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Read some more of The Forever War, in which our protagonists have returned to Earth and been discharged from the military after what was subjectively two years for them, though relativistic effects mean many more years have passed here while they were away and things are very different…
This was accompanied by another Scottish Murder Trial involving the death of a chap whose skeletal remains were found on a derelict industrial estate by some urban explorers
It’s been a good series.
The Wife had a bit of knee work done today, which meant mildly less pain tonight. Hopefully it will improve, but we shall see.
Tea has been chicken in white wine sauce, with rice
This was accompanied by another Scottish Murder Trial involving the death of a chap whose skeletal remains were found on a derelict industrial estate by some urban explorers
Nice morning at pub with local history group committee. Don't know much about history but on committee as I do the website. They were playing lots of nice old fart music as it was mainly just us old farts there.
PS Darn it, got Sam Cooke's What a Wonderful World in me head now.
I fancied the tomato sauce variant, but discovered I don't have any. Last year, they went through a period of not having any of the olive oil ones so since then, whenever I've been in that aisle, I've thought "Better get some olive oil ones while they have them" and neglected to get any of the tomato sauce ones
Then this evening's reading was the first part of The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, a sci-fi tale about soldiers fighting aliens near Aldebaran but also an allegory for the Vietnam War, in which the author had served. It's very good so far
Got it. Haven't read it yet. Peace & War.
Morning.
Wednesday.
Dry.
Grey.
Sunless.
Chilly in here at 11.5 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto, 5.6 in the saltinghouse.
1016 mBar, 30 in Hg, 762.1 Torr, 14.735 psi, (down from 1017 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 27th of December 2019 LM's HWMBO was very , NF was off out to M&S to buy more pigs in blankets, covbob was in work waiting for the heating to come on.
Shirts in the WM. Shirts out of the WM & pegged out on the line.
Smalls etc. in the WM. Ditto out of the WM & pegged out on the line.
Goodness me, I realised today that it's 20 years since I started "work" at Ye Olde Sloughe of Desponde. Who'd have thunk? 5 years and 8 months since I left.
Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.
After yesterday's nuthatches, today's wildlife was a treecreeper.
Lunch: brunch.
Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about car insurance, complicated innit? TWATO on about The Nazi in MI5. As if he's the only fecker in there.
Shirts in off the line & in the TD.
Shirts out of the TD and roughly iRoned & airing upstairs.
Cottons & smalls in off the line & in the TD.
Cottons & smalls out of the TD & iRoned where necessary & airing upstairs.
Entertainment: Infinite Monkey Cage Hollywood Space, followed by Quantum Mechanics (part).
Tea: soup etc. Meh.
Entertainment: PM relating how the Orange Moron will piss on Ukraine to stay big buddies with the murderous scumbag Putin.
Stone me, my neck just went <click> with a vengeance. .
Another gloomy grey morning out. Currently 2°C heading for 5°, with the breeze being insufficient for the "feels like" temperature of 1° to be given any prominence. The barometers are a tiny bit up at 1008/1016mB
Went to a wildlife talk earlier where the teenager I was mentoring was doing a presentation on bird photography. He did an amazing job… and he takes better photos than me now.
There was yet another new Traffic Cops to watch earlier. I'm beginning to wonder if this series will ever end
Then this evening's reading was the first part of The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, a sci-fi tale about soldiers fighting aliens near Aldebaran but also an allegory for the Vietnam War, in which the author had served. It's very good so far
Got to say that's 100% on him for not disabling the lift..
I don't know all the details, but I gather it was some mechanism for getting chemicals into a hopper or something along those lines; something that was similar enough to a lift for him to be working on it, but not for transporting humans. He'd put a warning notice that it shouldn't be used on it, and somebody walking by had accidentally knocked that off on to the floor, and then somebody else came along and started whatever it was. A sign hung on a handle saying "Men At Work" was what passed for safety precautions in those days, I suppose. They didn't let his widow see his remains
A lovely day was had, courtesy of a willing taxi driver and available guides at the sites we wanted to visit. Will have to come back for a longer and proper visit at some point.
Quite a busy morning, punctuated by delivery of a couple of flatpacks which will combine to form a new kitchen trolley - basically a kitchen island on wheels. This will, I hope, allow me to move appliances like the InstantPot™ out of the pantry and into its cupboard space, as well as giving me an additional worktop. It'll be in the way of the freezer door, hence the wheels - I only go in the freezer once or twice a day so it won't be much hassle to shove it out of the way, get what I want, and shove it back again
For unknown logistical reasons, the two parts were sent via two different carriers. When the first arrived I went down to meet him, the lift being conveniently on my floor. Arriving at ground level, I discovered that there was a lift engineer down there who explained that he'd been working in the shaft and had to get out sharpish when he heard me getting in
One of my Mum's oldest friends was married to a lift engineer who got pulped when somebody activated a mechanism he was working on at ICI's Runcorn plant in the mid 1960s, so I have to admit I found this a little disturbing. I'd rather put up with the inconvenience of him turning the lift off or something while he's in there
Got to say that's 100% on him for not disabling the lift..
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