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[ladymuck]

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Morning all

Dull. Damp. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) and that's the high for the day. Rain expected later. Barometer down to 995 mBar.

Sunrise 08:29; Sunset 15:46 GMT

The presentation for this afternoon is done. I suddenly seem to have a lot of meetings this afternoon when I initially had a fairly clear day.

[WTFH]

New car ordered, hoping for delivery before Christmas.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been delayed. We weren’t too busy anyway, and the other dev needed to deal with some stuff relating to the builders that are currently installing a heat pump in her house - they’ve not had any heating through all the cold weather while they waited for this. So I took the opportunity to nip along to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s, and now the two errands I needed to run this weekend (shopping and haircut) are both sorted!

I got some cold cocktail sausages, which I can snack on whilst working, so I’d better get back to it

It’s pouring with rain here now

[sadkingbilly]

BINOCULAR VISION!!!



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[WTFH]

BINOCULAR VISION!!!

[Pondlife]

Afternoon all,

Wind 6 kt from the West/Northwest
Temperature 7°C
Humidity 81%
Pressure 998 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more

Christmas lights are up and only 11 more billable days of '25

[NickFitz]

Another day done, another week done, and only four more working days this year!

[NickFitz]

BINOCULAR VISION!!!

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a rack of ribs with smoky BBQ sauce and chips

And while that was cooking, I made the meaty part of a shepherd’s pie. This is now cooling down in the dish, and will spend the night in the fridge so the flavours of the various herbs and spices I chucked in will have a chance to develop and mingle

[NickFitz]

This evening’s telly was a new episode of Police Interceptors

Later, I finished The Forgotten Soldier, in which his retreat from the Red Army continued northwards from Poland via a siege on the Baltic coast and eventual escape by sea - several times, managing to get from one port to another on overloaded small vessels. His military service eventually came to an end in the hands of British and American troops in Schleswig-Holstein. Weirdly, he’d been recruited by the Wehrmacht on the grounds of having a German mother (his father being French), but the Allies determined that they could only hold him as a PoW if he’d had a German father, and as far as they were concerned he was a French civilian. So they let him go and sent him home to France

I’m inordinately pleased that I woke up early enough to get the haircut first thing and was able to do the shopping at lunchtime, as it means I have no errands left to run tomorrow!

Goodnight all