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[ladymuck]

Evening all

Started off cloudy and damp. Then brightened up. There was some rain. Currently 5 degrees ('feels like' 1) and the high was 8. Barometer up to 996 mBar.

Sunrise 07:19; Sunset 17:13 GMT

This morning I went to gig1 clientCo office for a meeting. Then came home immediately after it finished. This ultimately wasn't such a good move as I had to park way up the road. I will aim to move the car tomorrow.

Popped into Morrisons on the way home for tonic water as they have it on offer at the moment. Just been notified by Sainsbury's that they now it have on offer too, albeit at 5p a bottle more than Morrisons. However, I'm willing to pay the 5p for the convenience of the shop being 2 mins from my flat.

[NickFitz]

Tea: Pukka steak & kidney pie with chips, peas, and gravy

I resumed watching the motorway cops thing that 5’s streaming was unable to deliver yesterday. 5 aren’t very good at streaming; sometimes the quality really drops off for no reason, and you have to pause it for a couple of minutes whereupon it goes back to normal. Anyway, they still aren’t going on the motorway very much

[ladymuck]

This evening's ents so far has been Inside the Factory, namely chips and throat lozenges.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) which was pretty good - but I kind of ruined it by thinking halfway through that they keep making these, and we keep watching them, hoping they’ll be as good as the first; but they never are. Maybe they should just stop? Anyway, it was pretty good

And then a rewatch of She Said (2022). Again, it’s good; but if I wanted to make a film about how a real story had been covered, I’d look at All The President's Men, and Spotlight, and The Post, and then look at this one to try to work out what it’s lacking that the other three had

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Nearly frosty.

Chilly in here at 12.3 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto, 4 in the saltinghouse.

1013.5 mBar, 29.93 in Hg, 760.2 Torr, 14.6995 psi, (up from 1004 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, covbob, NF and I popped in and there was a mention of someone named "zeitghost" and why the smileys popup thing is so random.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC: the results of the Orange Moron's cuts to aid. Noon o'clock news. Moneybox illustrating why Craptia is so called. An hour and 55 minutes average call duration to their so called pension line.

Book. End of book.

Washing in off the line: that requiring the iRon received its attentions, all airing upstairs.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the increasingly grey gloom. Where'd the sunshine go? Two conversations: one with a couple of Midlanders, the other with the couple next door but one. Seized up by the end of that.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. The Robinson thing: Farage FFS: <click with Extreme Prejudice>

Scotland Yard "The unseeing eye (1959)". The dead man with a false eye one.

Maigret. S3 E8: "The crystal ball (1962)". The murdered fortune teller one. She didn't see that coming. . Fell asleep and missed the resolution of one part of the mystery. .

Rome: empire without limit with Mary Beard. :. So inneresting I've been reading about Asimov's Galactic Empire novels (something that the books actually aren't, being standalone Golden Age novels, Pebble in the sky, Currents of Space and The End of Eternity but sticking GE on the cover helped sell them in the 1980s).

The Dennis Quaid thing on Blaze: Stonehenge and Easter Island: mildly inneresting (that's the 2nd time I've typed this: it deleted everything from Scotland Yard onwards the first time I typed it. WTF?).

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunshine! Blue sky! Fluffy lumps. Currently 4 degrees with a high of 6 expected. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses. Barometer up to 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 07:17; Sunset 17:14 GMT

HWMBO and I have been to the farmers' market this morning. Lazy day today. HWMBO wants to watch the rugby later.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s sunny! It won’t last because, apart from anything else, the sun will set; and it’s predicted to get cloudier before then anyway. But it’s mostly blue sky out there now, with just a few wisps and strands of very high, thin cloud to provide texture. We’re heading into a cold spell though: currently 4°C as it tries to make it to 5°, and cold or even freezing nights for the next week. The barometers are fairly ebullient, being up to 1005/1013mB

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from an Indian place in town

I’ve not ordered from there previously because it’s located on a precinct consisting largely of eateries (places like TFI Friday and Zizzi) that was created when they extended the big shopping centre some years ago, and my hypothesis is that a restaurant in such a location will always offer food that’s a bit bland, because their primary customer base is families out shopping. Sadly, this meal provided further support for that hypothesis; I reckon there’s more zing and character in a Vesta boxed curry than there was in this. Oh well, now I know

[ladymuck]

Much sport has been watched today. Olympics and rugby. Plus a thing about Victoria Wood.

Now watching Afterburn on Amazon Prime which is questionable so far.

[NickFitz]

There was a reasonable amount of wildlife stuff on today

And this evening I continued reading Peace and War, in which relativity plus compound interest seems like a win, until the 98% tax rate is taken into consideration

Goodnight all