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[NickFitz]

Today, I have progressed from feeling a bit below par to being out of sorts, and then to under the weather

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^

You've witched yourself. .

[NickFitz]

Tea has been minced lamb, fried up with certain spices and some Turkish red pepper paste, accompanied by a tomato sauce (I even used real, fresh, cherry tomatoes!) also involving spices and red pepper paste (including a bit of the chilli one this time to add a bit of a kick), all with chips. Very nice it was

And for the record, the recipe includes chips - that wasn't just me having chips with everything, as is so often the case

[NickFitz]

^^^



You've witched yourself. .

Straight Outta Wuhan

[NickFitz]

This evening's viewing was the RAF thing, which included the sad business of the Squadron Leader who died when his Spitfire from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight crashed, just a few days after they'd been filming him training Tornado pilots

And later, a bit more of Caledonian Road

Early night now, wondering if I'll feel better or worse in the morning

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

This evening's viewings comprised catching up on last week's Great British Menu and Surgeons, the one before the most recent.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and rainy morning out there. Fairly mild still, at 8°C aiming for 14°; the barometers are up a little at 1009/1017mB

Yesterday's generalised malaise has resolved itself overnight into a cold: rather sore throat, bunged up nose, and the generalised malaise rumbling along beneath it all like an idling diesel engine. Covid test negative

Oh well, if I make it to lunchtime I can book it as a full day on the timesheet

[WTFH]

Morning all
A few light, whispy clouds, but otherwise CBS, a cool 5C earlier, but pleasant enough for walking. This gastric flu thing is not very nice, but the omeprazole seems to be helping a little. I just feel like I have a 2 day hangover while someone is stabbing the back of my throat with needles.

Load of washing on, hope to get it out and dry before The Wife gets back from work tonight.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Chilly in here at 14.3 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12.5 in the leanto.

1019 mBar, 30.09 in Hg, 764.3 Torr, 14.779 psi, (up from 1018 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of January 2020 Brillo popped in, BR14 popped in somewhat displeased with his partner's brother, the Ghost of Tabera popped in, whereas I was watching "The Philadelphia Experiment" and "The Final Countdown (1980)", this latter being a time travel tale taking the USS Nimitz back to December 6th 1941.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about antiques & vintage <click>

This afternoon's endeavours will include extracting the workbench out of next door's shed, I've nowhere to put it right now but I'm not leaving it for that idle pair.

Dunno how I'll extract the big cabinet, but I'll definitely Find A Way. . Even if it's in bits & has to be reassembled.

Workbench extracted. Which revealed that nothing very much was holding up the windows, so much of the afternoon was spent "fixing" that with bits of ancient scrap timber and lots of green decking screws. It'll last long enough for it not to be My Problem.

The sucker thing I bought from Lidl(tm) on the off chance it might come in handy, like, did, indeed, come in handy, like, allowing me to lift the panes of glass.

The door post isn't fixed to the floor in any way, the bottom having rotted away. I may use a bit of angle iron and a rawl bolt to cure that if I'm feeling benign.

Now having a cup of Tesco coffee. Mediocre but consistent.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock (or cod) etc.

Entertainment: PM. The 18 o'clock news.

Thing on PBS about Spy Ops: Wrath of God Part II: the blowback from the Munich Olympics massacre.

[WTFH]

Has anyone else tried the Scrambled Maps Challenge yet? You have to complete three quickly, and then you get ranked. It's a bit of fun.