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[NickFitz]

This evening’s telly was a new episode of Police Interceptors

Later, I finished The Forgotten Soldier, in which his retreat from the Red Army continued northwards from Poland via a siege on the Baltic coast and eventual escape by sea - several times, managing to get from one port to another on overloaded small vessels. His military service eventually came to an end in the hands of British and American troops in Schleswig-Holstein. Weirdly, he’d been recruited by the Wehrmacht on the grounds of having a German mother (his father being French), but the Allies determined that they could only hold him as a PoW if he’d had a German father, and as far as they were concerned he was a French civilian. So they let him go and sent him home to France

I’m inordinately pleased that I woke up early enough to get the haircut first thing and was able to do the shopping at lunchtime, as it means I have no errands left to run tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a rack of ribs with smoky BBQ sauce and chips

And while that was cooking, I made the meaty part of a shepherd’s pie. This is now cooling down in the dish, and will spend the night in the fridge so the flavours of the various herbs and spices I chucked in will have a chance to develop and mingle

[NickFitz]

BINOCULAR VISION!!!

[NickFitz]

Another day done, another week done, and only four more working days this year!

[Pondlife]

Afternoon all,

Wind 6 kt from the West/Northwest
Temperature 7°C
Humidity 81%
Pressure 998 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more

Christmas lights are up and only 11 more billable days of '25

[WTFH]

BINOCULAR VISION!!!

[sadkingbilly]

BINOCULAR VISION!!!



<i'm quite pleased, does it show??>

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been delayed. We weren’t too busy anyway, and the other dev needed to deal with some stuff relating to the builders that are currently installing a heat pump in her house - they’ve not had any heating through all the cold weather while they waited for this. So I took the opportunity to nip along to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s, and now the two errands I needed to run this weekend (shopping and haircut) are both sorted!

I got some cold cocktail sausages, which I can snack on whilst working, so I’d better get back to it

It’s pouring with rain here now

[WTFH]

New car ordered, hoping for delivery before Christmas.

[ladymuck]

^^ and



Morning all

Dull. Damp. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) and that's the high for the day. Rain expected later. Barometer down to 995 mBar.

Sunrise 08:29; Sunset 15:46 GMT

The presentation for this afternoon is done. I suddenly seem to have a lot of meetings this afternoon when I initially had a fairly clear day.

[sadkingbilly]

morning all
dry but overcast here in the east riding.
I've been persuaded* to carry on on another project for clientco, albeit at 5hrs/day <ish>, since i don't want to wear myself out before my time
so, i'll have a banana

*they waved bundles of large denomination currency at me, what was I supposed to do?
off for eye op soon (YAG laser), so i'll have binocular vision this afternoon.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday already? Where does the time go?

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 14 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 10.5 in the leanto.

992.5 mBar, 29.3 in Hg, 744.4 Torr, 14.395 psi, (down from 995 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, LondonManc, and Brillo popped in, LM was rained on, NF took the car for a battery charging trip, and I checked to see if Freeview needed retuning and it didn't.

Walk (unabbreviaged, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Maybe if I'd done the washing frenzy today it would have dried on the line a bit more.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the Stoppard thing on R4.

Freecell score: 33%.

Freecell score: 75%.

Gave up.

Tea: beans on toast: forgot the scrambled eggs. Entertainment: PM.

Book. Other book.

Classic Xmas Movies: The Muppet Movie.

Classic Xmas Movies: It's a wonderful life.

Who chopped down the Sycamore tree?

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Up very betimes this morning, as I woke up around half six and didn’t even feel like going back to sleep. So I arose and prepared myself for the day, and then drove across town to see if the hairdresser was at her station early, as usual. She was! So I’ve had my Christmas haircut, and that’s one more thing crossed off the list

Her partner has made it to another Christmas, but the doctors are now giving him until spring. Still, I think that’s more than two years longer than they gave him when he was first diagnosed

Then back again, where a builder doing some work on one of the flats had taken my preferred space. Still, there was plenty of room (two spaces) on the other side of the big lawn, and it saves him carrying stuff too far, I suppose

It’s mild out for the time of year: 6°C now, as it was when I arose, and the “feels like” 0° is nonsense as there’s only a slight breeze and it felt fine out there to me. The high for the day is expected to be 7°, and the barometers are down a good bit at 984/992mB. There’s cloud down near the horizon but it’s clearer further up, and some first glimmerings are coming from the sun. But the prediction is for rain to start within the hour and continue, off and on, through the day

[WTFH]

Morning all
Heavy rain overnight means the ground is sodden and the lanes are rivers, but at least it wasn't raining on us.

[NickFitz]

In The Forgotten Soldier, it’s Autumn 1944 and the past year has been spent retreating across Ukraine, occasionally being sent forward again, then retreating some more until eventually he was retreating through Romania, just for a change

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all