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  • sadkingbilly
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    morning peops.

    I can almost see with both eyes!
    Still not sure if that's a Good Thing or not though, considering what there is to see these days.
    Retired again.*
    This could be the last time (apologies to Jagger/Richards).
    5 retirements in 4 years.
    could be a CUK record?

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    where he has just received a minor bullet wound in the battle of Arras
    oh, dear! - shot in the Arras!

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    It's a fairly sunny start with areas of blue sky, though there's lots of that high streaky cloud here and there along with some lower, fluffier bits there and here. It's turned cold at 4°C which allegedly "feels like" -2°, rising to 7° later - though some rain may arrive around sunset and the temperature might rise to 8° briefly around that time. The barometers are up again at 1006/1014mB

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Friday.

    Wet.

    Dark.

    Dank.

    Dreary.

    Sunless.

    Grey.

    Gloomy.

    Chilly in here at 11.2 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 8.5 in the leanto.

    1016 mBar, 30.00 in Hg, 762.1 Torr, 14.735 psi, (down from 1019 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 12th of December 2019 there was much voting early & often going on but the fecking government still got elected, whereas I avoided the rivers on the road outside by using the back lane, NF remembered to put the stock pot and the WM on, there was much discussion of coffee, coffee machines, beans, etc. by LM & DaveB, with LM also doing laundry.

    Walk greatly abbreviated due to the inclemency of the weather which promptly cleared up by the time I'd got back home. Maybe try again later.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 09:47.

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all

    TFIF, last officially billable day of the year for me.
    Spelt in, so our walk was a bit shorter, and the overnight rain made it wet in some places, while the clear skies had then created frozen bits.

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  • NickFitz
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    Over in France a little more than a hundred years ago, George Sherston ended up invalided back to Britain for the winter of 1916-17 due to an attack of dysentery, probably brought from Galipoli by Australian troops, which allowed him to get some hunting in once he'd recovered and gone home on leave. Eventually, though, the army remembered he existed and shipped him back to France, where he has just received a minor bullet wound in the battle of Arras during his first couple of hours in action since his return, and has been packed off back to a hospital in London

    Friday tomorrow, insofar as days of the week mean anything once one's knocked off work at this time of year

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    For tea tonight, I made shepherd's pie again. Very tasty

    This was accompanied by the motorway-adjacent cops and their merry band of tenuously-linked dashcam clips

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  • NickFitz
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    Getting the festive vibe on by having a few M&S Scottish all butter shortbread fingers with my afternoon coffee

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch has been a bacon bap, made even more bacony by the discovery of an extra rasher in the packet

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  • ladymuck
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    A wash of one's smalls has been done and the items draped on the airer.

    Some chugger came to the door begging for charity. Made my excuses to cut them off mid flow and send them on their way. Bloomin' cold out there.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    Patchy cloud out with frequent sunny spells. The temperature dropped sharply overnight and isn't rallying much, being 4°C aiming for 6°, with the wind making it "feel like" -3°. The barometers have bounced back a bit at 994/1002mB

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Thursday.

    After yesterday evening's deluge it was dry.

    Sunny.

    Calm.

    Chilly in here at 13.2 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 10 deg in the leanto.

    1008 mBar, 29.766 in Hg, 756.1 Torr, 14.619 psi, (up from 998 last night, though it was 996 for a while), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 12th of December 2019: see yesterday.

    Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine and blue sky, followed by grey cloud & rainbow, followed by rain, followed by sun, rinse & repeat until I trudged home.

    Unexpected parcel in the bagging area outside bog (not that you can tell it's the outside bog since there's so much rubbish in there.

    Lunch: brunch.

    Sun's out.

    Entertainment: the dystopian R4 book of the week: "Your face belongs to us".

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00260sc

    Minority Report is well on its way.

    Y&Y Gap Finders <click> yet another snake oil salesman. Tired of those.

    Sliced Bread: how to reduce heat loss from yer abode.

    TWATO.

    Freecell score: 71%, running average: 80%. WTF? Couldn't win a thing today.

    Tea: beans on toast etc.

    Entertainment: PM <click>

    Other other book.

    Dalgliesh. The not a patch on version.

    "Prey (2022)" where the Native Americans discover that Predator Aliens are easier to deal with than the white eyes and probably a good deal less likely to lie to you.

    Definitely worth watching. . Still an ugly mother****er. Though I don't know the Comanche for that. .
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 23:59.

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  • xoggoth
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    Sunny. Must get out on me toothpaste, I mean footpath inspections later. After yesterday with group walky, book reading thing and loony lady 3, thought I had a free day but looks like damn sister is invading later.

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    I can see the sky! Still quite cloudy though, and damp. Currently 6 degrees ('feels like' 2) with a high of 7 expected. Barometer steady at 1006 mBar.

    HWMBO arrived back yesterday evening. We had Barnsley chops for dinner with a pearl barley and mushroom risotto.

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    Late night yesterday as we ended up watching a Christmas film featuring Bruce Willis.
    Very stormy in the evening, but by 6am the sky had cleared and the morning walk was enjoyably cold and dry.

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