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[NickFitz]

No need for a big tea tonight given the huge meal in the day, so I just had a couple of chicken drumsticks with a bag of plain crisps

I'm the only member of the family who prefers brown meat to white, so I got given the leftover limbs of the several chickens that had been roasted to bring back with me

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Jarhead (2005), which is one of those things about US Marine recruits being shouted at a lot and then going into battle, the twist being that it's the early 1990s and they go to Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, where they don't actually end up going into battle at all because after waiting around for ages, everything's over before they get anywhere interesting. Makes a change from the Vietnam-era films of that ilk, I suppose

And then a rewatch of Road House (1989) in which Patrick Swayze is a bouncer hired to clean up a small-town bar who ends up dealing with the endemic corruption within said town as well. I watched this some years ago, and since then I've seen discourse about it on Twitter which argues that it could only ever have worked in that time and with that particular cast, because it's rather strange. Since then, of course, some people have decided to remake it, and the new one has been snapped up by Amazon. I may watch the one made in this very different time with a very different cast, just to see if it fails as badly as one might expect, which it probably will

And then the end of S2 and the start of S3 of The Wire

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, about to go out for a walk.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 12.7 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto, 8 deg in the salting house.

990 mBar, 29.234 in Hg, 742.56 Torr, 14.358 psi, (up from 987 last night), 76% RH (GDR hair), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 11th of September 2019 NF had a big chicken dinner whereas LM ferreted about in the bottom of the fridge looking for something edible, and I watched a thing about the Twin Towers with Yet Another Crazy Conspiracy Theory, while being amused by the new iThing invoking the fear of little holes in sore afflicted.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Smalls in the WM.

Oz customs: the usual usual. Undeclared Chinese food++.

Smalls pegged out on the line.

Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

It started raining: the nearly dry washing no longer nearly dry & in the TD.

Out of the TD, & the shirts roughly iRoned & airing upstairs. Said shirts are barely in gardening shirt territory now.

Half a cupful of water out of the TD.

Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey Cage S17: Volcanoes.

The Infinite Monkey Cage special bonus edition: reminiscing over the previous 99 editions thereof.

Freecell score: 70%, running average: 86%.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: if there is any I haven't found it.

Freecell score: 70%, running average: 86%. Zoned out today.

Dixon of Dock Green: S5 E26 "Duffy calls the tune (1959)"

Maigret S4 E12 "Peter the Lett (1963)". Dear old Roger Delgado as a naughty man.

The Edgar Wallace Mystery theatre "Attempt to kill (1961)". Gosh.

The Repair shop: the one with the idiot gramophone repair chap, the one who fused the lights. Feck me. What an amateur. Very impressive.

Mission Unexplained: more bollox on blaze.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Sunny (in spells) and quite Simpsonesque out at the moment, and the wind seems to have died down. Warmer than it has been too, at 13°C and soon to reach 14°. The barometers are on their way back up at 982/990mB

For some reason, Monkey Life is an hour later today at 16:00. But it's the ones featuring two Argentinian chimps coming over to live at Monkey World

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 0825

Cloudy! Currently 18 degrees with a high of 24 expected. No rain forecast

I have yet to get used to the sound of the ocean. We're on the Pacific side of Mexico and it's not a gentle lapping on the shore but a great crashing that sometines sounds like it's strong storm rather than waves.

The fridge did get fixed, which I am pleased by. I think the callout fee to fix NF's freezer might be a bit high though.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: the last couple of Greggs sausage rolls out of the freezer

[NickFitz]

Tea came from KFC

It was brought by a chap on a bicycle who made at least two other deliveries on the way, judging by where he went according to the live map, yet still made it here about five minutes before the estimated arrival time when he started out. Excellent going, I thought

[WTFH]

A couple of hundred kg of ground elder dug up. One tree planted, interestingly where it went was full of broken glass (like someone had dismantled a greenhouse there). And then I cut the grass with the (currently working) ride-on.

[xoggoth]

One tree planted, interestingly where it went was full of broken glass

My garden has a lot of broken glass and china in it if I dig down. Somebody must have used it as a dump. At least it keep the moles out!