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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was (part of) Police Interceptors

And in Stalingrad, the Germans have finally surrendered. Hitler’s last-minute promotion of Paulus to Field Marshal, on the basis that no German Field Marshal had ever surrendered so he’d kill himself instead, didn’t work

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Me too NF. Had horrid cough for a while, then thought it had all gone away on Saturday but it's back. May have to skip my arty thing tomorrow.

PS Maybe I could have passed it to you via tpd. I bet that green vomiting emoji at the right is passing things on.

Mine doesn’t seem to be getting much worse, so I’m hoping it’ll be a mild one

[ladymuck]

Only a 15 minute warning to Connect to the Final reading from Paradise Lost for this season. (Let’s see if this post gets 5k likes)

Sadly likes were disabled some time ago.

They did well. The other team got a few more early answers. The rest of the time they were well matched.

[NickFitz]

Tea: oniony chicken casserole. Haven't had that in a while

It almost ended up not being very oniony, as I forgot to chop up and fry an onion before browning the chicken. Luckily I was using the very big frying pan, so I was able to sort that out while the chicken was doing and get it to a reasonable state before chucking everything in the Remoska

[WTFH]

Only a 15 minute warning to Connect to the Final reading from Paradise Lost for this season. (Let’s see if this post gets 5k likes)

[xoggoth]

Me too NF. Had horrid cough for a while, then thought it had all gone away on Saturday but it's back. May have to skip my arty thing tomorrow.

PS Maybe I could have passed it to you via tpd. I bet that green vomiting emoji at the right is passing things on.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a cold roast chicken leg with a bag of plain crisps

I’m feeling a bit out of sorts today. The kind of feeling where one might be coming down with a cold (or worse) or it might just go away after a day or two

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast, slightly damp. Currently 4 degrees with a high of 7 expected. Unlikely to rain but the threat persists. Barometer at 1002 mBar.

Sunrise 07:48; Sunset 16:40 GMT

The journey home yesterday was uneventful, despite having to use the Piccadilly instead of the Lizzy Line from the airport. I purposely blocked my diary out until 10 am to have a gentle start to my Monday and it seems no-one noticed nor cared.

Still waiting on gig 3 to produce a contract. At this rate, I might tell them to sod off.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry. (For the moment).

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto, 6.8 in the saltinghouse.

995 mBar, 29.38 in Hg, 746.3 Torr, 14.43 psi, (unchanged but a tad), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of March 2020 Brillo, BR14, and Churchill popped in (the latter having a pot noodle), whilst LM observed that Ocado was doing well and I observed that the weather was too inclement to bother with the washing, whilst NF locked the back gate then unlocked it after discovering the bins hadn't been done, whereas WTFH went for a drive.

Washing frenzy in progress. Everything pegged out on the line: currently mostly horizontal.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about dry stone walls.

Stuff in off the line & in the TD.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Timed to the second: came back & the rain arrived on cue.

Entertainment: Foyle's War S4 E3 "Bleak Midwinter". The shell filling factory one. Not a favourite.

Everything requiring the iRon now iRoned & airing upstairs.

Tea: Mr Brains faggots and peas. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM.

STNG: "The chase": the Prometheus one: mildly amusing with Klingon, Romulans, Cardassians, Uncle Tom Cobley & all.

Panorama: The Post Office Horizon scandal.

Oak Island nutjobbery. S11 "Wet and Wild": cut to the chase: Garden shaft floods when they drill a horizontal hole at the bottom. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. Plus the iron identifying nutter they subtitle. Plus the Tree of Life nutter. Next ep they're off to Europe again & the garden shift will never be mentioned again.

NCIS S22 E2 "Foreign Bodies". Venezuela. . Next sunday: Secrets in the ice

Some other bollox on Blaze: it's very likely to go <click> rapidly.

Currently raining. A lot. And horizontally judging by the noises the chimney is making.

According to Derek the Weatherman, tomorrow will be worse.

Just as well I did the washing today then, innit? Barely half a cup of water out of the TD today, so the semigale did a fine job of drying the washing, which is usually the case. Grey still days are practically useless in that regard. NCIS is so inneresting that typing this twaddle is keeping me awake.

[WTFH]

Morning all
After days of rain, it's dry and 4C out. A pleasant walk was had, even if the fields were still quite boggy.

Just a little reminder: Today is Monday, which means it's quiz night tonight. It's the final of Only Connect.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey day again, with a slight breeze that seems a bit chilly. It’s only 2°C (“feels like” 1° apparently) and won’t soar any higher than 4° - though once it has, it’ll stay there right through into the early hours of tomorrow morning, when it'll warm up even more, albeit with accompanying rain! The barometers are bouncing back at 990/998mB

[NickFitz]

In Stalingrad, winter continues. But things might warm up a little for the Germans when Russia starts its final attack on January 10th

Monday again tomorrow. Oh well, only ten weeks till Easter

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: a fry-up

This was accompanied, as is traditional, by an episode of Time Team

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a grey day and supposedly breezy but, once again, the trees suggest it isn’t really. The current and highest-for-the-day temperature of 6°C “feels like” -1° according to this theory, but I don’t expect it does. The barometers are trivially up at 982/990mB