Yes, i noticed that too, loads of them on the lane.
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Tonight's major motion picture was a rewatch of Limitless (2011) in which a failing writer comes into a supply of a new, illicit drug which confers access to the mythical unused 80% of the brain's capabilities and, with its assistance, starts to build a new life - though problems inevitably arise, ranging from side effects to Russian gangsters to oleaginous American capitalists. It's an enjoyable yarn, notable for featuring that Anna Friel off of Brookside and also Abbie Cornish, the Australian who was so good in Sucker Punch; though it also has some American actors in it (Bradley Cooper, Robert de Niro, and so on)
Goodnight all
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Morning all
TFIF, etc.
Overcast earlier, and quite humid. Now the clouds are burning off, might be a pleasant day. The Wife has gone out to work, I have a load of washing on, and this day next week I'll be getting ready to shut down to go on holiday.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Morning.
Friday apparently.
Dry.
Grey.
Sunless.
Warmish side of cool in here at 19.4 deg, 19.5 in the kitchen, 18.5 in the leanto.
1011 mBar, 29.855 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (down from 1012 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 17th of February 2020 I was still collecting litter: no good would come of this in 10 days time, NF had a Greggs pasty/whatever for lunch, LM had a free cake and was 85% out the door at her then current gig, WTFH popped in, as did LondonManc, and I updated Churchill on the state of the garden and the river and the waters therein.
Walk (slightly abbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.
River less in spate today & a lot less brown, canal not so close to overtopping the bank, water sitting in next door's garden has subsided a lot: you could probably avoid getting your feet wet today by using a bit of my garden path.
Gosh. Next door's shed is being emptied or something by the new neighbours. I think they may have bought a washing machine.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: green thing on R4 about migration <click>
Freecell score: 92%, 88%, running average: 84%.
Next door has apparently emptied the shed & got rid of some bushes I'd intended to burn when next the fancy takes me. Hope they had someone reliable to cart it all away.
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Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Much easier to eat sans the rice.
Entertainment: PM. Looks like Putin is well on his way to starting WWIII with incursions last 12 minutes.
Just imagine what would happen if NATO did that.
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Morning denizens
A bit less cloudy today, so the sunny spells are a bit more frequent. Still quite breezy though. It should carry on much the same for the rest of the day. It's quite mild too, being 17°C ("feels like" 13°) and expected to soar to 23° for a bit this afternoon! The barometers are up some more at 1005/1013mB
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The interlopers* having slunk away** from the drive, I was able to retrieve the Corolla from the car park round the back, and now it proudly stands out front next to the big lawn again, in the preferred space
I took it for a drive around the neighbourhood; just enough to warm it up properly. My Dad told me many years ago that this was necessary to avoid condensation damaging the catalytic converter. I have no idea if this is true or not; he probably read it in the paper or saw it on telly, as he wasn't really mechanically inclined. But I don't suppose it can do any harm, unless I crash into something or somebody, which I try to avoid doing
* Neighbours who are just as much entitled to park out there as I am
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The mundane laundry is now being laundered
Despite that being the original and correct use of the word, it conjures images of clothes being moved through a series of offshore washing machines before finally returning in an unrecognisable form. I daresay there's a fancy word for a metaphorical usage overtaking the original in everyday parlance, but I don't know what it is
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^^ semantic shift, I think?
Morning all
Cloudy start but that's mostly shifted leaving blue sky with some interesting fluff patterns. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 24 expected. Barometer down a smidge to 1018 mBar.
Sunrise 06:43; Sunset 19:06 BST
The wall painting person is back, doing their second coat. Hopefully it'll be finished today as I'm not here next week to let them in.
Disappointed to discover that my bread has started to go mouldy so no toast for me this morning.Comment
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Lunch, as indicated last night, was the remaining bit of the rack of ribs. Still very nice when cold!
Turning sunnier out now with a lot of the cloud having cleared, though there seems to be a lingering haze high up
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