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[DoctorStrangelove]

And this evening, I read Part One (of two) of Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock. I read this back in 1981, and only vaguely remember it. But the premise was entertaining back then, so I thought it would be worth revisiting; it's not very long

The first of those I read was "The Sundered Worlds" (aka "The Blood Red Game") which was purchased from Woolies at 9d, being remaindered. He wrote them fast & they read fast.

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dreary.

Drizzly (slightly).

Damp.

Chilly in here at 11.8 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto, 9.6 in the saltinghouse.

1025 mBar, 30.268 in Hg, 768.8 Torr, 14.866 psi, (down from 1026 last night), 69% RH (Lid electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of December 2019 it was curiously warm in here for some reason, after waking early I watched commentaries on BTVS S7 E22 and Angel something or other, LM had made the mistake of weighing herself & decided it was back on gruel up to Xmas, while NF had discovered that the earliest time of sunrise had happened a couple of days earlier, though why that mattered when he slept until noon , and some daft Tory bint was waffling on about sunlit uplands on the wireless. Remind me how that turned out again?

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life this morning

In the afternoon, they'd run out of North American border stuff so had switched to the Australians

And this evening, I read Part One (of two) of Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock. I read this back in 1981, and only vaguely remember it. But the premise was entertaining back then, so I thought it would be worth revisiting; it's not very long

Tomorrow, I may do things. We shall see…

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribeye steak with fried onions and chips

No beans this time, because variety is the spice of life and a change is as good as a rest

[ladymuck]

Looking for something to watch and perusing what's included with Amazon Prime. I think it's going to either be The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) or Black Adam (2024){2022).

[NickFitz]

The turkey and barley soup has turned out very nicely

[NickFitz]

Just had a couple of KFC hot wings to tide me over until the soup is ready

Big Jet TV is at LHR 27R watching planes taking off (and sometimes landing) in the fog

Meanwhile, the sky has mostly cleared here

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dark.

Grey.

Dreary.

Misty.

Foggy.

Drizzly.

Chilly in here at 11.8 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 9.5 deg in the leanto.

1027 mBar, 30.3272 in Hg, 770.313 Torr, 14.895 psi, (up from 1026 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of December 2019 see yesterday.

Walk (greatly augmented) walked in the grey gloom, mist, fog, and drizzle, eventually the sun deigned to come out on my way back home.

Why does this look familiar:

https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=216621

Stone me it's like this house.

Lunch: brunch. Stone me (again), my mouth is sore. .

House roughly vacced after quite an interval* of not bothering. Had to dismantle vac, bang filter on wall, clean out various bits and improve its effectiveness no end. Seemed quite clogged up, which was odd.

Entertainment: "D Day minute by minute" on PBS. There'd be nothing to watch without Adolph. .

*Last vaccing was on the 27th of November if TPD is to be trusted these days. . We won't mention when the place was last dusted.

Tea: beans on toast etc. with added boiled eggs.

Entertainment: Impossible Engineering: Falkirk boat lift. Neat.

Impossible Engineering: stratolaunch: one of the late Paul Allen's projects.

A Welsh Xmas.

Thing about Cary Grant on ITV. Stone me.

The bit of the thing about the Falkirk Wheel that I missed whilst making tea.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Bright and dry. Windy. I could see sky half an hour ago. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 7) with a high of 11 expected. Rain expected off and on all day. Barometer down to 1020 mBar.

Yesterday's family get together was good. HWMBO cooked a huge turkey and a multitude of accompanying dishes, all on a Mexican/Peruvian theme. Snacking on left overs and finishing the clearing up is the plan for today.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

The fog has lifted but it's still cloudy, though it may brighten upon a bit this afternoon. It's 5°C and expected to soar to 8°, with the barometers up a little at 1017/1025mB

The turkey soup has had the bones taken out, veg blended, and chopped meat added. I've also chucked in some pearl barley, just for a change. It should be ready by early afternoon, so it'll be soup for lunch

[NickFitz]

Today's viewing was the usual Monkey Life plus other wildlife stuff

And I did a bit of mucking around with getting SpriteKit stuff working in SwiftUI, again

This evening, I finished reading the George Sherston (i.e. Siegfried Sassoon) memoirs. He'd got to the point of quite looking forward to going to the front because he was fed up with boring admin stuff, but then his brigade was struck down by flu. Once that had passed, they were moved north and finally went to the front. And on his second night, having led a few men forward on a sneak attack on a German machine gun post, an overeager sergeant from his own company who didn't realise they weren't back yet shot him in the head as he returned to his own lines! Only a graze on the scalp and he was able to walk to the medical post, but this resulted in him getting shipped back to hospital in England again and, of course, the German side collapsed that autumn and there was no war to go back to

The turkey bits and veg are in the slow cooker now, so there should be soup some time tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

For tea, the usual "special offer" from KFC

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a couple of Christmas leftover sausage rolls

I need to make turkey soup. I've got the leftover thigh from the other day and my sister donated a leg and some meat from the Christmas bird, so that should be enough to make a medium-sized batch

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning Afternoon.

Saturday.

Dry.

Grey.

Gloomy.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 11.8 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen, 9.5 deg in the leanto.

1025 mBar, 30.268 in Hg, 768.8 Torr, 14.866 psi, (down from 1027 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of December 2019 LM went to the Playhouse Theatre to see Cyrano, I watched the concluding eps of BTVS and the remaining eps of Angel so as to start the final season next, while Brillo watched an Xmas movie with the kids: "Die Hard", whereas vetran watched an amateur version of Beauty & the Beast and NF watched "The Wire", totally against expectations.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Managed to find where they'd hidden the cranberry juice which saved buying it from Tesco.

Walk (greatly augmented again) walked in the grey gloom: not as raw as yesterday but still quite chilly. Spotted Alcwyn's Rock in the River Neath at Tonna again.

Lunch: brunch. The blood blister on the tongue burst last night but it's still sore.

Freecell score: 91%, running average: 81%.

Tea: spag with a tuna based sauce from a recipe I found on line. Well it was edible. With the usual load of chilli powder & peppers & paprika added, plus some BBE parsley from the back of the cupboard. . Oh, and a boiled egg. Not in the recipe but there you go.

Entertainment: Slice bread waffling on about home DNA tests.

BBC4: what we watched in 1984: I didn't watch any of this so:

PBS: Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War. What would we watch if Adolph hadn't been invented?

Quest: Massive Engineering Mistakes: Harrisburg, Penn, Walnut Street river bridge deck taken away by ice on the river: scour around base of pillars: BER. Brighton Beach (not that one) Brooklyn condominium construction failure. Naples, Italy: sinkhole in hospital parking lot: punching shear. Hammersmith flyover cracking due to cable corrosion.

"Momento Mori (1992)" Muriel Spark. Goodness me, Maggie Smith plays a good villain.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Still foggy, though it seemed to reduce in density somewhat late last night and isn't as thick now as it was yesterday afternoon. It's still mild for the time of year but still a tad chilly, at 4°C rising to 6° in a bit. The barometers are down to 1016/1024mB