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[NickFitz]

Tea, delivered fresh today from sunny Taff's Well near Cardiff, was Sunset Red Tonkotsu Ramen soup (or broth). Very nice indeed

Accompanied by some Trucking Hell

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a chunky fish finger bap (wholemeal) with red sauce

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dry and sunny with lumps of fluff. A light breeze wafting about. Currently 16 with a high of 17 expected. Barometer steady at 1019 mBar.

Clothings have been laundered, and the airer put out in the garden to dry.

HWMBO and I are planning a visit to Morrisons as they have this week's tonic water offer.

Someone put non recyclables in my recycling bin

[xoggoth]

Darn it. At Sainsburies yesterday brought the same Viz again. Thought it looked familiar but it said October on the front.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

For those who feel there aren't enough apocalyptic nightmares around at the moment, BBC4 is showing Threads next Wednesday, accompanied by several more-or-less related programmes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b/2024/10/09

I think I'll watch Maigret instead.

Dry.

Grey.

Wan sunshine.

Chilly in here at 15.2 deg, 16 deg in the kitchen, 14 deg in the leanto.

1015 mBar, 29.97 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.72 psi, (down from 1017 last night), 75% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 19th of November 2019 it was cold and Neath still had an M&S, though said M&S was totally devoid of fish.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked.

Hair now abbreviated thanks to the barber. Apparently I last visited in May.

Lunch: there was.

Entertainment: Freecell. Dire.

Book.

Tea: scrambled egg etc.

Entertainment: bit of The News Quiz. Seems a long time since it was a quiz.

Weatherman Walking: Newport Allt yr un.

Ghosts.

Thing about The Cold War on PBS.

Thing about Boris Karloff on Talking Pictures. Never realised he was AngloIndian.

[NickFitz]

Matsudai? HWMBO has ordered from them lots of times, long before Jay Rayner caught wind of the place. Very good, apparently.

Yes, they're the ones! Supposed to be the best Japanese food Wales, or maybe even Japan, has to offer

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's another bright start to the day, though it may get cloudier by lunchtime. Colder again at 5°C but soaring to 16° for a brief period in the middle of the afternoon. The barometers are down a touch at 1009/1018mB

But most importantly: it's Friday!

[ladymuck]

Just got a reminder that some ramen kits are arriving from Wales tomorrow. I'd completely forgotten ordering them last weekend. Jay Rayner recommends them, so I'm quite looking forward to them - well, one of them; the others are for the freezer. Anyway, that's tomorrow's tea sorted out

Matsudai? HWMBO has ordered from them lots of times, long before Jay Rayner caught wind of the place. Very good, apparently.

[NickFitz]

I watched an old Traffic Cops earlier, just for a change

And a bit more of Eternity has been read

Friday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been spag bol. Turned out very nicely

This was served in a "pasta bowl" which was one of the last items of crockery brought from my parents' place. I wasn't really aware such things existed, but it turns out to serve its intended purpose very well

[NickFitz]

For those who feel there aren't enough apocalyptic nightmares around at the moment, BBC4 is showing Threads next Wednesday, accompanied by several more-or-less related programmes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b/2024/10/09

This will, I believe, be only the fourth time it's been broadcast by the BBC in forty years

I assume they'll be showing the recent HD restoration, which I have on Blu-ray.

[NickFitz]

Just got a reminder that some ramen kits are arriving from Wales tomorrow. I'd completely forgotten ordering them last weekend. Jay Rayner recommends them, so I'm quite looking forward to them - well, one of them; the others are for the freezer. Anyway, that's tomorrow's tea sorted out

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but with blue patches. Dry. Currently 16 degrees and that's the high for the day. No rain forecast. Barometer up to 1019 mBar.

Got offered an interview for a perm role. Waiting for the email with a selection of dates and times to choose from.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a bowl of Heinz oxtail soup with white toast

Still quite sunny here, though with lots of cumuli and the like floating about too

The morning has been quite enjoyable, as all I've been doing is sitting in on a Slack call with a couple of other people who are actually working on something. It's supposed to give me a chance to see how they work, get a general idea of the underpinnings of the project, and maybe even help out if I happen to notice anything that would help. So it's all very undemanding

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Cold side of chilly in here at 14.2 deg, 13 deg in the kitchen (before the kettle warmed it up a bit), 13 deg in the leanto, 9 deg in the saltinghouse.

1017 mBar, 30.03 in Hg, 762.8 Torr, 14.75 psi, (up from 1015 last night), 74% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of November 2019 I made a trip down the dump with green waste, then watched the end of BTVS S5 which is always a bit of a downer (in more than one way), whereas BR14 had started the contract for someone he'd told to feck off.

Shirts in the WM.

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

Smalls in the WM.

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

Cottons in the WM.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine.

Cottons out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Lunch: there was.

Entertainment: R4 waffling on about something or other.

Shirts in off the line & roughly iRoned: airing upstairs.

Freecell score: 100%, running average:77%.

Cottons in off the line & iRoned where needed. Airing upstairs.

Smalls in off the line & airing upstairs.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: book(s).

Thing on sky arts (now ch 143 not 147, mix is now 141 not 144) about the Korda brothers.

Thing about LA on PBS.

Thing about Yalta on PBS.