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[NickFitz]

That really is no age <- manly...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

I didn’t get around to having any lunch as I wasn’t feeling particularly hungry, so I ended up just having a bag of salt & vinegar crisps in the afternoon

It’s started raining here. Shouldn’t last though,...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day with a bit of a breeze, though the rain that passed by earlier seems to have been brief, and no more is expected other than a possible (50%) visitation this evening. Not too chilly at 6°C (which “feels like” 0°) with an expected high of 8°, while...

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In Berlin, the Red Army has made its way to the Oder in about three weeks and established bridgeheads there. But then they had to get rid of the Germans kettled in East Prussia, which they did with great efficiency and exceptional brutality. Now they can turn their attention westwards again, and we...

[NickFitz]

Tea: pork cutlet with chips and beans

This was accompanied by the remainder of the Inside the Factory Christmas special, meaning I can now move on to their less seasonal fare

And I’ve put the mundane laundry on. Doing this on Thursday evening seems to be...

[NickFitz]

I noticed while doing my timesheet this afternoon that my extension to early August appears to have been sorted out, so: boomed!

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

I managed some really productive stuff today in the interstices between meetings and things

Just popped round to the shops once I’d finished and I’m starting to find those “feels like” temperatures a bit more convincing. It didn’t...

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Lunch has been a bit of leftover oniony chicken casserole as it wouldn’t split into whole figures as portions for freezing, due to an odd number of chicken thighs

I managed to avoid being landed with too much tech debt stuff

There’s a long and dull "all...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Thursday!

It’s a bit misty this morning, presaging a cloudy day. The relatively mild 4°C “feels like” -1°, even though there isn’t much breeze; the day’s high will be 5° but only for a brief spell this afternoon. The barometers...

[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 ...