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[NickFitz]

For tonight’s reading, I embarked upon Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. It’s reputed to be the best book on the subject, and there’s a lot of it. He explains in the preface that he got lucky: he went to research the subject in Russia's MoD archives just after Yeltsin had ordered them to open up even to foreigners, and he was able to access all kinds of material never seen by historians before. A few years later, Putin was in charge, and the archives had been closed again and have been ever since

Monday again tomorrow. Oh well, soon be Thursday

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade pork chow mein

This is usually more of a midweek thing, as it’s fairly quick and easy to make (not counting putting the pork in the oven, covered, for a couple of hours on very low heat). But Sainsbury’s only had belly pork slices with today’s date, so I decided to use them up rather than trying to cram them into the freezer

And to accompany this, a bit of Surgeons: A Matter of Life and Death on C5, courtesy of ladymuck

[ladymuck]

Yesterday evening, HWMBO and I watched Mickey 17. Not bad. Some funny bits.

[xoggoth]

Walk with loony lady 2 earlier, hardly anything of a walk really, she is so decrepid now.

Found much simpler way of doing my mappy things, I hadn't realised that Bing maps handles x,y pixel locations that are not in the current screen area.

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's been a cloudy and drizzly day with occasional sunshine. Currently 10 degrees and the high was 11. Barometer up to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 07:57; Sunset 16:26 GMT

Good drives both to and from Sussex today. Flowing traffic both ways.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a bit of pork pie

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey and rainy day out there today, though the rain seems to have eased off for now. There’ll be a bit more later though. The temperature now is 6°C (”feels like” 2°) and this will soar to 7° by lunchtime. The barometers are up to 1006/1014mB

I’ve just had a couple of croissants with strawberry jam for breakfast. Very nice

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp.

Possibly drizzly.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 12.6 deg, 11 in the kitchen, 8.5 in the leanto.

1013.5 mBar, 29.93 in Hg, 760.2 Torr, 14.7 psi, (unchanged), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of March 2020 eek's parents were on Antigua when he told them the cruise was over, WTFH, covbob (talking to a pimp), LM, and BR14 popped in whilst NF had a couple of Gregg's homebaked sausage rolls out of the freezer for lunch, simply to make space therein said freezer.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: book.

Drizzle paused: walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Book.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Entertainment: thing about Tristan da Cunha. Progress E3/3 We're doomed. It's been cancelled.

Book.

Sergeant Cork S2 E7 "The case of the stricken surgeon". The new antisepsis vs the old ways.

Bit of "Fistful of Dollars".

Some crap on Blaze. Archaeology. <click>

More crap on Blaze. Discovered by Disaster: some graves they found under the floor of Notre Dame after the fire. . Must Farm bronze age site. Viking, Alberta: Native American skeleton found in a farmer's field. Well wot a surprise. La Brea tar pits: lots of fossils: apparently coyote have shrunk over the last 10000 years as their diet has changed.

[NickFitz]

Today’s wildlife offering had crept back up to four hours, and was further augmented with Planet Earth III

Tonight, I started reading The Time of the Crack (title shortened to just The Crack after its initial publication in 1973) by Emma Tennant. This is a post-apocalyptic thing where a massive earthquake drastically rearranges London; the crack of the title runs where the Thames used to be, south London now being a lot further away. The main protagonist is Baba, a bunny girl from the Playboy Club, while other aspects of the story involve a soothsayer from a fairground leading a band of women, a couple of experimental psychiatrists, and some property tycoons. It’s OK but the author's got a magical realism thing going on which grates on me a bit. Still, it’s not very long so I’ll probably finish it

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from a Thai place in town, and was mostly very nice indeed

The bit that wasn’t nice was that they’d forgotten to send the rice. Luckily I had some in the freezer, though that wasn’t jasmine rice

And Deliveroo didn’t do a very good job of getting somebody to bring it either. It kept saying they were at the restaurant, then that they were on their way to the restaurant, then that they were trying to find somebody to go to the restaurant - this weirdly-reversed sequence of events happened three times before somebody finally collected it and brought it to me. According to the receipt, the restaurant had been told it would be collected about thirty minutes before it actually was, which explains why it was also a bit cold and had to be warmed up in the microwave

So: excellent food, but the service left a lot to be desired

[NickFitz]

I got the right name, wrong channel. It's on Channel 5.

Ah, right! Cheers

[ladymuck]

Assuming you meant Surgeons: At the Edge of Life, I can’t find it on iPlayer - the most recent one there is S7, from last year

I got the right name, wrong channel. It's on Channel 5.

[NickFitz]

Thanks, NF, for the prompt about Inside the Factory. Did you know there's a new series of Surgeons: A Matter of Life and Death on BBC?

Assuming you meant Surgeons: At the Edge of Life, I can’t find it on iPlayer - the most recent one there is S7, from last year

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s looking quite Simpsonesque out today. Reasonably mild too at 8°C, which is today’s high. The barometers are up at 1003/1011mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Depending on which window I look out of, it's either dull and cloudy or blue sky with lumps of fluff. Damp from overnight/early morning rain. Currently 10 degrees and that's the high for the day. There might be more rain, there might be a bit more sunshine. Barometer up to 1015 mBar.

Sunrise 07:58; Sunset 16:25 GMT

HWMBO and I went to the farmers' market but didn't buy anything. Sainsbury's has a personalised offer of a discount on FeverTree tonic so I bought half a dozen bottles.

Thanks, NF, for the prompt about Inside the Factory. Did you know there's a new series of Surgeons: A Matter of Life and Death on BBC?