h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That is funny about Hopefully your colleagues found it pleasing - I do like it when cats join in My pet is a soft toy, so only joins in when I help - made an appearance quite recently when a meeting got to talking about pets joining in

That is good that you always have plenty of ideas for crossword clues - looks forward to next time (or could lead to the prize for completing a Christmas Crossword being a Christmas Crossword to complete )

Weather-wise we were lucky that the roads had chance to dry off before the cold weather drew in, so there is not as much ice as there would otherwise have been There was certainly a lot more precipitation overnight, though so there's a couple of inches of snow. I'm glad not to have had to go out in it this morning, as my ramp would have been thick with it, but a bit of sun has melted the paths quite nicely

I plan to go out this evening for our usual November Christmas Dinner. I saw the seating plan this lunchtime, and I'll be on a different table from last year, but it will be good to chat with different people for a change (and I'm sure some mingling will take place so I can say hello to the people I sat on a table with last year )

It is indeed fun when pets join in. As we had a new record system, there were several training videos made (I did a few too) in which colleagues give recorded Teams presentations demonstrating what to do, and sometimes pets join in on these. There was one I remember in which we were told to look out for a specific time stamp, as a senior and very po-faced member of staff who was giving the presentation was interrupted by her little jumping up and licking her face, which was hilariously unexpected.
Still funny with captions on, especially as the captions never did realise the name of our uni.

I hope you had a good Christmas Dinner and mingled with a friendly assortment of people.

There's been vaguely amusing Christmas song news yesterday that had it happened last week, I'd've tried to sneak into the crossword, so I might well make a doodle about it instead. Today's the staff quiz after work, though, so no time to doodle tonight.

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In other news, our bin's not been emptied for a fortnight now...

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Oh no, not again Good luck with that

Ah - that is cute about little being recorded for posterity!

Yes, the Christmas Dinner was quite good. The food wasn't as good as last year, but I think there was some sort of problem in the kitchen, so they did their best. The starters went OK, but the main course had trouble. One table was served, but the plates were sent back almost immediately. We were on the last table, so the people on the first table had finished before we were served. My vegetables were overcooked, and someone else on my table had undercooked vegetables so it was definitely a mixed bag.

The company was good, though - I met someone I've seen around, but never really spoken to. She always came across as quite po-faced, but once she relaxed and got chatting, she was so funny - she would say something eg about her meal, and then she would spontaneously blow a raspberry It turned into a fun party game to say, 'What do you think of such-and-such?' *raspberry* . 'How about abc?' so she kept us all amused!

I did get to mingle, and the people I sat next to last year said they missed me at the table (I suspect one or two of the people who joined them instead were more talkative so other people would have struggled to get a word in edgeways, whereas our conversations had flowed quite well). Was quite cold outside - took me a while to shift the snow off the car before I went out, but I had fun making a snow person After the dinner it was a bit frosty on the windscreen, but not too bad.

I missed the vaguely amusing Christmas song news yesterday. Good luck with the quiz