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The other place is good, but the usual place is better
The walk up saw the green ring filled, to the accompaniment of a shower of what was being described as snow but just felt like very slightly lumpy rain
And the cash machine nearest the Chinese was up the creek, so I had to cross back over to use the one at the Co-op. The chap who'd advised me the usual one was broken got there ahead of me, and turned out to be one of those people who attempts to type the entire text of Moby-Dick into the machine, so I had to wait while that happened. And all around me, three of the local homeless people (may not actually be homeless) who take turns begging thereabouts were having a blazing row about something, shouting at each other, waving arms around, stomping off in a rage, stomping back again still in a rage, shouting some more, and so on
Two of them still seemed to be at it when I'd finally got my dinner and was heading back
Oh, and due to Tier 4, all the knocking shops are closed again.
Tonight's premiere was Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw (2019), because I've spent all that time watching F&F1-8 to remind myself of the backstory, so I might as well actually watch it
I thought it was good in its context; we all know it's going to be silly nonsense, but it's quality silly nonsense, a far cry from the early days of the franchise when it was all about stealing spare parts for Toyotas rather than saving the world from a criminal mastermind orchestrating a pandemic
Though IRL it turns out they might as well not have bothered, as Mother Nature got there without the aid of a criminal mastermind
After that, and continuing with the theme of a global threat but of a more recondite kind, a rewatch of Annihilation (2018). I do like the effects in this one, but also the story; I must get around to reading the book so I can work out what the person on Twitter who argued that all the important aspects of the book were missed out was going on about
Finally, the excellent augmented reality thriller Anon (2018). It does take a while to watch if you keep pausing it to read the chunks of text that appear next to people and things in the AR viewpoints, but they're all consistent with the story and its reality so eventually I stopped doing that. It's very good, IMHO
I forgot the bedroom window again, so it's 12°C in here. Still, it'll quickly warm up under the covers with the furry throws on top, so I think I'll leave the window open a little, as the fresh air is lovely
Now getting stuck into the Family Circle biscuit assortment, which I got because these days my family tend to go for fancy biscuits from places like M&S and Waitrose, and I decided I wanted the normal ones we used to get when I was a kid
And they say advertising doesn't work.
I bought some earlier today.
Half gone already.
Currently on a jammy dodger.
Tea: Ginsters Moroccan vegan pasty (that I spoiled by overheating), several bramble jelly sandwiches on Morrisons wholemeal sunflower & spelt bread, yog (prune), Morrisons lattice top mince pie, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.
Oh, and a couple of biscuits.
Entertainment: the last 20 minutes of "The Green Man (1956)" with Alistair Sim as an assassin, Terry Thomas as a philanderer, George Cole as the hero.
"Am dro: Selebs" on S4C, wherein "we" travelled with the 4 "selebs" variously to Anglesey (castles & such like), Gwynedd along Lon Goed, The Pembrey Country Park, and the Brecon Beacons in a rainstorm that would have put the SAS off on the way to the crash site of a WWII bomber in 1943.
Early doors again. The family of corvids that we feed were cawing for their breakfast before 7am. They seem particularly fond of their free range cousins being cooked, rather than raw (they get the bones, giblets and trimmings). Partial to Royal-Canin Exigent protein cat nuts. They don't like cooked beef as much, but for the fat...
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Hmmm. In the wake of those Huawei security concerns, am I the only one to be suspicious that Fizzy Knickers, who keeps CUK going, goes to the Chinese quite so often?
After that, and continuing with the theme of a global threat but of a more recondite kind, a rewatch of Annihilation (2018). I do like the effects in this one, but also the story; I must get around to reading the book so I can work out what the person on Twitter who argued that all the important aspects of the book were missed out was going on about
I have the trilogy and it was ok. Readable but found the set quite tedious. Happy to send them up to you as they're currently in the pile for the charity shop when they reopen for donations.
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