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[NickFitz]

Tea: chicken madras with rice and naan

It was sunny enough this afternoon that I had to close the blind in the office

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been herby chicken, tomato and lentil soup with a crispy of wholemeal

Looks like it was the last of that soup. Oh well, I need freezer space for the large quantity of Scotch broth that will come from the lamb shoulder

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Was dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Not too windy until the squalls blow through.

Intermittently rainy.

Chilly in here at 13.9 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 12 deg in the leanto.

997.5 mBar, 29.456 in Hg, 748.18 Torr, 14.4675 psi, (up from 988 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Walk (unabbreviated) walked for the first time since Friday.

Timed it right: raining now with the sun still out.

Meanwhile on the 4th of December 2019 I was railing about Xmas, LM agreed with me, the hoi polloi in the library were to be turfed out between the 24th and the 2nd of Jan, covbob was railing about baby pimps & their ineptitude, whereas I mentioned getting calls referencing a 15 year old CV, and there was a 4 hour hiatus in TPD posting.

Quite an irritating night's sleep: was dreaming about flying to Japan (WTF? me? very unlikely), woke at 04:00, sleep took forever to return even after reading more about Crazy Horse & Custard, only to find it was suddenly 08:45.

Lunch: brunch. This seems to be working as regards losing a bit of weight, which is good.

Shopping trip to Boots (didn't have wot I wanted) and Morrisons (didn't have the bread I wanted but found sommat else that'll do), discovered on returning that I'd failed to lock the back door, in fact hadn't even really closed it properly on the latch. The brain rot is plainly progressing well.

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 80%.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: thing about Rudolph Hess: no particular conclusion reached: did he jump or was he pushed etc.

Oak Island bollox: some nutter goes down the garden shaft. Will it be the Next Fatality that precedes the finding of the gold? And, at this late date, does anyone give a tulip? Just askin' like.

[sadkingbilly]

morning all

i'll see your Sacroiliitis and raise you Osteorenalapathy.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Partly cloudy start out, with the wind having dropped a fair bit. Still milder than it was for much of last week at 8°C with 9° due later, while the barometers are recovering at 983/991mB. Due to get sunnier later

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS and about 9C out.
Water went off yesterday afternoon, suspect a pump somewhere got flooded and tripped out.
Back to normal now. Will try to re-roof the lawnmower shed today.

[NickFitz]

As usual there was lots of Monkey Life this morning, and some Canadian borders stuff this afternoon. Then this evening, I watched the new Ambulance (last of the series, I suspect) and an old 24 Hours in A&E

In among all that, along with drain cleaning and making dinner, I did a bit more mucking around with the Bluesky stuff. I might even end up with an app at the end of it; the existing ones don't work the way I'd like, so I might as well make my own

Monday again tomorrow, but at least there's only three more weeks until I break up for Christmas

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Food is no good unless it's BURNT!

When it's brown it's burning, when it's black it's cooked

[DoctorStrangelove]

Food is no good unless it's BURNT!

That certainly kills off ecoli etc. .

[xoggoth]

Food is no good unless it's BURNT!

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a roast shoulder of lamb dinner

This also marked the first outing of the Bluetooth meat thermometer, which you stick in the joint while it cooks and tells your phone to tell you when it's ready, according to the desired internal temperature you set. I made a slight error and didn't put it in the thickest part of the shoulder, so when it first said it was ready I checked with the manual thermometer and it was still a little underdone. That's entirely my fault though; I relocated it and kicked it off again, and it informed me about fifteen minutes later when it really was ready. I reckon it'll be very useful once I get used to it. I'm particularly looking forward to making properly rare roast beef, as I've failed miserably and ended up with medium the last few times

[ladymuck]

I hope this storm malarkey doesn't mean I get a bouncy landing. Luckily it's too dark for Big Jet TV to be filming. As I'm driving at the other end, there's no risk of my G&T getting spilt

[WTFH]

Lawnmower shed roof is currently about 6 metres from the shed it used to be attached to. The mower and logs in there are now covered in tarps to keep a bit drier.
The roof almost blew off my workshop, and the felt came off one side of the summerhouse. I made up some make-shift batons to hold the felt back in place, then spent a hairy hour lying on the roof to keep the felt down, while trying to get the batons attached.
Came in, stripped out of those clothes, but on waterproofs for walking, then went out with Max.
3rd change of clothes now.

[NickFitz]

The bath has been draining more and more slowly, to the point where it took several hours for the water from a shower to completely go. So I've been trying to fix it with various forms of treatment.

Yesterday, I stuck a bit of bleach down it. This didn't help, and then I had to spend ages washing it down (a slow process because it's blocked…) so I didn't end up generating poisonous gases with anything else I tried

This morning, I tried the Internet's universal solution for everything: sodium bicarbonate and white vinegar. This fizzed nicely for a little while. Cleared the drain? Not even a bit

From the back of the cupboard under the sink, I dug out a bottle of drain unblocking gel. This was some off-brand thing from Wilko's (it still has the price label) which was originally bought by my housemates at the place before the last one, but never used; they left it behind when they moved out, and I took it with me to the last place, where it was also never used. Given that this means it's over twenty years old, I suspected it might not have retained all or even any of its powers, but I gave it a few goes. Each time, the gel initially stayed around the plughole but eventually worked its way down. It didn't do anything down there, though

So I gave in and accepted that I'd have to work out how the plug works, it being one of those things that you push down to toggle closed and open, the likes of which I've never dealt with before. The Internet suggested it would unscrew and it was right this time, for once I'd got the rubber gloves on and struggled with turning it for a few seconds, it suddenly gave way with a crack (as of something intended to turn coming free, not as of something breaking) and unscrewed easily. This gave me access to remove the hair that was clogging everything, which turned out not be a huge amount after all. But it was clearly enough, for I screwed the top back on and it's now draining freely again!