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[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was some medical thing on All4, which I eventually realised I'd watched before but long enough ago that it no longer showed up as watched. IIRC the old chap with the serious neck injury dies. Might not bother watching the rest of it again

And then Inventing the Renaissance, with some good stuff about the extremely peculiar way Florence was governed: choose nine guys by drawing lots, lock them all in a tower, give them absolute power but everything they do has to be agreed unanimously, replace them with a fresh batch every two months. It doesn't seem to have had any worse results than we tend to end up with

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been takeaway leftovers

I realised today that I'd inadvertently arranged matters such that I was going to be eating chicken in various forms almost all week, so I've frozen some bits and will try to get a bit more variety into the menu

[NickFitz]

Another day done, and the sun hasn't even set yet!

Quite a nice, if hazy, golden orb thing going on in the west

[xoggoth]

Nice sunny walky followed by tea and biccies with couple lady neighbours.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dry and bright with quite a bit of cloud. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) and that's the high for the day. Barometer up a snifter to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 07:11; Sunset 17:20

Yesterday afternoon there were three parking enforcement officers all closely inspecting the multitude of Toyota Priuses that the garage next door has cluttered half the street with. I wonder if someone complained as they do tend to take over most of the street with parking of cars that are being worked on or waiting for their time in the garage. There aren't any parking restrictions on a Sunday but it is a good time to have a look at the scale of the problem.

Today I have been under the weather. On getting home from dinner yesterday I was beset by unpleasant abdominal cramps. These continued overnight and throughout today. They have started to ease up a bit but I would like to know what triggered them.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a roast pork and apple sauce bap (wholemeal) with a bag of plain crisps

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Grey.

Gloomy.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 10.9 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 8 deg in the leanto.

1016 mBar, 30 in Hg, 762 Torr, 14.735 psi, (unchanged), 58% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of December 2019 Brillo had stopped posting for a minute so LM shared that HWMBO was feeling better enough to subscribe to a turkey sandwich & some wine, whereas the discussion of "dust bunnies" progressed to the mention of "dust mice", being of some sort of Germanic origin back in the day, somewhat more Grimm-like and thusly more to NF's taste than the alternative Disneyesque "bunnies".

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. No Morrisons bread again. I wonder if it's discontinued. I avoided the thick sliced wholemeal Hovis.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about parking nazis outside a doctors surgery, Farmed Scottish Salmon no longer labelled "Farmed". You can tell it's farmed because it's fatty.

Freecell score: 82%, running average: 81%.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. The rice was remarkably lumpy.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Oak Island Nutjobbery. "The Italian job" visit. WTF? A nice jolly for some. It was on but muted & I read my other other other book.

Next week is "The Hatch" wherein someone will enter 4 8 15 16 23 42 into an Apple ][ in a desperate attempt to save The World. Or something.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=htt...f6005afcf566fa

Secrets in the Ice.

Turns out NCIS S21 is back, so S21 E5 instead. Amusing enough. I've missed 4 but they'll turn up again shortly.

I don't think I'll bother with NCIS Hawaii (cancelled) or NCIS Sydney. . In much the way that I didn't bother with the last 4 or 5 seasons of NCIS LA.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast but dry out, a pleasant walk was had. Shame it's Monday, but a short week for me as I'm off to the homeland to see dad on Wednesday.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Somewhat sunny start with patchy and hazy cloud. The relatively clear sky comes at the usual cost though: it's frosty. Currently 0°C ("feels like" -3°) with an expected high of 4°; the barometers are up a touch at 1011/1019mB

[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life this morning, as usual

Later, I didn't do much though I found time to muck around with GameplayKit a bit

Tea was Wales's finest tonkotsu ramen

There's a new 24 Hours in A&E! Still at QMC in Nottingham

And finally, I read a bit more of Inventing the Renaissance, which included a digression about Norse settlements in Greenland to illustrate how historians come up with explanations for things that turn out to be totally wrong, then repeat the cycle, and finally come up with something that's probably right but which they wouldn't have worked out at all without doing the wrong stuff first

Monday again tomorrow

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all, London calling

This morning it was sunny with lumps of fluff but has since clouded over a bit. Currently 5 degrees ('feels like' 2) and that's the high for the day. Barometer at 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 07:13; Sunset 17:19

The trip home yesterday was uneventful. Charles De Gaulle was a breeze! Hardly any queues, minimal faff, and everything ran on time. Meeting friends for dinner this evening.

[NotAllThere]

Just about to start the roast pork. Whole family (10 of us) coming around. The grandkids are meat hoovers, so along with a 1.7kg pork roast, I'm doing four chicken shoulders. 2kg of roast potatoes, boiled broccoli and courgettes. Afters is baked apples with raisins and cinnamon. First time I've found cooking apples available in any of the local supermarkets - these are from Lidl in France.

Temperature 4 °C
Wind speed 3 km/h from NNE
Wind gusts 8 km/h
Humidity 63%
Pressure 978 hPa

Sky is relatively clear. Two degrees of frost expected overnight.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a sausage and bacon cob (white)

It was going to just be sausages but I discovered the bacon pack had broken, probably when it was being crammed into the shopping bag or the fridge, so I took this as a sign that I should have a couple of rashers, then stuck the rest in the freezer

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 11.8 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto.

1015 mBar, 29.97 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.72 psi, (up from 1012 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of December 2019 Brillo was posting a lot, whilst NF had a towel wash (deep colours) on.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine. Much more pleasant out there today than it has been recently.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus.

Freecell score: 96%, running average: 81%.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: the poetry bollox on R4.

"The Rise & Fall of the Rust Belt" on PBS. No wonder MAGA is so popular there.

"Ice Age Apocalypse" on 5+1.

Dead Vikings thing on Blaze. . Verged on the oak island nutjobbery.