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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull. Wet. Raining. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 5) with a high of 9 expected. More rain forecast. Barometer down to 998 mBar.

Sunrise 07:38; Sunset 16:53 GMT

In clientCo office this morning for a meeting then leaving at lunchtime to let a plumber in.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start again, though no rain this time. Slight breeze though, so the current 6°C “feels like” 2°, and presumably much the same ting will happen to the day’s high of 7°. The barometers are much of a muchness at 987/995mB

I see I forgot to sign off last night, which probably explains why I had such an unsettled night. Anyway, the days’s and evening's viewing was some wildlife stuff plus a bit of the C5 surgeons thing

And in Berlin, the Russians have launched their attack, though Zhukov has struggled because a hill was steeper than he expected. This was partly the fault of Stalin though, who’d kept him so busy in Moscow that he hadn’t had a chance to visit the location in question when drawing up his plans, as he normally would have done

Anyway, this means it’s possible the Soviet forces to the south of the city might make it first - though, unbeknownst to them, Stalin has specifically directed them on a course which will take them straight to the Nazi’s main nuclear weapons research centre in the southeast of the city, where he’s hoping they’ll be able to grab a load of uranium oxide before the Americans get a sniff of it

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's been dull, damp and wet today, both at home and in Sussex. The high was 9 degrees. Barometer is at 999 mBar.

Sunrise 07:40; Sunset 16:51 GMT

The drive twixt and tween home and Mum's was uneventful. On getting home, I got a reasonable parking space which will be lost when I go to the office tomorrow.

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Turkish place, because I couldn’t be bothered cooking and I had an £8 voucher I had to use there some time this week

The kitchen isn’t being completely neglected though: a wholemeal loaf is in the process of becoming in the breadmaker

[NickFitz]

Currywurst for lunch

To go along with this, a bit of Ice Road Truckers

[WTFH]

Dinner is prepped, a variation on Ottolenghi chicken with preserved lemons. Seed bread is prepped, to go in the oven at the same time as the chicken tagine.
Last night’s film entertainment was “Don’t Look Up” from five years ago. Funny, but also a lot of similarities to US politics right now.
On the joblist for this afternoon is to try to work out why the number keys have stopped working on my Zagg iPad keyboard. Very frustrating.

[NickFitz]

NF was celebrating the opening of his windows by opening the windows a lot, though the cold was a bit offputting.

A glorious time. After years of suffering, the relief was tremendous!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day again, and things seem a little damp after some rain last night. Mild enough though: 7°C (“feels like” 5°) and aiming for 8° this afternoon - though that will coincide with the chance of more rain, continuing into the night (50-70%). The barometers have moved cautiously upwards to 988/996mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp.

Grey.

Misty.

Sunless.

Drizzly.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto.

997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (up from 996 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of March 2020 Brillo and BR14 popped in and NF was celebrating the opening of his windows by opening the windows a lot, though the cold was a bit offputting.

Raining.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: book. End of book.

New book. Other book.

Sun's out.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Warm it wasn't.

Tea: baked spud & baked beans. Nice enough.

Entertainment: The invention of liquid paper back in the 1950s by the mum of one of The Monkees, Mike Nesmith.

Poetry <click> The book of the week thing about dry stone walls.

Secrets in the Ice. Crap Ses Gorge in the Swiss Alps: Roman dagger and slingshots found, dated about 15 BC from a previously unknown battle. Cache of food tins found on Axel Heiberg Island, Canada assumed to be from the Hans Kruger 1930 expedition (lost). Cancaicha rock shelter, Peruvian Andes, Pencuncho Basin, some 12k years ago, five skeletons and some obsidian tools. Mount Makalu: Yeti footprints.

Sergeant Cork. S3 E2 "The case of the 6 suspects".

Disaster thing on Blaze. Port Royal, Jamaica: destroyed by earthquake & tsunami at 11:43 in 1692, the 11:43 bit being confirmed by a gold watch they found in a concretion underwater. Well known for pirates. Maya village entombed by a volcano around 600 AD. Some theory or other about Thera/Santorina eruption and Minoan civilisation. North York Moors: prehistoric stone circles, alum mine, railway, WWII training trenches etc. exposed when the heather was burned off some years ago, plus some stones with funny writing.

Book.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Misty and drizzling, it appears that the heaviest rain has been while I was asleep. The morning walk will wait about an hour to see if this clears.

[NickFitz]

There was a reasonable amount of wildlife stuff on the box today, and later a further episode of Planet Earth III

Meanwhile in Berlin, the Russians are ready to begin their final assault, Eisenhower has paused his forces at the Elbe because he’s a mug, and the Fuhrer continues to issue orders that depend on units that basically don’t exist any longer

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

This evening HWMBO and I watched the new Naked Gun film. Very entertaining. We ended up also watching the entire credits because they snuck in silly things. I don't think I got them all.

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the South Indian place past the park. Very nice indeed, though it induced a great deal of gustatory rhinitis

[ladymuck]

The HHGTTG thing was a bit naff. Luckily it only lasted 90 minutes.

[WTFH]

Drove to Canada today and got home with still over 120 miles range, possibly helped by putting the car into self drive mode (except you can’t call it that, and you can’t let go of the steering wheel for more than 15 seconds, but there’s no need to steer, speed up or slow down, the car does it all.