SATURDAY 5th JANUARY 2013 09:45 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (5th January 1943)
On the Russian Front...
Soviet 58th Army captures Prokhladrii
Soviet 3rd Shock Army attacking Velikiye Luki while German LIX Korps tries to break through and relieve the defenders.

In France...
Marshal Petain forms the Milice Francaise: a combined militia, political police, and counter-insurgency unit in collaboration with the Germans.

In Tunisia...
British 36th Infantry Regiment breaks off attacks against Djebel Azag and Djebel Ajred.

In Algiers...
General Spaatz takes command of all Allied air forces in Northwest Africa.

In Morocco...
General Mark Clark is appointed commander of the US 5th Army.

In the Pacific...
USN Task Group 67.2 bombards Japanese facilities at Munda on New Georgia Island. The Japanese launch an air strike against it, damaging NZ cruiser Achilles, but lose ten aircraft to American fighters.

In Burma...
Elements of Indian 47th Infantry Brigade begin moving westward from Laungchaung in the Arakan.
Japanese forces infiltrate into Laungchaung overnight in the Arakan.

Today's Air Raids...
Hamraiet North Airbase, Libya by the Luftwaffe
Sfax, Kairouan, and Sousse, Tunisia by US 12th Air Force
Aleutian Islands USN and USAAF aircraft claim two Japanese vessels sunk off Kiska Island.
Rabaul, New Britain by US 5th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging then Bathtime and a brief missus time before shift 1 of the Weekend Job. FA cup footie on the telly in the later evening.

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
I have an average bog-standard textbook Common Cold! This is actually quite a rare event for me. Not enough to stop me doing anything, it's enough to slow me down a little and depress mood, albeit in a calm passive way. Nothing to be done but ride it out, take painkillers to reduce coughing and discomfort and get on with things. I did sleep well last night though. After a 4am wakeup yesterday, today it was 08:10, a very long lie in by my standards.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Do you have a "just get on with it" attitude?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and cloudy all day, evening and overnight.
Wind moderate and south-westerly, veering westerly overnight.
Max Temp = 9 degC
Min Temp = 8 degC
Sunrise at 08:24
Sunset at: 16:01
Jetstream: Arcing around and to the north of Britain

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
Silence is golden. Unless you have a child. Then, silence is just suspicious. : D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Kenny Everett as "Cupid Stunt" on "Parkinson

8. TRIVIA
Nothing rhymes with the word "orange", though the nearest-sounding word is "lozenge".

9. THE WISDOM I'VE LEARNED FROM OTHERS
"To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see." - Helen Keller