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[NickFitz]

Met up with 3 other old farts this morning to discuss arrangements for the new creative writing group. Starts 9th Jan. Need summit to force me to start writing bollox again. PM was usual Friday Loony Lady 1 walk.

I like the idea of a bunch of genteel old farts meeting up for their writing group and being utterly gobsmacked by the stuff you write

[xoggoth]

Met up with 3 other old farts this morning to discuss arrangements for the new creative writing group. Starts 9th Jan. Need summit to force me to start writing bollox again. PM was usual Friday Loony Lady 1 walk.

[NickFitz]

Tea: oniony chicken casserole, being a fresh batch and thus having the sliced potato topping, browned by the heat of the Remoska

this was accompanied by an episode of Trucking Hell as I continue my attempt to get through this series before the next one starts

[ladymuck]

Morning all
I see from the calendar that it is Friday.

For those of you who submit timesheets and have not done it yet for this week (I did mine on Wednesday), may you enjoy the final billable day of this week.

More importantly it's invoicing day.

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Got home from Mum's yesterday. Had to leave her without a working shower as the company doing the reconfiguration noticed the pump was faulty and said they could ignore it but then they wouldn't guarantee it. So an extra £90 and more time was needed to deal with that. I don't think it happened today so it'll either be tomorrow or Monday, I'd hope.

Today I went to clientCo's office for a workshop. Then to Kall Kwik to pick up some A1 print outs for another workshop next week.

HWMBO arrives tomorrow for a brief visit before he goes off to brainwash more people next week.

[NickFitz]

A few more boxes have been transferred to the storage unit, and I think that's everything gone there that needs to go!

There's still a bit of space if I decide any other stuff should shift out of the way for a while, but it's pretty full over there now

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

Heads up for Nectar cardholders: Sainsbury's are doing a half-price deal on priced-by-weight TTD beef roasting joints. Got myself a big bit of top rump

[NickFitz]

Not as Big Sainsbury's has been gone to!

It was quite busy, but not over-the-top busy the way Big has been the last couple of weeks. It occurred to me that being not as big, it doesn't stock so many of the seasonal fripperies upon which people are wont to spend their hard-earned at this time of year, so it might even be slightly better than usual if some of those local to it have made the extra trip around the ring road

Excitingly, I had a loaf of bread sliced by special request! Whether some of the in-store bakery loaves have been sliced is always unpredictable, and I suspect might vary depending on whether the people working there can be bothered. But a lady who was putting out loaves from one of those tall wire trolleys they have saw me rooting around at the back of the wholemeal loaves and, discovering that I was looking to see if there was a sliced one back there, immediately offered to slice one for me! Amazing stuff; it's as if the concept of Customer Service had suddenly become something real, rather than a made-up thing people complain about the lack of in badly-written American sitcoms

Anyway, I got most of the things I intended to get, and shall wait until after lunch before starting to move more stuff to the storage unit and tip

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry, apart from picking with what might just be a very light drizzle.

Black as ink the other side of the valley, sunny this side.

Blue sky in parts (it wasn't like that earlier).

Chilly in here at 12.9 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen and the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.56 Torr, 14.764 psi, (down from 1020 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Walk (unabbreviated) walked.

Meanwhile on the 5th of December 2019 I was still after the flu jab, though NF remarked that he'd felt a little unwell after one, but nothing to speak of (i.e. under 65 jab: no bits of shark), whereas WTFH said the yellow fever jab was one to fear, and LM was gratified to have cancelled the 09:00 next day. Yet more BTVS S7 and Angel S4 were watched, including the fairly tedious commentary on the Las Vegas Angel ep which nearly sent me to sleep.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: some bollox or other on R4: "Rare Earth": Boldly Going: this lot have definitely drunk The Ketamine Kid's Rocket Koolaid. It's Life, Jim, But Not As We Know It.

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 80%.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: Nazi Hunters: The Malmedy Massacre. The Nazi bastards didn't hang due to dear old Joe McCarthy sticking his oar in. However the Nazi commander, SS-Obersturmbannführer Joachim Peiper, was offed in France in the 1970s when "someone" outed him & his house was burned down.

Bits of Wrecks: Scapa Flow. HMS Vanguard (1909): blew up at anchor, presumably when the magazines exploded. 3 survivors.

Read book.

Read other book.

Looked at 3rd book & couldn't be arsed.

Looked at 4th book: ditto.

[WTFH]

Morning all
I see from the calendar that it is Friday.

For those of you who submit timesheets and have not done it yet for this week (I did mine on Wednesday), may you enjoy the final billable day of this week.

[NickFitz]

Just realised that I forgot to record yesterday that it was the second anniversary of buying the flat!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start now the sun's up, with some scattered bits of cloud hither and yon as decoration. It's 4°C but "feels like" -2°, and will be rising to 9° as it gets sunnier later; this will, it appears, "feel like" about 2° or 3°. The barometers are down a little (but not so as you'd notice) at 1013/1021°

Having considered my plans for the day, I have concluded that there's no need to go all the way to Big Sainsbury's, as Not as Big will do. This is in the opposite direction to the storage place, so the plan is to get the shopping done relatively early, when there's also a slight chance of avoiding the early Christmas shoppers who seem to be flocking to the big one by late morning these days. With the shopping done, I can then see what's worth putting into storage and maybe even sort out some stuff for the tip

[NickFitz]

Read some more of Shepperton Babylon, about Ealing's great run of films in the 1940s and into the 1950s

Early night now, so I can have a bit of a lie-in in the morning yet still be up early enough to Get Things Done

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea, rather delayed by fridge-related activities, has been ribs and chips

This was accompanied by a new 24 Hours in Police Custody about a very unpleasant stalking case

Worth it just for the bloke's reaction when he asked, in interview, "Where was that on my phone?" and they replied "In your deleted notes". It seems many people still don't realise that "Delete" just moves stuff to a holding area, and he clearly realised right at that moment just how utterly ****ed he was

[NickFitz]

The fridge-seeker arrived, so the fridge has set off on the journey to its new home

They were about fifteen minutes late, but I think he'd come from down Hinckley or Nuneaton way and there's no guarantees about travelling times on that route

He seemed like a nice enough chap; a bit on the aged and decrepit side, so probably about the same age as me. Anyway, he and his mate managed to lift the fridge into the back of their estate without any help