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[NickFitz]

I felt like reading something a bit more serious than the fraud book and Jeffrey Bernard, so I started on Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen. It's described as a non-fiction thriller, in that it gives a minute-by-minute account of (so far) a nuclear attack against the USA, which is all based on declassified info and interviews with people who've held the jobs at the various levels of US Defence, all but a former president, and interspersed with factual background material about things like the nuclear football, submarines, and so on. It's a good read, as demonstrated by the fact that I've got about a third of the way through it at 122 pages

Better get to sleep now so I can both have a lie in and make the most of my Friday

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade sweet & sour pork with fried rice

This was accompanied by the final episode of the latest series of A House Through Time. Lots of fascinating stuff in this one, I thought

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Three more to go until the Christmas break begins…

[NickFitz]

I made an executive decision to pop out and drive over to the hairdresser's on the off chance her husband hadn't died yet and she was still working, as I was getting a bit shaggy and figured going now will see me through into the new year. He hasn't, so she was there. Better still, no other customers were, so I didn't have to hang around. Only fifty minutes to get there, get trimmed, and get back again!

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cajun chicken breast in a wholemeal bap with a bag of plain crisps

Sunny out, but still chilly I reckon

Same again, both lunch and weather

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Oedipus schmoedipus, a boy should love his mother. Oi vey. .

Dark.

Dreary.

Damp.

Cold in here at 11.2 deg, 10.5 deg in the kitchen, 7 deg in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.56 Torr, 14.47477 psi, (untapped), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of December 2019 Brillo did a list of who posted on TPD, whereas LM was running some excel sheet to look for duplicates, and NF had run out of sausage & bacon , plus SimonMac had made a rare appearance.

Many thanks to Barclays for texting me at 04:00 and giving me the opportunity to read another hour or so of the current book. Feckwhits.

Lunch: brunch.

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away: the stagger back was the first time I've been warm today.

Entertainment: The Dyke without a Bike talking to a new Scout chappy: turns out he's been stabbed & shot at, though the latter was by some oik Who Hadn't Maintained His Weapon Sunshine as someone once said, so it misfired twice happily enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Z0yr49xXw

Tea: soup with some lentil soup of unknown antiquity extracted from the freezer and mixed with a can of same: it wasn't exactly, er, nice, but was just about edible with added chilli powder. There's no more of it, thankfully, so the exercise won't be repeated.

Entertainment: PM <click>

PBS: thing about sunken ships: the nuclear sunken ships: mostly those from Operation Crossroads, but the Thresher gets a mention.

Followed by: PBS: "Two American Families 1991 - 2024" being the story of the gutting of manufacturing: of going from working for Briggs & Stratton for $18/hr to being glad to get $6/hr in some godawful service job.

It went <click> because I couldn't stand it.

To a large extent it explains the election of the Lying Orange Moron with his promises of tariffs etc.

Gawdelpem when the Musk cretin sticks his oar in.

Thing on BBC1 about the nuclear veterans & the totally usual attitude of the MOD which echoes the attitude of Liz I to the poor sods from the crews fighting the Spanish Armada.

You're cannon fodder: shut the **** up & die quietly.

[WTFH]

Morning all
The walk started with light sleet, then about 200 metres from our house that turned to heavier sleet and then snow.

Snowing quite hard now.
Chimney sweep is coming round later, as is someone of FB Marketplace who wants to buy a lenovo docking station off me for £35.

BTW, if you know anyone interested in some series 5/6 BT Home Hubs (can be reconfigured) or a couple of sonos bridges, a Dyson V58, or a Nokia N95, let me know.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Currently 1 degree with a high of 4 expected. Some sunshine expected at some point. Barometer down to 1002 mBar.

On the train to Guildford as that's where ConsultancyCo have decided to base themselves.

Oedipus at Wyndham's Theatre was very good last night. Also had my first mulled wine of the season.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Very nice reddish-gold dawn earlier, though a big high sheet of thin grey cloud cut across from the south in quite a dramatic fashion - just the sort of stuff that's used for decoration though, not the kind to yield rain or snow. It's -3°C at the moment and not expected to get any higher than +3°, and will be sunny as well. The barometers are down a little to 989/998mB

Looking ahead, it'll get milder as the weekend gets going, though there's still a chance of a bit of snow tonight

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was yet another new Police Interceptors

And later, after some mucking around with some Swift stuff that doesn't work the way I'd expect it to work (and thus doesn't work, or not for me), I read some more Jeffrey Bernard

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Just back from local history talk. Quite interesting this month, not like last.

[eek]

Afternoon all

Sunny but very cold. Currently 4 degrees, was -2 when I got up this morning. The high was 6 degrees. Barometer at 1009 mBar.

Busy day, trying to score the next gig, trying to do the current one. Landlady came round to look a the wall being pushed over by a tree.

Off to the theatre this evening.

What did you see?

[NickFitz]

I hadn't made the mango-chutney-based BBQ sauce for some time, but I finally got around to it so tea has been ribs and chips

There are banging noises coming from upstairs!

It had been on the market since before I moved in but sold earlier this year, as I recall. There's been virtually no activity up there for ages, but it sounds as if whoever now owns it might finally be getting it ready for occupation

[NickFitz]

Another day done

Not sure if it's cheating, but the daily quota of exercise was achieved on the exercise bike in three short goes spread out through the day. Each of them got my heart rate up for a few minutes, so they ought to have done some good

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny but very cold. Currently 4 degrees, was -2 when I got up this morning. The high was 6 degrees. Barometer at 1009 mBar.

Busy day, trying to score the next gig, trying to do the current one. Landlady came round to look a the wall being pushed over by a tree.

Off to the theatre this evening.