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[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

And this afternoon and early evening have seen the mundane laundry done

[NotAllThere]

I had leftover lentil soup/curry for lunch with some leftover crunchy bread.

This evening we're going to our citizens only (+ guests) meat festival. All the bits of the pigs, plus booze, all for free - paid for out of the foreigner's taxes. (And mine!), At least I think it's free. It was last time, but we accidently sat with the VIPs... when we realised, we were going to move, but they insisted we stay. I ended up chatting with the education minister of Baselland. As you do...

[NickFitz]

A busy morning! I successfully transferred eight boxes of books down to the car and over to the storage unit. This frees up more space in the study, which I need because I want to rearrange it a bit

And onwards from the storage place to Big Sainsbury's, which is already getting ridiculously overcrowded with people panicking about Christmas. Somebody should tell them the shop is open on Christmas Eve, so they could just do it all then

Home again, where the shopping was unloaded and packed away in its respective places. After that, lunch, which was not from the hot food counter, being the leftover pork cutlet from the other evening in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce and a bag of plain crisps

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cold in here at 11.2 deg, 9 deg in the kitchen, 7 deg in the leanto, 4 deg in the salting house (two dehumidifiers in there overnight to keep it a bit warmer).

1006 mBar, 29.707 in Hg, 754.56 Torr, 14.59 psi, (up from 1002 last night), 58% RH (Lidl electric, the GDR one is stuck at 78%).

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM.

Smalls and a couple of towels in the WM.

Smalls, towels, and shirts pegged out on the line.

Meanwhile on the 3rd of December 2019, the 2nd anniversary of NF's trip to hospital (2nd time?), there was mention by covbob of someone called "zeity" and someone else called "janey", plus LM's tea, and Brillo missing some weather report from that Swansea.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: TWATO. <click>

Freecell score: 50%, running average: 80%. Making dumb mistakes for some reason. Gave up.

Shirts in off the line & in the TD.

Shirts out of the TD & roughly iRoned since they were nearly dry to start with.

Smalls in off the line & in the TD: the socks, being padded, take longer than anything else.

Another cupful of water out of the TD when all was done: everything upstairs airing away.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 80%.

Tea: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Some UFO bollox on Blaze.

Book. Other book.

"JFK: the final evidence" on Blaze: more bollox: 2023 celebration of 60 years of conspiracy theories, Lone Gunmen, The Grassy Gnoll, "Mary", Jack Ruby, and the chap who shot straighter than the latest Patsy: LHO his very self.

Tina Turner Live in Arnhem 2009.

Gilmour live in Pompeii: not impressed with the howling on The Great Gig to be frank: not a patch on Clare Torry.

I note that "Pulp (1972)" is on Talking Pictures TV starring Michael "Blow the bloody doors off" Caine.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Treacherous walk this morning on the places where the snow had melted (or been scraped off) and then frozen, but not he snowy grass, it was fine. CBS, etc now.

TFIF, etc

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start out, but there's been some more snow overnight. Not a lot, though, and the thaw had already set in by dawn, judging by the evidence. It's already up to 2°C, albeit pretty windy so it "feels like" -5°, with an expected high of 5° at lunchtime. The barometers have recovered slightly to 992/1000mB

The plan for this morning is to move some more boxes to the storage unit and continue on to Big Sainsbury's, though doubling back and going to not-big-enough Sainsbury's is also an option, I suppose

[NotAllThere]

Currently...

Temperature -1.8 °C
Sunshine 0 of 10 min
Precipitation 0 mm/h
Wind speed 11 km/h from SW
Wind gusts 18 km/h
Humidity 83%
Pressure 972 hPa

And over a foot of snow on the ground... except around my mailbox where it's drifted over 3' deep! It snowed from 3pm until 2am. Trams and buses were suspended from 9pm - trams due to snow on the catenary, and buses because of abandoned cars blocking roads. Buses are running now. My daughter got to her primary school (walking distance) to find no other teachers were there and it looked initially like she'd have to deal with 120 kids! But the others did make it in, albeit a little late.

One of my rose plants has a beautiful frozen rose.

[ladymuck]

What did you see?

Sorry, missed this

Oedipus at Wyndham's Theatre.

Some faint of heart people gasped at the closing scenes.

Old story, delivered very well. Only 2h long, no interval.

[NickFitz]

I felt like reading something a bit more serious than the fraud book and Jeffrey Bernard, so I started on Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen. It's described as a non-fiction thriller, in that it gives a minute-by-minute account of (so far) a nuclear attack against the USA, which is all based on declassified info and interviews with people who've held the jobs at the various levels of US Defence, all but a former president, and interspersed with factual background material about things like the nuclear football, submarines, and so on. It's a good read, as demonstrated by the fact that I've got about a third of the way through it at 122 pages

Better get to sleep now so I can both have a lie in and make the most of my Friday

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade sweet & sour pork with fried rice

This was accompanied by the final episode of the latest series of A House Through Time. Lots of fascinating stuff in this one, I thought

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Three more to go until the Christmas break begins…

[NickFitz]

I made an executive decision to pop out and drive over to the hairdresser's on the off chance her husband hadn't died yet and she was still working, as I was getting a bit shaggy and figured going now will see me through into the new year. He hasn't, so she was there. Better still, no other customers were, so I didn't have to hang around. Only fifty minutes to get there, get trimmed, and get back again!

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cajun chicken breast in a wholemeal bap with a bag of plain crisps

Sunny out, but still chilly I reckon

Same again, both lunch and weather

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Oedipus schmoedipus, a boy should love his mother. Oi vey. .

Dark.

Dreary.

Damp.

Cold in here at 11.2 deg, 10.5 deg in the kitchen, 7 deg in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.56 Torr, 14.47477 psi, (untapped), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of December 2019 Brillo did a list of who posted on TPD, whereas LM was running some excel sheet to look for duplicates, and NF had run out of sausage & bacon , plus SimonMac had made a rare appearance.

Many thanks to Barclays for texting me at 04:00 and giving me the opportunity to read another hour or so of the current book. Feckwhits.

Lunch: brunch.

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away: the stagger back was the first time I've been warm today.

Entertainment: The Dyke without a Bike talking to a new Scout chappy: turns out he's been stabbed & shot at, though the latter was by some oik Who Hadn't Maintained His Weapon Sunshine as someone once said, so it misfired twice happily enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Z0yr49xXw

Tea: soup with some lentil soup of unknown antiquity extracted from the freezer and mixed with a can of same: it wasn't exactly, er, nice, but was just about edible with added chilli powder. There's no more of it, thankfully, so the exercise won't be repeated.

Entertainment: PM <click>

PBS: thing about sunken ships: the nuclear sunken ships: mostly those from Operation Crossroads, but the Thresher gets a mention.

Followed by: PBS: "Two American Families 1991 - 2024" being the story of the gutting of manufacturing: of going from working for Briggs & Stratton for $18/hr to being glad to get $6/hr in some godawful service job.

It went <click> because I couldn't stand it.

To a large extent it explains the election of the Lying Orange Moron with his promises of tariffs etc.

Gawdelpem when the Musk cretin sticks his oar in.

Thing on BBC1 about the nuclear veterans & the totally usual attitude of the MOD which echoes the attitude of Liz I to the poor sods from the crews fighting the Spanish Armada.

You're cannon fodder: shut the **** up & die quietly.

[WTFH]

Morning all
The walk started with light sleet, then about 200 metres from our house that turned to heavier sleet and then snow.

Snowing quite hard now.
Chimney sweep is coming round later, as is someone of FB Marketplace who wants to buy a lenovo docking station off me for £35.

BTW, if you know anyone interested in some series 5/6 BT Home Hubs (can be reconfigured) or a couple of sonos bridges, a Dyson V58, or a Nokia N95, let me know.