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[xoggoth]

Finally got round to fixing faulty socket, one of the few done things on long list I must have put together over a year ago. Manana, manana, manana...
Nice sunny day for me wonky soon.

[NickFitz]

Sausage and bacon baguette for lunch

More accurately, it was half of one. The rest has gone into the fridge for tomorrow

[NickFitz]

Mundane laundry on

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb shank in red wine gravy with spicy roast potatoes and peas. It turned out very nice in the end

And the mundane laundry is done and dried

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's been a lovely sunny day both here in London and down at Sussex by the Sea. It's currently 7 degrees and the high was 9. A slight chance of rain overnight. Barometer up to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 06:13; Sunset 18:08

Went to visit Mum. Lots of abusive notes stuck to a multitude of surfaces demanding the return of many stolen items. None of said items were missing, just put somewhere Mum didn't remember moving them to. My brother had found all but one, and I found that in her handbag.

The drives to and fro were uneventful. Finding a parking space on my return home was a challenge and I finally found something a couple of streets away. Maybe I should complain to the council about the number of spaces the garage next door takes up. Feels rude but I bet they're not paying for parking permits.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was 24 Hours in A&E - not the most recent episode, but the one from the week before

And in Mesopotamia, I learned about the origins of kingship because that was also invented there - though they did sometimes have queens ruling in their own right as well

Monday again tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another day with cloud but the suggestion of gaps that could open up at any time. It's 4°C (but "feels like" 0°) and expected to get to 8° later. The barometers are up some more at 1018/1026mB

I'm really not in the mood for this Monday thing, but there's not much I can do about it. Oh well, only five more weeks (including this one) till Easter, when I'm taking a week off for my birthday; and then there's a couple of Bank Holidays in the weeks that follow

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday apparently.

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Chilly in here at 11.9 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto.

1024.5 mBar, 30.25 in Hg, 768.44 Torr, 14.859 psi, (up from 1024 last night), 58% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of January 2020 I'd had a poor night's sleep which had led to the finishing of the book about Admiral Canaris (bad end, all in all), BR14 popped in, as did Brillo, WTFH got wet on his walk, the lack of hood not improving things, eek popped in, and NF remarked on the greyness of things, and I visited the library computer room for the first time since before Xmas.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom, wan sunshine, and lazy biting wind.

Shopping trip to The Range.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about the chinese plague.

Two NaziKars today. Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Musk!.

Freecell score: 88%, running average: 82%.

Tea: Tesco 3 bean & red pepper chilli con carne with rice: nice enough with added chilli powder.

Entertainment: someone waffling on about the chinese plague in education 5 years ago.

PM. <click> The orange moron seems to be becoming more moronic by the day.

Book. Other book. This latter doesn't End Well. . (I looked it up on the interweb).

Skinwalker Ranch. More Blazean Bollox. It has the advantage of not having the metal detecting moron appear.

NCIS S21 E9 "Prime cut". Off to Texas we go. Yeeefeckinghaw. This is Texas, they've all got guns. Even my florist has a gun. Well that was truly dire. WTF the kitchen remodelling had to do with NCIS is a mystery wrapped in an enigma.

I was expecting the cattle rancher chap to turn out to be played by Gerald McRaney, but they missed a trick there.

The last 15 minutes of "Unknown (2011)".

[WTFH]

Morning all
After a pleasant but cool weekend, we've now just had a skiff of rain. Thankfully it arrived after our morning walk.
Today is the 2nd anniversary of us saying goodbye to Millie.

[NickFitz]

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