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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny day out though with some bits of variously-formed cloud here and there. A bit warmer at 10°C, and going to reach 11° briefly. The barometers have dropped back to 992/1000mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and damp out. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Smattering of rain forecast. Barometer at 1011 mBar.

Yesterday started off bright and then turned dull and damp. It was cold, too.

HWMBO and I went to Harvey Nichols to spend the free £50 that one gets with Amex Platinum. We then walked around the corner to The Peninsula that recently opened to try out their Brooklands bar which is a mix of Concorde and motor racing themed. Fab views over Hyde Park (and the horror that is Winter Wonderland at the moment) from one aspect and over St James's Park towards the city from another. Drinks were hotel priced and not the best. I would say pop in if passing but don't make a special trip.

Today we're going to Old Kent Road (that's where my Dad was born!) to buy something from a Peruvian food shop and then onto Borough Market for other comestibles.

We thought the Knightsbridge area would be manic yesterday but it wasnt. I'd almost say it was quiet. Borough Market is always hectic on a weekend so I expect it will be much the same, if not worse, today.

[xoggoth]

Couple free days, no (other) ghastly old farts. Do me toothpaste inspections under gray sky.

Got 1st 3 letters of Wordle on 1st geuss. Usually lucky with that thing. Nah, it's not luck, it's genius!

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ I was holding out for "Die Hard 4.01" just in case, like, seeing as 4.0 wasn't exactly as good as 1, 2, or 3.

Morning.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Wet.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 11.7 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 9.5 in the leanto.

1009.5 mBar, 29.81 in Hg, 757.18 Torr, 14.64 psi, (down from 1013 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of December 2019 there was a bus crash in Swansea (double decker under a low bridge, way off route), WTFH was waiting in GVA for a jet plane as the song went, LM was doing yet more washing, including the bath mat, and NF was sans whatever they'd prescribed to replace the stuff he'd previously been taking due to some inefficiency with the prescription, vwdan had too much for lunch, and scruff was discussing coffee beans.

Judging by the weather there'll be no walk today.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture was one of those rare occasions when I make use of my Apple TV+ subscription: The Banker (2020), based (loosely, I assume, though how loosely I do not know) on the story of two African-American gentlemen who did rather well for themselves in the west coast real estate market until they were presumptuous enough to start buying small-town banks in Texas, at which point they were deemed to be "uppity" and met with the full force of the law, serving terms of federal imprisonment for what were essentially minor paperwork snafus. It may be set in the early 1960s but it's still a useful reminder of why it's so baffling that the USA has somehow convinced itself that everybody wants to go and live there, when the only people who actually do come from places where you have to let goats tulip in your bedroom and reckon being treated like tulip by white people would be an improvement

And then the fourth part of the Christmas Trilogy (albeit set at the local festival of Thanksgiving in this case, which is only mentioned once in passing near the start and then has no further relevance): Live Free or Die Hard (2007) which also goes by the title Die Hard 4.0 though that seems like an overreaction to the fact that the title made it hard to find on streaming services; 4 would have been fine, as sorting film titles by floats is seldom a requirement. Anyway, as long as you're not the kind of person who screeches in horror at seeing a local network IPv4 address on screen and hastens to the IMDb Goofs page to report the transgression, it's fine: just the same old piss in a different shaped bottle, which is OK as that's what everybody wants from this kind of thing

And then E5 of The Plot Against America in which they've started forcing members of the Jewish community to move to parts of the country where their labour is "required", though of course this is achieved by capitalists imposing the moves on their employees rather than anything as European as rounding them up and herding them into cattle trucks

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tonight's selection from the Sainsbury's pre-digested range was belly pork slices with BBQ sauce, and fries. Nice enough, though their BBQ sauce (for I suspect they only have one recipe with minor variations) gets very samey

This was accompanied by some Trucking Hell. Not a lot of S8 left now, though I daresay S9 will be along soon enough

[xoggoth]

Loony lady 1 walk this morning. Quite nice sunny but cold. Then I had to go to her place to pump her tyre up. Bah! Not what I'd like to pump up!

After arriving home had a drink with Missus Drinky next door.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a roast beef bap (white)

The new recliner is being delivered on Monday so I'm trying to sort out enough space for it, which mainly involves dealing with stuff that's either still where I put it when I moved in, or still where I put it after bringing it from our parents' place earlier in the year

Speaking of moving in, it was two years ago today that my mattress arrived here and I thus took up residence!

[NickFitz]

oh, dear! - shot in the Arras!

The shoulder actually

[sadkingbilly]

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?

[sadkingbilly]

where he has just received a minor bullet wound in the battle of Arras

oh, dear! - shot in the Arras!

[NickFitz]

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

[DoctorStrangelove]

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.

Tried again: started raining immediately thusly:

Lunch: brunch.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 81%.

Sun's out.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Almost took some photos. Met the chap I try to avoid.

Tea: Mr Brains faggots with peas etc.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Dalgliesh S3 E6.

[WTFH]

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.

[NickFitz]

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