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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start today despite some clouds, but not really any warmer for it: 2°C, and not getting past 7° later in the day. The barometers are venturing back up at 998/1006mB

I need some shopping but not a lot, so I think I'll just pop along to Not-As-Big Sainsbury's in a bit

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc

2C earlier, but quite pleasant once we got moving

[DoctorStrangelove]

Wood. A new, previously unknown, shaft. A nail. A cut coin that's English, one of the Georges.

So the usual then. Still ain't found tulip.

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Chilly in here at 12.2 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen, 7 deg in the leanto.

1006.5 mBar, 29.72 in Hg, 754.94 Torr, 14.598 psi, (up from 1005 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of January 2020 there was much discussion of the Pink Floyd £300 box set replete with CDs, Blurays, SACDs etc. which I'd decided not to waste my money on, having purchased most of the above as vinyl and CD already.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine. It's certainly not warm out there at the moment.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: R4 waffling on about the ozone layer.

TWATO.

The final ep of the asbestos thing. Bastards.

Freecell score in the chill of the afternoon: 86%, running average: 82%. Well it was better than yesterday's 50% I suppose.

House very roughly vacced: nothing to speak of moved to vacc underneath.

Tea: Brains faggots with peas and such like. Nice enough.

Entertainment: last 10 minutes of More or Less, PM.

Unlike last week's search for the electric planer, today's search for the jigsaw was successful. It just took long enough to make sure there was no time to do anything before tea. Ho hum.

PBS: "Underfire: the untold story of Tony Vaccaro" HBO: 2016. He died at the age of 100 in 2022.

[NickFitz]

Not-as-Big Sainsbury's has been popped to, and the shopping done

There were a couple of minor things I would have got if they'd had them, but they didn't. Unclear whether this is due to discontinuation (or temporary suspension) by the manufacturer, supply chain issues, or simply that they don't stock them there because there isn't enough room. They aren't showstoppers though

And I saw what feels like the rarest of sights nowadays: another customer wearing a mask!

Anyway, it's nice to have all that sorted out by lunchtime, and the rest of the day free for either doing useful stuff (possible) or not (likely)

This time last week, I must have been on the A50 westbound. Seems no time ago, yet also ages

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the last two Greggs sausage rolls out of the freezer

Think I'll strip the bed and leave it to air

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Blue sky with lumps of fluff. Currently 8 degrees ('feels like' 6) and that was also the high for the day. Rain forecast early evening. Barometer up to 1013 mBar.

Sunrise 06:17; Sunset 18:04

A bit of a pottering about day. I have thinking upon a tricky problem for ConsultancyCo where I swing from "it's quite simple, aren't we over analysing this" to "I think this is too complicated for my feeble brain". Seeing as I need to share some thoughts on this so someone can do something, I really need to need to settle on one or the other.

[xoggoth]

Litter pick volunteer this morning, at least me senile old brain can manage that. Got lots more things working in my Excel replacement for Bing maps API. Teeth in Paradise tonight, actually summit worth watching on TV!

[NickFitz]

Tea: thick-cut ribeye steak with chips, fried onions, and beans

Accompanied by the final episode of S1 of the RAF thing on C4. Series 2 next!

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Control (2007), a biopic about Ian Curtis of Joy Division. It's very good. Unlike most "based on a true story" films, we have the testimony of the other members of the band who are also portrayed in there and have nothing to lose by telling us how "based" it is; and they tell us that it's not the true story at all but that's OK because the true story is too boring to be a film, but they still reckon it's a good film <- and people smoke almost constantly because it's the 1970s

It's in black & white. I think we forget how bleak life was in working class communities in the latter part of the 1970s, and the combination of black & white and their music works very well. There's a reason the covers of the band's only two real albums were B&W

And then a rewatch of Sucker Punch (2011) because that's also got a lot of good tunes in it, as well as good special effects

Finally, a rewatch of Air Force One (1997) in which the President of the USA is willing to put his own life on the line for the sake of other people and moral principles. We should probably move this to the "fantasy" section

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 11.7 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 6 deg in the leanto.

1019 mBar, 30.09 in Hg, 764.3 Torr, 14.779 psi, (up from 1015 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of January 2020 LM had done the washing & the washing basket was thusly empty, HWMBO had made 3 salads (which is at least 2 too many ), NF wasn't watching anything much, my tea was more of the weekend roast, and I'd found a strange black stone on my walk, the white bits of which were possibly fossil something or other, and there was a coal field on Anglesey. Who'd have thunk? Oh, and I watched "The Ipcress file" again, since it was on, followed by a documentary about Michael Caine that time, unlike this week's documentary about Mr Deighton.

Freecell score: 78%, running average: 82%.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine and cold wind. No bees emerging from the nest in the tree today.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: the "comedy" on R4.

13 o'clock news.

Freecell score: 83%, running average: 82%.

Forgot to do a Hitler salute to the NaziKar this morning as it was picking up passengers whilst blocking the exit from the police station.

I now know the German for "Daddy, Daddy, I'm afraid of the dark", "bells and whistles", and "consfusion", not to mention the latin for privet (as in hedge).

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM.

"The great northfield minesota raid (1972)". <click>

"The call of the Isles (1963)" with Fyfe Robertson. They don't make 'em like that any more. Nor people like Mr Robertson.

"The truth is out there" on Blaze: funny shaped UFOs: 3 minutes then <click>.

Book. Other book.

Really battulip crazy UFO crap on Blaze: replacement theory, all 2 hours of it <click>

Bit about Johnny Cash.

Thing about Enya. I think my mate had some of her music at his funeral.

I'm having "Another one bites the dust" and "Comfortably Numb". I may have "One of these days" too..