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[DoctorStrangelove]

Om

[DoctorStrangelove]

Tiddley pom ti

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, I tried a new-to-me Indian place. I’m not sure why I hadn’t tried them before as they’re quite close by, in what’s generally thought of as the poshest area of the city - estate agents try to claim that where I live is there, but it’s not

Turns out they do the deliveries themselves, so I was denied the pleasure of watching on a map as they got closer. I went down to wait at the front door as soon as I was notified that they’d set off, and only had to wait a minute or two before it arrived, as they were in a car. It turned out to be very nice indeed, and excellent portions

I’m glad I only went for the “a little spicier” option when the form asked how hot I wanted it, as it was pretty hot! This is one of the perils of living in a city where so many people are of Indian heritage. The next option up was “desi hot” and I know enough to realise that I surely wouldn’t be able to handle that

[NickFitz]

local private dentist opens Monday. i'm hoping they can sort it (for ~£100 or so, i guess) and only £4 away from home
antibio's should be here Monday, too.
fingers crossed it doesn't get too bad, too fast.

Good luck! Dental abscesses are awful; hope they can sort it out quickly

[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toasties

The ham ought to have been eaten by yesterday, but I daresay it’ll be fine. It still smelt and tasted like ham

[sadkingbilly]

Ouch! Sorry to hear that SKB, not a fun situation to be in. Will taxis to the emergency dentist be a bit more reasonable next week, if you can hang on a bit?

local private dentist opens Monday. i'm hoping they can sort it (for ~£100 or so, i guess) and only £4 away from home
antibio's should be here Monday, too.
fingers crossed it doesn't get too bad, too fast.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Back to grey here, and expected to continue so for most of the year. It’s 7°C (but “feels like” 0°) and that’s as good as it'll get today. The barometers are much the same as they were elsewhere yesterday: 1025/1033mB

The new bedding proved to be very comfy

[ladymuck]

Ouch! Sorry to hear that SKB, not a fun situation to be in. Will taxis to the emergency dentist be a bit more reasonable next week, if you can hang on a bit?

[xoggoth]

Gawd. Hope gets better soon skb. Fortunate here, there's an emergency dental thing about 15 miles away. Had to use them once.

Walk with youngest of my 3 loony ladies later, looks nice & sunny tho cold.

[sadkingbilly]

morning all


merry christmas and all that good stuff.
Santa brought me an abscess in my jaw.
arrived Xmas morning, and is now like a golf ball.
I live (like most uk peeps) in a dental services desert, so i ordered some antibiotics from t'internet, but won't be here 'til Monday, cos the whole feckin country closes down for the religious holiday
111 offered me a dentist appointment 35 miles away on boxing day.
with buses every two hours, and taxis charging double bubble (£70 each way), i declined.
I DO hope it doesn't get much worse before Monday.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but with plenty of gaps. Dry. Currently 5 degrees ('feels like' 3) with a high of 7 expected. Barometer up to 1043 mBar.

Sunrise 08:48; Sunset 15:49 GMT

HWMBO has made some three bird concoction out of goose, chicken and pheasant that will be the centerpiece of today's family dinner. He's also made a Dundee cake (which smells amazing) and some mince pies, using a mincemeat I made in 2021 which has preserved remarkably well and tasted pretty good.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday apparently, though who knows these days?

Dry.

Grey.

Hints of sun.

Chilly in here at 12.4 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 8 deg in the leanto.

1028.5 mBar, 30.37 in Hg, 771.44 Torr, 14.92 psi, (up from 1027 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 8th of March 2020 eek popped in and LM found it a lovely sunny day until suddenly it wasn't any more, though it was still clement where NF was, however BR14 was glum & a bacon sandwich didn't cure it, whereas my leg was still painful though all the unguents did help a bit, as recommended by Doctor Fitz. .

Walk (towpath, unabbreviated) walked, plus a shorter trip to the Gnoll.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC.

Book. Other book.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: Maigret "A crime for Xmas (1961)" which was shown a month ago. Having been awake since 04:00 I dozed through bits of that.

"Lives well lived": Diane Keaton, Cleo Lane then Norman Tebbit <click> Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii (1972): Echoes. Patricia Routledge.

[NickFitz]

I did roast lamb today. Roast at 130°C until reached 59°C. Then 20 minutes at 200.

Perfect.

I should probably have been equally diligent about it, but most of it is going to be made into Scotch broth anyway so I only need the bits round the edges to be right

[NickFitz]

"Tell me the temperature of the meat, HAL".

"I'm sorry Nick, I can't do that".

.

It lasted!

It gets recharged via an AA battery in its base, so I should probably replace that. It’s a bit silly really, and I managed perfectly well without it, but it’s also convenient to have it ping my watch to tell me I should take it out and leave it to rest in five minutes

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was One Battle After Another (2025) in which a former revolutionary's past catches up with him and his daughter. One thing I’ve learned from having sometimes knocked about a bit further outside society’s norms than many people bother to venture is that there’s always some dickheads who are convinced they’re going to overturn the entire social order, and those dickheads are also wholly convinced that they’ll be Lenin and end up running everything the way it should be, and not the nameless loser who gets shot in the face whilst storming the Winter Palace at their behest. I thought this film picked up on that trait rather well, without being too obvious about it. It’s also interesting that, movie production schedules being what they are, the fascistic nature of the government forces was so blatant; the activities shown might as well have been documentary depictions of the activities of ICE in the USA right now, so one can only assume the creators saw what was coming and made the film while they still could. Very good, though also very unsettling

And then a rewatch of Violent Night (2022) in which Santa has to become John Wick in order to fulfil his mission. It’s no Holiday Inn, but I don’t see why that should stop it taking the prize for Best Christmas Film Ever (Other Than Die Hard)

Goodnight all