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[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life and other wildlife stuff today, as usual

This evening, I started reading Siegfried Sassoon's The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston - or rereading to start with, as it's three books in one and the first is Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, which I read about thirty years ago. Haven't read the other two though. It's an odd work because although it's fictional, it's really an autobiography with the names changed and various significant elements of his life, such as poetry, omitted. But everything in there also appears in his actual autobiographies

Early night now, ready for more Monkey Life first thing

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Wind got windier now. Growling down me chimney.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a Turkish mixed grill from the place across town

[xoggoth]

Rarely find anything worth watching on TV but Return to Paradise, yet another spinoff of Death In etc., ain't bad. Gawd, that DI McKenzie Clarke has such a creepy look.

[NickFitz]

Just remembered that I was working with a developer who I think is about thirty years old last week, and when I said something about how you need to understand octal to change Unix file permissions, he said "What's octal?"

[NickFitz]

Bacon bap (white) for lunch

[xoggoth]

Almost got me new PC all set up. Windows 11 seems ok.

Bit grey and damp but wind doesn't seem like anything special. Mind you, fairly sheltered here, never thought the 1987 storm amounted to much until I got to the top of the hill. Need me walky anyway.

Updateypoo
Above comment must have annoyed the wind, got a lot angrier now.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It's been rainy and windy and is still a bit breezy, though not on the scale experienced by those of you further west. No rain at the moment, though it'll be back throughout the afternoon. Currently 7°C (but "feels like" -5°, it says here, which seems rather extreme) on its way down from an earlier high of 11°, and the barometers are all the way down at 977/985mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and wet. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 3) and that's the high for the day. Rain set to ease up in the next couple of hours. Wind has died down compared to last night/early this morning. Barometer down to 989 mBar.

My food waste bin has disappeared thanks to the wind but hopefully it's not gone too far.

Waiting for the last of the bed linen to finish being washed and then I'll be off to Westfield to give blood. After that I'll be heading further east to that Canary Wharf to have a gander at my friends' new pad in one of these build to rent places the CW estate is putting up.

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^OM.

Morning.

Saturday.

Wet. Very very wet.

Windy. Very very very windy.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 12.2 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 9.5 deg in the leanto.

996 mBar, 29.41 in Hg, 747.1 Torr, 14.445 psi, (up from 993 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

December 7th being the day tulip happens, apparently, this year it's the transparent bit of the garage roof that's gone, never to be seen again. Once the rain & wind have buggered off I'll go & have a look. Everything under that hole is now scrap.

Meanwhile on the 8th of December 2019 LM saw a rainbow, I had roast chicken with bacon for lunch which NF thought a good idea, my lurgie remained , the Sunday shop was accomplished, and Cockburn's Port adverts were listed on youtube. They don't make ads like that any more. .

Minor potching in the garage to make the hole a bit smaller. Place is like a swamp. Ho hum.

Lunch: brunch.

Freecell score: 90%, running average: 80%.

Sun's out. .

Still windy.

High tide passed without anything significant here: the marsh wasn't full which is a good indication.

Tempted to go for a walk, but I think I'll wait until the idea goes away again.

Much flickering of lights followed by power cut.

To my alarm R4 was off on LW too: the first sign of WWIII. .

Frantic assembling of radio that's capable of receiving R4 from Cardiff: ok (once I'd found some D cells that would fit: the rechargables from Lidl are just a tad too long, which is irritating.

Then the power came back on. WWIII postponed due to lack of interest.

Dug the candles out just in case, like. .

Tea: beans on toast, got to keep those bowels happy. .

Entertainment: PM. Then that obnoxious Robinson chappie: <click>.

Massive Engineering Mistakes: California I10 Tex Wash bridge failure in a flash flood. Houston, we have a problem: HDPE plant: ball valve installed with the control pipes the wrong way round so that "closed" displayed in the control room meant it was, er, open. Blast equivalent to 2.5 tons of TNT, 3.5 on the Richter Scale. Beagle 2. Ohio river Bridge collapse in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

[WTFH]

Morning all after the surprise of our phones going off last night with a red alert for wind, it’s been a bit windy. We aren’t in the red zone, and I’m glad I’m not flying today. I heard a few loud bangs through the night, but haven’t noticed anything yet.

Stay safe out there!

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Prey (2022), being a Predator film set a few hundred years ago among the Comanche in the bit of the now-USA that hadn't then been taken over by bastards. I thought it was very good, and I'm not even that big on the Predator films

This was followed by a rewatch of Special Delivery (2022), a Korean film more properly known as Teuksong though for some reason IMDb doesn't show it in the Korean ideograms, which would be even properer. Anyway, it's very good if you like cars-plus-gangsters-plus-humanity stories

And finally, E3 of The Plot Against America in which it's becoming apparent that the Jewish community may not fare so well after the election of a Nazi-sympathising president

Very windy out there now

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Bed made!

It's getting windy, though not so much here that we get a text message about it

[NickFitz]

Tea: southern not-fried chicken and chips with ketchup

With that eaten, I need to make the bed as I unmade it and left it to air earlier on

[NickFitz]

The flat was once again in danger of being bought by Tate Modern after they mistook it for an installation in which all trace of human life has been completely buried beneath empty Amazon packaging. So recycling bags have been filled and used to inconvenience the neighbours by reducing the amount of space left in the orange bins. Three bags!

Now having a cup of coffee to unwind after the unwonted, and unwanted, exertion