Nearly there. Need to decide whether to get the Tube or walk down to the hotel…
							
						
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 20 minutes to clocking off time! I hope the electrician hurries up and finishes soon. He's currently worrying about the quality of dimmer switchesComment
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 Walked in the end; one of those typical London scenarios where I know the area I’m in and know the area I’m going to, so it’s easy enough to figure out how they join up 
 
 I’d forgotten I splashed out on a Premier Plus room, which comes with a Nespresso machine. So now I need to Google the instructions for it  Comment
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 I had originally booked a Premier Plus room. Then I changed the booking to add an extra person as HWMBO was going to come, and they downgraded me!
 
 I am finally on the tube and should get to the hotel shortly after 5pm.Comment
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 Got the Nespresso thing figured out, and there were a couple of little bits of chocolate too, so they’ve been guzzled with a coffee while watching a repeat of The Repair Shop  Comment
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 Fit to fly certificate back. I’ll be up in London Town tomorrow. Have a good evening…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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 Well, we’re been all over the shop tonight - Smithfield, Moorgate, even up by the Gherkin. I’m thoroughly confused 
 
 A good night had by all though, I think 
 
 Goodnight all    Comment
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 Morning.
 
 Grey.
 
 Dark.
 
 Sunless.
 
 Dank.
 
 Dreary.
 
 Drizzly.
 
 Warmer at 13.6 deg in here.
 
 1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.56 Torr, 60% RH.
 
 Saturday.
 
 Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey, dark, dank, dreary drizzle.
 
 Innerestingly enough, an empty packet of sildenafil was discarded up by the res.
 
 Lunch: that soup & rice thing, a yog, a bramble jelly sandwich, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.
 
 Entertainment: Dead Ringers.
 
 More aliens bollox on Blaze, more than I could stand.
 
 Freecell score: 88%, running average 84%.
 
 Thing about Pink Floyd DSOTM (again) on Sky Arts.
 
 PF live in Venice (part of).
 
 Tea: spag with that fiery bol from last week (rather better than the chilli of the same vintage), some peach slices, a yog, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.
 
 Scotland Yard: another dose of the Wolseley 6/90 (this ep from 1961), a case of "wot's this ear" with a leg instead, fished (literally) out of a canal.
 
 Turns out butchers have skillz.
 
 Wilfrid Brambell (old man steptoe) as a posh pathologist.
 
 Fred Dibnah on mining.
 
 Wartime Farm Xmas (mostly coz I can't find anything else).
 
 Brit Cops:Frontline Crime: Wales, look you, there's tidy then, boyo, Dyfed Powys, who'd have thunk it's all kicking off.
 
 Goodness me, some of this lot are remarkably brain dead. 
 
 Followed by Quantum Leap: the photographer one, which was meh or I wasn't in the mood for it and:
 
 Trucking Hell S5 E2: wherein the Lantern boys go to the gym with a vengeance. No Rory.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 11 December 2021, 23:28.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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