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[ladymuck]

Morning all, Barbados calling, local time 0713

Sunny but damp from overnight showers. Currently 28 degrees ('feels like' 31) with a high of 31 expected. Some showers forecast off and on.

We are due to pick up the hire car today. I'll be interested to see what sort of car HWMBO (a non driver) selected.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all, Barbados calling, local time 0713

Sunny but damp from overnight showers. Currently 28 degrees ('feels like' 31) with a high of 31 expected. Some showers forecast off and on.

We are due to pick up the hire car today. I'll be interested to see what sort of car HWMBO (a non driver) selected.

give Mount Gay my fond regards

[eek]

Morning all, Barbados calling, local time 0713

Sunny but damp from overnight showers. Currently 28 degrees ('feels like' 31) with a high of 31 expected. Some showers forecast off and on.

We are due to pick up the hire car today. I'll be interested to see what sort of car HWMBO (a non driver) selected.

It's Barbados - you want a Suzuki Jimny, anything else is pointless..

[eek]

give Mount Gay my fond regards

St. Nicholas Abbey is better

Although the Rum plantations on Guadeloupe are way more fun.

[sadkingbilly]

St. Nicholas Abbey is better

Although the Rum plantations on Guadeloupe are way more fun.

I disagree, but there you go

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz tomato soup and white toast

The wind has got up here and blown some of the cloud away, so it's sunny from time to time but not unpleasantly warm

Earlier on, I ventured over to the bins with a bag of recycling. Coming back, a recent mystery was explained: why has an electrical contractor's van been showing up outside for the past few days? It turns out he's fixing/maintaining the outside lighting, which consists of lights over the six doorways to the three blocks. I'd vaguely noticed that the ones on the blocks opposite and adjacent were on the last few nights; I believe they're both light and motion sensitive, to keep them off during the day and turn them off after a while if nobody's moving around. But maybe they aren't motion sensitive, and just seemed to be off a lot because they were faulty or broken? Anyway, it was the turn of the light over our front door, so the chap was perched up a ladder doing things to it.

I'm hoping he's also doing the internal lights in the common areas, as they've been bust since late last year, meaning going out of the flat after dark involves moving around in an eerie green glow from the emergency lights. The proper ones are definitely motion sensitive, and it was mildly enjoyable to see each floor lighting up as you reached it when using the stairs

[NickFitz]

A pleasant enough evening, so to Big Sainsbury's I did go. Nothing exciting to report, except that the chestnut tree outside the old flat is looking well, and the Polish café seems to be keeping busy

Then home via the VAT fraud chip shop, so tea has been fish & chips

[NickFitz]

Out of idle curiosity, I looked up my Dad's 1961 TV play on IMDb: "ITV Television Playhouse" Flight 447 Delayed (TV Episode 1961)

The first chap in the cast list, Martin Benson, seems to have had a pretty interesting career in his own right. He was in Cleopatra with Taylor and Burton, then in Goldfinger as the mobster who refuses the offer that shouldn't have been refused and gets put through a car crusher by Oddjob for his pains. And he also seems to have been in just about every TV series of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s you've ever heard of, including playing the Vogon captain who demolishes Earth in the TV version of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[NickFitz]

That cast got around: another one was also in Goldfinger, one more was in both Dr. No and Thunderball as well as appearing in three episodes of UFO; and yet another was not only in Randall and Hopkirk Deceased but also the narrator on Mr. Benn!

I've only looked at those four, otherwise I'll be at it all night

Before I went down that rabbit hole, TV was an old Police Interceptors - though not that old, as I'm catching up with the present there. One odd aspect of this was that some of the voiceover had apparently been updated while the subtitles hadn't. So, for example, after a pursuit in which the bloke had ditched the car and run off, the subtitles said he was still being sought, yet the narration said he'd got four years for various offences. And there were a couple of others like that

Oh, and the hallway lights have been fixed, meaning I was able to see exactly where I was putting the bag of rubbish I put out for the cleaners to remove in the morning, rather than casting it vaguely towards the lift in the dim green glow of the emergency light!

Friday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunnier start than the last couple of days, though still with a fair bit of wispy stuff artistically arranged. No overly unpleasant temperatures expected, being 14°C and restraining itself to 20° later. The barometers are rallying somewhat at 1001/1009mB

Friday!

And less than a week left of election bulltulip before we start with the "It's been nearly five minutes now, why haven't they fixed the country yet?" bulltulip