Reply to: test please delete

[NickFitz]

Advance notice that BBC2 tonight has Knowing Me, Knowing Yule, the excellent Alan Partridge Christmas Special from 1995 (and on iPlayer afterwards, one assumes)

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy sort of day but with blue gaps here and there. Some waving about of the trees suggests a breeze, though nothing excessive. It's 7°C and will be 9°, with the barometers down somewhat at 1013/1021mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

And this evening, I read Part One (of two) of Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock. I read this back in 1981, and only vaguely remember it. But the premise was entertaining back then, so I thought it would be worth revisiting; it's not very long

The first of those I read was "The Sundered Worlds" (aka "The Blood Red Game") which was purchased from Woolies at 9d, being remaindered. He wrote them fast & they read fast.

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dreary.

Drizzly (slightly).

Damp.

Chilly in here at 11.8 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto, 9.6 in the saltinghouse.

1025 mBar, 30.268 in Hg, 768.8 Torr, 14.866 psi, (down from 1026 last night), 69% RH (Lid electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of December 2019 it was curiously warm in here for some reason, after waking early I watched commentaries on BTVS S7 E22 and Angel something or other, LM had made the mistake of weighing herself & decided it was back on gruel up to Xmas, while NF had discovered that the earliest time of sunrise had happened a couple of days earlier, though why that mattered when he slept until noon , and some daft Tory bint was waffling on about sunlit uplands on the wireless. Remind me how that turned out again?

Shirts in the WM. Shirts out of the WM & pegged out on the line in the light drizzle.

Smalls etc. in the WM. Smalls etc. out of the WM & pegged out on the line in the light drizzle.

Change of plan: all in off the line & meeting the TD. Ho hum. Hang the expense.

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life this morning

In the afternoon, they'd run out of North American border stuff so had switched to the Australians

And this evening, I read Part One (of two) of Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock. I read this back in 1981, and only vaguely remember it. But the premise was entertaining back then, so I thought it would be worth revisiting; it's not very long

Tomorrow, I may do things. We shall see…

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribeye steak with fried onions and chips

No beans this time, because variety is the spice of life and a change is as good as a rest

[ladymuck]

Looking for something to watch and perusing what's included with Amazon Prime. I think it's going to either be The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) or Black Adam (2024){2022).

[NickFitz]

The turkey and barley soup has turned out very nicely

[NickFitz]

Just had a couple of KFC hot wings to tide me over until the soup is ready

Big Jet TV is at LHR 27R watching planes taking off (and sometimes landing) in the fog

Meanwhile, the sky has mostly cleared here

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dark.

Grey.

Dreary.

Misty.

Foggy.

Drizzly.

Chilly in here at 11.8 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 9.5 deg in the leanto.

1027 mBar, 30.3272 in Hg, 770.313 Torr, 14.895 psi, (up from 1026 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of December 2019 see yesterday.

Walk (greatly augmented) walked in the grey gloom, mist, fog, and drizzle, eventually the sun deigned to come out on my way back home.

Why does this look familiar:

https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=216621

Stone me it's like this house.

Lunch: brunch. Stone me (again), my mouth is sore. .

House roughly vacced after quite an interval* of not bothering. Had to dismantle vac, bang filter on wall, clean out various bits and improve its effectiveness no end. Seemed quite clogged up, which was odd.

Entertainment: "D Day minute by minute" on PBS. There'd be nothing to watch without Adolph. .

*Last vaccing was on the 27th of November if TPD is to be trusted these days. . We won't mention when the place was last dusted.

Tea: beans on toast etc. with added boiled eggs.

Entertainment: Impossible Engineering: Falkirk boat lift. Neat.

Impossible Engineering: stratolaunch: one of the late Paul Allen's projects.

A Welsh Xmas.

Thing about Cary Grant on ITV. Stone me.

The bit of the thing about the Falkirk Wheel that I missed whilst making tea.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Bright and dry. Windy. I could see sky half an hour ago. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 7) with a high of 11 expected. Rain expected off and on all day. Barometer down to 1020 mBar.

Yesterday's family get together was good. HWMBO cooked a huge turkey and a multitude of accompanying dishes, all on a Mexican/Peruvian theme. Snacking on left overs and finishing the clearing up is the plan for today.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

The fog has lifted but it's still cloudy, though it may brighten upon a bit this afternoon. It's 5°C and expected to soar to 8°, with the barometers up a little at 1017/1025mB

The turkey soup has had the bones taken out, veg blended, and chopped meat added. I've also chucked in some pearl barley, just for a change. It should be ready by early afternoon, so it'll be soup for lunch

[NickFitz]

Today's viewing was the usual Monkey Life plus other wildlife stuff

And I did a bit of mucking around with getting SpriteKit stuff working in SwiftUI, again

This evening, I finished reading the George Sherston (i.e. Siegfried Sassoon) memoirs. He'd got to the point of quite looking forward to going to the front because he was fed up with boring admin stuff, but then his brigade was struck down by flu. Once that had passed, they were moved north and finally went to the front. And on his second night, having led a few men forward on a sneak attack on a German machine gun post, an overeager sergeant from his own company who didn't realise they weren't back yet shot him in the head as he returned to his own lines! Only a graze on the scalp and he was able to walk to the medical post, but this resulted in him getting shipped back to hospital in England again and, of course, the German side collapsed that autumn and there was no war to go back to

The turkey bits and veg are in the slow cooker now, so there should be soup some time tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

For tea, the usual "special offer" from KFC

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a couple of Christmas leftover sausage rolls

I need to make turkey soup. I've got the leftover thigh from the other day and my sister donated a leg and some meat from the Christmas bird, so that should be enough to make a medium-sized batch