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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Damp.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Warmish side of chilly i here at 13.4 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 12 deg in the leanto.

1018.5 mBar, 30.07 in Hg, 763.9 Torr, 14.77 psi, (down from 1025 last night). 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 11th of December 2019, long long ago and far far away, NF had a polish at the dentists, whereas LM was trumping in the library, and DaveB stole Brillo's zenchury rather than BR14 doing it, and I was renewing the sealant around the kitchen sink.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: book of the week on R4 about some scumbag Septic dystopian photosearch thing.

Good news: 37 varieties of MK single & dual 13A sockets (made in China) recalled due to arc flash fire generating potential. Nice to know that outsourcing to China is so safe.

Gosh. the 1990 box lasted well: turned it on: no video: ?monitor? nope another monitor still nothing, plug monitor into different box: works ok. Seek another VESA bus VGA card: still no go, try different VESA slop: still nothing. Mother board is screwed VESA bus wise thought the rest of it works, as determined by plugging a mono card and mono monitor in, which showed the boot sequence etc. , never mind, worse things happen at sea & all that. There's an EGA monitor in the garage but I don't think I'll bother fetching it up.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough after labouring over this crap all afternoon.

Entertainment: PM <click>

UFO bollox on Blaze.

The Bad Skin Clinic. not on.

Shooter S2 E3, E4. Last week. Or this week by streaming.

Shooter S2 E5, E6, E7, E8.

[xoggoth]

I was renewing the sealant around the kitchen sink.

Ah! What fun he had back then!

Me just back from old arty farty thing. Gave me neighbour a lift again. Must remember to send her my invoice.

[NickFitz]

Homemade sausage rolls for lunch

Still no delivery…

[xoggoth]

Not been for me wonky today. I'll go round the village later to look at all the xmouse lights.

[NickFitz]

Still no delivery…

The website still shows my parcel as "out for delivery" and no other contact (email, SMS) has been made. I finally decided they were unlikely to be here today and went to check out the "Collect from depot" option on the website. On that page - not on the order tracking page, but on the page you only go to once you're despairing of them - it showed that the delivery had been rescheduled to tomorrow

It's only across town so I'm going to get it myself, on the way to do the shopping I would have done today if they'd told me what was going on

[ladymuck]

Uneventful day at the coal face.

Christmas cards have been written and I'll post them tomorrow. I have a birthday card that needs to be written too.

I ought to pop to Sainsbury's and pick up some tonic (currently on offer) as HWMBO returns tomorrow.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb cutlets with chips and beans

Accompanied by a new Police Interceptors. It's still from Northants, after the strange reversion to Notts for a couple of episodes

[NickFitz]

Back in July 1916, George Sherston and his comrades have been involved in the first day of the Battle of the Somme, with one of his friends being killed by a sniper while grinning at him; and due to the strange way wars are operated, his company has then ended up being parked fifteen miles behind the line for several weeks with very little to do, before being sent back to roughly the same place

It's become very windy out and there was a brief spell of rain earlier. Yet overnight it'll keep getting warmer, and should be up to 12°C by sunrise

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast out and quite a strong breeze.

As Nick has been waiting for his Harveys Bristol Cream, I've also been waiting for my coffee machine descaler.
The machine is currently telling me I have 14 coffees until it locks me out.
Royal Mail say the package is out for delivery today.
Based on a quick check, I believe it's going to be delivered by the postie. Up until last month that would have been Vicky, but since she quit, it's now one of 3 or 4 different people.
Let's hope they deliver.

[xoggoth]

Overcast out and quite a strong breeze

Ditto. Group walk later then book reading thing. Tired, not sure I can be bothered with either of em.