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[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture was one of those rare occasions when I make use of my Apple TV+ subscription: The Banker (2020), based (loosely, I assume, though how loosely I do not know) on the story of two African-American gentlemen who did rather well for themselves in the west coast real estate market until they were presumptuous enough to start buying small-town banks in Texas, at which point they were deemed to be "uppity" and met with the full force of the law, serving terms of federal imprisonment for what were essentially minor paperwork snafus. It may be set in the early 1960s but it's still a useful reminder of why it's so baffling that the USA has somehow convinced itself that everybody wants to go and live there, when the only people who actually do come from places where you have to let goats tulip in your bedroom and reckon being treated like tulip by white people would be an improvement

And then the fourth part of the Christmas Trilogy (albeit set at the local festival of Thanksgiving in this case, which is only mentioned once in passing near the start and then has no further relevance): Live Free or Die Hard (2007) which also goes by the title Die Hard 4.0 though that seems like an overreaction to the fact that the title made it hard to find on streaming services; 4 would have been fine, as sorting film titles by floats is seldom a requirement. Anyway, as long as you're not the kind of person who screeches in horror at seeing a local network IPv4 address on screen and hastens to the IMDb Goofs page to report the transgression, it's fine: just the same old piss in a different shaped bottle, which is OK as that's what everybody wants from this kind of thing

And then E5 of The Plot Against America in which they've started forcing members of the Jewish community to move to parts of the country where their labour is "required", though of course this is achieved by capitalists imposing the moves on their employees rather than anything as European as rounding them up and herding them into cattle trucks

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tonight's selection from the Sainsbury's pre-digested range was belly pork slices with BBQ sauce, and fries. Nice enough, though their BBQ sauce (for I suspect they only have one recipe with minor variations) gets very samey

This was accompanied by some Trucking Hell. Not a lot of S8 left now, though I daresay S9 will be along soon enough

[xoggoth]

Loony lady 1 walk this morning. Quite nice sunny but cold. Then I had to go to her place to pump her tyre up. Bah! Not what I'd like to pump up!

After arriving home had a drink with Missus Drinky next door.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a roast beef bap (white)

The new recliner is being delivered on Monday so I'm trying to sort out enough space for it, which mainly involves dealing with stuff that's either still where I put it when I moved in, or still where I put it after bringing it from our parents' place earlier in the year

Speaking of moving in, it was two years ago today that my mattress arrived here and I thus took up residence!

[NickFitz]

oh, dear! - shot in the Arras!

The shoulder actually

[sadkingbilly]

morning peops.

I can almost see with both eyes!
Still not sure if that's a Good Thing or not though, considering what there is to see these days.
Retired again.*
This could be the last time (apologies to Jagger/Richards).
5 retirements in 4 years.
could be a CUK record?

[sadkingbilly]

where he has just received a minor bullet wound in the battle of Arras

oh, dear! - shot in the Arras!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's a fairly sunny start with areas of blue sky, though there's lots of that high streaky cloud here and there along with some lower, fluffier bits there and here. It's turned cold at 4°C which allegedly "feels like" -2°, rising to 7° later - though some rain may arrive around sunset and the temperature might rise to 8° briefly around that time. The barometers are up again at 1006/1014mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Wet.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Grey.

Gloomy.

Chilly in here at 11.2 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 8.5 in the leanto.

1016 mBar, 30.00 in Hg, 762.1 Torr, 14.735 psi, (down from 1019 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of December 2019 there was much voting early & often going on but the fecking government still got elected, whereas I avoided the rivers on the road outside by using the back lane, NF remembered to put the stock pot and the WM on, there was much discussion of coffee, coffee machines, beans, etc. by LM & DaveB, with LM also doing laundry.

Walk greatly abbreviated due to the inclemency of the weather which promptly cleared up by the time I'd got back home. Maybe try again later.

Tried again: started raining immediately thusly:

Lunch: brunch.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 81%.

Sun's out.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Almost took some photos. Met the chap I try to avoid.

Tea: Mr Brains faggots with peas etc.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Dalgliesh S3 E6.

[WTFH]

Morning all

TFIF, last officially billable day of the year for me.
Spelt in, so our walk was a bit shorter, and the overnight rain made it wet in some places, while the clear skies had then created frozen bits.

[NickFitz]

Over in France a little more than a hundred years ago, George Sherston ended up invalided back to Britain for the winter of 1916-17 due to an attack of dysentery, probably brought from Galipoli by Australian troops, which allowed him to get some hunting in once he'd recovered and gone home on leave. Eventually, though, the army remembered he existed and shipped him back to France, where he has just received a minor bullet wound in the battle of Arras during his first couple of hours in action since his return, and has been packed off back to a hospital in London

Friday tomorrow, insofar as days of the week mean anything once one's knocked off work at this time of year

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, I made shepherd's pie again. Very tasty

This was accompanied by the motorway-adjacent cops and their merry band of tenuously-linked dashcam clips

[NickFitz]

Getting the festive vibe on by having a few M&S Scottish all butter shortbread fingers with my afternoon coffee

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bacon bap, made even more bacony by the discovery of an extra rasher in the packet

[ladymuck]

A wash of one's smalls has been done and the items draped on the airer.

Some chugger came to the door begging for charity. Made my excuses to cut them off mid flow and send them on their way. Bloomin' cold out there.