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[NickFitz]

To Big Sainsbury's I did go, securing a copy of the Christmas/New Year Viz, along with some other stuff such as food

We're back into whole shoulder of lamb season, so I shall be having a lamb dinner followed by making lots of Scotch broth before too long

Lunch was a couple of garlic and herb chicken thighs from the hot-or-not counter

And on the way there, I took a few boxes of stuff and dropped them off at the storage unit en route. I may take some more this afternoon, if I can be bothered

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Some very odd dreams. . One of which was apocalyptic (1Mt imminent), the other was erotic and very strange, and another was in some sort of cinema.

Dry.

Sunny.

Cold in here at 13.8 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto, 6.8 deg in the saltinghouse.

1025 mBar, 30.268 in Hg, 768.8 Torr, 14.866 psi, (down from 1028 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of December 2019 NF had a chicken dinner from A Big Chicken, and LM suggested a CUK cookbook, apparently unaware that such a thing already existed, whilst vetran had some odd sausages from the butcher and I watch much BTVS and Angel, including the one where Warren gets flayed alive which always causes much amusement. Especially in slow motion. .

DaveB found the cookbook:

https://forums.contractoruk.com/gene...-cookbook.html

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Cottons and some stuff I couldn't be arsed to separate in the WM.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Colder down here than it was further up the hill.

Out of spuds, so shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: R4 waffling on about raptors.

Oh good: Typhoo in trouble, didn't know they were owned by private equity but it's par for the course.

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/emb...697921.article

They make Glengettie, so I'd better buy all the packets I can find.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start, with a few condensation trails turning wispy high up in the blue. Not the warmest of days, being 6°C with an expected high of 10°, while the barometers are down a little to 1016/1024mB

I had a mixed night's sleep: it took me a while to drop off and I was then awoken by my bladder around 3am, my brain helpfully confabulating these into one long period of wakefulness despite a moment's thought making it clear that I must have been asleep for nearly three hours. Anyway, I then got back to sleep and had a good unbroken snooze until awaking without alarums just before nine

[WTFH]

Mornnig all
CBS, etc
In one of the former members of this parish, King Billy. 2C when we went out, with crunch grass on the paths and ice on the car windscreens (good job I wasn't driving)

TFIF, etc

[NickFitz]

Tonight's reading was Jeffrey Bernard's Low Life, being a combination of the two published collections of his Spectator column of the same title. Often very funny, sometimes mordant, always entertaining

Better get some sleep now so I can Get Things Done tomorrow - most importantly, get the new Viz

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was chicken madras with rice and naan

I got the rice a bit better this time, though not quite perfect

This was accompanied by a new episode of the Gloucestershire night policing thing

[NickFitz]

VIZ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ooh yes, I saw a tweet from them - Christmas issue and all! Must get it tomorrow

[xoggoth]

VIZ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time is 0706

Sunrise will be at 0714. Currently 11 degrees and that's the high for the day. Today's forecast is intermittent showers, around lunchtime and early evening. Otherwise dull and cloudy. Barometer up to 1020 mBar.

Dinner yesterday was a fun evening with a nice home cooked meal.

Seattle has a good selection of decent to high quality postcards at reasonable prices. This pleases me greatly.

[NickFitz]

Ham toasties for lunch

Tending towards the Simpsonesque out now

Several meetings this afternoon, but not all of the tedious kind

And I think I'm just about done with what I'm working on, so they'll help fill the time until the start of the long weekend!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 14.1 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto, 8.8 deg in the salting house.

1029 mBar, 30.386 in Hg, 771.8 Torr, 14.924 psi, (down from 1030 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on December 1st 2019 there was discussion by Brillo of NF's angina which had occurred two years previously, I was watching yet more BTVS including the commentary, and BR14 had defrosted lamb mince by mistake to make "chilli con lamby".

Shirts in the WM.

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

Smalls in the WM.

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

Cottons can wait until tomorrow.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Bit warmer than yesterday, but then I was later too.

Lunch: brunch, though 20 mins earlier than usual.

Ferreted about in various cardboard boxes & down the shed looking for various bits & pieces for the next project, though that may never happen. Found ancient bits of radios from my misspent youth, including bits of a 1930s Philips SuperInductance wireless set which was almost enough to make me weep. Ho hum.

4 lawns duly mown, hopefully it's the final cut this year. Even had a shower to celebrate. .

Shirts in off the line & roughly iRoned despite being a bit damp.

Smalls in off the line & in the TD: they emitted quite a lot of water, rather more than I'd expected.

Shirts airing in the living room since that's the warmest & driest room.

Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey Cage: Maths. Committing the perfect murder.

Tea: Brains faggots etc.

Entertainment: PM.

Thing about Coal Minining on BBC4 Timewatch or whatever. Would have been better without the dirges "sung" by Ewan McColl. I've decided my dad was right about him.

UFO bollox on Blaze interspersed with Terminator: Dark Fate as the adverts breaks allowed, until I was fed up with both & turned it all off.

[WTFH]

Morning all

Overcast and warm (12C) on our walk, thankfully I noted the temperature before choosing a jacket.

Back in, and have watched the JL advert. I didn't see anything obvious in it to raise the blood pressure of wailers, but I'm sure they'll find something to be offended by.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Somewhat cloudy start after some overnight rain, but clearing towards the east so getting sunnier later. A bit milder as a result, being 9°C but only getting to 12°. The barometers are down a bit but still optimistic at 1020/1029mB

[ladymuck]

Today we wandered around Pike Street Market (the birthplace of Starbucks, we didn't go to that bit) and then took a wander down to Pioneer Square.

It's now nearly 4pm and we'll soon be getting ready to visit a university friend of HWMBO's for dinner.