In preparation for a hefty roast tomorrow, dinner was a nice, light chicken noodle soup, with a dollop of peanut and soy sauce. Yum. And probably about an eighth of tomorrow's dinner calories.

Mastodon may be the only online service I use literally every day that clears the admittedly low bar of not being engineered to extract anything from me.

Getting to Bristol and then hanging a sharp right to make sure we get some seems a bit unfair.

Looks like Pembrokeshire got on the nice list, but it's Anglesey that starts it ;)

Also, when did the wind start drawing bananas?

@RolloTreadway @sheepnik Or maybe the universe just decided to leave you alone for a day or two to give you a rest. ;)

@TheBreadmonkey The only way I could feed that many people would be by lying down and dying so I can be the roast.

Well done on the run, and best of luck with your catering.

@RolloTreadway @sheepnik I hope you escape this band of wind tomorrow as well, Rollo.

The warning only seems to apply to the South West and most of Wales.
It's not all that strong really - brisk I'd say - but carrying arctic air.

How it misses you when it's coming from your direction (relative to us) I don't know

@sheepnik It's an easterly - I would have thought it might pick up a little warmth on the way, seeing as it passes over so much of Britain before it gets to us, but no.

@scozmos I would guess that's the voice of experience from you, way up there as you are.

It took half an hour after coming home into the warm house for my face to be able to move again. A kind of grimace expression was frozen on to it.
Met office wind warning for tomorrow just popped up on the phone app. Balaclava tomorrow then.

@Badgardener I don't know if J is planning to swim, she does frequent the sea pool in Bude normally.

Yep, my version of 'touching grass' is 'stand on some sand listening to the waves'.
A very similar day to yours will be enjoyed tomorrow it seems, including the pub pit-stop. Have a good one!

@Badgardener Our local beach (Crackington Haven) will be busier tomorrow - Christmas Day swim at midday. It'll be a long way to the sea though, low tide about an hour later!

A bright and sunny morning, but with 3°, feels like -1° on the forecast.
As a pyjama-wearing man having filled the seed feeders outside, I can tell you that it is too cold to be outside only wearing pyjamas this morning, so don't do that.

@martwritesstuff Do not be tempted by the dark side... even if you can see it from there! ;)

@phil Never found myself outside surrounded by suitcases so far. 👍

@martwritesstuff Welcome. North Cornwall myself, a bit close to the Tamar really, but better than the wrong side of it.

Not long to go now until I discover I've missed absolutely all of the 'glaringly obvious' hints that J has dropped throughout the year for gifts she would have actually loved.

Again.

Lots of quizzy things on the tellly tonight, which brings me the extra entertainment of J knowing the answer and saying it out loud... then saying it again louder when the contestant thinks about it a bit... and then almost shouting it out even louder in frustration at the TV if they don't know or don't answer in time.

@AnguaDelphine

I liked IceShrimp when I was on Fedia social, a Misskey flavour, but the follower management was pants, and the lack of ability to automatically delete posts after a certain time was missing (for me, I like to cover my tracks!)

I don't know how the re-write they were doing is going for them now, seems to be taking ages.

@MikeFromLFE Best wishes to her. Have recent experience of both (and still waiting for a further ablation procedure), so with that and the MS (if I remember right) we're very much in the same boat!