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[ladymuck]

It's been a lovely sunny day in Funchal. Day 1 of holiday has gone very well.

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, homemade pork chow mein

[WTFH]

Lunch was home made butternut squash soup. After defrosting it, it looked a bit lumpy, but a good nuke and it went back to smooth. Quite spicy, so I added a dollop of sour cream.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been turkey and barley soup with a crust of wholemeal

Nice soup that

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dry.

Chilly in here at 10.7 deg, 8 in the kitchen, 7 in the leanto, 5.6 in the saltinghouse.

1034 mBar, 30.534 in Hg, 775.56 Torr, 14.9969 psi, (unchanged), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 19th of December 2019 Brillo was posting a lot, NF was considering consuming a mince pie, whilst LM was discussing bathtub gin.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Smalls & cottons in the WM.

Smalls & cottons out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: thing on R4 about surrogacy. Well it was on.

Shirts in off the line, in the TD for a moment or two, then met the iRon: now airing upstairs.

Entertainment: The infinite monkey cage best bits, plus S28 E1 Octopuses.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom somewhere in there after brunch.

Cottons in off the line & in the TD.

The remaining items needing the iRon duly iRoned.

Tea: assorted sandwiches.

Entertainment: PM. Doomed as ever. AI? What could possibly go wrong? We've already got Skynet. .

[WTFH]

Morning all
It's getting brighter in the mornings, the temperature was a pleasant 5C when we went out. Looks like it might be a pleasant day.
Recycling men wouldn't take the plastic of my old paper shredder, so we'll see if it will be taken by the black bin team. (It's an all-play bin week - recycling, black and garden)

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rosy-fingered dawn outside and it's not even freezing, being 1°C with an expected high of 4° - though the extremely light breeze that's barely stirring the trees is apparently powerful enough at the moment to make it "feel like" -6°. The barometers are down a touch at 1025/1033mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all, Gatwick calling

Dark. The sun is not yet ris. Currently 3 degrees with a high of 6 expected. Barometer at 1040 mBar.

Sunrise 07:59; Sunset 16:30

HWMBO and I are in the BA First lounge awaiting our flight to Funchal. Over there it's going to be 23 degrees and sunny.

[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life this morning, but I didn't bother with any further telly for the rest of the day as it's all stuff that's been on innumerable times

This evening's viewing has been the first three (of four) parts of 7/7: The London Bombings which have covered the events themselves, the investigation to establish who the perpetrators were, and the failed bombing attempts two weeks later and subsequent manhunt, leading us to the point where the unfortunate Jean Charles de Menezes has been executed for the heinous offence of having a swarthy complexion in a public place, something the Met are known to regard as completely unacceptable

Back to work tomorrow, but it's not been a bad weekend. If nothing else, I got some laundry done

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

you (or one of you) flew from GLA/LHR then LHR/EDI now EDI/LHR all to get a bus to LGA??*
WTAF????

there're easier routes.
just sayin'

So...

HWMBO and I had booked a week in the sun in Madeira last year sometime, which flies from Gatwick. He lives in Glasgow so would have always had to fly down at some point this weekend as we had also planned to stay overnight at Gatwick ahead of our early flight on Monday.

A group of people we know had arranged a meet up in Heathrow T5 ahead of a night out in Edinburgh, and that was this weekend. So HWMBO had to then head back up to Scotland with me for that on Saturday (his flight down on Friday having been booked before this event was decided).

The easiest way for us to then get from Heathrow to Gatwick today was by coach. If we hadn't done the social in Edinburgh then it would have been a train ride via the Lizzy Line and Thameslink from my place.

It all makes sense, honest!

[NickFitz]

For tea, some of the spicy Turkish chicken and potato thing I made last week. Very nice again

[NickFitz]

Having had a couple of croissants with strawberry jam for breakfast, I only wanted a light lunch. So I had a Greggs chicken bake

It's not completely cloudy out now, though it mostly is. But there are bits of only lightly veiled blue here and there

Meanwhile, a bedding wash is on, being the duvet cover and such; yesterday it was the mundane laundry

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all, Edinburgh calling

Bright and dry, some cloud. Damp underfoot due to thawing frost. Currently 2 degrees with a high of 4 expected. Barometer at 1034 mBar.

Sunrise 08:37; Sunset 16:07

HWMBO and I are at the airport, awaiting our flight to Heathrow which has been delayed about an hour. Once we know we're actually leaving, I will book our coach tickets that will take us from Heathrow down to Gatwick.

you (or one of you) flew from GLA/LHR then LHR/EDI now EDI/LHR all to get a bus to LGA??*
WTAF????

there're easier routes.
just sayin'

[NickFitz]

The dogs from the block across the lawn just came out with their female chauffeur and have gone for a ride in one of their cars

And there's a van from the Guide Dogs charity parked outside the adjacent block. So maybe one of my neighbours will be getting one, which would be exempt from the strict No Dogs provision in the lease (which I assume the two that live opposite dodged by moving here before the vote to resume enforcing it). Or it could just be somebody visiting who works there and gets the use of the van on weekends