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Tonight's major motion picture was Collateral (2004) in which cabbie Jamie Foxx is dragooned into assisting hitman Tom Cruise in an overnight killing spree in LA. Extremely good, as I've said before, though I must admit I've only realised very recently that it was directed by Michael Mann, who does tend to make extremely good films
Sunny sort of start to what promises to be a warm day: already 17°C with 26° due later. It's going to be even warmer tomorrow, reaching 30° before calming down and getting back to more reasonable levels later in the week, so the new air conditioner may finally get a proper workout. The barometers are only up a bit more though, at 1011/1019mB
Cool in here at 20.7 deg, 22 deg in the kitchen, 20 deg in the leanto, 18.6 deg in the saltinghouse.
1014.5 mBar, 29.958 in Hg, 760.93 Torr, 14.714 psi, (down from 1015 last night), 76% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 31st of October 2019 NF was in search of some pruning shears and a haircut, this latter being achieved at the barber's, though he couldn't remember any of the conversation with the lady barber afterwards so made some chips, whereas I bought Yet Another Railway Book about The Swansea Vale Railway from that Swansea.
Washing frenzy in progress.
Shirts in off the line, roughly iRoned & airing upstairs.
Lunch: beans on toast.
Entertainment: The Mentalist S6 E2, E3.
Smalls in off the line & airing upstairs. Phew wot a scorcher.
Cottons in off the line & those requiring the iRon duly iRoned & airing upstairs.
Which reminds me there's still stuff out there on the line.
Entertainment: The Mentalist S6 E4, E5, E6.
Tea: egg sandwiches again etc.
Entertainment: Digging up Britain with that Professor Alice Roberts: Rat Island.
The Mentalist S6 E7, E8, E9. They should have ended it after E7.
Blustery warm wind out there tonight. Looks like there's a storm coming. .
Sunny with minimal fluff. Currently 21 degrees with a high of 29 expected. Barometer up a smidge to 1019 mBar.
Off to see Mum today. As the air-conditioning hasn't even been booked in for a check, it's going to be a warm ride. I can't remember if I need petrol. Ah well, I'll soon find out
A warm drive there and back. Mum wasn't fretting about anything being stolen this week. However I don't know what's happened to a pack of bayonet candle bulbs that I'd picked up a while ago as she needs one for the dining room. She said my brother must have taken them
Tea has been the Turkish chicken, tomato and potato thing. Very nice, but I forgot to make any rice to go with it. So I made up for the missing calories by having tinned peach slices in syrup with mint and chocolate chip ice cream
Just watched 1.5 episode of 24 Hours in A&E (1 new, .5 old) and now I'm going to give the Olympics Shutdown Show ten minutes or so. If it's rubbish, I'll abandon it
I ended up leaving the Olympics thing on, but not necessarily paying much attention to it. In particular, I needed to sort out some documents for the solicitor about the sale of the parental home - my brother and I had signed them, witnessed by a cousin's partner, yesterday. They're now safely tucked in their envelope with a covering letter, to be collected by the postman (or postwoman) tomorrow
Monday again. Oh well, only two of them to go before the Bank Holiday, and the week after that I'm on holiday for my niece's wedding
Largely cloudy out, though with a few potential gaps here and there. There's something of a breeze too. But it seems none of this will be cooling things down, as it's already 20°C and expected to hit 30°. The barometers are down to 997/1004mB though, so the heatwave should be brief
Monday again. Various senior people are back from leave today, so there's a chance we may hear something about the fate of the project
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