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[NickFitz]

The new recliner has been deployed. It's very wide; the seating area has six inches or more of empty space each side of me if I sit in the middle! And the arms are nine inches wide, flat topped. All this makes it a bit of a reach to get my coffee off the side table

I assumed that this must be a known problem and searched on Amazon, and it turns out there is a vast selection of different forms of "arm trays" designed for this situation, incorporating everything from swivelling phone stands and dangling pockets to, in a few cases, drawers in which to store remote controls and the like. I've ordered a basic one which can be delivered tomorrow (most of them wouldn't come until Friday), but I shall have to study this matter more closely; having what is essentially a small chest of drawers at one's right hand seems like it may be one of those things you don't know you need until you try it

[NickFitz]

I thought I'd used all the chicken, tomato and lentil soup, but I found some more at the back of the freezer and decided to have that for lunch. However, once defrosted in the microwave something seemed a bit odd… turned out it was chicken madras, which I'd somehow mislabelled as soup

So lunch has been chicken madras, watered down a bit to make it soupier, with a crust of wholemeal

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

The new La-Z-Boy recliner has been delivered!

Interestingly (for certain values of interesting), it's three years and one day since the much cheaper recliner from Wayfair was delivered to the old place. That was dropped at the front door and had to be unpacked in the hall then brought upstairs by myself. IIRC it arrived at about seven in the morning too, so I had to get it done before other residents of the property wanted to do things like come out of their flats

Anyway, it hasn't aged well, with the release cable having had to be replaced not long after I moved here, and large and spreading cracks starting to appear in the pleather

The new one is, frankly, huge; I need to rearrange the living room a bit so I can get past it when it's pointed towards the telly, which it will be. For now it's towards the back of the room while I ensure the space is ready for it

At least the old one was delivered in two pieces, but the new one came assembled, and the delivery chaps made an effort at getting it in that way. I knew that was never going to work; I'd taken measurements. After a couple of minutes of shoving, they too accepted the inevitable. So then it also had to be unwrapped in the hall, and they had to work out how to detach the back, not helped by the fact that DFS have only just started selling La-Z-Boys so they don't have much experience with them. One of them had to go back to the van and fetch a long screwdriver with which they were finally ably to reach the catches holding the back on and take it off, and with that done it was a smooth enough process to get the separate bits in, then reassemble it

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning Afternoon all.

Monday.

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny if you use some imagination.

Calm. Windless (aside from me).

Chilly in here at 11.9 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 10 deg in the leanto.

1022 mBar, 30.18 in Hg, 766.56 Torr, 14.8228 psi, (up from 1019 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of December 2019 WTFH was packing prior to going on his hols, BR14 popped in, according to LM there was A Storm Coming, while according to me The Future Was Not Written, DaveB recommended the AK, whereas I preferred the more concealable Glock (nasty plastic thing).

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey. Knackered now.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

It started off sunny but is rapidly clouding over. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) with a high of 8 expected. Rain forecast from mid afternoon onwards. Barometer at 1024 mBar.

Yesterday was much the same. The rain started just as HWMBO and I finished putting a load of stuff into my storage unit and I just got a bit damp and windswept on the walk home from dropping off the zipvan.

HWMBO goes home today and I am supposed to be working but have realised I need to buy three gifts before I drive down to Sussex tomorrow.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning
seeing better is ever so slow
must be
It IS getting better though, so that's something.
however, despite these challenges: Sharypovo, Russian Federation in 31 moves! (6 x 6 map)

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I see I failed to bid TPD goodnight, probably because if the migraine. For the record, aside from Monkey Life yesterday's only viewing was a bit of Big Jet TV at Heathrow and an old 24 Hours in A&E while later, Sherston/Sassoon left the hospital only to find he's off to Ireland, his unit having been posted there rather than the Front

This morning starts with patchy cloud low down but the chance of sunshine a bit later. It's only 2°C but may get to 7° for a bit later. The barometers have bounced back to 1011/1020mB

My new recliner is being delivered later on, so I need to prepare for that

[NickFitz]

For no clear reason, I have been struck down by a migraine

It started with aura taking over a chunk of my vision around three this afternoon, which then dispersed to be replaced by a headache, which is continuing through the present moment

I reheated some shepherd's pie for my tea which was nice, but doesn't seem to have analgesic properties

[xoggoth]

Usually when I'm lucky with three letters I am left with a multiple choice for the other two!

Just back from village club, half lager, following another toothpaste inspection. MUD MUD MUD!

[NickFitz]

Gordon Bennet! Just got Wordle in 2 goes, 4 out of 5 letters right on first geuss. The god of Wordle must like me.

Getting it in 2 goes is the best. If you get it in 1, that's just the luck of the draw. But getting it in 2 means you can definitely ascribe it to pure skill

[NickFitz]

Sausage rolls for lunch

[xoggoth]

Gordon Bennet! Just got Wordle in 2 goes, 4 out of 5 letters right on first geuss. The god of Wordle must like me.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Wet.

Sunny.

Windy.

Chilly in here at 11.4 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen, 9 deg in the leanto, 6.4 deg in the saltinghouse.

1006 mBar, 29.707 in Hg, 754.56 Torr, 14.59 psi, (up from 1005 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of December 2019 NF was making soup, and I was having liver, bacon & onion gravy, followed by viewing S4 of Angel where Jasmine appears, definitely not my favourite since a thing about model railways took over due to lack of appeal.

Shirts in the WM. Shirts out of the WM & flying horizontally on the line.

Smalls in the WM. Smalls out of the WM & flying horizontally on the line.

Sun.

Rain.

Sun.

Semigale.

April in December.

Shirts in off the line & in the TD.

Shirts out of the TD & smalls in off the line & in the TD.

Just had a ?sparrow hawk? on the lawn. Dunno if it caught anything but there's a lot of feathers about.

Lunch: brunch.

Towels & socks in off the line & in the TD. Still blowy out there but it's picking with rain too.

Everything out of the TD & airing upstairs. Shirts roughly iRoned ditto, along with those cottons requiring said iRon.

Done for another week.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked. It rained spits & spats on me for a while, but I was brave and carried on.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: some tosh on R4 that I've now completely forgotten.

More other book.

Some bollox on Sky Mix about dashcam vids. No one died, so no snuff vids. Mildly amusing and rather alarming in parts. Lots of WTF?

Bomb squad on More4.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It was a bright and sunny start but almost immediately clouded over and is now very gloomy and… I was going to say raining, but it's snowing!

It's not going to settle or anything so it's functionally equivalent to rain, but it's definitely big, wet flakes and not raindrops. It's supposedly 3°C yet feeling like -6°, whatever that feels like, and getting as high as 6° this evening. The barometers are trivially down at 991/999mB