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[ladymuck]

Ooh this looks interesting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...r-byd-pennod-1

All about the conman Kenner Elias Jones.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice

Most of the snow on the cars has melted away, though there’s still some on the lawn

[xoggoth]

Quite good little local talk from a lady who's spent her life rescuing elephants and things, followed by boring shopping. LL1 walk tomorrow.

[ladymuck]

I did venture to the great outdoors and returned the poorly sized coffee cups.

The person serving in at the till recognised immediately that I was the customer who had emailed in to advise of the need to return and why. They said they did some investigations and discovered that the cups range in size from 70ml to 90ml capacity so they've updated the info on their website as a result. This is why I like independent shops.

Bitterly cold out, biting wind. Thankfully dry.

[NickFitz]

Tea: ribeye steak with fried onions and chips. Very nice steak, that was

This was accompanied by Kegworth: Flight to Disaster on iPlayer, about the plane that crashed on the M1, just short of EMA, back in 1989

For many years afterwards there was a big V-shaped gap in the trees pointing up the embankment there, but it seems to have grown back now.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Goebbels and the Führer (2024). This addresses the rise and fall of the Third Reich from the perspective of Hitler’s propagandist, and the filmmakers state at the start that although they realise that presenting the views of these people is risky, they think it’s important to do so in order that we can recognise it when such opinions arise again. Given that in the last couple of days I’ve seen reports of people in Trump’s inner circle endorsing assertions that are mere paraphrases of things Goebbels said, I conclude that they are right to sound a warning, and that Trump’s cronies don’t have any creative abilities and can only recycle what those they admire have said. I don’t know whether this will make it any easier to destroy them and grind them into the dust they deserve to be. It’s a very good film, but it did make me wonder where we’ll end up this time; as somebody said, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme

After that I felt the need for something more lighthearted, and what’s more lighthearted than That Thing You Do! (1996)? Not many things is the answer! It’s a great film, and ever so much fun to watch even if it does mean I’ll have the song as an earworm for the next few days. It’s a good song!

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Blue sky.

Sunny.

Frosty. Chilly in here at 10.7 deg, 8 in the kitchen, 4 in the leanto, 3 in the saltinghouse.

1013 mBar, 29.91 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.69 psi, (up from 1006 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 11th of March 2020 SimonMac and BR14 popped in, LM was railing at the disruption of the tube trains and having to work 5 days onsite, WTFH met a chap who'd lost £350k due to cancellations and eek popped in to agree that The Ides of March bode ill and worse was to come. .

Rather than a) doing the washing or b) going to that Swansea on the bus, I chose c) go for a walk. Cold out there & slippery on the pavements. Nearly went arse over tit a couple of times.

Big funeral up at the cemetery.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough.

Maigret: "The Countess (1962)". Dodgy goings on at the old estate.

Gosh an Anthony Price "Doctor David Audley" epic on "Together", being "Deadly Recruits (1986)": the 2nd ep of the "Chessgame" series with Terence Stamp. Nearly 40 years since I've watched that. Can't remember it ever being repeated.

Well that seemed a bit odd and disjointed, it referred to events that I don't recall happening and naughty words were blanked, with the frame rate and definition being sub VHS LP by a long way. And it wasn't 2 hours but 1:45. As if chunks had disappeared somwhere.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, a rather chilly 4C right now and I’ve delayed the walk as long as possible.
After that it will be: empty the Wife’s car of the garden tools I picked up from her uncle’s house - he’s about to move into an apartment and his daughter wants family to take everything. I’ve got my name on a pressure washer, petrol brush cutter and petrol edge mower (its deck is only 51cm), but they might still be used at his house in the next month before he moves out.
Next job is to finish the apple trees.
And that’s probably my day done.

[xoggoth]

Saw an odd white trail across my lawn, turned out to be feathers. Went up the garden and saw a pigeon wandering about, looked fine but clearly unable to fly. Darn cat maybe. Got me oil tank topped up. Anyway, ll1 bit later.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but quite bright. Cold and dry. Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' 2) and that's the high for the day. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 08:04; Sunset 16:14 GMT

Lazy morning. Bed has been stripped and is airing. The first load is in the WM. I toyed with going to the farmers' market but didn't bother in the end.