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[NickFitz]

Well it is about 28 degrees C in London.

The only people I see with masks are care workers going into some people's home.

The weather doesn't seem to have any bearing on it here - cool or hot, they just don't mask any more

[NickFitz]

A modicum of work done, timesheet done, and it's the weekend!

I feel mostly recovered today so I'll be heading south tomorrow after all, unless I have a relapse

Just popped round to the chemist to pick up the monthly prescription, which has probably been ready all week but I didn't get around to going for it, mainly due to not feeling well. They had it ready though, unlike at least two recent months, so that redeems them enough for this month to prevent me shifting my prescription to the larger chemist about twenty yards up the road

And while there, I remembered to get some sun tan lotion - the journey south and back tends to involve sunlight getting in to the car both ways, so it can't do any harm to slap some on

[NickFitz]

Tea: rack of ribs and chips

Very sunny out still. The couple who bring out garden chairs and sit on the small lawn by the southern entrance to the block opposite, basking, have done so

[xoggoth]

Very tired today but had booked a morning walk with loony lady 3. Looking forward to a nice rest when I got home but me 90+ neighbour asked me to run her to the hospital. Oh well, at least I can watch Sister Bummiface with me little puppet parrot soon.

[ladymuck]

The front hedge that was trying its best to stop anyone using the gate has been trimmed back. My neighbour (who must be 70) stopped by and offered use of their ladder so I could do the top. Evidently the look on my face was properly interpreted as she then quickly said, or do you not like ladders. I said I didn't like ladders at all and intended to get someone to sort that bit out. Wherein she offered to do it for me next time she's doing some of her own hedge trimming.

I am not ashamed to say that I accepted the offer. As it's going to rain tomorrow I suspect she won't get a round tuit for a while, which is fine. I still intend to get someone in to chop the top off as it's far too high to manage.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's first major motion picture premiere wasn't a premiere as I saw it on the telly years ago. But I probably recorded it and watched it after coming back from the pub or something, as I didn't remember any of it. Or maybe I meant to watch it but didn't, in which case it was a premiere? I'm really not sure

Anyway, it was The Doors (1991) and it's good, but mainly serves to confirm that, like many of the acclaimed rock stars of the Sixties, Jim Morrison was a ******* arsehole

And then a rewatch of Firewall (2006) in which Harrison Ford is supposed to be a small bank's IT security specialist, despite apparently being paid far more and having a much higher status in the business than such a person would have at the time, or even now. I've watched it before, but I'd forgotten the details of the heist he's forced to take part in, and it's quite clever - though usual Hollywood Technology rules apply. It's pretty good as these things go

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

The front hedge that was trying its best to stop anyone using the gate has been trimmed back. My neighbour (who must be 70) stopped by and offered use of their ladder so I could do the top. Evidently the look on my face was properly interpreted as she then quickly said, or do you not like ladders. I said I didn't like ladders at all and intended to get someone to sort that bit out. Wherein she offered to do it for me next time she's doing some of her own hedge trimming.

I am not ashamed to say that I accepted the offer. As it's going to rain tomorrow I suspect she won't get a round tuit for a while, which is fine. I still intend to get someone in to chop the top off as it's far too high to manage.

I'm sure there must be an old adage about never climbing a borrowed ladder

[ladymuck]

Morning all

A mix of lumpy fluff and wispy fluff with blue sky poking through the gaps. Currently 23 degrees with a high of 24 expected. Thunderstorm forecast around 1 to 2 pm. Barometer down to 1015 mBar.

Off to the hairdresser and the optician today. Both in Kensington so a trip on the Central Line is required.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday apparently.

Wet.

Grey.

Sunless.

NotSoCool in here at 20.9 deg, 23 deg in the kitchen, 21.5 deg in the leanto.

1008 mBar, 29.766223 in Hg, 756.1 Torr, 14.62 psi, (up from 1005 last night), 68% RH (GDR hair), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Tedious seemingly endless dream about measuring rise & fall times using ATE on silicon chips, probably induced by a post I made elsewhere yesterday evening.

Woke to the sounds of PF on Today. Which was a bit odd.

Meanwhile on the 26th of June 2019 NF was still reading Pepys' Diary, WTFH was discussing mushrooms, I was seeking a cauliflower, while LM was having a day of paperwork.

Entertainment: thing on PBS about the bastard Norman scum. Watching daytime tv, I am doomed.

Lunch: baked potato with cheese and baked beans, a red corner yog, bramble jelly and marmalade on slices of toast, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: Abandoned Engineering. Well it passes the time.

Joy of Painting. the was amazingly strong in this.

Joy of Painting. . pretty strong in this one too.

Ancient Aliens bollox. <click>

Freecell score: 70% & dropping.

Tea: penultimate fiery bol with spag, some pear halves, a yog, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Maigret S1 E13: The Children's Party (1961). The one where the now grown up "children" attempt to off Maigret several times, unsuccessfully.

The Four Just Men S1 E27: "The man in the royale suite". Kenneth Connor stars.

Wish You Were Here doc. Again. Can't find owt else. Just made the comment about people who still have the black shrink wrap on the album. That's proper absence that is. .

Finding Roger more than irritating these days.

Followed, no doubt, by Pulse. Again. Still no Comfortably Numb. .

[ladymuck]

Unforecast wet stuff is falling from the sky. Not very much of it.

Thunderstorm forecast has been expanded to cover the 12-3 hours