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[NickFitz]

Mundane laundry on

[NickFitz]

Sausage and bacon baguette for lunch

More accurately, it was half of one. The rest has gone into the fridge for tomorrow

[xoggoth]

Finally got round to fixing faulty socket, one of the few done things on long list I must have put together over a year ago. Manana, manana, manana...
Nice sunny day for me wonky soon.

[NickFitz]

Lamb shanks in a red wine gravy are in the slow cooker. I usually either forget or don't get around to putting them in there and end up cooking them in the InstantPot™, so I'm looking forward to trying them this way instead

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy day out, though giving the impression that the occasional gap could open up to let a little sunshine in at any moment. Currently 5°C but "feels like" 2°, and aiming for 8°. The barometers are up some more at 1015/1023mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Sunny.

Dry.

Blue sky.

Hints of frost.

Chilly in here at 11.7 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 6 in the leanto.

1022.4 mBar, 30.19 in Hg, 766.94 Torr, 14.83 psi, (up from 1021 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of January 2020 Anonimouse popped in with an observation about pressed lettuce, whereas NF had a big cornfed chicken for tea, which was very nice.

[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff on the telly today as usual, this week managing without either sharks or cetaceans, which made a change

And this evening, I read some more of Between Two Rivers. The earliest surviving writing (cuneiform) is a stock control record of ingredients for beer

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, I thought I'd give the German Doner Kebab place in town a try. It was nice enough, but they can't compete with our friendly neighbourhood kebab shop on either price or portion size

[xoggoth]

Very long walky, permissive path I was trying to return on was blocked off with fallen trees and no way round without wading through deep swamp or climbing barbed wire so had to go all the way back. Oh well, good exercise.

[ladymuck]

Laundry has been done, so I've achieved something today.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Fairly sunny out, though with lots of fluffy clumps getting in the way from time to time. It's 7°C which is the high for the day, though supposedly "feels like" 2°, presumably due to a light breeze. The barometers have leapt up to 1011/1019mB

[xoggoth]

Yer lazy git lm! Much same here, fiddling with me mappy thing, long list of useful things to do ignored so far. Must do a walky, after another coffee.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny. Blue sky with lumps of fluff scurrying past. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) with a high of 8 expected. Barometer up to 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 06:15; Sunset 18:06

This morning has been a lazy one. I keep thinking I'll do some chores, or go to the farmers' market. But have actually sat on the sofa drinking coffee, eating biscuits.

Yesterday on TCoOI they found a Roman coin.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 11.7 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 6 deg in the leanto.

1019 mBar, 30.09 in Hg, 764.3 Torr, 14.779 psi, (up from 1015 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of January 2020 LM had done the washing & the washing basket was thusly empty, HWMBO had made 3 salads (which is at least 2 too many ), NF wasn't watching anything much, my tea was more of the weekend roast, and I'd found a strange black stone on my walk, the white bits of which were possibly fossil something or other, and there was a coal field on Anglesey. Who'd have thunk? Oh, and I watched "The Ipcress file" again, since it was on, followed by a documentary about Michael Caine that time, unlike this week's documentary about Mr Deighton.

Freecell score: 78%, running average: 82%.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine and cold wind. No bees emerging from the nest in the tree today.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: the "comedy" on R4.

13 o'clock news.

Freecell score: 83%, running average: 82%.

Forgot to do a Hitler salute to the NaziKar this morning as it was picking up passengers whilst blocking the exit from the police station.

I now know the German for "Daddy, Daddy, I'm afraid of the dark", "bells and whistles", and "consfusion", not to mention the latin for privet (as in hedge).

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM.

"The great northfield minesota raid (1972)". <click>

"The call of the Isles (1963)" with Fyfe Robertson. They don't make 'em like that any more. Nor people like Mr Robertson.

"The truth is out there" on Blaze: funny shaped UFOs: 3 minutes then <click>.

Book. Other book.

Really battulip crazy UFO crap on Blaze: replacement theory, all 2 hours of it <click>

Bit about Johnny Cash.

Thing about Enya. I think my mate had some of her music at his funeral.

I'm having "Another one bites the dust" and "Comfortably Numb". I may have "One of these days" too..

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Control (2007), a biopic about Ian Curtis of Joy Division. It's very good. Unlike most "based on a true story" films, we have the testimony of the other members of the band who are also portrayed in there and have nothing to lose by telling us how "based" it is; and they tell us that it's not the true story at all but that's OK because the true story is too boring to be a film, but they still reckon it's a good film <- and people smoke almost constantly because it's the 1970s

It's in black & white. I think we forget how bleak life was in working class communities in the latter part of the 1970s, and the combination of black & white and their music works very well. There's a reason the covers of the band's only two real albums were B&W

And then a rewatch of Sucker Punch (2011) because that's also got a lot of good tunes in it, as well as good special effects

Finally, a rewatch of Air Force One (1997) in which the President of the USA is willing to put his own life on the line for the sake of other people and moral principles. We should probably move this to the "fantasy" section

Goodnight all