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[ladymuck]

Bom dia, Funchal calling

Blue sky, occasional fluff about. Currently 19 degrees with a high of 24 expected. Barometer at 1023 mBar

Sunrise 08:10; Sunset 18:24

HWMBO and I are having breakfast and deciding what to do with our day. We forgot swimming cossies so a trip to the shop may have to happen.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday apparently.

Damp.

Foggy.

Misty.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 11.1 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 9 deg in the leanto.

1031.5 mBar, 30.45 in Hg, 773.6886 Torr, 14.96 psi, (down from 1033 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 19th of December 2019: as per yesterday: lots of Brillo.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey sort of start I think, maybe brightening up a little later. Mild compared to recent times at 4°C and expected to soar to a balmy 9°; the barometers are down slightly at 1020/1028mB

[NickFitz]

After a bit of the motorway-avoidant police thing, tonight's viewing was the final episode of 7/7 on iPlayer

And then I finished reading February 1933 which actually continues until March 15 as it describes the various things the Nazis got up to as soon as they'd rid themselves of the constitution and any pretence at being constrained by law. On that basis, I give the USA until late February or early March

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

It's been a lovely sunny day in Funchal. Day 1 of holiday has gone very well.

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, homemade pork chow mein

[WTFH]

Lunch was home made butternut squash soup. After defrosting it, it looked a bit lumpy, but a good nuke and it went back to smooth. Quite spicy, so I added a dollop of sour cream.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been turkey and barley soup with a crust of wholemeal

Nice soup that

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dry.

Chilly in here at 10.7 deg, 8 in the kitchen, 7 in the leanto, 5.6 in the saltinghouse.

1034 mBar, 30.534 in Hg, 775.56 Torr, 14.9969 psi, (unchanged), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 19th of December 2019 Brillo was posting a lot, NF was considering consuming a mince pie, whilst LM was discussing bathtub gin.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Smalls & cottons in the WM.

Smalls & cottons out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: thing on R4 about surrogacy. Well it was on.

Shirts in off the line, in the TD for a moment or two, then met the iRon: now airing upstairs.

Entertainment: The infinite monkey cage best bits, plus S28 E1 Octopuses.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom somewhere in there after brunch.

Cottons in off the line & in the TD.

The remaining items needing the iRon duly iRoned.

Tea: assorted sandwiches.

Entertainment: PM. Doomed as ever. AI? What could possibly go wrong? We've already got Skynet. .

Book. Other book.

Oak Island nutjobbery: quadrilateral: dug a hole. Found an iron hoop. Probably Roman. Wall looks like a Portuguese wall from 1555. Or something. Same old Same old.

Secrets in the Ice: more Blazean bollox, but slightly less bolloxy than Oak Island, unfortunately has that massively irritating narrator. They found bones. Strange pile of empty Nazi oil drums on an island off Siberia: turns out to be from the Japanese during WWII: the usual underground maze as per the rather warmer islands in the Pacific.

Oh look: Blind Frog Ranch on Quest+1: more bollox. $3B this time. Claim jumpers. <click>

[WTFH]

Morning all
It's getting brighter in the mornings, the temperature was a pleasant 5C when we went out. Looks like it might be a pleasant day.
Recycling men wouldn't take the plastic of my old paper shredder, so we'll see if it will be taken by the black bin team. (It's an all-play bin week - recycling, black and garden)

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rosy-fingered dawn outside and it's not even freezing, being 1°C with an expected high of 4° - though the extremely light breeze that's barely stirring the trees is apparently powerful enough at the moment to make it "feel like" -6°. The barometers are down a touch at 1025/1033mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all, Gatwick calling

Dark. The sun is not yet ris. Currently 3 degrees with a high of 6 expected. Barometer at 1040 mBar.

Sunrise 07:59; Sunset 16:30

HWMBO and I are in the BA First lounge awaiting our flight to Funchal. Over there it's going to be 23 degrees and sunny.

[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life this morning, but I didn't bother with any further telly for the rest of the day as it's all stuff that's been on innumerable times

This evening's viewing has been the first three (of four) parts of 7/7: The London Bombings which have covered the events themselves, the investigation to establish who the perpetrators were, and the failed bombing attempts two weeks later and subsequent manhunt, leading us to the point where the unfortunate Jean Charles de Menezes has been executed for the heinous offence of having a swarthy complexion in a public place, something the Met are known to regard as completely unacceptable

Back to work tomorrow, but it's not been a bad weekend. If nothing else, I got some laundry done

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

you (or one of you) flew from GLA/LHR then LHR/EDI now EDI/LHR all to get a bus to LGA??*
WTAF????

there're easier routes.
just sayin'

So...

HWMBO and I had booked a week in the sun in Madeira last year sometime, which flies from Gatwick. He lives in Glasgow so would have always had to fly down at some point this weekend as we had also planned to stay overnight at Gatwick ahead of our early flight on Monday.

A group of people we know had arranged a meet up in Heathrow T5 ahead of a night out in Edinburgh, and that was this weekend. So HWMBO had to then head back up to Scotland with me for that on Saturday (his flight down on Friday having been booked before this event was decided).

The easiest way for us to then get from Heathrow to Gatwick today was by coach. If we hadn't done the social in Edinburgh then it would have been a train ride via the Lizzy Line and Thameslink from my place.

It all makes sense, honest!