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[NickFitz]

Big Sainsbury's has been gone to, so I should be able to avoid starvation for a few more days!

I wouldn't have bothered going there rather than the not-as-big one if I'd remembered that the traffic to the adjacent retail park is always massively congested at this time of year. It took a good fifteen or twenty minutes to get through a junction fed from the motorway that normally takes, at most, two minutes or so to get past

Some good came of the trip though. I'd thought the other day (Christmas Eve, I think) that one of the Christmas things I hadn't encountered in quite a few years was the Scottish shortbread assortment, usually in a tin with a picture of a stag or a man in a kilt tossing a caber on the front. I'd been looking out for such a thing, but neither M&S nor Sainsbury's seemed to have anything in that line except smallish packets of shortbread fingers. But wherever they'd been hiding them, the assortments are now being disposed of at a knockdown Nectar price - several shelves full of them, albeit not in tins, and with use-by dates in July! So I got a couple of them, as I like a bit of shortbread now and then

Perhaps if they'd put them in their present position at the posh end of the biscuit aisle, rather than somewhere else in the store where I couldn't find them, they might have sold some at full price in time for Christmas

Getting back, I was taking the lift back up and my new upstairs neighbour appeared, going up carrying something heavy - he's clearly moving in gradually, like I did. He politely asked whether the noise of Ikea stuff being assembled and so on had been disturbing me, and I assured him it hadn't. I should have said "Yes" as he's spent the last few minutes very noisily drilling something which appears to be located directly above my head

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Wet and windy. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 6) with a high of 12 expected. Rain and wind set to continue all day. Weather warning still in place. Barometer down to 1012 mBar.

Working today, only half a day though. Clocking off around 2pm.

[NickFitz]

Advance notice that BBC2 tonight has Knowing Me, Knowing Yule, the excellent Alan Partridge Christmas Special from 1995 (and on iPlayer afterwards, one assumes)

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy sort of day but with blue gaps here and there. Some waving about of the trees suggests a breeze, though nothing excessive. It's 7°C and will be 9°, with the barometers down somewhat at 1013/1021mB

[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?

Shirts in the WM. Shirts out of the WM & pegged out on the line in the light drizzle.

Smalls etc. in the WM. Smalls etc. out of the WM & pegged out on the line in the light drizzle.

Change of plan: all in off the line & meeting the TD. Ho hum. Hang the expense.

Shirts out of the TD & awaiting the attentions of the iRon after lunch.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Violence. <click> Enough of that.

Those of the cottons requiring the iRon received its attention: now airing upstairs.

Shirts roughly iRoned: now airing upstairs.

All done for another week, rather more than a cupful of water out of the TD this week. hang the expense.

Since the drizzle continues unabated the walk is cancelled for today due to lack of innerest.

Tea: soup etc. Stone my mouth is sore.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Archie Part 3 & Part 4.

[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