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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Snowing! Big fat lumps of fluff falling from the sky. Not settling at present. Currently 1 degree ('feels like' -1) with a high of 6 expected. The cloud is set to clear by early afternoon and some sunshine poke through. Barometer up to 997 mBar.

Sunrise 08:05; Sunset 16:10

I didn't do a jeans wash yesterday as there wasn't space to hang them out. The items laundered yesterday are pretty much dry now so that wash has now gone on. Putting away the clean stuff / draping about the wet stuff will be a good procrastination task for later this morning when I inevitably get bored.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

No current precipitation.

Damp.

Not frosty.

Grey.

Cold in here at 10.8 deg, 8 deg in the kitchen and leanto, 4 deg in the saltinghouse.

997.5 mBar, 29.456 in Hg, 748.2 Torr, 14.4675 psi, (up from 994 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of December 2019 NF had his first mince pie of the season, whereas BR14 had had a couple of dozen, and LM had had a few, I hadn't had any, and was watching Angel S5 but had to forego E8 due to needing to get up at stupid o'clock to ferry someone to Bridgend Hospital since next door only has one driver. Not amused.

Shirts in the WM & as soon as they came out it started to rain: hence they are in the TD.

Cottons in the WM.

Shopping trip to Morrisons & The Works done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away plus the new calendar up on the wall.

Lunch: brunch.

Shirts out of the TD.

Smalls in the TD.

Shirts roughly iRoned & airing upstairs.

Smalls out of the TD and airing upstairs.

Cottons & socks in the TD which is generating the usual selection of random numbers: how it can go from 8 minutes left to 37 remains a mystery wrapped in an Enigma. Maybe it's coz it's German.

It reached 3 & I stopped it. Cottons airing upstairs.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Cold out there.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. Listening to the proposed annexation of the Sudetenland Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal from the Very Stable Orange Moron. .

Thing about railways on PBS. Mildly inneresting. No bubble fronted dmus though.

Digging for Britain. Well it's on.

Shooter S3 E1, E2, E3. Another late night with the .338. . Curiously my Anschutz 250 is exactly the same weight as one version of that. . In other words, it's bloody heavy.

[WTFH]

Morning all overnight rain turned to sleet and then froze, which made parts of this morning's walk tricky. thawing now.

[ladymuck]

Dry laundry put away. Wet laundry draped about.

The snow has gone and the sun has come out.

[NickFitz]

Duck with pancakes and plum sauce for lunch

A "team retrospective" meeting that should have been happening right now has been cancelled, for which much thanks

[NickFitz]

Cottons & socks in the TD which is generating the usual selection of random numbers: how it can go from 8 minutes left to 37 remains a mystery wrapped in an Enigma. Maybe it's coz it's German.

Mine does that, but also gets to displaying 15 minutes and stays there for a couple of hours or more

[NickFitz]

Another day done. Halfway through the week now! Which isn't as good as all the way through, of course, but I'll take it

In email today, the half-yearly service charge invoice for the flat. It's only gone up by about £7 this year, which may mollify those who were whining about last year's rather large increase. That happened because they'd worked out the budget for stuff that will need doing over the next twenty or thirty years and need to make sure the reserves are topped up for when various rather hefty bills (new lift, etc.) come due, but a few people hadn't bothered reading the email and attached documents that explained all this in great detail and got quite agitated about it

[NickFitz]

Tea has been this moderately spicy Turkish chicken and potato dish. I didn't bother with the green thing, not having the ingredients, and my chicken was thighs (bone in, skin on) so I cooked everything together rather than adding the chicken later. It turned out really well; very tasty stuff

[ladymuck]

Lunch was a sausage in a roll (one of those part baked one I keep in the freezer).

Dinner was soup.

I have to go into the office for the next three days which means (a) getting up early, (b) having to dress smartly, (c) most likely scraping ice off my car, (d) being grumpy when the people I'm there to meet cancel or ask to meet on Teams instead.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was the new 24 Hours in Police Custody about the escape of a bunch of people from Yarl's Wood IDC

I know the country around there fairly well as I used to walk and cycle around there in my youth, before such places were even thought of. It's very close to Twinwood Airfield, whence Glen Miller departed on his last flight. A chap I was at school with is one of the biggest landowners around there; I wouldn't be surprised if the IDC is built on land leased or bought from him.

And in February 1933 we're up to the twelfth, with Hindenburg still waving through decrees

Goodnight all