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[NickFitz]

One strange feature of my life at the moment is that various accounts of our parents are being settled by financial institutions and when they are, my brother will send me my share without warning. So now and again, like this afternoon, I'll get a notification out of the blue that several thousand pounds have just landed in my bank account

I think we're nearly there now though. Got to save some for interring the ashes next spring

[NickFitz]

^^^ What news of the DPD parcel? We should be told!

Ah, yes! That conveniently arrived around twenty past five yesterday evening

He left it down in the entrance lobby when I buzzed him in so I had to go downstairs to get it, but I don't blame him - he'd been buzzing around in that van dropping off parcels for hours by that time

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cold chicken leg with a bag of plain crisps

Still foggy out

[ladymuck]

UPS update at 9.45 am:
Your package is in transit. We're updating plans to schedule your delivery. / The package will be forwarded to a UPS facility in the destination city.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with occasional fluff. Dry. Currently 5 degrees ('feels like' 3) with a high of 9 expected. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses with rain due overnight. Barometer up to 1026 mBar.

My UPS parcel was returned to the Feltham depot at 6.55 pm yesterday, with the comment "Delivery will be delayed by one business day". As of 3.42 am it was still in Feltham depot, no "Out for delivery" status just yet. If I choose to register with UPS, I could divert the parcel to a local pick up point. Let's see what happens today.

This afternoon I will be heading over to the Tower Hill end of town to meet HWMBO for dinner before he completes his course and heads home tomorrow.

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ What news of the DPD parcel? We should be told!

^^^^One of my kitchen cupboards remains half full of the Kleenex tissues I bought for my now very late father who popped his clogs in 2015. I intend to leave the remainder in my will.

Morning.

Wednesday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Sunless.

Misty, can't see much further down the valley, boyo.

Chillier in here at 12.6 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen, 9.5 deg in the leanto.

1020.5 mBar, 30.135 in Hg, 765.44 Torr, 14.8 psi, (unchanged), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of December 2019 NF got soaked doing the shopping, made his customary wander around "the biggest market in Europe" buying carrots & onions, I was watching yet more BTVS S7 and liking Anya, whereas BR14 was winding up Nat & reaching for his next ban.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.

Inneresting programme on R4 about overseas student & how they're propping up the Universities. In the realms of no tulip sherlock, speaking from experience. .

Lunch: brunch with added welsh cake.

Out for the welsh cake with my late mate's mrs, the earlier brunch being mistimed due to granddaughter's xmas play thingie taking an hour less than was calculated. Nice chat. Feeling poor now. .

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, 3C earlier, lovely morning for a walk.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Foggy start! The fog's getting thicker if anything and even if it clears once the sun rises shortly, it will still remain cloudy, at least in theory - though yesterday it turned fairly bright, so who knows? It's dewy too rather than frosty at 3°C, heading for 9° not this afternoon (when it will reach 7°) but overnight, when it will also rain. The barometers are up a little more at 1012/1020mB

[NickFitz]

I finished Shepperton Babylon, with the final chapter being about the decline of the British film industry of the 1960s and 1970s into sexploitation flicks, from the 8mm blue movies of Soho through things like the Confessions of… series, concluding that after Emmanuelle in Soho (1981) "…the only place left to go was upmarket". But as the book is largely about capturing the recollections of people who'd live through the many earlier stages of the industry before they died (and many did between being interviewed and the book being completed), the author doesn't drag it out with an examination of the move to period dramas of the 1980s and the 1990s-2000s boom in comedies like Four Weddings… and gangster stuff like Lock, Stock…

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

During the early days of Covid, when everyone was panic buying toilet roll, I orders a box of 36 boxes of Kleenex balsam tissues. My thinking was simple: if this thing is like the flu and you have a runny nose, you want tissues, not toilet roll, to blow your nose into. And if worst came to worst and the global supply of toilet paper went to zero, we’d still be able to wipe with tissues.

In the end, we didn’t get Covid at that time, and the world didn’t run out of toilet paper.
Tonight I went to get a new box out, and found there were none in the main store. I went to the second place we keep them and found that we are now down to our last 3 boxes. I’m thinking I might place another bulk order in January/February and that should see us through another 5 years.

Anyway, TFBSZ.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the last of the leftovers

Accompanied, for want of being bothered to find anything more worthwhile, by another episode of the motorway-free motorway cops

[NickFitz]

Another working day done, so just six more to go this year!

Today, a bunch of problems were pronounced "urgent" so it was all hands on deck to fix them. Of course, we then ended up dithering because the people we needed to speak to were in meetings and so on. But before lunch, I was called upon to help on one thing, only for the problem to resolve itself at the time that I joined; and after lunch, the same thing happened with the next thing I was invited to jump in on! I still have no idea what was going on with either of them because we never got to the point of them being explained to me, but it gained me a brief reputation as some kind of lucky charm

[ladymuck]

The drive down to the nether regions (then left a bit) of the M3 was uneventful, as was the drive back.

I have a parcel arriving via UPS. It's been out for delivery from the Feltham depot since 7.15 am and not made it to my place yet. Annoyingly, there is no tracking functionality on the website for me to see where the driver is. It's possible that's a feature offered to those who wish to register with UPS.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: half of a Melton pork pie

I'm expecting a delivery via DPD today. Just checked the map and the driver is just down the road, about fifty yards away. Despite this, he's apparently on delivery 48 and I'm delivery 111. I assume their algorithm has its reasons but it would literally take him three minutes or less to walk here, drop it off, and walk back to the van

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 13.6 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 10 deg in the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.56 Torr, 14.764 psi, (up from 1017 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Met the birdwatcher chap from Port Talbot. Haven't seen him for over a year. Was beginning to think he'd popped his clogs, but he looks fit enough.

Meanwhile on the 6th of December 2019 covbob was babysitting his daughter, whereas I was still recovering from the 's flu jab with added sharkness this causing the uncontrollable shivering of the previous evening, WTFH was paying off his mortgage, and NF was going shopping.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling about recycling & wheelie bins. Apparently Swansea doesn't have wheelie bins.

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 80%.

The Bronze Age Apocalypse Part II on PBS: 150 year drought. Earthquakes. Smallpox. 300 year drought in Egypt. Even their droughts are bigger, just like the pyramids. Oh, and one of the Pharaoh's died of smallpox. I wonder if they knew that when they unwrapped him.

Nazi Hunters: Albert Speer. Apparently he did know about The Final Solution.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: 18 o'clock news.

Book.

The Bad Skin Clinic: more pustular goodness. Woman with discoid lupus. Woman with a 10 year old verruca on her foot: CO2 laser. Woman with lichen planus. Woman with a tiny calcified cyst in the middle of her forehead.

Shooter S1 E9 & 10: more .338 goodness. EOS 1.