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[WTFH]

Dog walked x2
One load of washing done and dry.
Smallest eating apple tree has had its whips removed and a bit of a trim, it’s looking better. Second eater is about half done, but the ladder was sinking into the ground a bit much, then I switched to having boards under it. As a reward to myself for doing the small stuff, I got a chainsaw out for the big bramley tree. Only used it at the top of the long ladder to remove a couple of branches that were getting a bit close to the power lines.
As is only appropriate with working on apple trees, I’m rewarding myself with some of my cider.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning Afternoon.

Saturday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 11 deg, 11.5 deg in the kitchen. 10 deg in the leanto, 7.6 deg in the saltinghouse.

1025 mBar, 30.268 in Hg, 768.8 Torr, 14.866 psi, (down from 1029 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 21st of December 2019 TheRealNF was up & about & posting at 12:57 despite only going to bed at 06:00, whereas I was rained on during the trip down to the library, BR14 was dismantling & cleaning the vac in a search for brownie points, whereas LM was off out shopping with HWMBO after a nice date night.

Shopping trip to Aldi & Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Walk (slightly abbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Freecell score: 60%, running average: 81%.

Last 15 minutes of "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969)" with that Paul Newman chap and that other blonde guy.

Tea: Brains faggots with peas & such. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. Political Thinking <click> The Shipping Forecast.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day, even a little misty as one looks into the distance. No rain or other precipitation, so there's that. Not very warm at 2°C with an expected high of 3°, though not for long. The barometers are down a bit at 1018/1026mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but dry. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Chance of rain this afternoon. Barometer down to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 08:09; Sunset 18:28

HWMBO and I are up early for our tour of the eastern side of the island.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Bust day ahead of dog walking, laundry and gardening. Should probably do a bit of tidying around the house.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Substance (2024) which is amazing, albeit very much in a "What the HELL did I just watch?!?!?!" kind of way. Highly recommended, if you think you can handle it

And then the final episode of The Plot Against America in which it seems that electing fascists to run a country might be a bad idea. You could always skip the series and just watch the news starting on Monday, I suppose

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been oniony chicken casserole with chips and peas

This was accompanied by an episode of the motorway-averse cops thing

And the bed has been remade, so disaster has been averted!

[NickFitz]

The new blinds for the balcony door and the small side window in the living room arrived unexpectedly this morning. No email from Dunelm to say they were coming, no "We've got a parcel for you" text from DHL. But they're here, so I suppose I'll have to get my act together and install them over the weekend

And this morning, I found time to strip the bed and leave it to air, so I'd better make that soon to avoid an unpleasant surprise tonight

[NickFitz]

Walked round to the chemist's to get the monthly prescription. They actually had it ready, which was quite impressive given that they'd apparently failed to order it this month so I had to do it myself

Coming back, I decided to walk along the shopping road to the junction with our road by the park, rather than back the way I'd come through terraced streets. The distance is the same, but I thought it would make a change. This meant I encountered in rapid succession the delicious aromas coming from the tapas bar, the Indian restaurant, and the Korean takeaway, so I'll do that again

[ladymuck]

We decided to book an island tour and, in order to get a hefty discount, agreed to attend a timeshare sales pitch. The offer wasn't bad but it's not one we're going to take up.

We're now recovering with a G&T in the hotel bar before we take a walk into town to spend a discount voucher in Blandy's wine shop.

[NickFitz]

Bacon bap for lunch

[NickFitz]

Shopping has been done at Not As Big Sainsbury's. As predicted, I didn't need very much of such things as they had, so there was a bit of a focus on stuff that's handy to have reserves of. I helped an elderly partially-sighted lady who was looking for skin-on chicken thighs while I was after the same thing, and my reward for this virtuous act was that the pack underneath the one I'd handed to her had a use-by date that was several days later than hers

The car didn't start first time outbound, but I heard the solenoid pop on the starter motor, so I think that was just due to it having been sitting outside in a week's worth of variable and not particularly nice weather. It fired up on the second go, and first time for the return journey

Now I need to think about lunch. N-A-B-S doesn't have a lukewarm food counter so there's no easy option

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 21 expected. There is a chance of some rain showers throughout the day. Barometer steady at 1028 mBar.

Sunrise 08:09; Sunset 18:27

The rest of the week is set to be cloudy and potentially damp so those swimming costumes were a good investment

Not sure what we're going to do today. It's just nice relaxing tbh.

[WTFH]

Max has just farted he's on the sofa at the far side of my office. I'm on a conference call and trying not to retch or cry.

The call is about the same topic that I have spent maybe 12 hours on calls this week and last. I've done the work I need to do, the others are arguing about their bits and what excuses they have for not doing them. Most of their "questions" are recorded in a spreadsheet, and each call they create a new column. They hide the previous day's column and type in new text. the rows are aligned with another spreadsheet. Each day the new text ends up almost identical to the previous day, because they have done nothing.
8 people on today's call (down from 15). So far my contribution has been: Yes I've done what I've been asked to do. No, I cannot design the technicalities of your system for you. Yes, I can guide you on how the business and other systems, if you want to listen.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Damp.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Cold in here at 10.9 deg, 9 deg in the kitchen, 7.5 deg in the leanto.

1030.5 mBar, 30.43 in Hg, 772.93 Torr, 14.95 psi, (up from 1029 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 20th of December 2019 NF had M&S haddock & M&S crinkly chips, though the origin of the beans was unstated, whereas BR14 had something else with brown sauce in tribute to the ailing Brillo, and I had almost watched all of S5 of Angel and was contemplating S2 of Joan of Arcadia and didn't watch "Peeping Tom (1960)" on the vintage film channel of yore.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: the thing on R4 at 11:45 about the FBI use of wavelet functions algorithm for fingerprint analysis.

Thing about the tech bros and their concerns about masculine identity. Or something. <click>.

Shopping trip to Morrisons. I forgot some stuff.

Freecell score: 93%, running average: 81%.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM.

The News Quiz.

The Directors: The late David Lynch.

Lucy Worsley: 1066 & all that. . . Strangely didn't mention that the Saes had stolen the country from the Welsh. or Harald Godwinson's massacre of the Welsh.

Strange Things Bollox on Blaze. <click> Rome's secret weapon on 5Select. Less bolloxy.