test please delete

[sadkingbilly]

They won't deliver stuff they no longer make, though

good point. like lots of things we liked that aren't there now.

[sadkingbilly]

Down on the lawn, the blackbird family have been popping out of the hedge regularly for blackbird school

And there's a juvenile squirrel out there too, also learning the ropes! It's staying close to the hedge at the moment, but I daresay it'll venture further afield once it's got the hang of things and seen the others doing so

I assume it's grey?
got two of those last week.
clean head shots too.
need 4 or 5 for a decent stew though.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but dry day. Currently 24 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer remains steady.

Sunrise 04:51; Sunset 21:07 BST

Yesterday I booked flights to Bucharest (inflated price because Coldplay have a couple of gigs the same week). This morning I realised that I had booked the outbound for the wrong day. I was within the 24h free cancellation period but the risk of the prices being even more expensive meant I decided to pay the £60 change fee instead of cancelling and rebooking.

As predicted yesterday, today has been busy.

[NickFitz]

Lunch, by the way, was sausages in finger rolls

And tea has been a "maple glazed" rack of ribs with chips. This was accompanied by the latest episode of Night Coppers, as for some reason that series is only available for a month and I'd fallen behind by a week, so I thought I'd better catch up

Nice evening out there, with lots of big cumuli hanging around looking scenic

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was One Life (2023), based on the true story of Sir Nicholas Winton's efforts to rescue children from Czechoslovakia in the buildup to WWII, and the later acknowledgements of that work. Very good

And then a rewatch of Spider-Man 3 (2007) which is the third of that particular set of Spider-Man films. It's quite similar to the others, as one would expect given the subject matter. Very good if you like these things yet, paradoxically, I believe it's not so good if you're a huge fan of these things? This is why fans get themselves so widely disliked

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Damply dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly side of cool in here at 17.8 deg, 19 deg in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto.

1012 mBar, in Hg, Torr, psi, (down from 1014 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Thankfully sleep was satisfactory and returned despite the usual wakings, dreams, etc. at 04:00, 06:00, 08:00.

Meanwhile on the 20th of January 2020 WTFH was making marmalade, there was ongoing discussion from eek & NF regarding M$ documentation, Javascript, etc. including "Beware of the leopard" from me, I saw a woodpecker on my walk & xogg commented on how birds came & went, whereas NF, in a fit of extreme enthusiasm, went to Wilko (RIP) and purchased a new WPB at a greatly reduced price compared with the previous WPB, then tested his aim with various discards, LM enquiring thereon.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. It drizzled on me during the stagger back home.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: FOOC. <click> Moneybox. <click> The News Quiz.

Classic Movies: Flash Gordon on Sky Arts.

'Tis the 6th anniversary of my retirement. Still avoiding that Rick Decard chap. I think the brainrot is progressing well.

More potching in the garage: the sliding toolholder thing in the toolbox was reassembled. Managed not to hit any body parts with a hammer. Which was good.

Tried the Mission speakers on the Aiwa thing: it didn't like them: turned itself off.

Connected the Spendor BC2s up instead. Too bright but there you go. No real tone controls on the Aiwa box.

Tea: soup (tomato, some of which ended up on this shirt). Nice enough. I wonder if it'll wash out.

Entertainment: PM. Political Thing with Nick Robinson & Tanni Grey-Thompson. It didn't go <click> since she's not some obnoxious incompetent politico.


Massive Engineering Mistakes S5 E3, E4: NY crawler crane collapse Feb 5th 2016. Stone me, that was big. San Antonio hospital carpark TX collapse: construction error: wrong bolts no grout on the joints. San Francisco CA, lots of it is built on infill which is all well & good until an earthquake liquefies it, Embarcadero sea wall. Berlin: one of dear old Adolph's plans was for Germania, the capital of the world: unfortunately it's built on a marsh so a test was conducted to see if the soil would hold the proposed victory arch: er, no it wouldn't. How sad, never mind.

Miami FL: apartment block demolition: supposed to be taken down floor by floor, instead of which it was "pulldown"ed. Which killed some poor sod when the entire thing collapsed in 15 seconds. South Padre Island TX: collapse of the Queen Isabelle causeway when it was hit by a barge during the night of 15/9/2001. 11 cars drove off the end. Cuenca, Spain, Hanging Houses. Collapse of a 500 year old roadway due to jerry building. . Leaky sewer caused a retaining wall to fail. Stone me, I wonder how they get mortgages on those houses.

Abandoned house thing on FB which was apparently owned at some time by someone named Sheila Beryl Jack. She published a book of poetry in 1975 and donated something about Craig y Nos castle to the Library of Wales.

Looking at these abandoned places, it makes one wonder whatever happened and why no one has done anything with them since. Looks lke Sheila popped her clogs in 1995.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but bright and dry. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 26 expected. Barometer down to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 04:51; Sunset 21:08 BST

Today I really must go to my storage unit and find my drill.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another cloudy but bright day, due to sunlight getting through the gaps via an indirect route. The wind has died down a lot though. It's already 20°C and going to soar to 23° later with an increase in sunshine but also a return of the wind. The barometers are down a little bit at 1004/1012mB

The lurgy continues although I think my throat is slightly less sore than it was yesterday

[NickFitz]

Amazon arrived, bearing Covid tests that aren't a year or two out of date. Still negative though

The throat is definitely better than yesterday, but activity has now moved to the nose, with occasional sneezing episodes. And I also got a new fancy ear thermometer, which informs me (and my phone vie Bluetooth) that I do have a slightly high temperature, though I don't think it's as high as it was yesterday

So it looks like it'll be one of those things that inflicts the major suffering in my free time, then leaves me not ill enough to cry off but feeling utterly knackered during the coming working week