo's meanderings.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: null.

Freecell score: 87%, running average: 81%.

Was raining, now raining sideways.

Tea: beans on toast etc. including many things that needed eating out of the fridge. Nice enough.

Still raining.

Entertainment: Pick of the Week with much reference to the Reichsleiter & the Orange Moron.

Wrecks that changed History on PBS: The Richard Montgomery: 1500 tons of ripe explosives. Also goes into inneresting detail of the lunatic disposal of ordnance and war gases into the fecking sea.

Book. Other book.

"Alien Endgame" Blaze like bollox on DMAX. Watch the skies: the Martians are coming. As it were.

"Viking Dead" on Blaze. More Blaze like bollox on Blaze. Much more inneresting: the two dead Viking ladies in a well preserved ship burial in Norway.

[ladymuck]

^ Om



Morning all

Cloudy but bright enough, and dry. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 8) with a high of 11 expected. Rain forecast for most of the day from lunchtime onwards. Barometer up to 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 06:59; Sunset 17:31

Off to see Mum today.

I feel like my eyesight is getting worse. I've only had specs for about 18 months but reading is getting harder and harder without them, and I'm not sure it's good enough with them. Is it true that your eyesight deteriorates faster after you start to wear glasses?

[NickFitz]

Lunch: bacon butty

Big Jet TV is at Heathrow, splitting its time between planes landing in the windy conditions and the antics of the rather shaggy ponies with whom he's sharing the paddock

[NickFitz]

I feel like my eyesight is getting worse. I've only had specs for about 18 months but reading is getting harder and harder without them, and I'm not sure it's good enough with them. Is it true that your eyesight deteriorates faster after you start to wear glasses?

That's what they say, but I don't know if it's true. I've had glasses since I was about thirteen, so by now I don't really remember any evidence one way or the other

I've recently noticed that my eyesight seems to have deteriorated a bit more, but IIRC I'm due for an eye test this year.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Until my 40s I could read books with my distance glasses on, since then it's been downhill all the way.

I remember some ginger teenaged oik at Scantronic printing out stuff in 6pt, no chance I could read that comfortably at 40 odd.

A dataflow diagram at about the same time (25 years or so ago) showed up my astigmatism to a tee.

Started off in my mid 50s with 1.5 dioptre ready readers, then 2.0 a little later, for some books these days it's 3.0 depending on the print size, though I have thought of getting some 2.5.

A lot depends on your accomodation, by my advanced years there isn't any.

Since I don't drive any more I don't wear the distance glasses for my walks so everything is a bit blurry but not enough for me not to recognise people.

And the soft focus effect is lovely. .

[NickFitz]

Delicious aroma of stew in the kitchen

Unfortunately, it's because I left the window open, and the stew itself is in the kitchen of one of the neighbours

[NickFitz]

The Time of the Chicken continues, tea tonight being the remaining leg, wing, and skin of the roast Big Chicken from the other day with chips and ketchup

And the carcass thereof is in the slow cooker on its way to becoming soup overnight

[ladymuck]

Took Mum to Tesco where we bought loads of stuff that she may or may not eat. The bread, bran flakes, cheese, biscuits and cake will all go. The slices of chicken and ham I suspect will not make their way into sandwiches. The bacon is definitely unlikely to be cooked and eaten.

Soggy drive home, it being raining intermittently all the way.

Along the A30 it's 40 mph pretty much all the way to the A4 (especially past Heathrow's southern runway) yet there's always folk who drive in the fast lane at 25-30 mph. There's a few speed cameras but even then that doesn't warrant being so far under the speed limit. I do sometimes wonder if such people are driving at kph. That would certainly explain why someone was doing 40 mph today on the M25 instead of the 60 mph demanded by the variable speed limit signs.

[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life this morning, but who knows when it will return?

This evening, a new episode of 24 Hours in A&E and they hit the jackpot, for one of the patients brought in after a fall from bicycle not only works in the department, but was also the talking head member of staff telling us all about their life on a previous episode from QMC!

And then some more of Inventing the Renaissance, where I've finally got to the section about a bunch of people's interesting lives

Monday again tomorrow, but I suppose we have to have one if we want to get to Friday

Outside, it's teeming down and is expected to continue thus for a few hours, though I think the wind has eased up slightly

Goodnight all