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[NickFitz]

Duck with pancakes and plum sauce for lunch

A "team retrospective" meeting that should have been happening right now has been cancelled, for which much thanks

[ladymuck]

Dry laundry put away. Wet laundry draped about.

The snow has gone and the sun has come out.

[WTFH]

Morning all overnight rain turned to sleet and then froze, which made parts of this morning's walk tricky. thawing now.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

No current precipitation.

Damp.

Not frosty.

Grey.

Cold in here at 10.8 deg, 8 deg in the kitchen and leanto, 4 deg in the saltinghouse.

997.5 mBar, 29.456 in Hg, 748.2 Torr, 14.4675 psi, (up from 994 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of December 2019 NF had his first mince pie of the season, whereas BR14 had had a couple of dozen, and LM had had a few, I hadn't had any, and was watching Angel S5 but had to forego E8 due to needing to get up at stupid o'clock to ferry someone to Bridgend Hospital since next door only has one driver. Not amused.

Shirts in the WM & as soon as they came out it started to rain: hence they are in the TD.

Cottons in the WM.

Shopping trip to Morrisons & The Works done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away plus the new calendar up on the wall.

Lunch: brunch.

Shirts out of the TD.

Smalls in the TD.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Snowing! Big fat lumps of fluff falling from the sky. Not settling at present. Currently 1 degree ('feels like' -1) with a high of 6 expected. The cloud is set to clear by early afternoon and some sunshine poke through. Barometer up to 997 mBar.

Sunrise 08:05; Sunset 16:10

I didn't do a jeans wash yesterday as there wasn't space to hang them out. The items laundered yesterday are pretty much dry now so that wash has now gone on. Putting away the clean stuff / draping about the wet stuff will be a good procrastination task for later this morning when I inevitably get bored.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

No snow or rain this morning, though there's some low clouds on the horizon in the southern region and rather higher ones in the northern. Currently -1°C and feeling like -6°, with an expected high of 4°. The barometers are back up to 984/992mB

The first of the bin lorries has just arrived and is tending to our bins. Nature is healing

[NickFitz]

No additional telly tonight, but a bit of mucking around with GameplayKit, which is being very annoying (presumably because I'm doing something wrong)

And I read up to Sunday 5 February in February 1933, during which few days various people have been killed with impunity by local Nazis, and Hindenburg has willingly signed a decree handing control of the Press and the power to suppress political meetings in the hands of Hitler and his thugs. Or putting it another way, I read what will be in the news from the USA in a few weeks

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: ribs and chips

Accompanied by the not-much-motorway police thing. They must be running low on wholly irrelevant dashcam clips for this series, as there were only two or three of them chucked in

[NickFitz]

One day done, three days to go

It wasn't too bad today, as it turned out. Most of the time was spent poking around at something with between two and three other people, working out why it wasn't working. We eventually fixed it with the help of a couple of other people. The general consensus among the team is that nobody can expect much of anybody so soon after Christmas and New Year, so if things take a while to sort out, it isn't really a problem

[ladymuck]

Bed linen put away and smalls laundered then draped about. Jumpers and other wearables are now in the WM. I may get my jeans done today too, or maybe tomorrow, I am undecided.

[ladymuck]

The clouds have indeed parted and allowed some sun to filter through.

Soup for lunch.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Scotch broth with a crust of wholemeal

It's the ideal thing for a wintry day, plus it helped to make enough room in the freezer for the remaining Matsudai ramen kits

It's not looking so wintry out there any more though, as the morning rain has washed away all traces of the snow

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Wet and windy. Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' -1) with a high of 6 expected. The cloud is set to clear up and the sun to make an appearance mid afternoon. Barometer down to 982 mBar.

Sunrise 08:06; Sunset 16:09

Only a week of work and then I'm off on holiday. I definitely think a mid-January break in the sun is the best way to avoid the post-Christmas slump.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Not currently precipitating.

Chilly in here at 11 deg, 9 deg in the kitchen, 8 deg in the leanto.

982.5 mBar, 29 in Hg, 736.9 Torr, 14.2499 psi, (up from 974 last night ), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of December 2019 covbob was in cold misty Manchester & looking for another contract, whereas NF was consuming spag bol to make room in the freezer for leftovers, and I was looking at flood maps before getting house insurance quotes.

Sun came out. Then it rained. A lot.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: thing on R4 about how to read newspaper articles.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine & occasional light drizzle.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc.

Entertainment: PM <click>.

Freecell score (W95): 91%, running average: 85%.

Oak Island bollox: S11 "well of secrets": the metal detecting moron finds a hook, identified as belonging to a block & tackle by that blacksmith chap. Some well or other is "900 years old". Tree ring dated to 1750 or so. And another well. No wood this week. So: this week we ain't found tulip yet again.

Secrets in the Ice: skulls found in Sweden in some sort of mesolythic site. Halifax Nova Scotia: anchor. Presumably from the 2.5kt WWI explosion. Little razorback Island, Antarctica. Anomalous freezing under ice floes: "brine-acles" caused by the salts freezing out of the ice and ending up in the sea. Massively more salty than the sea itself. Well there's a thing. Devon Island, Canada. Some ancient missing link fossil to seals found in a relic impact crater.