It's now uniformly grey out, and raining occasionally
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Upping my sausage roll game today with a small batch of homemade ones, a couple of which hot from the oven have made a very nice lunchComment
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I'm driving down to Brighton tomorrow for a conference on Friday. I was going to go shopping today, but I really can't be bothered
I don't need anything urgently anyway, so I think I'll skip it.Comment
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Vaguely sunny & not currently raining here.
The murk is thick towards Margam though & I can't see the windmills over Port Talbot.
Or the hill they're on.
Just spent an enjoyable 10 minutes or so watching the cormorant catching stuff in the dock, as well as something that might have been an oystercatcher catching stuff in the mud.
And a ship just left the dock, which is odd considering the state of the tide.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Much Googling and thrashing about as I use MySQL for the first time in ages; I need it for the CUK database for my local development environment, but I've been using PostresQL for ages so have to look up things like setting up a new user on a local subnetComment
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Phone call to dad who is still alive
Visit to the Pot Still for some Yamazaki 12…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostPhone call to dad who is still alive
Visit to the Pot Still for some Yamazaki 12
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostPhone call to dad who is still alive
Visit to the Pot Still for some Yamazaki 12
for your dadComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostA double bill of films I'd never seen before this evening, starting with Gattaca (1997). It's described as a sci-fi film, but it's more like a detective story set in a future when the police are incapable of any other investigative technique than DNA testing, and astronauts go to space in what appear to be business suits from the Marks and Spencer Inspired By Italy range. Not bad, but if it has a cult following (as these things so often do), I'm not sure why.
Incidentally, there's been something about this film that nagged at me even before I watched it, making it feel somehow familiar although I'd never seen it. About half way through, I finally realised it's because when I was a young kid in Liverpool, we lived down the road from an area called Gateacre, which is pronounced the same way
To follow: Spotlight (2015), being (based on) the true story of a team of investigative journalists at the Boston Globe breaking the story of the Catholic church covering up child sexual abuse for decades. A brilliant film; one of the best journalism films I've seen, possibly even beating All the President's Men, but certainly on a par with it. Highly recommended if you like journalism films that manage to depict journalism in a fairly realistic manner
Goodnight all
Gattaca is quite uplifting in some ways, however it sort of suggests Nurture is the only influence which Science has disproved.
I enjoyed this so will try spotlight.
The Post (2017) - IMDb
Just finished watching the last Tommy again, quite stirring.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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