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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast and wet out. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Rain forecast off and on in varying levels of enthusiasm all day. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.

Tired today. I keep waking up in the 4am hour, overheating. Then I spend ages trying to get back to a comfortable sleeping temperature (too cold, too hot, too cold) and never properly get back to sleep before the alarm goes off.

[xoggoth]

Overcast out and quite a strong breeze

Ditto. Group walk later then book reading thing. Tired, not sure I can be bothered with either of em.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast out and quite a strong breeze.

As Nick has been waiting for his Harveys Bristol Cream, I've also been waiting for my coffee machine descaler.
The machine is currently telling me I have 14 coffees until it locks me out.
Royal Mail say the package is out for delivery today.
Based on a quick check, I believe it's going to be delivered by the postie. Up until last month that would have been Vicky, but since she quit, it's now one of 3 or 4 different people.
Let's hope they deliver.

[NickFitz]

Back in July 1916, George Sherston and his comrades have been involved in the first day of the Battle of the Somme, with one of his friends being killed by a sniper while grinning at him; and due to the strange way wars are operated, his company has then ended up being parked fifteen miles behind the line for several weeks with very little to do, before being sent back to roughly the same place

It's become very windy out and there was a brief spell of rain earlier. Yet overnight it'll keep getting warmer, and should be up to 12°C by sunrise

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb cutlets with chips and beans

Accompanied by a new Police Interceptors. It's still from Northants, after the strange reversion to Notts for a couple of episodes

[ladymuck]

Uneventful day at the coal face.

Christmas cards have been written and I'll post them tomorrow. I have a birthday card that needs to be written too.

I ought to pop to Sainsbury's and pick up some tonic (currently on offer) as HWMBO returns tomorrow.

[NickFitz]

Still no delivery…

The website still shows my parcel as "out for delivery" and no other contact (email, SMS) has been made. I finally decided they were unlikely to be here today and went to check out the "Collect from depot" option on the website. On that page - not on the order tracking page, but on the page you only go to once you're despairing of them - it showed that the delivery had been rescheduled to tomorrow

It's only across town so I'm going to get it myself, on the way to do the shopping I would have done today if they'd told me what was going on

[xoggoth]

Not been for me wonky today. I'll go round the village later to look at all the xmouse lights.

[NickFitz]

Homemade sausage rolls for lunch

Still no delivery…

[xoggoth]

I was renewing the sealant around the kitchen sink.

Ah! What fun he had back then!

Me just back from old arty farty thing. Gave me neighbour a lift again. Must remember to send her my invoice.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Damp.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Warmish side of chilly i here at 13.4 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 12 deg in the leanto.

1018.5 mBar, 30.07 in Hg, 763.9 Torr, 14.77 psi, (down from 1025 last night). 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 11th of December 2019, long long ago and far far away, NF had a polish at the dentists, whereas LM was trumping in the library, and DaveB stole Brillo's zenchury rather than BR14 doing it, and I was renewing the sealant around the kitchen sink.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: book of the week on R4 about some scumbag Septic dystopian photosearch thing.

Good news: 37 varieties of MK single & dual 13A sockets (made in China) recalled due to arc flash fire generating potential. Nice to know that outsourcing to China is so safe.

Gosh. the 1990 box lasted well: turned it on: no video: ?monitor? nope another monitor still nothing, plug monitor into different box: works ok. Seek another VESA bus VGA card: still no go, try different VESA slop: still nothing. Mother board is screwed VESA bus wise thought the rest of it works, as determined by plugging a mono card and mono monitor in, which showed the boot sequence etc. , never mind, worse things happen at sea & all that. There's an EGA monitor in the garage but I don't think I'll bother fetching it up.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough after labouring over this crap all afternoon.

Entertainment: PM <click>

UFO bollox on Blaze.

The Bad Skin Clinic. not on.

Shooter S2 E3, E4. Last week. Or this week by streaming.

Shooter S2 E5, E6, E7, E8.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Damp and cloudy. It was raining when I left home but it stopped halfway to ClientCo's office. Further rain due off and on all day. Currently 8 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Barometer down to 1025 mBar.

I really must phone the garage and get my car booked in for a service.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another grey but dry start, albeit with a bit of a dew. As so often nowadays, it's 7°C which "feels like" 3°, with an expected high of 10° later. And the barometers are down a bit to 1012/1020mB

I'm expecting a delivery from Harvey's Brewery today, coming via APC. Last update was that it was at the local depot and "out for delivery" around half eight this morning, but no "live delivery information" is available "right now". So I've no idea if that just means it's been put in the back of a van and further info will be available when it actually leaves the depot, or if they just don't give any more details and I simply have to wait until they show up

[WTFH]

Morning all
Darkest morning walk for a long time, the clouds were heavy, preventing even the hint of morning twilight.

[NickFitz]

I came to the end of Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man in which he's having an unexpectedly dull time at the Front, and started on Memoirs of an Infantry Officer which picks up from the point where that ends

I may go shopping tomorrow. Then again, I may not. Tuesdays are usually a fairly quiet day at the shops, but I don't suppose any days are really quiet this close to Christmas

Goodnight all