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[NickFitz]

The usual Monkey Life and other wildlife stuff provided today's visual entertainment. The otters of Singapore have finished, but they're showing a thing about the macaques that live there. And there's a repeat of the series about baboons

Tonight's reading has been more of Kate Summerscale's The Peepshow about 10 Rillington Place. Christie has admitted to killing Beryl Evans but is still claiming not to have killed her child Geraldine, for whose murder Tim Evans was hanged

And I ordered a new recliner, as the cheap one I bought about three years ago isn't that comfortable and is wearing rather badly. I've gone for a more expensive La-Z-Boy, as recommended by Frasier's father Martin Crane

Early night now, ready for more Monkey Life in the morning

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Guess what? Grey! Yet another grey day, as it has been since forever, or feels like it has been. The same sort of temperatures too, being 7°C rising to 13° later. And the barometers are up a little but not that much, being 1015/1023mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 15.3 deg, 16 deg in the kitchen, 14 deg in the leanto.

1022.5 mBar, 30.194 in Hg, 766.93 Torr, 14.83 psi, (up from 1020 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of November 2019 Someone had interfered with NF's Mystery Bike by pulling it out from where it was hiding, discovering it had No Chain, then leaving it, NF was watching The Wire (again) whereas I was watching, in Nominative Determinism mode, a thing about the creation of the atomic bombs in 1944/5, which gave the reason for the design & construction of Little Boy due to fears that the piles in Hanford wouldn't produce enough plutonium due to unexpected criticality problems.

Bunter at the Cenotaph looking as if he'd been dragged through a hedge backwards.

Lunch: brunch.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom: some wan sunshine observed for all of 45 seconds.

Freecell score: dire.

Tea: soup: too pissed off with Freecell for anything else, then sliced my forefinger & middle finger knuckle on the lid of the can: blood everywhere. Ho hum. Even more pissed off now.

Freecell score: even more dire.

Thing about WWI on Talking Pictures TV.

Thing about Bloody Mary & why she died on Blaze with that Alice Roberts: doing a PM on someone who died 450 years ago: a neat trick, then again last week they did the same trick on her half sister.

Freecell score: 88%, running average: 80%. That's better.

Started a list of obsolete junk some other sad bastard might just be innerested in buying when I stick it on some vintage electronic site or other. After all I got shot of a Revox A700 and a Ferrograph RTS2 for £250 3 months ago.

Though I paid £600 for the Revox in 1977 and I still wonder why I bothered.

Now I think about it, that last bit applies to an awful lot of the crap in this house: WTF did I buy it all for? It's an enigma wrapped in a mystery or something.

And don't get me started on the Enigma tomes: there's a couple of dozen but at least I can donate the feckers to Oxfam.

[xoggoth]

Got me tooly stuff ready for volunteery thing bit later. Gray but rather brighter gray than yesterday, not too grotty.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dull, damp. Currently 10 degrees with a high of 11. Barometer up to 1025 mBar.

Down in overcast Sussex, it's a little warmer at 13 degrees.

Mum's boiler has packed up, thank goodness we've got a replacement booked in for two week's time.

[NickFitz]

Bacon bap (white) for lunch

Same again

Meanwhile on email, we're having a discussion about interring our parents' ashes in the family grave up in Liverpool. Surprisingly, the thing that seems to throw up the most complications would be having a priest show up to perform a blessing, so we're probably not going to do that

Next on the agenda: do we try to get it done before Christmas, or do we wait until next year

[NickFitz]

The sun has just come out!

I daresay it'll go back in shortly

[DoctorStrangelove]

Same again

Meanwhile on email, we're having a discussion about interring our parents' ashes in the family grave up in Liverpool. Surprisingly, the thing that seems to throw up the most complications would be having a priest show up to perform a blessing, so we're probably not going to do that

Next on the agenda: do we try to get it done before Christmas, or do we wait until next year

Speaking entirely from personal experience: make sure the mofos dig a hole in the right grave. .

Though my father would have laughed his head off at what happened at my parents interment, what with the oiks digging a hole at the wrong end of the row. .

His favourite funeral was the one where they carried the coffin to the grave only to find there was a terrier down the hole chasing a large rat.

Proceedings duly paused until matters were put right*. .

*Very probably not from the rat's point of view. .

[NickFitz]

Speaking entirely from personal experience: make sure the mofos dig a hole in the right grave. .

Though my father would have laughed his head off at what happened at my parents interment, what with the oiks digging a hole at the wrong end of the row. .

[NickFitz]

Not the most intensive bout of exercise, but sorting out the recycling and taking it over to the bins has given me a "perfect week" according to the Apple Watch

I did use the stairs rather than the lift, and given that I'm on the third floor, I suppose that must count for something