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[xoggoth]

Lunch at pub with me son. Portion far too big as usual. Pub lunches are always rubbish. Gotta drive to Reading tomorrow, staying a few days with old uni mate.

[NickFitz]

Tea: ribeye steak, fried onions, chips and beans. Very tasty steak that was

I didn't have a thick-cut one this time, as I'm starting to find them a bit excessive and I'm also trying to get my weight down after the unpleasant news I received when I put a new battery in the bathroom scales. So I went for the low calorie option - 10oz instead of 14oz. It was pretty thick anyway

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 0806

The clouds have parted and some sky is visible. According to the forecast, no rain today. Currently 6 degrees with a high of 9 expected. Barometer at 1019 mBar.

Yesterday we started our day at a local diner not far from the space needle (didn't go there) and then wandered back via a circuitous route while I hunted down various bits of street art. We ended up in the Seattle Art Museum which was very good. A brief further wander into China Town (International District) where we secured some cakes, had a very lovely pot of Oonlong Milk tea and then had a late lunch of dim sum and other bits. Dinner was at a local restaurant, five mins from the hotel.

[NickFitz]

Having been seized by a fit of enthusiasm, I've moved another carload of boxes over to the storage place

And I brought back the blanket chest that used to sit in what was, long ago, my bedroom at the parental home. Getting this back was a tactical move against myself, as it's both needed to sort out various bits in the bedroom, and also won't even fit in there until I've sorted other bits out. As it's now sitting in the hall being extremely In The Way of both the living room and front door, I'll have to sort all that stuff out just to make the place liveable, so I won't be able to put it off until some time that never comes

Speaking of which, there have been several boxes where I've thought "No, I won't take that, I can sort that stuff out over the weekend" and had to sternly remind myself that I've been saying that for two years now - and a lot longer if we count the old flat, which we probably should

[NickFitz]

To Big Sainsbury's I did go, securing a copy of the Christmas/New Year Viz, along with some other stuff such as food

We're back into whole shoulder of lamb season, so I shall be having a lamb dinner followed by making lots of Scotch broth before too long

Lunch was a couple of garlic and herb chicken thighs from the hot-or-not counter

And on the way there, I took a few boxes of stuff and dropped them off at the storage unit en route. I may take some more this afternoon, if I can be bothered

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Some very odd dreams. . One of which was apocalyptic (1Mt imminent), the other was erotic and very strange, and another was in some sort of cinema.

Dry.

Sunny.

Cold in here at 13.8 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto, 6.8 deg in the saltinghouse.

1025 mBar, 30.268 in Hg, 768.8 Torr, 14.866 psi, (down from 1028 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of December 2019 NF had a chicken dinner from A Big Chicken, and LM suggested a CUK cookbook, apparently unaware that such a thing already existed, whilst vetran had some odd sausages from the butcher and I watch much BTVS and Angel, including the one where Warren gets flayed alive which always causes much amusement. Especially in slow motion. .

DaveB found the cookbook:

https://forums.contractoruk.com/gene...-cookbook.html

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Cottons and some stuff I couldn't be arsed to separate in the WM.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Colder down here than it was further up the hill.

Out of spuds, so shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: R4 waffling on about raptors.

Oh good: Typhoo in trouble, didn't know they were owned by private equity but it's par for the course.

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/emb...697921.article

They make Glengettie, so I'd better buy all the packets I can find.

Wandered down to the garage, looked around inside, wandered back up to the house.

Freecell score: 86%, running average: 80%.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM. Dead Ringers.

Nothing to watch on the box.

Freecell score: 88%, running average: 80%.

Read book. Read other book. Read more of 1st book.

Went upstairs & looked at Mullard Audio & Radio circuits Book, 1st edition & 2nd edition.

2nd edition has a class A amplifier circuit I've never previously encountered.

Read more of 2nd book.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start, with a few condensation trails turning wispy high up in the blue. Not the warmest of days, being 6°C with an expected high of 10°, while the barometers are down a little to 1016/1024mB

I had a mixed night's sleep: it took me a while to drop off and I was then awoken by my bladder around 3am, my brain helpfully confabulating these into one long period of wakefulness despite a moment's thought making it clear that I must have been asleep for nearly three hours. Anyway, I then got back to sleep and had a good unbroken snooze until awaking without alarums just before nine

[WTFH]

Mornnig all
CBS, etc
In one of the former members of this parish, King Billy. 2C when we went out, with crunch grass on the paths and ice on the car windscreens (good job I wasn't driving)

TFIF, etc

[NickFitz]

Tonight's reading was Jeffrey Bernard's Low Life, being a combination of the two published collections of his Spectator column of the same title. Often very funny, sometimes mordant, always entertaining

Better get some sleep now so I can Get Things Done tomorrow - most importantly, get the new Viz

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was chicken madras with rice and naan

I got the rice a bit better this time, though not quite perfect

This was accompanied by a new episode of the Gloucestershire night policing thing

[NickFitz]

VIZ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ooh yes, I saw a tweet from them - Christmas issue and all! Must get it tomorrow

[xoggoth]

VIZ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time is 0706

Sunrise will be at 0714. Currently 11 degrees and that's the high for the day. Today's forecast is intermittent showers, around lunchtime and early evening. Otherwise dull and cloudy. Barometer up to 1020 mBar.

Dinner yesterday was a fun evening with a nice home cooked meal.

Seattle has a good selection of decent to high quality postcards at reasonable prices. This pleases me greatly.

[NickFitz]

Ham toasties for lunch

Tending towards the Simpsonesque out now

Several meetings this afternoon, but not all of the tedious kind

And I think I'm just about done with what I'm working on, so they'll help fill the time until the start of the long weekend!