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[ladymuck]

Not a very nice drive down but the roads were quiet so the flow was good. Some nasty patches of flooding here and there on the A24.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Snowless.

Very wet.

Unpleasant.

Cold in here at 10.1 deg, 9 deg in the kitchen, 7 deg in the leanto.

984 mBar, 29.06 in Hg, 738.1 Torr, 14.27171 psi, (down from 992 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of December 2019 the walk up the hill was cold, some nuthatches were twittering, optimists were fishing in the res, LM was off up north again, NF was receiving & redirecting xmas cards for people living in a road 2 miles away, including one from Australia.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: "Abilene Town (1946)" with that Randolph Scott: haven't seen this one before.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Raining, and has been for quite some time. Noisy precipitation overnight, maybe sleet or possibly hail? I didn't get up to look. Currently 7 degrees with it warming up to 13 by late afternoon/early evening. Rain set to continue all day. Barometer down to 987 mBar.

Sunrise 08:06; Sunset 16:08

Off to see Mum today. Down there it's 12 degrees and raining. Sunrise 08:03, sunset 16:12. What a difference 60 miles makes.

[WTFH]

Cold yesterday, sleet overnight, turned to rain at some point. Now trying to decide if I take the dog for one big walk and get absolutely soaked, or two normal length ones and get absolutely soaked twice.

[xoggoth]

Lot of snow on ground when I went to bed last night. Nextdoor thing said crashes and holdups at road through village. All gone today, wet and grey again! Walky will be a bit wet today.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

The snow must have carried on for a bit last night as there's a decent sprinkling. Not a total covering though, with the drive already clear, the tufty bits of the lawn poking through, and various cars showing some signs of thawing out. It'll all be gone by tonight, as it's already 1°C ("feels like" -2°) and will keep getting warmer even after dark, reaching 11° by midnight - possibly accompanied by rain too. The barometers are way down at 975/983mB

[NickFitz]

After the usual Monkey Life there was the usual batch of wildlife repeats; they're getting back into the shark thing, among others

No later telly, but I did a bit of mucking around with SpriteKit and GameplayKit stuff. It isn't working, probably because of a trivial error on my part, but I couldn't be bothered to get any further into it today

Instead, I started reading February 1933: The Winter of Literature by Uwe Wittstock. It's about the four weeks and two days from Hitler being appointed as chancellor to the promulgation of the emergency decree that criminalised those the Nazis regarded as enemies, whereupon the process of arresting people and throwing them in concentration camps could begin. It's examined primarily in the context of writers and artists, those who fled in time and those who stayed until it was too late, because they are the people whose letters, journals, and memoirs have been preserved in archives and so on.

Snow has come, but not in a particularly cataclysmic way; a pretty light sprinkling so far

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

No sign of any snow here.

Flat was still too chilly so I thought I'd check the boiler and I saw the pressure on zero. Re-pressurised the system and it seems to be warming up now.

I wish there was a way for the boiler to issue an alert when the pressure is too low.

[ladymuck]

Oh, and I've won £50 on the Premium Bonds!

[NickFitz]

Managed to get through to the Chinese takeaway on the third try, and they've only got a one hour backlog! I was expecting to be told to get there at quarter to eight but no, seven it is

Very nice it was too

The snow doesn't seem to have arrived here yet, but the radar suggests it's on its way

[NickFitz]

Oh, and I've won £50 on the Premium Bonds!

[NickFitz]

Managed to get through to the Chinese takeaway on the third try, and they've only got a one hour backlog! I was expecting to be told to get there at quarter to eight but no, seven it is

[NickFitz]

The lift's broken again

[NickFitz]

brand new = bad for environment.
best off with a re CYCLEd one IMMHO.
anyway, you can't get an iBike yet, can you? to match your tv/spy speakers/phone/underwear/bath salts/etc.

Bad for the environment, but good for a small local business!

And yes, until the Apple iBike arrives, I'll have to make do with a normal one

[NickFitz]

The bike shop has been visited, where they did a good job of exploring my assorted requirements and showing me a bunch of suitable bikes. We'd finally settled on one particular model and they fitted pedals and lent me a helmet so I could take it for a test ride… whereupon I was shocked to discover that although you never forget how to ride a bike, you can still be pretty damn out of practice after twenty-five years or so

At the first corner I veered into a quiet side road that goes nowhere in particular, and wobbled along for a fairly short distance before turning back. I'll really need to spend some time getting back into practice

But once I settled in and got pedalling properly, I realised that this particular bike was just a bit too small, and not in a way that moving the saddle up would fix.

It had been a tossup between this size and one size up, but it turned out all the ones they had in stock of the next size were missing something else I wanted, so they've had to order one specially

And as bike manufacturers don't seem to like to be rushed, it should be here in early February, or maybe towards the end of January if I'm lucky!

At least I had a good walk there and back