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[NickFitz]

Walked round to the chemist's to get the monthly prescription. They actually had it ready, which was quite impressive given that they'd apparently failed to order it this month so I had to do it myself

Coming back, I decided to walk along the shopping road to the junction with our road by the park, rather than back the way I'd come through terraced streets. The distance is the same, but I thought it would make a change. This meant I encountered in rapid succession the delicious aromas coming from the tapas bar, the Indian restaurant, and the Korean takeaway, so I'll do that again

[NickFitz]

The new blinds for the balcony door and the small side window in the living room arrived unexpectedly this morning. No email from Dunelm to say they were coming, no "We've got a parcel for you" text from DHL. But they're here, so I suppose I'll have to get my act together and install them over the weekend

And this morning, I found time to strip the bed and leave it to air, so I'd better make that soon to avoid an unpleasant surprise tonight

[NickFitz]

Tea has been oniony chicken casserole with chips and peas

This was accompanied by an episode of the motorway-averse cops thing

And the bed has been remade, so disaster has been averted!

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Substance (2024) which is amazing, albeit very much in a "What the HELL did I just watch?!?!?!" kind of way. Highly recommended, if you think you can handle it

And then the final episode of The Plot Against America in which it seems that electing fascists to run a country might be a bad idea. You could always skip the series and just watch the news starting on Monday, I suppose

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
Bust day ahead of dog walking, laundry and gardening. Should probably do a bit of tidying around the house.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but dry. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Chance of rain this afternoon. Barometer down to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 08:09; Sunset 18:28

HWMBO and I are up early for our tour of the eastern side of the island.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day, even a little misty as one looks into the distance. No rain or other precipitation, so there's that. Not very warm at 2°C with an expected high of 3°, though not for long. The barometers are down a bit at 1018/1026mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning Afternoon.

Saturday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 11 deg, 11.5 deg in the kitchen. 10 deg in the leanto, 7.6 deg in the saltinghouse.

1025 mBar, 30.268 in Hg, 768.8 Torr, 14.866 psi, (down from 1029 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 21st of December 2019 TheRealNF was up & about & posting at 12:57 despite only going to bed at 06:00, whereas I was rained on during the trip down to the library, BR14 was dismantling & cleaning the vac in a search for brownie points, whereas LM was off out shopping with HWMBO after a nice date night.

Shopping trip to Aldi & Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Walk (slightly abbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Freecell score: 60%, running average: 81%.

Last 15 minutes of "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969)" with that Paul Newman chap and that other blonde guy.

Tea: Brains faggots with peas & such. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. Political Thinking <click> The Shipping Forecast.

Purely by chance: "Comfortably Numb" live at Pompeii followed by the "DSOTM" documentary with Rog carefully muted everytime he opens his fecking mouth. Ditto the thing about "WYWH" which has even more of him, made up for by the presence of Veneta Fields, who always makes me laugh with her comments about the ooos.

Other other book. Other book.

[WTFH]

Dog walked x2
One load of washing done and dry.
Smallest eating apple tree has had its whips removed and a bit of a trim, it’s looking better. Second eater is about half done, but the ladder was sinking into the ground a bit much, then I switched to having boards under it. As a reward to myself for doing the small stuff, I got a chainsaw out for the big bramley tree. Only used it at the top of the long ladder to remove a couple of branches that were getting a bit close to the power lines.
As is only appropriate with working on apple trees, I’m rewarding myself with some of my cider.

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought unto me from the south Indian restaurant along the main road, past the park. Very nice; their Chicken 65 starter in particular is absolutely delicious

There's been the usual batch of Monkey Life followed by various other wildlife things on the telly today, but by the time the food arrived they were on to the shark thing again. I've seen that at least twice before so to accompany my fine dining, I watched the first episode of The Secret Lives of Animals on Apple TV, made for them by the BBC Natural History Unit. It tends to anthropomorphise a lot, and nothing dies or gets killed so maybe it's aimed at a younger audience. Still good stuff though, and it looks amazing in 4K