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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Friday!

Sunny start out today, with high, thin, streaky cloud such as one often gets trailing behind gloomier weather. It's currently 11°C and maybe reaching 18° this afternoon, while the barometers are up a little more at 1007/1015mB. The weather app gloomily asserts that it's "Mostly cloudy" which will "continue all day", but there's no way of telling if that means the wispy stuff we currently see hither and yon will hang around, or if it'll be replaced by something more substantial

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently. Where would I be without the Lidl(tm) clock that tells me this?

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Drizzly.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 18.5 deg, 19.5 deg in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.

1003.5 mBar, 29.63334 in Hg, 752.6868 Torr, 14.5545 psi, (up from 1002 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).

1013.5 mBar, (up from 1012 last night), 72% RH.

Meanwhile on the 20th of October 2019 NF had a sausage sandwich for lunch, Brillo made LM larf, I did some gardening & went for a walk after charging the battery on the Corolla, whereas the Oak Island nutjobs returned, finding an old penny, a lump of lead, a nail and a rock with a hole in it, NF reported that the Saisburys Local had its cash machine removed, along with the signage. I wonder what it became. (And now we know. ).

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom and threats of drizzle.

Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

Entertainment: some thing on R4 waffling on about something I can't remember. It went <click>. Oh yes, I remember now: it was artificially grown meat. Just remember folks, Soylent Green is People. .

Rained. A lot.

Veronica Mars S3 E13.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: The News Quiz.

Veronica Mars S3 E14. That's the last we see of the sheriff.

Veronica Mars S3 E15. And that's who killed the Dean.

"First Man (2018)": the Neil Armstrong biopic. Inneresting enough. Purchased in November 2019.

The book it's taken from is on top of a bookshelf behind my head where it's sat for at least 10 years IIRC.

[ladymuck]

^^ I miss Brillo. I should send him a note on LinkedIn and see if he's ok



Morning all

Cloudy, dull. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 19 expected. No rain forecast but the cloud is here to stay. Barometer down a smidge to 1014 mBar.

Was up early on account of a water meter fitting appointment starting from 8 am. While waiting for them to turn up, I have been job hunting. The excitement continues this afternoon with gas and electricity smart meters being fitted.

[ladymuck]

The water meter installation technician has just called and will be here within the hour.

Different person from the one who came last week so I wonder if they will also decide they don't want to do it and say it can't be done today.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: crispy duck with pancakes and hoisin sauce

I originally got this with the idea that I might need something to snack on while staying up overnight for the election, but I never got around to cooking it then. It needed eating by today and I have something else for this evening, so lunch seemed like a good plan. Half of it left for another time, too!

[NickFitz]

NF reported that the Saisburys Local had its cash machine removed, along with the signage. I wonder what it became.

A Salvation Army shop and collection centre

[ladymuck]

The water meter installation technician has just called and will be here within the hour.

Different person from the one who came last week so I wonder if they will also decide they don't want to do it and say it can't be done today.

It wasn't a different person.

They spent a good while checking things and then fitting the meter. Then discovered that the pipe wasn't the inbound water feed and that it must be buried somewhere inaccessible. So, he has to come back to remove the meter as he didn't have the right sized connector to replace the it with a bit of pipe. I could leave it there but I think that will ultimately cause too many problems.

So, I cannot have a water meter and will need to make sure I get an assessed charge that better reflects what I use. I'd like it to be not too dissimilar to what I paid for the past two years whilst on a meter...

The gas and electric meters were a doddle by comparison.

[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb shank in mint gravy, with chips and peas

Accompanied by Trucking Hell

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) which is excellent; faithful to the text, and the set design was, I thought, very fine: minimal for the most part, yet rich in detail in such moments as were meet. Somebody once said that the play is just a load of quotations strung together, and when watching a production like this, one does marvel at how much of the glorious language Shakespeare imbued this story with has become commonplace. I thought I was reasonably knowledgeable about it, but found myself thinking "Oh, that's where <two or three word phrase> comes from" throughout. I reckon that Shakespeare chap has a bright future ahead of him if he can keep this up

And then The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) which is, as I've said before, very good. More importantly, now that I've refreshed my memory, I can watch the recently-released prequel without risk of missing any clever forward references

Finally, a couple more episodes of S4 of The Wire

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Cool in here at 18.6 deg, 19.5 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.

1010.5 mBar, 29.84 in Hg, 757.937 Torr, 14.656 psi, (down from 1012 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 21st of October 2019 NF watched "Sunset Boulevard" which must be fairly unique in having narration by a dead man, which I still haven't watched despite having had a copy for a decade or more, the weather was dry and grey, and I was in search of kitty litter which implies that them next door were off gallivanting somewhere with me looking after the cat.

Well there's a thing: the red weed in the lawn is orange hawkweed. Who'd have thunk?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/orange-haw...043010125.html

It's spread up the valley over the last 10 years or so.

Walk (unabbreviated, with more flies) walked in the greyish gloom.

Lunch: baked spud etc. which was lucky since there was a bad spud in the bag.

My lumbar spine just went <clunk>. I hate it when that happens. .

Entertainment: the commentary on "First Man (2018)".

Tea: soup (lentil) etc.

Entertainment: Scotland Yard "The Blazing Caravan (1954)". That 1938 pools win of £30k is equivalent to £1.69M today.

Gilmour, David: Live at Pompeii (2016). I waiting for "Comfortably Numb" before doing the dishes.

Dixon of Dock Green S22 E2 "The Job (1976)". Stephen Greif was in this one.

Veronica Mars S3 E16.

Veronica Mars S3 E17. the missing tapes one.

Veronica Mars S3 E18.

"Sunset Boulevard (1950)" with William Holden, Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Swanson, Buster Keaton, & C.B. DeMille. It was rather good.

When crew members asked Billy Wilder how he was going to shoot the burial of Norma's monkey, one of the film's most bizarre scenes, he just said, "You know, the usual monkey-funeral sequence."

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The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre "Incident at Midnight (1962)". Warren Mitchell and Anton Diffring. This was above average too.