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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Chilly in here at 12.3 deg, 11 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto, 5.6 in the saltinghouse.

1007 mBar, 29.74 in Hg, 755.3 Torr, 14.6 psi, (up from 1002 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of March 2020 things were hotting up and not in a good way: NF found that bog roll had disappeared from the shops, eek's parents were on a cruise ship which was returning to port, , and LM added to the joy by wondering if they'd be allowed to disembark, quackhandle popped in, and WTFH was sussing out where & who in France was looking for a contractor.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: end of FOOC. Noon o'clock news. MoneyBox <click>

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre but consistent coffee before embarking on the iRoning.

Washing frenzy complete: half a cup of water out of the TD this time.

Tea: soup etc. with the soup not being what I was expecting but nice enough.

PM. More news of the latest ravings of the Demented Orange Mother****er. Thirty Ought Six for the win. .

Maigret: "The Wedding Guest (1962)": Didn't remember much of this one: prisoner in the condemned cell gives Our Hero a lead on a murder. Lots of recognisable guest actors: John Slater (400+ eps of Z Cars), Philip Latham, Peter Madden (who I always associate with No Hiding Place for some reason though he was only in 1 or 2 eps), and Frank Williams before he became the vicar in Dad's Army.

Book. Other book.

PBS documentary (ITV news 2018) about Waco just to demonstrate how utterly utterly useless the Septics really are.

WTF those clowns in the helicopters were doing is beyond me.

Ruby Ridge is yet another example of their truly inspiring incompetence.

And yet the Orange Mother****er still walks the earth.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Depending on which window I look out of, it's either dull and cloudy or blue sky with lumps of fluff. Damp from overnight/early morning rain. Currently 10 degrees and that's the high for the day. There might be more rain, there might be a bit more sunshine. Barometer up to 1015 mBar.

Sunrise 07:58; Sunset 16:25 GMT

HWMBO and I went to the farmers' market but didn't buy anything. Sainsbury's has a personalised offer of a discount on FeverTree tonic so I bought half a dozen bottles.

Thanks, NF, for the prompt about Inside the Factory. Did you know there's a new series of Surgeons: A Matter of Life and Death on BBC?

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s looking quite Simpsonesque out today. Reasonably mild too at 8°C, which is today’s high. The barometers are up at 1003/1011mB

[NickFitz]

Thanks, NF, for the prompt about Inside the Factory. Did you know there's a new series of Surgeons: A Matter of Life and Death on BBC?

Assuming you meant Surgeons: At the Edge of Life, I can’t find it on iPlayer - the most recent one there is S7, from last year

[ladymuck]

Assuming you meant Surgeons: At the Edge of Life, I can’t find it on iPlayer - the most recent one there is S7, from last year

I got the right name, wrong channel. It's on Channel 5.

[NickFitz]

I got the right name, wrong channel. It's on Channel 5.

Ah, right! Cheers

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from a Thai place in town, and was mostly very nice indeed

The bit that wasn’t nice was that they’d forgotten to send the rice. Luckily I had some in the freezer, though that wasn’t jasmine rice

And Deliveroo didn’t do a very good job of getting somebody to bring it either. It kept saying they were at the restaurant, then that they were on their way to the restaurant, then that they were trying to find somebody to go to the restaurant - this weirdly-reversed sequence of events happened three times before somebody finally collected it and brought it to me. According to the receipt, the restaurant had been told it would be collected about thirty minutes before it actually was, which explains why it was also a bit cold and had to be warmed up in the microwave

So: excellent food, but the service left a lot to be desired

[NickFitz]

Today’s wildlife offering had crept back up to four hours, and was further augmented with Planet Earth III

Tonight, I started reading The Time of the Crack (title shortened to just The Crack after its initial publication in 1973) by Emma Tennant. This is a post-apocalyptic thing where a massive earthquake drastically rearranges London; the crack of the title runs where the Thames used to be, south London now being a lot further away. The main protagonist is Baba, a bunny girl from the Playboy Club, while other aspects of the story involve a soothsayer from a fairground leading a band of women, a couple of experimental psychiatrists, and some property tycoons. It’s OK but the author's got a magical realism thing going on which grates on me a bit. Still, it’s not very long so I’ll probably finish it

Goodnight all