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The chicken casserole turned out inordinately nice, accompanied by chips and peas
I often use a packet casserole mix from Sainsbury's because it's nice, but I forgot to get any, so I improvised with what I had in the cupboard. It turned out so well, I may just stick to doing it this way in future
Tea, and after, was accompanied by an episode of Trucking Hell featuring a lorry that had crashed into an electricity substation and a boat that somebody wanted lifting into their back garden many miles from the sea, among other things
Better get to sleep I suppose, as it seems like the morning may offer the best chance tomorrow to get a walk in while it's not raining
Current conditions outside: occasional light drizzle tending towards showers
It's quite mild at 17°C but not expected to get past 20°, with rain predictions ranging from 100% in the next hour to 30% for one hour this evening, but generally between 60% and 90% with the occasional gap. Barometers slightly down at 1000/1008mB. So quite a nice day really, when you bear in mind that hot sunny weather is horrid
Dull and overcast this morning but no precipitation at this time. It's currently 18 degrees with a high of 19 expected. It's due to rain from lunchtime onwards with warnings on the radio that with little wind, cloud will not move much and so rain could be in the 'deluge' category. Barometer steady at 1010 mBar.
Didn't want to get up this morning, but managed to drag myself out of bed eventually.
Today's Kantar diary fact is:
American swimmer, Caleb Dressel, wins 3 gold medals in one day at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea 2019
Lunch: Heinz lentil & bacon soup with Morrisons wholemeal sunflower and spelt bread, bramble jelly sandwich on same, yellow corner yog, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.
Entertainment: Car SOS: 1984 Toyota Landcruiser imported from Oz.
Not quite like Trigger's broom unlike some.
24.6 deg in here at 13:19.
And the fecking sun is out again.
Freecell score: 90%, running average 84% (84.09%).
Tea: Tesco breaded cod, some tinned peach slices, a yog, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.
Entertainment: Discovering Robert DeNiro on Sky Arts.
Nearly fell asleep watching that "Joy of Painting" thing on BBC4.
Watched a bit of the thing about Coastal Paths in Devon & Dorset.
Watched a bit of a thing about black holes on PBS.
Might watch Elementary S6 E3 if I can be arsed. I couldn't.
Engineering Mistakes on Quest.
More bridge disasters: the Mianus River Bridge on I-95.
Remarkably dumb Olympic stadium roof design in Montreal Canada, unfinished in 1976, completed in 1982, fecked again, replaced, fecked again, and fecking fecked when it collapsed under the weight of snow.
The Churchill Way flyovers in Liverpool: bet some light fingered gits nicked the reinforcing.
Wilnis dyke failure.
"The Hunter (1980)" being Steve McQueen's last picture, with that Eli Wallach and that LeVar Burton.
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