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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Fairly cloudy start out, maybe getting cloudier later and then reverting. It's 2°C at the moment, with a balmy 6° expected for a short period mid-afternoon. The barometers are bouncing back at 1010/1019mB

Seven working days to go this year, including this one

[WTFH]

Morning all
A proper autumn/winter morning - clear skies, mist in the valley, 3C when we went out. Very pleasant.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 13.6 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 10 deg in the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.56 Torr, 14.764 psi, (up from 1017 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Met the birdwatcher chap from Port Talbot. Haven't seen him for over a year. Was beginning to think he'd popped his clogs, but he looks fit enough.

Meanwhile on the 6th of December 2019 covbob was babysitting his daughter, whereas I was still recovering from the 's flu jab with added sharkness this causing the uncontrollable shivering of the previous evening, WTFH was paying off his mortgage, and NF was going shopping.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling about recycling & wheelie bins. Apparently Swansea doesn't have wheelie bins.

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 80%.

The Bronze Age Apocalypse Part II on PBS: 150 year drought. Earthquakes. Smallpox. 300 year drought in Egypt. Even their droughts are bigger, just like the pyramids. Oh, and one of the Pharaoh's died of smallpox. I wonder if they knew that when they unwrapped him.

Nazi Hunters: Albert Speer. Apparently he did know about The Final Solution.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: 18 o'clock news.

Book.

The Bad Skin Clinic: more pustular goodness. Woman with discoid lupus. Woman with a 10 year old verruca on her foot: CO2 laser. Woman with lichen planus. Woman with a tiny calcified cyst in the middle of her forehead.

Shooter S1 E9 & 10: more .338 goodness. EOS 1.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: half of a Melton pork pie

I'm expecting a delivery via DPD today. Just checked the map and the driver is just down the road, about fifty yards away. Despite this, he's apparently on delivery 48 and I'm delivery 111. I assume their algorithm has its reasons but it would literally take him three minutes or less to walk here, drop it off, and walk back to the van

[ladymuck]

The drive down to the nether regions (then left a bit) of the M3 was uneventful, as was the drive back.

I have a parcel arriving via UPS. It's been out for delivery from the Feltham depot since 7.15 am and not made it to my place yet. Annoyingly, there is no tracking functionality on the website for me to see where the driver is. It's possible that's a feature offered to those who wish to register with UPS.

[NickFitz]

Another working day done, so just six more to go this year!

Today, a bunch of problems were pronounced "urgent" so it was all hands on deck to fix them. Of course, we then ended up dithering because the people we needed to speak to were in meetings and so on. But before lunch, I was called upon to help on one thing, only for the problem to resolve itself at the time that I joined; and after lunch, the same thing happened with the next thing I was invited to jump in on! I still have no idea what was going on with either of them because we never got to the point of them being explained to me, but it gained me a brief reputation as some kind of lucky charm

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the last of the leftovers

Accompanied, for want of being bothered to find anything more worthwhile, by another episode of the motorway-free motorway cops

[WTFH]

During the early days of Covid, when everyone was panic buying toilet roll, I orders a box of 36 boxes of Kleenex balsam tissues. My thinking was simple: if this thing is like the flu and you have a runny nose, you want tissues, not toilet roll, to blow your nose into. And if worst came to worst and the global supply of toilet paper went to zero, we’d still be able to wipe with tissues.

In the end, we didn’t get Covid at that time, and the world didn’t run out of toilet paper.
Tonight I went to get a new box out, and found there were none in the main store. I went to the second place we keep them and found that we are now down to our last 3 boxes. I’m thinking I might place another bulk order in January/February and that should see us through another 5 years.

Anyway, TFBSZ.

[NickFitz]

I finished Shepperton Babylon, with the final chapter being about the decline of the British film industry of the 1960s and 1970s into sexploitation flicks, from the 8mm blue movies of Soho through things like the Confessions of… series, concluding that after Emmanuelle in Soho (1981) "…the only place left to go was upmarket". But as the book is largely about capturing the recollections of people who'd live through the many earlier stages of the industry before they died (and many did between being interviewed and the book being completed), the author doesn't drag it out with an examination of the move to period dramas of the 1980s and the 1990s-2000s boom in comedies like Four Weddings… and gangster stuff like Lock, Stock…

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Foggy start! The fog's getting thicker if anything and even if it clears once the sun rises shortly, it will still remain cloudy, at least in theory - though yesterday it turned fairly bright, so who knows? It's dewy too rather than frosty at 3°C, heading for 9° not this afternoon (when it will reach 7°) but overnight, when it will also rain. The barometers are up a little more at 1012/1020mB