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[ladymuck]

The drive home earlier was fine. Light showers the entire way and the major areas of flooding had dissipated.

Took Mum to Specsavers to sort out a new pair of glasses. She picked out some really nice ones and, for £50 including lenses, they were a bargain.

We then went to the big Tesco to do a shop. My brother tries but he gets the wrong milk and no-one should have to suffer skimmed milk. My Mum needs all the calories she can get, considering how little she eats.

This evening I watched S2E1 of Lucy Worsley Investigates. Rehashing Jack the Ripper. Nothing new uncovered.

Sounds windy and rainy outside.

[NickFitz]

This morning saw the usual glut of Monkey Life, but there wasn't anything worth watching after that

This evening, I watched an old episode of 24 Hours in A&E though it wasn't that old

And at odd times through the day I've done a bit of tinkering with the SpriteKit stuff, though I've only just got it working. But I did a lot of tidying up of the code, so it wasn't really wasted time

This evening, I read the chapter on Monday 30 January in February 1933, that being the day when Hitler was appointed as Chancellor, and various smart people realised that life in Germany was likely to become very unpleasant sooner rather than later

It's chucking down with rain here now, which will apparently continue through the night, or at least from time to time. There's even a chance of a bit more snow first thing tomorrow, but even if it happens it'll revert to rain shortly after

Early night now for - woe, woe, and thrice woe! - I have to resume work in the morning

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been roast duck with chips and peas

It was actually a pre-cooked whole crispy duck that had to be reheated, and came with pancakes and plum sauce. But there's loads left, so I can have that as snacks over the next couple of days

[NickFitz]

Just updated MyFitnessPal on which I've been very remiss about logging my daily food intake since I finished work for Christmas. Luckily almost everything I've eaten has been recorded here

Quality Street don't count, of course

[NickFitz]

Twelfth Night, so I've taken down the Christmas tree

[xoggoth]

Roads really drenched round here. Won't be doing council toothpaste inspections for a few days, due to deep mud the footpath I need to do will be inaccessible. Was almost impossible to navigate before today's rain.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toasties

I think there's been a shower, which has helped thaw a lot of the snow. Still some patchy areas in the grass, and lines of it at the bottom of car windscreens

There were a young fox and one of the crows down on the lawn earlier. The fox tried casually heading towards the crow, whereupon the crow took off and landed again about four feet further away. Fox tried another casual amble in its direction, and it did the same. The fox gave up and wandered off at this point. Æsop would have made a whole thing about this

[sadkingbilly]

Kaminoyama, Japan in 32 moves! (6 x 6 map)

bored now.
does the world start up again tomorrow?
Why is religion allowed to close the feckin country down for two weeks every bloody year?

[sadkingbilly]

Morning.

Sunday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Snowless.

Very wet.

Unpleasant.

oh, dear, - sounds like Wales then

[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.

Oddly, the house being colder that the atmosphere all the windows are fogged up. On the outside.

Lunch: brunch.

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

Smoke & steel on U&Eden: Saltburn funicular railway. Septic wooden roller coaster ride. Mt Wilson observatory. Samson silver mine: invention of wire rope and man engine (lift). Ski chair lift.

HMS Warrior. USS Intrepid (aircraft carrier with unarmoured wooden deck). Prague waste water treatment system designed by William Heerlein Lindley: removed the "solids". Bazalgette's London sewer system: the loss of "The Princess Alice" in 1878 or how to drown in raw sewage. San Francisco Mint. Didn't burn down or collapse in 1906.

Marc Brunel's Thames tunnel. (It's the one with that spidery cornish beam engine and Bletchley Park).

Tea: beans on toast plus a couple of boiled eggs etc.

Entertainment: nothing I can recall.

Freecell.

Book.

Some bollox about Mediaeval Deaths on Blaze. Chap made a sword. Pretty meh all in all.

[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