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[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

Heads up for Nectar cardholders: Sainsbury's are doing a half-price deal on priced-by-weight TTD beef roasting joints. Got myself a big bit of top rump

[NickFitz]

Not as Big Sainsbury's has been gone to!

It was quite busy, but not over-the-top busy the way Big has been the last couple of weeks. It occurred to me that being not as big, it doesn't stock so many of the seasonal fripperies upon which people are wont to spend their hard-earned at this time of year, so it might even be slightly better than usual if some of those local to it have made the extra trip around the ring road

Excitingly, I had a loaf of bread sliced by special request! Whether some of the in-store bakery loaves have been sliced is always unpredictable, and I suspect might vary depending on whether the people working there can be bothered. But a lady who was putting out loaves from one of those tall wire trolleys they have saw me rooting around at the back of the wholemeal loaves and, discovering that I was looking to see if there was a sliced one back there, immediately offered to slice one for me! Amazing stuff; it's as if the concept of Customer Service had suddenly become something real, rather than a made-up thing people complain about the lack of in badly-written American sitcoms

Anyway, I got most of the things I intended to get, and shall wait until after lunch before starting to move more stuff to the storage unit and tip

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry, apart from picking with what might just be a very light drizzle.

Black as ink the other side of the valley, sunny this side.

Blue sky in parts (it wasn't like that earlier).

Chilly in here at 12.9 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen and the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.56 Torr, 14.764 psi, (down from 1020 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Walk (unabbreviated) walked.

Meanwhile on the 5th of December 2019 I was still after the flu jab, though NF remarked that he'd felt a little unwell after one, but nothing to speak of (i.e. under 65 jab: no bits of shark), whereas WTFH said the yellow fever jab was one to fear, and LM was gratified to have cancelled the 09:00 next day. Yet more BTVS S7 and Angel S4 were watched, including the fairly tedious commentary on the Las Vegas Angel ep which nearly sent me to sleep.

[WTFH]

Morning all
I see from the calendar that it is Friday.

For those of you who submit timesheets and have not done it yet for this week (I did mine on Wednesday), may you enjoy the final billable day of this week.

[NickFitz]

Just realised that I forgot to record yesterday that it was the second anniversary of buying the flat!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start now the sun's up, with some scattered bits of cloud hither and yon as decoration. It's 4°C but "feels like" -2°, and will be rising to 9° as it gets sunnier later; this will, it appears, "feel like" about 2° or 3°. The barometers are down a little (but not so as you'd notice) at 1013/1021°

Having considered my plans for the day, I have concluded that there's no need to go all the way to Big Sainsbury's, as Not as Big will do. This is in the opposite direction to the storage place, so the plan is to get the shopping done relatively early, when there's also a slight chance of avoiding the early Christmas shoppers who seem to be flocking to the big one by late morning these days. With the shopping done, I can then see what's worth putting into storage and maybe even sort out some stuff for the tip

[NickFitz]

Read some more of Shepperton Babylon, about Ealing's great run of films in the 1940s and into the 1950s

Early night now, so I can have a bit of a lie-in in the morning yet still be up early enough to Get Things Done

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea, rather delayed by fridge-related activities, has been ribs and chips

This was accompanied by a new 24 Hours in Police Custody about a very unpleasant stalking case

Worth it just for the bloke's reaction when he asked, in interview, "Where was that on my phone?" and they replied "In your deleted notes". It seems many people still don't realise that "Delete" just moves stuff to a holding area, and he clearly realised right at that moment just how utterly ****ed he was

[NickFitz]

The fridge-seeker arrived, so the fridge has set off on the journey to its new home

They were about fifteen minutes late, but I think he'd come from down Hinckley or Nuneaton way and there's no guarantees about travelling times on that route

He seemed like a nice enough chap; a bit on the aged and decrepit side, so probably about the same age as me. Anyway, he and his mate managed to lift the fridge into the back of their estate without any help

[NickFitz]

Another week done, two more to go!

Today wasn't too bad as I paired with a chap on some data migration stuff, which was at least something to do

[xoggoth]

Nice sunny wonky today. Brought meself a new PC with monitor, keyboard and mouse. Shall set it up tomorrow as a spare in spare room and get it sorted before I make it me main PC.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Pukka sausage rolls

It's turned sunny out, though with various high wisps trailing across the sky

I found a few minutes this morning to pop down and put the door trays and salad crisper back in the fridge. The shelves can go down when I'm taking it out for collection this evening, as the door needs to open wide to get those in and out which means dragging it out of the storeroom. Said storerooms are more like deep cubicles, albeit with solid brick walls separating one from another. Wide enough for a fridge with a foot and a bit to spare, but not wide enough that you can swing the fridge door all the way back

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ OM.

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Frosty.

Cold in here at 11.5 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 7 deg in the leanto, 2.5 deg in the salting house.

1023 mBar, 30.2 in Hg, 767.3131 Torr, 14.837 psi, (up from 1020 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of December 2019 I'd had my first 's flu jab and my arm still hurt along with feeling quite (as has happened every year since due to the added shark in the jab), whereas eek had found some inneresting coding to do, whereas LM offered to do the boring stuff for him, having cancelled a 09:00 meeting the next day, and opm was off out on an xmas jolly that evening. And DaveB suggested acupuncture on my sore arm after it made his bad knee betterer.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM.

Everything else in the WM.

Everything else out of the WM & pegged out on the line to accompany the shirts which got there first.

It was sunny but now it's overcast. And my hands nearly fell off with frostbite when pegging stuff out.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the increasingly grey gloom & brisk breeze. This latter seems to be drying the shirts rather well.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y: Gapfinders: Penetration expert (Mitnick style): surprise! from that Liverpool. .

Toast: phones4you.

TWATO was interrupted by rain so the washing came in off the line & met the TD.

Shirts roughly iRoned & airing upstairs.

Cottons roughly iRoned where required & airing upstairs.

Smalls airing upstairs.

Not quite what I'd planned but there you go & there I went. .

Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey Cage: "Are we what we eat?": apparently we are. "Supervolcanoes": when one goes off we are fecked. Little bit of "Wasps vs Bees".

Freecell score: 90%, running average: 80%.

Tea: Brains faggots & peas & such, etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: Wrecks: Toxic wrecks: SS Richard Montgomery: just waiting for the Russians to "accidentally" set it off. . SS SKYTTEREN: Operation Performance 1943: a Cunning Plan to liberate 10 ships in Sweden from the Nazis: 2 escaped to UK, 2 returned to Sweden, the other 6 were sunk: not a stunning success all in all:

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~tree...amily/anc9.htm

UFO bollox on Blaze: Alaska & the Alaska Triangle where you freeze to death or randomly disappear. 10 times as many people disappear in Alaska as in the lower 48. Then again if you venture into the wilderness alone to test some crazy Black Pyramid theory or to test your very own survival invention it's possibly not altogether a surprise. There's a lot of feck all in Alaska, and what there is is quite keen on eating you.

Currently reading the 1951/2 Short Wave Magazines: turns out there was a Neath & Port Talbot Radio Amateur club, and one up in Rhigos (which seems even odder).

These days the closest one that does the exams is in Pyle Carmarthen.

Just looked up Richard Montgomery: he was a major general in the continental army, unsuccessfully invaded Quebec, and was from Ulster.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rosy fingered dawn out there, and a little frosty too: -2°C now, aiming for +5° later. As with last week, it's expected to warm back up at the weekend. The barometers have shot back up, to 1015/1024mB

[eek]

Back at hotel after a rather enjoyable visit to the ENO to see Elixir of Love.

£30 for second row seats in the Grand Balcony is not a bad deal...