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[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but reasonably bright. Signs of damp on the pavement from overnight precipitation, I presume. There may be some rain today. Barometer up a smidge to 1009 mBar.

Sunrise 05:53; Sunset 20:08 BST

Rubbish sleep. Still have coff and snotties. Heading down to see Mum anyway. I am unlikely to stay for very long today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Damp.

Grey.


Sunless.

Chilly in here at 15.3 deg, 15 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto.

1005 mBar, 29.6776 in Hg, 753.8 Torr, 14.576 psi, (up from 1003 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of January 2020 there was some sort of astronomical thing going on with the moon: clouded out around here and NF didn't notice anything strange, though it looked immense as it rose, apparently, Brillo and Scruff popped in, and I discovered that "The Revenge of the Pink Panther" was missing from the box set I'd bought in 2015 and had just started viewing.

Oh Dear, How Sad, Never Mind: as I went out for my walk this morning I noticed that next door's rambling rose has blown off the fence & is now rambling all over the front garden path. Someone will need to sort it out. And that ain't me. .

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine, spotted with rain on the way up but then it cleared up and the sun shone upon the righteous.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about the Parking Nazis. I'm glad I don't drive any more.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Bank Holiday!

It's a grey sort of day, as befits the occasion. 9°C now, only getting to 13°, and some rain expected later - just showers by the look of things. The barometers have tiptoed down one more step to 996/1004mB

[NickFitz]

This evening's viewing was the latest episode of 24 Hours in A&E

And I finished reading Trainspotting this afternoon. So this evening I started on Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Doctor Crippen, the new book by Hallie Rubenhold

No work tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

I didn't need a big tea after the breakfast for lunch, so I just had a few KFC hot wings and popcorn chicken bits, with ketchup

There's a strawberry cream cake in the fridge too. Mustn't let that go to waste

[xoggoth]

Dropped in at village club after me walky and nobody there apart from the bar lady. Must be doing boring Eastery family things.

[NickFitz]

Today's the day for breaking of the Lenten fast. I seem to have forgotten to do the fasting, but I've got the last bit right as lunch has been a nice big fry-up

Oh, and as is only right on a Sunday, this was accompanied by Time Team

It was quite a good one. Rather than traipsing around fields as usual, they dug up a woman's living room floor to see if King Cnut's hall was underneath it (it was)

[sadkingbilly]

How much did you put in it!

really easy to get the milk/oats ratio right..

1 oats:1 milk: 1 water: 2 tsps salt = Perfecto.
hth

[NickFitz]

Today's the day for breaking of the Lenten fast. I seem to have forgotten to do the fasting, but I've got the last bit right as lunch has been a nice big fry-up

[NickFitz]

How much did you put in it!

I probably put about a teaspoon in mine.

I do cheat and buy the Quaker oats sachets as it's really easy to get the milk/oats ratio right. A bazillion times more expensive but much less waste (flapjacks are too sweet and I don't make fruit crumble puddings all that often).

I just squirted it in; no idea how much it was really

[ladymuck]

How much did you put in it!

I probably put about a teaspoon in mine.

I do cheat and buy the Quaker oats sachets as it's really easy to get the milk/oats ratio right. A bazillion times more expensive but much less waste (flapjacks are too sweet and I don't make fruit crumble puddings all that often).

[NickFitz]

I quite like porridge but I have to be in the mood for it. A squirt of honey is needed though, I'm not made of the right stuff to have it boiled with salt.

The honey proved to be my downfall! The porridge was bearable, though I don't think I'd want it every day. But I put too much honey in, which made it so sickly sweet that I couldn't finish it

I'll try it again some time though

[sadkingbilly]

I quite like porridge but I have to be in the mood for it. A squirt of honey is needed though, I'm not made of the right stuff to have it boiled with salt.

woos!

[ladymuck]

You may have discovered why I use so much milk (non oaty). .

Om