Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCXXXVIII

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s only viewing was the remainder of last night’s Police Interceptors

I must remember to watch E2 of that thing about the Swedish women who went berserk on the motorway.

In Stalingrad, mayhem continues - but winter has started, and the Germans have launched...

[NickFitz]

A bit of roast gammon out of the freezer with chips, fried egg, and beans for tea

It continued gloomy until nightfall here, but I think the rain’s finally petered out

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the leftover belly pork from the other night, in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

Still grey and, I think, occasionally drizzly here

It’s a day of several meetings today, being the end of one sprint and start of another

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day out there, and damp again after last night’s rain. It’s 4°C which “feels like” -2°, so maybe still a bit breezy too, with an expected high of 9°, and the rain’s expected to resume shortly and continue resuming for much of the day (95% tending...

[NickFitz]

Bad times in Stalingrad for both sides, though I reckon the Germans will have a harder time of it when winter comes

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has, eventually, been ribs and chips, made with my special mango BBQ sauce

Ribs take ages to cook, and this wasn’t helped by the fact I was busy working on something this afternoon which made me forget to pop them in the oven around 3pm

I chucked some...

[NickFitz]

I had to pop round to the chemist’s for the usual monthly prescription, and to my surprise it felt very slightly chilly but not the bitter cold I was expecting! Helps that the wind seems to have dropped a fair bit

It was the perfect excuse to continue popping a little further to the...

[NickFitz]

Bit of pork pie for lunch

It’s turned sunny out now, but the somewhat Simpsonesque clouds are still whizzing by at a rate of knots

As far as I know, our garden waste gets taken away by the gardener(s)

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day again, and windy too boot. There are a couple of tiny gaps letting light in, very near the horizon to the west, and the bits of cloud being blown past them have the raggedy look that comes from stormy, or at least breezy, weather. It’s not expected to...

[NickFitz]

More reading of Stalingrad tonight; the Germans have nearly made it there. Not many will come back

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

This was accompanied by The Crash Detectives, in which nobody was killed this time - some life-changing injuries though. With various other serious offences also on the charge sheet, the arrogant young scrote responsible got nearly twenty...

[NickFitz]

Lunch: some leftover Thai bits from the other night

A bit garlicky for lunchtime TBH

[NickFitz]

Links are up

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Gloomy sort of weather out there, but it's always sunny on the Internet

• Double Take - ”Bigfoot isn't real, but black bears are—that’s the subtext of a recent study by Dr. Floe Foxon mapping bear populations relative to cryptid sightings. That study, published in 2024, sparked my interest

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey day out and felt very damp; I don’t know if there was more rain overnight, but at least there isn’t supposed to be any today. No sunny spells either, though. It’s mild enough for January at 6°C with a stretch goal of 9°, and the barometers are...

[NickFitz]

For tonight’s reading, I embarked upon Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. It’s reputed to be the best book on the subject, and there’s a lot of it. He explains in the preface that he got lucky: he went to research the subject in Russia's MoD archives just after Yeltsin had ordered them to open up even...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade pork chow mein

This is usually more of a midweek thing, as it’s fairly quick and easy to make (not counting putting the pork in the oven, covered, for a couple of hours on very low heat). But Sainsbury’s only had belly pork slices with today’s date, so...

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a bit of pork pie

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey and rainy day out there today, though the rain seems to have eased off for now. There’ll be a bit more later though. The temperature now is 6°C (”feels like” 2°) and this will soar to 7° by lunchtime. The barometers are up to 1006/1014mB ...

[NickFitz]

Today’s wildlife offering had crept back up to four hours, and was further augmented with Planet Earth III

Tonight, I started reading The Time of the Crack (title shortened to just The Crack after its initial publication in 1973) by Emma Tennant. This is a post-apocalyptic thing where...