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[WTFH]

Morning all
Not as cold overnight, so only very slippy in places on our walk.

TFIF.etc

[NickFitz]

More of February 1933 read tonight. Getting close to the night of the Reichstag fire now; people are leaving Germany by circuitous routes to avoid attracting the attention of the authorities, and other people are casually saying goodbye after routine meetings but, we are told, will never see each other again. More of the same coming soon across an Atlantic Ocean near you

I also found time to mess around a little with SpriteKit's physics modelling, which has some interesting stuff in it

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

Accompanied by Gregg-free Inside the Factory on the subject of sliced white bread, with asides covering wartime flour, bagels, toasters, and brewing

[NickFitz]

That's the working week done!

[NickFitz]

Just had a phone call from the dentist's to remind me I have an appointment with the hygienist on Saturday and asking if I wanted to switch to an earlier slot they had open. TBH I'd rather not go to the hygienist on Saturday at all, but if I have to then I suppose getting it out of the way earlier is the next best thing

Which reminds me that in standup this morning, somebody announced that they had a dental appointment at 2:30, which caused much amusement

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz oxtail soup with white toast

Very sunny out

And as I was typing, Halfords Man arrived and replaced the Corolla's battery!

It still took four or five goes to start though. Maybe it's the starter motor?

[sadkingbilly]

Morning
SKB* this morning
blue sky and fluffy bits.
* Seriously KB, not SadKB , where's the Freezing my nuts off emoji??

[NickFitz]

Good day at the office. Sat next to a friend of mine, had a coffee with another. Got offered an extension of three, maybe four, months.

Boomed!

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with some cloud. Currently 1 degree with a high of 3 expected. Small chance of a shower this evening. Barometer up to 1007 mBar.

Sunrise 08:04; Sunset 16:13

I was supposed to be in the office today but I couldn't be bothered so I'm at home. I do have to go in tomorrow though.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Frosty.

Blue sky.

Cold in here at 9.8 deg, 7 deg in the kitchen, 5 deg in the leanto, 1.8 deg in the saltinghouse.

1007 mBar, 29.74 in Hg, 755.3121 Torr, 14.6 psi, (up from 998 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of December 2019: much as yesterday's post.

The recycling goods retrieved from the pavement were frosty, the canvas bag was frozen solid. Glad I wasn't the recycling engineer this morning.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine: despite an extra layer and the Lidl(tm) thermal gloves it still took two miles before I could feel my hands.

Moron observed wandering about in a t shirt.

Lunch: brunch.

I see from the news that We're Doomed again. .

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/style/padd...133049557.html

Happened when we interred my parents' ashes. My dad would have laughed his head off.

Tea: soup etc. Plus a piece of xmas cake. The only thing I like about xmas.

Entertainment: PM.

Book.

Railway thing on PBS: mail trains. Railway telegraph.

Digging for Britain (not Wales: ever grateful for Freesat & the option to watch something not afflicted by the obsession with tedious ball games irrespective of the shape of the ball). Alice Roberts hair: pinky blonde. Orkneys. Jacob Jones wreck, Scillies, war grave. Violet bank, Jersey. Neanderthals. Kame of Isbister, Shetland. Midge Central. Cairns Broch, South Ronaldsay.

Some UFO bollox on Blaze since I don't think I can watch "Nobody" again on 4Seven.

Ancient Clint Eastwood interview from 1977. "The man with no name". Stone me, he looks young. Critics: Pauline Kael, Dilys Powell.

[WTFH]

Morning all
273K out, and yesterday's snow/slush meant that walking was a tad treacherous, even with ice grips on my wellies. Got my heart rate up though, at one point I hit 138bpm.
Did The Wife's tax return last night, disappointed to find that she owes £154. Was tempted to: buy a coffee machine, liquidate a company, or something similar to see if that would reduce it a bit.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another frosty start. Currently -4°C, and once again an expected high this afternoon of 2°. The barometers are up a touch more to 993/1002mB

Halfords haven't provided any more detailed estimate of when they'll be here than 08:00-20:00 but maybe they will once they get on the road. Or maybe they won't

Thursday! Just got to get through today and that's another week invoiced

[ladymuck]

Good day at the office. Sat next to a friend of mine, had a coffee with another. Got offered an extension of three, maybe four, months.

Absolutely knackered though.

This evening's entertainment has been a couple of episodes of The Diplomat, which I think originally aired in 2023 on Alibi.

[NickFitz]

Tea: sausage and onion casserole with chips and peas

Accompanied by a new episode of Traffic Cops

[NickFitz]

Just as well it wasn't controlling a rocket. .

It wasn't controlling a rocket, was it? Just askin' like.

Shades of FORTRAN IV encode & decode from dear dead days far beyond recall.

No rockets, sadly. I think that would be the Ministry of Transport?

Speaking of transport, I've booked a visit from Halfords tomorrow with a new battery for the car which they will also fit, saving me the trouble of finding an 11mm spanner. They gave me the option of either choosing a two to three hour time slot for an additional thirty to fifty quid, or any time between 8am and 8pm for no extra charge beyond the £25 fitting fee. I chose the latter

Thinking about it, they didn't make clear whether the exorbitant charges for the shorter time slots included the £25 or were in addition to it. Either way, it's too much. But now, in theory, the car should start OK when I want to go shopping on Friday morning, which is expected to be very cold and might be more than the gradually failing battery can handle