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[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s another grey day here, though no sign of rain. It’s supposed to be windy, making the current 5°C “feel like” -4°, but I see very little shimmying of the trees outside. Anyway, that’s as warm as it’s going to get, whatever it may feel like. The barometers have dropped sharply to 995/1003mB

[ladymuck]

Sinners was indeed a superb film. HWMBO and I watched it at the cinema.



Morning all, and a happy new year to you and yours

Cloudy but bright with patches of blue poking through. Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' 0) with a high of 6 expected. It'll be a sunshine and clouds kind of day with a slight risk of rain. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 08:48; Sunset 15:54 GMT

Didn't stay up for any New Year shenanigans. Haven't yet looked at the news to see what dramas occurred.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 11.4 deg, 9.5 in the kitchen, 7 in the leanto, 5.6 in the saltinghouse (warmer than yesterday).

1011 mBar, 29.854 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (down from 1017 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile late on the 8th of March 2020 WTFH was thinking of going away to Charmouth, LM had missed the H2G2 extravaganza which I had studiously ignored, whereas on the 9th scruff and opm popped in whilst NF was up late and The Leg was painful again.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some poetry thing about Philip Larkin, Noon o'clock news. Pick of the year <click>

Raining.

Stopped raining. At least it's not snowing FFS.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath, wan sunshine) walked. It seemed less cold than yesterday.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Entertainment: some sciencey thing followed by PM <click>

5 minutes of "Angel & the badman (2009)" with Lou Diamond Philips playing The Duke's part.

"Mysteries from above": more bollox on Blaze. FFS is there nothing on worth watching?

Book.

Freecell score: 90%, running average: 86%.

Last 10 minutes of "Faster" with Billy Bob Thornton and Dwayne Johnson. I prefer the alternative ending on the dvd but there you go & there it went.

Book.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Sinners (2025) which offers a fascinating insight into African American society and culture in the Deep South in the 1930s, and also… vampires!

It really is a winning combination, and makes for a great film

Then a rewatch of Anora (2024), partly because it was seasonally appropriate as it features a New Year party, but mainly because I'm still curious as to why it won Best Picture at the Oscars. I found that, as I thought when I last watched it, it’s a good film! Very entertaining. But best picture? It’s good, but I reckon some of the other nominees were better. Then again, it does have a lot more footage of young ladies in almost no clothes than the other nominees, so maybe the august luminaries of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who vote on these matters are just a bunch of dirty old men

Goodnight all and once again, a Happy New Year

[NickFitz]

Happy New Year, denizens!

[NickFitz]

Lots of mucking around with RealityKit and GameplayKit today. Something odd is going on with something that I thought was working, but I haven’t worked out yet if it’s a bug in Apple’s stuff or if I’ve broken it

Lunch was a Pukka sausage roll. And for tea, I treated myself to something brought from the nearby Turkish place

And I’ve just finished watching the final episode of Titanic Sinks Tonight, which ended the way all such things end

There was somebody from my Dad’s side of the family who was lost with the Titanic; he was a cabin boy, I think. I don’t know his name though

[ladymuck]

Invoice issued. That's a wrap (work-wise) for 2025.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny start, clouded over since. Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' 1) with a high of 6 expected. Might be some rain this afternoon. Barometer down to 1027 mBar.

Sunrise 08:48; Sunset 15:53 GMT

Last billing day of the year. A couple of minor busy tasks to complete and then I'll be invoicing.

No plans for this evening. Just a quiet one indoors with HWMBO.

[Pondlife]

Morning all,

Definitely a cold finish to the year.

Wind 3 kt from the North/Northwest
Temperature 1°C
Humidity 86%
Pressure 1032 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more

Heading down to Somerset to see friends for the New Year shenanigans and it's even colder there so lanes are potentially going to be slippy.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Frosty start this morning, with a lot of white roofs out the back and a similar lawn out the front; the cars look a bit chilly too. It’s 0°C at the moment and supposedly “feels like” -3°, and it’s not getting above 3° this afternoon. Tonight apparently might not be quite as cold as last night, but that’s just a lead-in to a cold snap at the weekend. The barometers are down a bit at 1018/1026mB