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[WTFH]

Bags packed, checked out of hotel, almost time to come home.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start for a change, and it's going to be a warmer day: already on 8°C with 19° expected later. The barometers are down a bit though at 1012/1020mB, and it looks like the weather will take a turn for the colder and rainier on Sunday

[ladymuck]

Oh look!

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with a hint of a wisp. Currently 6 degrees with a high of 21 expected . Barometer down to 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 06:14; Sunset 19:52 BST

Up early for a meeting at 0830. Good job I'm not presenting.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 14.7 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

1021 mBar, 30.15 in Hg, 765.8 Torr, 14.8 psi, (down from 1024 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 8th of January 2020 LM had a fancy for Heinz tomato soup with a hint of chilli, I went down the dump with glass etc. and forgot the paper recycling, NF remarked that he was doing the mundane washing (is there any other kind? Just askin' like) and WTFH was watching "House of Cards" on iPlayer, whereas I was flushing the outside bog since it hadn't been flushed for at least 18 months (memo to self: do it again soon).

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away: shanks' out, 34 back across the river. Timed it right again.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: the thing about rare earths on R4 at 11:45.

Not Y&Y: The Evils of Concrete. .

TWATO.

More potching in the garage, followed by some extraction of bits of wire from next door's shed (well it was there, is never likely to be used since it's not connected to anything any more, which is just as well since I took the sockets and all the ends are exposed).

Then, since exhaustion & poisoning from the 5* wood treatment was imminent: the house was roughly vacced since it really needed it. Stuff Was Moved in the living room. Amazingly enough, there are spaces on some of the bookshelves. .

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Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM.

My sister has gently suggested I should move to get away from my dear nephew.

Entertainment: Abandoned Engineering: Dr Karl Gebhardt, Hohenlychen Sanatorium, used for human experimentation on camp inmates. He was executed following the Nuremberg Trials. The Tanjung Tualang Tin Dredge No. 5 (TT5), built by the Evil British, taken by the Japanese. Designed to mechanise the existing Chinese manual industry. Even manages to mention The East India Company. Malayan Emergency. Didn't know "we" used Agent Orange during that. Obviously not as much as the septics used in Vietnam. Then again, "we" won that one & the septics lost theirs. El Paso, Tx, poor farm: the Rio Vista farm. Pressed into use for the Bracero Program: Mexican labourers. Sprayed with DDT. Treated like slaves. Italy: Portis: 1976 earthquake.

NCIS.

Blaze: What on Earth? Namibia. Skeleton coast: Abandoned Decca Navigator station seen from space. The lines in the sand were caused by the removal of the copper wire ground plane for the antenna. Pre WWII British "sonar" aircraft detection system in Kent: sound mirror. Abandoned Australian town: Wittenoom: blue asbestos mine. Tokyo Sarin attack was tested on a property "close by" (which has feck all to do with it). NK: Ostrich farm. Carancas Meteor strike: arsenic poisoning from the surrounding ground.

Here's the Decca Navigator site: The Nama Sunburst:

https://skyhawkphotography.blogspot....ry-solved.html

I had a feeling it was to do with Decca Navigator: it took 20 minutes before that was made clear: had to show all the wrecked ships in the desert first.

Mysteries from Above. Easter Island: how were the statues moved? They "walked" along recently discovered "paths". Mima Mounds, Washington State: no one knows how or what created them. Kazakhstan assorted landforms: big square, funny 3 legged thing. Geoglyphs. Antarctica: pyramid: look out AVP.

[NickFitz]

Bacon bap (white) for lunch

Still very pleasant out. Well, it looks like it is; the furthest I've been is sticking my head out of the window for a minute to watch some squirrels mucking about

[NickFitz]

Procrastinating again, I decided to have a quick look at some USB sticks belonging to my Dad. Nothing on them

But maybe there's something on these small USB drives? Lots of DVD rips, for the most part.

Then one of the larger USB drives… and so far I've found:

• A WAV file of one of his plays on the BBC Home Service - I have no idea where he got this from as it was broadcast in 1957, and he didn't have (and couldn't afford) a tape recorder back then;
• Video of my brother's appearance on Who Wants to be a Millionaire suitably encoded for burning to DVD;
• A collection of WordPerfect files which, once I'd installed something that could read them, turned out to be his autobiography!

I'm not sure why the last of these was never given a last polish and presented to us (they're in a folder called "final edit" from 2008), but I'm happy to take on the task of getting it together as a nicely laid out ebook for the rest of the family to read

There's a dozen or more further drives to get through now I've finished this one, but I think that's enough discoveries for one day

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, as a break from this "following recipes" stuff, I had a Sainsbury's rack of ribs, with chips of course

This was accompanied by another episode of the Norfolk CID thing

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Dig (2021), based on the true story of the archaeological excavations at Sutton Hoo just before the Second World War - though it's actually based on a novel which is based on said excavations, so it's hard to say how historically accurate it may be. They didn't assert that it was the grave of Piltdown Man, which suggests they managed to keep the Hollywood studio executives at a safe distance. Anyway, it was an enjoyable watch with lots of nice views of the Suffolk countryside

And then a rewatch of I, Robot (2004) because it's always fun to watch an arsehole described as the richest man in the world being slaughtered by his own creations. Maybe the story will come true one day? We can only hope

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Chilly in here at 14.7 deg, 15.5 in the kitchen, 13 in the leanto.

1005 mBar, 29.6776 in Hg, 753.8 Torr, 14.576 psi, (down from 1012 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 8th of January 2020 I was watching "Private Schultz (1981)", whereas NF was watching "Hanna" (the tv version) and was having difficulty figuring out where the action was staged in the UK.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine. Alternate route back down.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Moneybox waffling on about pensions & such like. The Naked Week (final ep).

13 o'clock news.

Any Questions.

The bit of the Science Fiction thing on Sky Arts that features the Wig Wearing War Criminal.

Couple of stories from "The Casebook of Inspector Colbeck". It reminds me of why I read so many anthologies back in the day. The stories are short & to the point.

Tea: tomato soup. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM.

It just rained a little. Then the sun came out. Grey again now.

I am rather tired so nothing has transpired in the garage or next door's shed today.

Another ep of the R4 series about the Mad Reichsleiter & his serial company formations.

Not watching Doctor Who.

The thing about Anthony Blunt & when did HM know about him.

"Nobody (2021)". I like that film. The best bit is in the tattoo parlour when the ancient vet* sees the tat on his wrist & disappears through the door, locking it half a dozen times.

And he kills a lot of Russians. .

Simon & Garfunkel in Central Park 1981. Well it's on.

*He's probly a couple of years older 6 years younger than me. . And dead.