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[NickFitz]

I seem to have neglected to wish TPD goodnight last night. And on its birthday too! I blame the lurgy

Anyway, I'd read a few more chapters of Casino so there wasn't much to report

Grey day again this morning, and expected to continue so. Currently 8°C and not getting past 12°, with the barometers down a little at 1011/1019mB

I believe I just heard the trundlings of bin day a couple of streets away out the back when I poked my head out of the bedroom window for a breath of fresh air, as is my wont

The lurgy, meanwhile, can't make its mind up. So I feel a touch worse than is usual for morning and have a somewhat bunged-up nose, but nothing much beyond that

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Nando's leftovers

And this evening's viewing has been the first two episodes of the new series of A House in Time, which has changed tack (and cheated a little) by being about two apartment blocks, one in Marylebone and one in Berlin, and concentrating on their residents' various involvements in World War II

[NickFitz]

Yes, I'd forgotten it was today! Happy Birthday TPD!

[DoctorStrangelove]

It's the only thread worth reading (other than Monday Links, but that changes every week).

Happy Birthday TPD!

Not sure if it deserves or

19 years young. .

[ladymuck]

Went into the office for a meeting that no-one else came in for, and it ended up being on Teams.

My "innovative" crayon drawing got presented to the client, heavily promoted by chap at ConsultancyCo, so now it will be the key element of driving discussion at Wednesday's workshop that I hadn't been invited to. Now I have been invited, I see it clashes with a job interview, so I've had to reschedule that.

[ladymuck]

Bloody hell, still going!
Maybe I'll drop in more often in future.

It's the only thread worth reading (other than Monday Links, but that changes every week).

Happy Birthday TPD!

Not sure if it deserves or

[NickFitz]

Been feeling a bit lurgified today, yet again

I felt quite off last night, and today brought sniffles and occasional sneezing along with a bit of a chesty cough getting started, as well as a headache that was bad enough by lunchtime that I took a couple of paracetamol

However, I decided to go for my walk just now, in case it made me feel better. It hasn't, but it hasn't made me feel any worse either and I got some exercise, so I reckon that's a win

No idea where I would have picked something up from though, given that I haven't been anywhere. Maybe Porton Down have started using Amazon or Deliveroo to help out with one of their experiments in spreading "harmless" experimental viruses

[xoggoth]

Bloody hell, still going!
Maybe I'll drop in more often in future.

Nah! Damages yer brain.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a roast pork bap (wholemeal) with apple sauce and a bag of plain crisps

[NickFitz]

Bloody hell, still going!
Maybe I'll drop in more often in future.

Do!

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[alluvial]

Bloody hell, is this thread still going?

Bloody hell, still going!
Maybe I'll drop in more often in future.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Gloomy.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 15.4 deg, 16 deg in the kitchen, 14 deg in the leanto.

1021 and a tad mBar, 30.156 in Hg, 765.96 Torr, 14.81 psi, (down from 1021 and two tads last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of November 2019 there was a sunny afternoon around here, whereas there was much discussion of the elderly* with UTI & the resulting unpleasantness, BR14's contract was going tits up, I was watching yet more BTVS & Angel, this latter having the revelation of the presence of Summer Glau in the ballet ep (there was a ballet ep?).

*As an this term now applies to me. Shocking, innit?.

The dream before waking involved working at yet another unidentified location that appeared to be going bust in short order.

Shopping trips to Morrisons, Aldi, and Tesco, so I'm duly Allbran and pruned up for a while.

Lunch: there was brunch.

Freecell score: 63%, running average: 79%: it was down to 53% at one stage. I really should know how to cut my loses by now.

Should have done some gardening but couldn't be arsed.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: that quiz thing on R4 which came from Merthyr.

Simon Schama waffling on about Ambrosia or Arcadia or something. . Thankfully the last one.

Thing about architecture in NY.

Oak Island nutjobbery: this week we've still found tulip, not even wood. The metal detecting moron found some iron, a copper nail (narrator says it's ancient egyptian from the pyramids or something), some pottery which set the metal detector thingie off ?WTF?. Someone waffling about the location of the gold in the water. I was reading about radio receivers at the same time which was a good deal more informative all in all.

Apparently these portable traffic lights use 458MHz transmitters that are on 100% of the time which is fecking up all that telemetry stuff that sends data in bursts.

Thing on BBC4 about Hubble. Amazing to think there'll never be another shuttle launch.

I took a day off to watch the first one, then it was delayed by a day, so I was changing some brake pipes on the car instead.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull, cloudy, dry. Currently 10 degrees with a high of 12 expected. Barometer down a snifter to 1025 mBar.

On the drive home from Mum's yesterday I spotted what looked like a bird of prey on the side of the A24, with a mouse a few feet away in the road. Both very dead. Couldn't stop to see what bird it was or whether it had been ringed for tracking.

I'm used to seeing hedgehogs, foxes, pigeons, etc but this was my first "proper" bird.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start yet again. Getting a bit chillier overall too, being 8°C with no better than 12° expected. I seem to have neglected to record yesterday's readings, but the barometers are at 1015/1023mB today which I think is about the same as it has been