Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCXXXIX

[NickFitz]

Tonight I started reading Berlin: The Downfall 1945 in which The Red Army has launched its attack across the Vistula and, within days, has taken back much of Poland and also cut East Prussia off from the Reich. There’ll be no stopping them now!

Tomorrow’s the day we’re supposed...

[NickFitz]

Tea was some leftover thing that’s been in the freezer for a while. I couldn’t remember what it was! I’ve occasionally thought about having it, then found something else instead with a known identity

But I decided to defrost it and see what turned up, and it revealed itself to...

[NickFitz]

A reasonably productive afternoon was had

There was also an unexpected surprise in the form of nearly five grand arriving in my bank account. This comes down an inheritance chain: it was from a sum that was left by my great uncle to my Mum and Dad, then devolved solely to my Dad...

[NickFitz]

Lunch: sausage and bacon bap (white) again, thereby finishing off the outstanding sausages and bacon

Just had somebody ring the bell who explained that they’re doing a drone survey of the roof of the building. Not sure why they can’t just walk up there - there’s a little spiral...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy with gaps out, and tending towards patchy cloud with sunny spells or even sunny with cloudy spells during the morning. Cloudier this afternoon though. It’s 2°C and it seems it doesn’t “feel like” anything else, and it’s expected to reach 7° by...

[NickFitz]

In Stalingrad, Germans continued to die in huge numbers after the surrender, whether from starvation, disease, or at the hands of the Russians. Some were shot after “scooping handfuls of lice off their bodies to throw at their captors”

The senior officers were looked after a...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs and chips

This was accompanied by the rest of yesterday’s Police Interceptors

I see 5 have got a new series following RTC scene investigators, which is handy because I’ve watched all the BBC Wales ones

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a sausage and bacon bap (white)

Still feeling rather out of sorts, but it doesn’t seem to be getting worse

Having considered my position, I’ve determined that I almost certainly don’t need to go shopping this week. It’s not often I plan...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a cloudy, windy, rainy morning out there; 5°C “feels like” -7° and with the rain set to continue till lunchtime and the wind carrying on after that, I doubt the 8° we’re promised towards sunset will feel much better. The barometers are also taking...

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was (part of) Police Interceptors

And in Stalingrad, the Germans have finally surrendered. Hitler’s last-minute promotion of Paulus to Field Marshal, on the basis that no German Field Marshal had ever surrendered so he’d kill himself instead, didn’t work...

[NickFitz]

Mine doesn’t seem to be getting much worse, so I’m hoping it’ll be a mild one ...

[NickFitz]

Tea: oniony chicken casserole. Haven't had that in a while

It almost ended up not being very oniony, as I forgot to chop up and fry an onion before browning the chicken. Luckily I was using the very big frying pan, so I was able to sort that out while the chicken was doing and get...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a cold roast chicken leg with a bag of plain crisps

I’m feeling a bit out of sorts today. The kind of feeling where one might be coming down with a cold (or worse) or it might just go away after a day or two

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

One of those weeks where I have to look up the Roman numerals to make sure it isn't something weird like "IL" at the end

• Plume: A tale of murder and martyrdom in the Everglades - The story of the dark fate of a pioneer in nature conservation: ”July 8, 1905. A blood-soaked, small wooden

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey day again, with a slight breeze that seems a bit chilly. It’s only 2°C (“feels like” 1° apparently) and won’t soar any higher than 4° - though once it has, it’ll stay there right through into the early hours of tomorrow morning, when it'll...

[NickFitz]

In Stalingrad, winter continues. But things might warm up a little for the Germans when Russia starts its final attack on January 10th

Monday again tomorrow. Oh well, only ten weeks till Easter

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: a fry-up

This was accompanied, as is traditional, by an episode of Time Team

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a grey day and supposedly breezy but, once again, the trees suggest it isn’t really. The current and highest-for-the-day temperature of 6°C “feels like” -1° according to this theory, but I don’t expect it does. The barometers are trivially up at...

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Bad Boys (1995) which is OK but has that “Nobody in that position would do that” thing going on a LOT. I just realised that in many ways it’s borrowing from Lethal Weapon, so maybe that explains it. Anyway, it’s OK, but if you’re looking for social realism,...