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[NickFitz]

Sweet and sour pork with fried rice for tea

Accompanying this, a series called Homicide on Netflix which is basically NYPD detectives talking about old cases, the first being the murder of Jennifer Stahl and two of her friends in 2001

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was more of Parable of the Talents in which their remote community is gradually expanding, though usually because of some hideous tragedy befalling other people

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
Cloudy! this morning and very humid. No sign of rain.
Walk has been walked.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Grey.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

22.2 deg in here, 23.2 in the kitchen, 22 in the leanto, 20 out the back.

1013 mBar, 29.9 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.69 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 barrydidit, BR14, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, WTFH, and I popped in, whilst on the 2nd of April 2020 (oh, the relief: another day) Brillo popped in along with NF.

Entertainment: Dimbleby waffling on about Harry Dexter White & how he managed to help destroy the British Empire.

On the eve of the 49th renewal the AA subscription was cancelled: only took 20 minutes on the phone.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the grey gloom & eventual light drizzle. Two conversations.

Irritating parking on the road: one side the pavement covered in parked cars, on the other a delivery truck parked on the pavement & a chap with a perambulator was unable to pass so I marched into the middle of the road & stopped the traffic so he could follow me through. Good deed of the day.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the man thing on R4 <click> Sky Arts Movies E2/4. Noir followed by the sort of movies I don't watch such as "Singing in the Rain" etc.

TPTV: "William Tell" S1 E20 "The shrew (1958)". Not as good as Robin Hood with Richard Green but there you go.

Some minor "gardening": hacking back the brambles: some in next door were 15 feet long, grown since the spring, and thick stemmed with it. Dead headed the roses & hacked back the self planted one that, despite the warnings, failed to give me any flowers whatsoever. I think it's on borrowed time. .

Drains are blocked up the road again. Time for Dynorod aka Welsh Water contractors. Sounds like it'll be that wagon with the long hose pipe again.


Jack Hargreaves Old Country. Gathering wild horses in the New Forest. Goats.

UFO bollox on Blaze. The Zimbabwe skool UFO thing.

Sunken Ships. HMS Barham. The medium was mentioned towards the end: the last prosecution for witchcraft.

Bab5 S2 E14 "There all the honour lies". Dirty deeds amongst the Membari in an attempt to fit Sheridan up with murder. More Kosh.

Book.

Mega Disasters: more Blazian bollox: Hypercane: 500 mph hurricane produced as a result of the 65M year ago impact.

History's most shocking. All that sticks from that was "The largest non nuclear explosion" as in the Beirut fertiliser explosion which came in at about 1.1 kt, as oppose to the 2.9 kt Halifax Nova Scotia explosion which actually was the largest non nuclear detonation in 1917. The dumb way the septics design level crossings such that an artic can ground halfway across, lose traction & can't move thusly getting hit by a train. Same thing happens time & time again due to the bad design of the road. The nutter who jumped off the Eiffel Tower in his parachute suite & promptly died. Landing a light plane on a highway. Kayackers swallowed by a humpback whale (and promptly spat back out).

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy and humid (81% apparently). Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 24) and that's the high for the day. Cloud set to clear as the day progresses. Barometer up to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 05:23; Sunset 20:54 BST

I have found many musty / dirty towels stashed in Mum's bedroom which are now all getting the hot wash treatment before I put them away in the airing cupboard.

I can't figure out what she's doing with worn clothes, as they don't go into the laundry basket. Short of going through all the drawers and doing a pants inspection, I'm not sure how to deal with that. I'll ask my brother when he's back tomorrow.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s sunny yet also cloudy out, and going to be a hot one: already at 24°C, it’ll reach 28° for much of the afternoon. There’s a bit of a breeze, but not as much as yesterday. The barometers are up a bit at 1007/1015mB

I slept soundly until just before 10am this morning, and awoke feeling refreshed - I think the new drug that was making me so tired must be largely out of my system now

But speaking of getting things out of my system, I still hadn’t got around to dropping off a new piss sample at the GP, though at least I got around to getting the jar for it last Friday; I don’t think they’re open for such things at the weekend, and I forgot about it yesterday morning. So I duly gathered that, and have dropped it off at the surgery - somewhere I feel I’ve visited a lot lately

There was an adult magpie hanging around next to the gate from the park to the surgery which had a vaguely hangdog air about it. Upon closer inspection, its feathers looked rather scruffy. This is the time of year when adults moult, so I think it was just a little embarrassed to be seen out and about in such a state

[NickFitz]

Tea has been M&S pre-digested chicken chasseur, with chips and peas. Nice enough

And lunch was an M&S steak slice, which was OK but not as good as a Greggs steak bake - maybe not even quite as good as the Pukka variant, though close

[NickFitz]

Midweek (well, nearly) movie night’s premiere was Relay (2024) in which Riz Ahmed acts as an intermediary between corrupt big businesses and people who have information that could harm them. This is an excellent thriller, taut and suspenseful, eschewing fights and car chases in favour of an ever-building sense of paranoia and menace. Well worth putting on your watchlist

And then a further episode of Silo. I had thought I was only behind by one season but realised the other day that there are three seasons now and I’m still on S1, so I suppose I ought to get a move on

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
Very misty when we went out, with a lot of damp on the grass and trees.
That burned off on our walk, and it's going to be another warm one.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

Was whitely cloudy now tending to blackly cloudy with small patches of bluely cloudy.

22.4 deg in here, 23.75 in the kitchen, 22 in the leanto, 20 deg out the back, 19.6 in the saltinghouse.

1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.44 Torr, 14.63 psi, (down from 1010 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, Churchill, and WTFH popped in.

That's the good news: unfortunately there are even more pages of April 2nd than there were of April 1st.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Walk (abbreviated: 3 miles) walked in the greyish gloom and intermittent sunshine. Pleasant enough.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: This Week in History: 1921 dear old Adolph joined the Nazi party. Well whatever could go wrong there then?

Sky Arts: Movies E3. Lots of those I've never watched, never even heard of. Others I have & have never watched.

That requiring the iRon has received it.

Entertainment: Shoes from 2007: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b008k0r4

I wonder how many of those companies are still going: the answer being: quite a lot. Though only expensive handmade shoes. If you have to ask the price you can't afford it.

All the run of the mill stuff went to China long ago. Including DMs.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country: dogs: setters, pointers. Some sort of French spaniel he imported. Showed said dog on its first autumn outing to flush pheasants, the one flushed was duly shot.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. UFO bollox on Blaze (the last of that particular brand of bollox). Dan Do: inneresting house that incorporated bits of old castle, two other less inneresting houses.

Bit of a thing about the Marie Celeste: this theory: the crew left after alcohol vapours exploded in the hold.

Jack Hargreaves Out of Town: he mentions how viewers had identified a curious iron construction as "A drain donkey" used to clear out drain pipes, though google reckons it's used to clear the bottom of a ditch to allow pipes to be laid. How a chalk stream rises and how it was restored by reducing the amount of pumping from the aquifer. Visits a market: livestock, assorted junk, etc. Felt rather sorry for the animals. Like my grandfather I wouldn't be the one chopping the heads off the chickens.

He mentions the River Misbourne as being defunct: in the subsequent 40 odd years it's been restored a bit (assuming I spelled it right).

Bab5 S2 E15 "And now for a word" (from our sponsor). ISN comes to Bab5 at an inneresting time.

PBS: bit of Lewis & Clarke E4/4. Bit of Horatio's Drive: America's first road trip (from coast to coast).

"The Gunpowder Plot" with Lucy Worsley. Trust in the lord & keep your powder dry. .

Britain's X Files: more Blazian bollox. Dowsing in WWII (stiffs & bomb detection). The Flying Dutchman. The Death Ray (Harry Grindell-Matthews). Some other bollox I probably dozed through.