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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was an episode of The Crash Detectives

And in the GSG 9 book, the first problem in establishing an elite counterterrorist force turns out to be that in the early 1970s, nobody’s quite sure what one should be like. But they found valuable inspiration from underground publications that circulated among terrorist groups, advising how to structure urban guerrilla units

Monday again tomorrow, and it's my last working one of the year!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

I put extra blankets on my bed last night, even though it wasn't particularly cold, and was very snuggly and cosy. The extra weight is very nice; reminded me of visiting my grandparents as a kid where beds were made with flannel sheets and woollen blankets, not these modern duvets.

I deployed the electric throw thing inside the duvet cover the other night. Keeps my feet lovely and warm, and also adds a bit more weight to the covers

[NickFitz]

We had some rain this afternoon but the sky seems to have cleared now, so I’m getting an excellent view of Jupiter and the Moon ascending in close company with one another

[NickFitz]

Tea has been more leftovers, just to get them finished off

I’ve also managed to do a bedding wash, which is not far from being finished

[ladymuck]

It's turned quite breezy outside. I can hear the bins being rattled about.

[xoggoth]

Going to local carols in the square thing later with loony lady 2. Boring but summit to do.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was some leftovers

I’ve spent a few hours either side of it working out various things to do with the new forum software. Reasonably confident now about being able to sort out some rather gnarly stuff to do with the data import side of things

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Raining and will continue to do so for much of the day. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Barometer at 999 mBar.

Sunrise 07:53; Sunset 15:53 GMT

Decided against visiting Mum today. Much achiness and the bruises on my knees are already starting to come out. Hobbling a bit as my right knee isn't liking too much weight on steps. One of these days I'll rent a flat that's actually flat.

I put extra blankets on my bed last night, even though it wasn't particularly cold, and was very snuggly and cosy. The extra weight is very nice; reminded me of visiting my grandparents as a kid where beds were made with flannel sheets and woollen blankets, not these modern duvets.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Gloomy grey day out, with a damp feel to things although it’s not actually raining. It will be this afternoon, though. Currently 8°C (which allegedly “feels like” 4°), and supposed to soar to a balmy 13° later. The barometers have crept back up a little, to 987/995mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Drizzly.

Misty.

Damp.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 14.2 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

993 mBar, 29.3232 in Hg, 744.8 Torr, 14.4 psi, (down from 997 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of March 2020 Brillo, AndyGarbs, and LondonManc popped in, LM was irritated by sniffers on public transport, WTFH was leaving coming home on a jet plane, and I was in with the hoi polloi before purchasing some bread.

Raining well now and the mist is even thicker: can barely see across the valley, boyo.

Lunch: brunch.

Raining more. Mist thicker. What a lovely day.

Firkled about with an old Win95 laptop I was given: it was bringing up errors during book, so, for the first time in years, I edited autoexec.bat, config.sys, and system.ini to remove references to stuff that isn't on it any more and to replace references that pointed to the Wrong Place. Boots up more cleanly now but I need to run scandsk on it & scandsk isn't there having been deleted to save space at some time.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: something on R4.

Book. Other book. Book.

History's Mysteries: Noah's Ark. It went <click> even quicker than usual being full of Septic god botherers.

Sergeant Cork: S2 E2: "The case of the 4th visitor".

[NickFitz]

Tonight I started reading GSG 9: From Munich to Mogadishu by Martin Herzog, being the history of the creation of Germany’s much admired counterterrorism unit, created in the aftermath of the debacle of the 1972 Olympics

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s tea was brought to me from an East African restaurant not far away. Very good indeed, and big portions too! Definitely going to order from there again

This was accompanied by the next episode of Kingdom on iPlayer, in which the lions are managing to turn things around after a run of bad luck

The usual, already much diminished, wildlife programming has been eliminated entirely, replaced by loads of Christmas-themed junk

[ladymuck]

My flight was on time but Waitrose are running late.

I slipped over outside West Ealing station and ended up sprawled on the pavement. Two lads helped me up and made sure I was ok. My right knee isn't happy and I've definitely pulled a few muscles.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Now where's my ******* dog?

And then I rewatched Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which I assume needs no additional summarising from me after all these years

Shortly to be renamed "The Shape of Things to Come". .

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Rather a grey day out. It’s 11°C which is as good as it’ll get, though supposedly it “feels like” 4°. The barometers are down again at 981/989mB

I again neglected to record last night’s viewing, due to getting to bed very late, so for the record: the major motion picture premiere was actually two premieres, being a double feature of Becky (2020) and its sequel, The Wrath of Becky (2023). In the first of these, a group of escaped white supremacist convicts invade a family's lakeside holiday home (do all Americans have one of these, because they seem to appear in movies all the time?) in search of a McGuffin that had been concealed within some years before, and it’s up to 13-year-old Becky to save the day. She does so with great ingenuity and brutality, including a few ways of killing bad guys that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before in a film. In the sequel, she’s a few years older but still a teenager, and once again is forced into the situation of having to take out a bunch of white supremacists; the USA seems to have plenty of these to go around, but getting rid of a few more always helps! Both of these were great fun and are well worth a watch if you’re in the mood for that kind of thing

And then I rewatched Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which I assume needs no additional summarising from me after all these years