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Shopping trip to Aldi & Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & almost put away. Made the mistake of buying more pitted dates and the bigger mistake of opening the packet. .
Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.
Bumped into a neighbour from down the road whose wife is in hospital with oesophageal cancer, the very thing that killed my grandfather in 1948 a year before he could get his pension.
Meanwhile on the 11th of December 2019 there was much discussion of dentistry by xogg, opm, and NF.
Fairly sunny day out, though with quite a few clouds scattered hither and yon for decorative purposes. It's a warm 9°C and aiming for a positively baking 10° with the barometers up rather at 1017/1025mB
The Apple HomePods have just been delivered! After such a hectic weekend (one social event, one corner of the kitchen tidied up slightly) I'd forgotten they were coming, but they're here now. I've also been notified that my new recliner will be delivered a week from today. Some sorting out of the living room needs to happen before that arrives, so the pods will have to stay in their boxes for now
Dull and overcast again. Dry. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 8) with a high of 11 expected. Slight chance of rain early evening. Barometer up to 1031 mBar.
My coffee machine this morning told me it needed cleaning. What's really annoying about said notification is that it comes after puck forming thingumajig is in its working position so you can't remove it to clean it and you can't use the machine. You have to flick the proper power switch on the back off and on again, which clears the message and allows you to use the machine. You then have to turn off the machine using the standby power button on the front so that the puck thingy moves into position for it to be removed and thus cleaned. All very tedious.
For now, I have put a post-it on the machine saying "clean me" and I'll do that once I'm done with my morning coffee requirements and/or am looking for a procrastination task this afternoon.
I have a stash of descaling liquid that I bulk bought when I first got the machine about 15+ years ago but it very rarely demands that treatment. I also have water hardness testing strips that inform how you set up the machine but every place I've lived always gives the same result, so I don't know if they actually work.
Morning all
Very light drizzle earlier on our 6.5km walk, now the sky is clearing.
eBay notification just in... coffee machine descaling liquid has been posted. Turns out the new coffee machine tells you when it needs descaling, and only gives you 30 coffees from the fist warning until it shuts down. Hoping the liquid arrives before I fall asleep.
Tonight's major festive motion pictures have been those Christmas classics Die Hard (1988) and Die Hard 2 (1990) in both of which lots of stuff happens
Monday tomorrow, but no work. It's a winning combination
That's The Cruel Sea watched for the umpteenth time. No idea how many times I've seen it over the last fifty years or so
After that, I found time to deal with the pile of takeaway containers which I've finally accepted will never "come in handy"; so they're all packed up ready for a trip to the recycling bins.
Then I got around to assembling the new spice rack I got off Amazon a few weeks ago because the one I've already got has long since overflowed, resulting in innumerable small jars sprawling all over the bit of the worktop near the cooker where they live. At some point I intend to go through them as I know there are a fair few duplicates, due to thinking "Better get some paprika/cumin/star anise etc. just in case I'm running low" whilst shopping. As the new one rotates, I can literally rotate my stock to keep things under control and make sure they get used in the correct order
The old one will still be in use as the reserve storage area for duplicates, and can also keep the less frequently used ones where they'll be handy but not getting in the way
After this morning's round of Monkey Life it looks like the rest of the day will be filled with stuff that gets repeated every three weeks or so. So I'm going to have a traditional Sunday afternoon watching The Cruel Sea (1953)
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