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Grey day again, and it’s about to get colder with a number of frosty nights on the schedule. It’s 4°C at the moment (“feels like” 2°) though it should get to 6° through the afternoon. The barometers are down a bit at 1018/1027mB
Monday! But not a working Monday for me, so it’s quite bearable
This evening’s viewing was an episode of The Crash Investigators. Another one in which nobody died! Some pretty terrible injuries, mind
And later I read more of There Is No Antimemetics Division v2. While reading, I also exchanged a couple of messages with qntm on Bluesky about a weird JavaScript thing he’s come up with for representing binary data in base 1. It’s a funny old world where you can be reading a book and simultaneously having a conversation with the author about some completely unrelated matter
This evening HWMBO and I have been watching the darts and discussing whether it's worth adding Sky Cinema to Mum's package (with me paying the difference in subscription fees).
Not so far as I'm aware: there's holes all around here but the Neath Disturbance blocks the obvious outcrop from this side of the valley. Up the hill there's lots of holes, sufficient to prevent an extension of a housing estate.
I was wondering when they were putting in the tanks for the rainwater runoff it they'd find a coal seam.
Curiously I recall a circus in that field about 20 years ago and nearly took a photo of an elephant sticking its head through a hedge.
Looking at it now you'd never think there was an oak tree with swallows/swifts slope soaring and catching insects there.
Sic transit & all that. It was all green fields around there then. .
And yes: there are drift mines under the cemetery across the road in a dell which was used in the 1930s as a rubbish dump, thus leading to the refrain "earth to earth, ashes to ashes, half brick to half brick, empty bottle to empty bottle".
I wasn’t too hungry this evening after all the pigs in blankets earlier, not to mention a dip into the Quality Street. But I had some leftovers from last night’s Indian, so that was tea
Lunch has been pigs in blankets in finger rolls, again
That’s the last of them, unless I get any more
This was accompanied by E1 of Titanic Sinks Tonight on iPlayer, a new documentary. I assume the title is to be imagined as being bellowed by Poseidon as he swims up towards the surface of the ocean, thrusting his trident upwards and swearing vengeance on the presumptuous White Star Line
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