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[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny. Blue sky with lumps of fluff scurrying past. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) with a high of 8 expected. Barometer up to 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 06:15; Sunset 18:06

This morning has been a lazy one. I keep thinking I'll do some chores, or go to the farmers' market. But have actually sat on the sofa drinking coffee, eating biscuits.

Yesterday on TCoOI they found a Roman coin.

[xoggoth]

Yer lazy git lm! Much same here, fiddling with me mappy thing, long list of useful things to do ignored so far. Must do a walky, after another coffee.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Fairly sunny out, though with lots of fluffy clumps getting in the way from time to time. It's 7°C which is the high for the day, though supposedly "feels like" 2°, presumably due to a light breeze. The barometers have leapt up to 1011/1019mB

[ladymuck]

Laundry has been done, so I've achieved something today.

[xoggoth]

Very long walky, permissive path I was trying to return on was blocked off with fallen trees and no way round without wading through deep swamp or climbing barbed wire so had to go all the way back. Oh well, good exercise.

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, I thought I'd give the German Doner Kebab place in town a try. It was nice enough, but they can't compete with our friendly neighbourhood kebab shop on either price or portion size

[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff on the telly today as usual, this week managing without either sharks or cetaceans, which made a change

And this evening, I read some more of Between Two Rivers. The earliest surviving writing (cuneiform) is a stock control record of ingredients for beer

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Sunny.

Dry.

Blue sky.

Hints of frost.

Chilly in here at 11.7 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 6 in the leanto.

1022.4 mBar, 30.19 in Hg, 766.94 Torr, 14.83 psi, (up from 1021 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of January 2020 Anonimouse popped in with an observation about pressed lettuce, whereas NF had a big cornfed chicken for tea, which was very nice.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine & cold wind. Lunatic in shorts & tshirt spotted whilst I was wishing I had yet another layer on.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: that thing on R4 at 12:30.

Freecell score: 88%, running average: back up to 82% having dropped back to 81%.

Finished painting the tin shed door.

Tea: beans on toast.

Entertainment: NZ Highway Patrol.

Beyond Skinwalker Ranch S2 E1: even madder than Skinwalker. They were on another ex Bigelow ranch & started digging up scrap metal. It was almost inneresting.

The High Street Stores we've forgotten ever existed. Including C&A, Woolies, BHS, Our Price, etc. etc.

Some UFO bollox on Blaze that was so uninteresting I turned it off.

Finished Book.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy day out, though giving the impression that the occasional gap could open up to let a little sunshine in at any moment. Currently 5°C but "feels like" 2°, and aiming for 8°. The barometers are up some more at 1015/1023mB

[NickFitz]

Lamb shanks in a red wine gravy are in the slow cooker. I usually either forget or don't get around to putting them in there and end up cooking them in the InstantPot™, so I'm looking forward to trying them this way instead