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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny with a clear blue sky today for a change! Not very warm though: 4°C feeling like 0°, rising to 6° later. It'll be getting cloudier then, too. The barometers are back up a little at 1009/1017mB

I need to get ready for the journey south, including sorting out presents for those I won't see at Christmas. This just involves putting things in Christmas-themed gift bags though, as I can't be bothered to do any more than that

[WTFH]

Morning all

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Quite bright out, compared to previous days. Mostly cloudy with the occasional flash of sky. Damp but no precipitation at the moment. Currently 6 degrees with a high of 8 expected. Rain forecast early evening onwards. Barometer down to 1022 mBar.

HWMBO is on his way down ahead of his last TOGAF indoctrination session of the year. There's been a lot of demand this year, and next year is looking good too.

I had a rubbish night's sleep and have woken with a headache. Not booze intake related which means I can complain about it.

Off to the farmers' market in a bit, once HWMBO confirms he is settled in the lounge at Glasgow airport. I am to choose my protein of choice, look for some mushrooms and receive instructions on what veg to buy.

[NickFitz]

Right, time for me to set off!

[ladymuck]

The clouds have cleared and it's been a nice, sunny day so far. The forecast is still for rain later.

I did the market shopping, then went to Sainsbury's to see what gin was on offer and pick up a couple of bottles. Lone Wolf for £20 is a bargain.

I then stopped for a cuppa before getting the SL8 to Westfield shopping centre to return some trousers at Next. My aim was to get in, drop off, and get back onto the bus home within a hour in order to only pay 1 bus fare. Mission accomplished with 15 mins to spare.

HWMBO has landed at Heathrow and is doing a tour of T5 while BA figure out what stand to put him on. On his third at the moment.

[NickFitz]

Home again!

We'd booked a table at the pub-restaurant where we had both wakes, and they do a good Christmas dinner

[NickFitz]

Having a massive takeaway brought to me after eating a full Christmas dinner at lunchtime would have been overkill, so tea has been a roast beef butty and a bag of plain crisps

[xoggoth]

Wood volunteery thing this morning followed by coffee and mince pies. Mince pies, what else matters in life?

[WTFH]

Wood volunteery thing this morning followed by coffee and mince pies. Mince pies, what else matters in life?

Did you have a candle in the mince pie?

Happy birthday!

[NickFitz]

I missed Monkey Life, of course, though I made it home just in time for the last episode of the lemurs

More of George Sherston has been read this evening. He spent a hunting season in Leicestershire, but then war came in the summer of 1914. Having spent a few months in the ranks of the yeomanry and ended up with a broken arm for his trouble, he's spent the following season as a trainee infantry officer at a camp in Litherland, an industrial suburb of Liverpool which was also partly rural at the time

Early night now so I don't miss the morning's helping of Monkey Life

Goodnight all