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[WTFH]

Morning all
Windy out. One of our bins had blown over, although that's not the biggest disaster... last night I put our garden waste out. It's collected every other Tuesday but they take 4 weeks off over Christmas. An embarrassing disaster on my part - the collecting is NEXT Tuesday. Not sure I can show my face in public for a few days.

[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 rain until tonight, but the wind is supposed to be getting stronger shortly, and it’s already strong enough that the temperature of 7°C “feels like” 0°; presumably the high of 8° won’t feel much better. The barometers are only down a little, at 997/1005mB

[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 years, which was nice

[ladymuck]

The presentation took a while, as I needed to hunt down some reference information, but got done. Then I did some other document updates and called it a day around 4pm.

Now watching yesterday's Masters Snooker final while HWMBO makes my dinner.

[sadkingbilly]

Lunch: some leftover Thai bits from the other night

A bit garlicky for lunchtime TBH

TNST as too garlicky

[NickFitz]

Lunch: some leftover Thai bits from the other night

A bit garlicky for lunchtime TBH

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[sadkingbilly]

Yesterday evening, HWMBO and I watched Mickey 17. Not bad. Some funny bits.

SPOOKY! - i just read the book this week.
disappointing, as usual.
I find it hard to find NEW concepts in scifi, everybody just rehashes previous work it seems.
Maybe reading it(scifi) almost exclusively since 1962 ish has jaded me somewhat.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and damp. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Dampness set to continue. Barometer down a smidge to 1015 mBar.

Sunrise 07:56; Sunset 16:28 GMT

No meetings today. I have to write a presentation and that's about the sum of today's required efforts.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Foggy.

Hints of sun.

Damp.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 11 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto.

1009 mBar, 29.796 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.63 psi, (down from 1010 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of March 2020 quackhandle, LM, NF, covbob and I popped in. covbob had another 3 calls from pimps. The soreen was all gone. quackhandle was working solely to buy squirrel proof birdfeeders.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the brilliant sunshine. Blue skies. Glorious day.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about standing charges, then house insulation con jobs <click>.

Foyle's War S3 E2 "Enemy Fire": the requisitioned great house turned into a burns hospital one.

Dear me, some of the special effects are gruesome.

Book. End of book.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. Much talk of the Orange Mother****ing Moron.

Oak Island nutjobbery. Watch it on Sunday instead.

NCIS S22 E1. "Empty Nest". Or how to get the team back together again. . Oh, it's a full season unlike last season which was 10 eps.

Secrets in the Ice. Viking ship burial Tonsberg, Norway. Two female skeletons. Getting a lot of deja vu all over again with this. Chinese chap murdered & thrown down the shaft dug by earlier grave robbers. Didn't see much in the way of ice. Wrangel island, Siberia: the last herd of woolly mammoths: extinct 4000 years ago, about 6000 years later than the others on the mainland. Weather station Kurt, Labrador Peninsular, Canada. Deja Vu confirmed.

Forbidden History. The Devil's Bible. <click> More bollox.

If I'm not certifiably insane after 3 hours of that it'll be some sort of miracle. .

[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 down again at 1001/1019mB

I don’t think I got enough quality sleep last night as I discovered, on emerging from the shower, that I’d forgotten to set the coffee brewing. Not the best way to start the week

[WTFH]

Morning all
Misty out. 6C, 99% humidity

[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 to foreigners, and he was able to access all kinds of material never seen by historians before. A few years later, Putin was in charge, and the archives had been closed again and have been ever since

Monday again tomorrow. Oh well, soon be Thursday

Goodnight all

[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 I decided to use them up rather than trying to cram them into the freezer

And to accompany this, a bit of Surgeons: A Matter of Life and Death on C5, courtesy of ladymuck