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[DoctorStrangelove]

Tea has been a pork chop with chips and beans

Accompanied by some Trucking Hell

It was a chop rather than a cutlet this time because although the cutlets were on special offer, Inadequate Sainsbury's only had them with very short expiry dates. Turns out that wouldn't have mattered, but I wasn't sure yesterday whether I'd have them today or next week

The medically-induced lurgy isn't getting any better, though it is getting slightly worse. Sometimes I don't have any problems after a flu jab, but this year's is trying to make up for all the times I got away with it

Have you achieved the version perchance?

That's the one that knocks me sideways every time.

[NickFitz]

Have you achieved the version perchance?

That's the one that knocks me sideways every time.

That may be the one they're giving me! The surgery I'm with now started life as the university's Student Health Service but extended its remit to the wider community, so there's a mix of student-age people and older folk, with very little in between because people in the 25-50 age range don't need doctors quite as much for the most part. So one's always going to seem especially decrepit next to the large number of undergraduates frequenting the place

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Wolfs (2024) in which Brad Pitt and George Clooney play ageing fixers, both called in by different people to fix a political figure's mess and forced to work together despite their penchant for operating alone. I can see why it was straight-to-Apple-TV because it's not exactly a blockbuster, but it's entertaining enough

And then the final two episodes of The Wire, the last being ninety minutes long, so a film in its own right really. Still one of the finest series ever to grace our screens

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Damp since it was torrential overnight.

Wanly sunny.

Chilly in here at 15.2 deg, 15.5 deg in the kitchen, 13 deg in the leanto.

1003 mBar, 29.62 in Hg, 752.3 Torr, 14.547 psi, (down from 1008 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

X7 to Glyn-Neath, chinese bat plague jab update jabbed, same X7 back to Neath. Very convenient with no time wasted.

Lunch: yes there was.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Road up the hill was very busy for some reason: ?pumpkins?

Freecell score: 70%, running average: 78%.

Tea: soup etc.

It rained.

Entertainment: book. End of one, start of another.

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 78%.

Abandoned Railways from the air: Aberystwyth to Carmarthen.

Heartbreak Ridge (1986).

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Rather a grey day here, and not as warm as it could be: 11°C ("feels like" 6°) going on 12°. It may brighten up a little this afternoon, but will be breezy with it. The barometers are starting back down again at 993/1001mB

[NickFitz]

Happy to report that the dire effects of the flu jab have largely receded. Still not 100%, but the stinking headache that developed yesterday lunchtime seems to have gone

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dull and damp. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 16 expected. Some spits of rain ongoing and more showers due until early evening. Barometer down to 1005 mBar.

Hungover today. HWMBO made a very nice dinner and we had G&Ts, wine and cocktails over the course of the evening. I have managed to get myself out of bed to drag my sorry arse over to Hackney Wick to look at an art exhibition.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: sausages in finger rolls

[NickFitz]

I killed two birds with one stone and got some healthy exercise by walking to the kebab shop for tea

There was a slight shower on the way back but it's mainly been quite sunny and rather breezy, as was foretold

[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life and other wildlife stuff as usual today. Looks like things might be building towards a big confrontation between the different families of otters in Singapore

And this evening, a few more chapters of The Siege read, which takes me to the start of Day Three of six

More Monkey Life first thing tomorrow, so I'd better get to sleep

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

A rather grey start, though it isn't raining and supposedly won't. Not very warm but not frosty either, being 5°C that "feels like" 3°, and expected to reach 10°. The barometers are bouncing back at 1006/1014mB