test please delete

[NickFitz]

First feature tonight was Drive (2011), in which Ryan Gosling mumbles an awful lot for a film where the producer was too cheap to provide subtitles plays a chap who drives; sometimes as a getaway driver, sometimes just to the shops or whatever. In fact, there isn't as much driving as one might expect from the title, as it's more of a gritty drama with occasional action than an action film per se. But it's OK on those terms

And after that, to make up for the lack of action: Black Hawk Down (2001), which has lots of action, almost all of it deeply unpleasant for those involved. I have to say, Ewen Bremner still looks like the junky Spud out of Trainspotting (1996) even when he's in Somalia dressed as a US Army Ranger or whatever they're called

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all

CBS, etc here. My turn to get up and let the guineas out, hence being online at this hour.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning all

Grey, very very grey.

Picking with rain.

Happily I awoke before the oncoming deluge because I'd forgotten to bring in the roller towel & pair of jeans off the line.

It's against my principles* to leave stuff on the line overnight.

A nice little spider came in with the stuff & got put back out through the bathroom window.

However that seems to have brought the formication back.

*Not really my principles, more Strangelove Mater's really, if truth be told.

[DoctorStrangelove]

I probably saw the 66 one.

I wonder if it was on BBC1 in the full glory of 405 lines.

Probably, because I'm not sure that BBC2 had got this far in 1966.

Yup:

Kilvey Hill transmitting station - Wikipedia

The Kilvey Hill transmitting station was originally built at the summit of Kilvey Hill in Swansea, Wales, by the BBC[1] in 1967 as a relay for VHF and UHF television.

UHF doesn't propagate very well from Wenvoe in Cardiff, unlike Ch5 VHF.

[DoctorStrangelove]

In with the hoi polloi.

Off now before the deluge begins.

[BR14]

morning all.
CBS in sunny sarf herts.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rather cloudy out, but mainly that very thin cloud, and a fair few gaps letting the sun through from time to time

Should cloud over properly soon though, and there's a chance of showers this afternoon.

[DoctorStrangelove]

In with the hoi polloi.

Off now before the deluge begins.

It never amounted to much.

Still as grey as ever.

[DoctorStrangelove]

or a pink floyd song

'and then one day you find
ten years have gone behind you
no-one told you when to run
you missed the starting gun'

Been listening to that for 45 years.

I think it's a bit late to be worrying much now.

Instead I'm mostly

ish.

[NickFitz]

The rest of the pâté for lunch, this time on wholemeal toast as I forgot to get a white loaf yesterday

It's clouded over properly now, though apparently it won't last and the rain is becoming increasingly unlikely. There's a football game happening, it seems; you'd think it could at least rain for that

Also, it's the Pride thingy today, so they'd probably quite like a rainbow