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[NickFitz]

Lunch: sausages in finger rolls

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dull and damp. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 16 expected. Some spits of rain ongoing and more showers due until early evening. Barometer down to 1005 mBar.

Hungover today. HWMBO made a very nice dinner and we had G&Ts, wine and cocktails over the course of the evening. I have managed to get myself out of bed to drag my sorry arse over to Hackney Wick to look at an art exhibition.

[NickFitz]

Happy to report that the dire effects of the flu jab have largely receded. Still not 100%, but the stinking headache that developed yesterday lunchtime seems to have gone

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Rather a grey day here, and not as warm as it could be: 11°C ("feels like" 6°) going on 12°. It may brighten up a little this afternoon, but will be breezy with it. The barometers are starting back down again at 993/1001mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Damp since it was torrential overnight.

Wanly sunny.

Chilly in here at 15.2 deg, 15.5 deg in the kitchen, 13 deg in the leanto.

1003 mBar, 29.62 in Hg, 752.3 Torr, 14.547 psi, (down from 1008 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

[NickFitz]

Have you achieved the version perchance?

That's the one that knocks me sideways every time.

That may be the one they're giving me! The surgery I'm with now started life as the university's Student Health Service but extended its remit to the wider community, so there's a mix of student-age people and older folk, with very little in between because people in the 25-50 age range don't need doctors quite as much for the most part. So one's always going to seem especially decrepit next to the large number of undergraduates frequenting the place

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Wolfs (2024) in which Brad Pitt and George Clooney play ageing fixers, both called in by different people to fix a political figure's mess and forced to work together despite their penchant for operating alone. I can see why it was straight-to-Apple-TV because it's not exactly a blockbuster, but it's entertaining enough

And then the final two episodes of The Wire, the last being ninety minutes long, so a film in its own right really. Still one of the finest series ever to grace our screens

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Tea has been a pork chop with chips and beans

Accompanied by some Trucking Hell

It was a chop rather than a cutlet this time because although the cutlets were on special offer, Inadequate Sainsbury's only had them with very short expiry dates. Turns out that wouldn't have mattered, but I wasn't sure yesterday whether I'd have them today or next week

The medically-induced lurgy isn't getting any better, though it is getting slightly worse. Sometimes I don't have any problems after a flu jab, but this year's is trying to make up for all the times I got away with it

Have you achieved the version perchance?

That's the one that knocks me sideways every time.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a pork chop with chips and beans

Accompanied by some Trucking Hell

It was a chop rather than a cutlet this time because although the cutlets were on special offer, Inadequate Sainsbury's only had them with very short expiry dates. Turns out that wouldn't have mattered, but I wasn't sure yesterday whether I'd have them today or next week

The medically-induced lurgy isn't getting any better, though it is getting slightly worse. Sometimes I don't have any problems after a flu jab, but this year's is trying to make up for all the times I got away with it

[NickFitz]

That's the week done, and about time too!

The headache lingers, and I generally feel very meh

But I managed to get the mundane laundry done and dried over the course of the day, so that's one less thing to worry about

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny, dry, wispy fluff. Currently 12 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

The play yesterday was very good. Had a lovely afternoon out and a nice catch up.

Another person has been to look at the guttering today, to see why it has a tendency to overflow, and they'll be back next week to tinker with it.

My accountant sent me my year end accounts the other day and I spent an hour or so this morning checking them, to discover a £600 discrepancy. Sent back to enquire as to where that £600 has gone / came from.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been Heinz tomato soup with white toast

I had a decent night's sleep last night, but felt a little below par this morning. Then, as I was making lunch, I started getting a headache. Only then did I remember the flu jab, so it seems to be kicking in and I don't expect to be at my best this afternoon. I've taken a couple of paracetamol, so with luck they'll tide me over until the commencement of the weekend

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cold in here at 15.2 deg, 15 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto, 6 deg in the saltinghouse.

1012.5 mBar, 29.899 in Hg, 759.44 Torr, 14.685 psi, (up from 1010 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Condensation on all the windows. Brrrr.

Meanwhile on the 20th of November 2019 there was continuing discussion of the Wispa chocolate bar, whereas NF fitted two humungous portions of stew into the freezer, one having to fit where the bread normally lives, stocks of bread being low at the time.

Washing in progress.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine.

Lunch: there was.

Shirts iRoned & airing upstairs, smalls ditto (apart from the iRoning bit).

Tea: scrambed egg etc.

Cottons requiring the iRon got it & airing upstairs.

Entertainment: precious little until I remembered Ghosts.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 78%.

Book(s).

"The King's Man (2021)". Amusing enough.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, and autumnally cold out. Nice sunrise though.

TFIF, etc

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Golden dawn out, though not the Greek nationalist movement nor the Victorian magicians. It's expected to be a sunny day, though with temperatures a bit lower in the absence of insulating cloud: a mere 2°C now with an expected high of 11°. The barometers are heading back up, being at 1004/1012mB

[NickFitz]

I watched a bit of an old Traffic Cops earlier but it turned out I remembered it, so I didn't bother carrying on till the end

So instead of TV, I've read a couple more chapters of The Siege

I'm not sure if I'm just tired or if the flu jab is starting to take its toll, but I suspect the latter. So I'm getting to sleep while the getting's good, in the hope of riding out the worst of it before morning

Goodnight all