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[xoggoth]

Usually when I'm lucky with three letters I am left with a multiple choice for the other two!

Just back from village club, half lager, following another toothpaste inspection. MUD MUD MUD!

[NickFitz]

Gordon Bennet! Just got Wordle in 2 goes, 4 out of 5 letters right on first geuss. The god of Wordle must like me.

Getting it in 2 goes is the best. If you get it in 1, that's just the luck of the draw. But getting it in 2 means you can definitely ascribe it to pure skill

[NickFitz]

Sausage rolls for lunch

[xoggoth]

Gordon Bennet! Just got Wordle in 2 goes, 4 out of 5 letters right on first geuss. The god of Wordle must like me.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Wet.

Sunny.

Windy.

Chilly in here at 11.4 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen, 9 deg in the leanto, 6.4 deg in the saltinghouse.

1006 mBar, 29.707 in Hg, 754.56 Torr, 14.59 psi, (up from 1005 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of December 2019 NF was making soup, and I was having liver, bacon & onion gravy, followed by viewing S4 of Angel where Jasmine appears, definitely not my favourite since a thing about model railways took over due to lack of appeal.

Shirts in the WM. Shirts out of the WM & flying horizontally on the line.

Smalls in the WM. Smalls out of the WM & flying horizontally on the line.

Sun.

Rain.

Sun.

Semigale.

April in December.

Shirts in off the line & in the TD.

Shirts out of the TD & smalls in off the line & in the TD.

Just had a ?sparrow hawk? on the lawn. Dunno if it caught anything but there's a lot of feathers about.

Lunch: brunch.

Towels & socks in off the line & in the TD. Still blowy out there but it's picking with rain too.

Everything out of the TD & airing upstairs. Shirts roughly iRoned ditto, along with those cottons requiring said iRon.

Done for another week.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked. It rained spits & spats on me for a while, but I was brave and carried on.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: some tosh on R4 that I've now completely forgotten.

More other book.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It was a bright and sunny start but almost immediately clouded over and is now very gloomy and… I was going to say raining, but it's snowing!

It's not going to settle or anything so it's functionally equivalent to rain, but it's definitely big, wet flakes and not raindrops. It's supposedly 3°C yet feeling like -6°, whatever that feels like, and getting as high as 6° this evening. The barometers are trivially down at 991/999mB

[NickFitz]

Today saw the usual batch of Monkey Life and other stuff

And this evening I finished Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, being part two of the trilogy, in which George Sherston/Siegfried Sassoon makes a public statement against the continuation of the war and refuses to resume his duties; but rather than the court martial and imprisonment he expected, the authorities discreetly deem that he has shellshock and stick him in a military hospital in Edinburgh, well out of the way

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, I went for a walk round to the kebab shop

[NickFitz]

NF was sans whatever they'd prescribed to replace the stuff he'd previously been taking due to some inefficiency with the prescription

In the end, the replacement turned out to be better than the other stuff - and not just because it didn't contain carcinogens

[NickFitz]

Sausages in finger rolls for lunch

[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.

Visit from ex colleagues: nice to see them, to see them, nice. .

Lunch: brunch.

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

That was then, this was now: sunny: Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Quite pleasant.

Took in a parcel for some chap over the road. I assume I've given it to the right guy since I don't know any of them any more. Not like Malcolm Jones who lived there for donkey's years. Or Ken Loring ditto.

Tea: chilli con carne with rice etc. Nice enough when spiced up with hot chilli powder.

Entertainment: Other other other book. Endof.

Book.

"Twighlight's Last Gleaming (1977)" with that Burt Lancaster chap. I remember seeing this in the Odeon Swansea in 1978 (or so, it's been a while). Never seen it since. Now on TalkingPicturesTV. In fact there's two Burts, the other one is a Young.

I think that was the US cut: the European cut was 2 hrs, this was about 2:35 (allowing 20 minutes for ads).

[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