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[NickFitz]

The dogs from the block across the lawn just came out with their female chauffeur and have gone for a ride in one of their cars

And there's a van from the Guide Dogs charity parked outside the adjacent block. So maybe one of my neighbours will be getting one, which would be exempt from the strict No Dogs provision in the lease (which I assume the two that live opposite dodged by moving here before the vote to resume enforcing it). Or it could just be somebody visiting who works there and gets the use of the van on weekends

[ladymuck]

Morning all, Edinburgh calling

Bright and dry, some cloud. Damp underfoot due to thawing frost. Currently 2 degrees with a high of 4 expected. Barometer at 1034 mBar.

Sunrise 08:37; Sunset 16:07

HWMBO and I are at the airport, awaiting our flight to Heathrow which has been delayed about an hour. Once we know we're actually leaving, I will book our coach tickets that will take us from Heathrow down to Gatwick.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damply dry.

Wanly sunny.

Not so cold at 10.2 deg in here, 7 deg in the kitchen & leanto, 6 deg in the saltinghouse.

1035 mBar, 30.56 in Hg, 776.313 Torr, 15 psi, (up from 1031 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 19th of December 2019 there were 9 posts by Brillo & one post by LM.

Last night's dream before waking involved some circuitry with some interface chip or other probably an 8255, and seemed to be in the lab. I think it also involved a long ago girlfriend at one point.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine. It felt rather warmer than recently and I could feel my fingers for quite a lot of the time.

Lunch: brunch.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

The fog has finally gone away but it remains pretty frosty out, though today will at least get a bit warmer: 0°C now but soaring to 4° later. The barometers have leapt further upwards to 1027/1035mB

Interestingly, all the cars now appear largely frost-free despite some frost lingering on the lawn. The drive also appears to be damp. Last night the weather app talked of snow flurries, though there was no evidence of these, but I wonder if there's been a small rain shower first thing?

[WTFH]

Morning all
Well, The Wife has made it to the departures lounge, and BA have swapped planes.
The Dog and I will shortly be going out for a walk.

[NickFitz]

After the usual round of Monkey Life there was the usual round of wildlife repeats, but I didn't watch anything else after them

I did manage a bit of tinkering with the GameplayKit stuff

And in February 1933, the Reichstag has burned, and Hindenburg has merrily signed the decrees suspending the constitution and handing absolute power to Hitler's government. The mass arrests have begun, with a few managing to make their escape from Germany at the last minute. One handy loophole was that as the Germans insisted Saarland was part of Germany, they didn't put much in the way of border security on the German side of it; but it was occupied by France under a League of Nations mandate, so it was a good way to get out even as stringent security was put in place at all other parts of the border

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Yeh, my van door problem was just due to mechanism iced up. Hope not get same problem tomorrow for me other volunteer thing. Darn, I should have sprayed some WD40 inside it.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been brought from Nando's, as I hadn't had that in a while

I was impressed by the delivery guy. Watching his progress on the map, I assumed he must be in a car or on a motorbike, particularly given his rate of progress up the fairly steep hill by the cemetery. But it turned out he was on a pushbike!

[WTFH]

With The Wife gone, MMtSH and I had an early afternoon walk, came back and watched a bit of TV.
Decided to open a bottle of “Plum wine” that I had made 4 years ago. You’re supposed to keep it for 3-5 years, so now should be OK.
First glass tasted like it was just a plum flavoured drink. Second glass is implying that the alcohol is definitely there.

[NickFitz]

Steak bake for lunch

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with wispy fluff. Dry but damp in patches from melting frost. Currently 0 degrees with a high of 1 expected. Barometer up to 1030 mBar

Sunrise 08:03; Sunset 16:16

HWMBO and I are on the train to Heathrow T5 where we will meet with a bunch of mad folk for a trip to Edinburgh.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Chilly in here at 9.8 deg, 8 deg in the kitchen,7 deg in the leanto.

1026 mBar, 30.297 in Hg, 769.6 Torr, 14.88 psi, (up from 1019 last night), 55% RH.

Meanwhile on the 19th of December 2019, those long gone days of innocence, DaveB had left over chilli for lunch whilst I had chilli out of the freezer for tea, followed by eps of Angel S5 of which I had no recall whatever, whereas NF found it unusually dark, cold & wet.

Oxfam book donation trip to Swansea: X5 down (including an extra trip around a roundabout when the driver thought he was driving an X7) and X7 back with a driver who knew he wasn't driving an X5.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: bits of The News Quiz and the 13 o'clock news <click>.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked. Quite gloomy though it was very sunny earlier.

Tea: soup: couldn't be arsed to do anything else.

Entertainment: PM.

Book. Other book. Other other book. Book.

Last 40 minutes of "Contact (1997)".

Massive Engineering Mistakes: Italian Bridge collapse 2018: covering steel cables with concrete isn't A Good Idea, even though it lasted half a century before killing 43 people. But hey! they died on tv. Bridgeport Connecticut L'Ambience collapse: poring the roof slab first then jacking it up isn't altogether A Good Idea, especially if you're one of the 28 fatalities. The Heron Road Ottawa bridge disaster: lack of diagonal bracing in the falsework: 9 killed 57 injured. Sydney opera house: poor acoustics.


A shot of that Aldi Single malt: nice enough, followed by a shot of Gran Marnier. Very nice enough. Nearly seeing double now (it doesn't take much).

[NickFitz]

Dentistry done, and home again!

The car started first time, and didn't splutter and die either. And the frost was very easy to clear compared to yesterday, when it had a thin layer of quite hard ice on the glass. I assume that's from previous frosts thawing and refreezing but as the glass was all clear and dry yesterday, this morning's frost just came away at the touch of the scraper

On the way over, I discovered that there's an association football match today. They close the road past the stadium when that happens but I was early enough that they hadn't done so yet, so maybe it was a good thing that the appointment got changed

Normally I can park close to the surgery, but nobody in the surrounding streets had ventured out of their homes this morning, so all the parking spaces were taken by still-frosty cars that live there. I ended up by the park a few streets away; only a two minute walk, though it still seems like a terrible imposition

Coming back, I popped into Iceland and got some Greggs stuff

And so home, and back in time for Monkey Life!

[xoggoth]

Off to me volunteer thing in woods. If not here tomorrow I probably froze to death.

Bah! Couldn't make it as couldn't close me driver door. Hopefully just mechanism frozen up and not an actual fault.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Fog! Thick (by local standards) fog out there this morning!

Freezing fog too, as it's currently-5°C, and today's expected high is -1°. The barometers are up though, at 1017/1025mB

I'm going to have to leave for the dentist's quite early, as I need to de-ice the car then cautiously navigate across town; I expect this fog is even thicker down by the river, which I have to cross to get there