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[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribeye steak with fried onions, chips, and beans

And a further episode of the Lockerbie thing

[NickFitz]

^^^

Control Panel Design: Features wild black controls labeled in black on a black background, complemented by a small black light that lights up in black when operated.

Arthur's Question: Asks what the button does.

Ford's Warning: Tells him not to touch it.

The Result: A panel lights up saying "Please do not press this button again".

. .

That would be a better design than what we have at the moment

[NickFitz]

I ended up watching another episode of the Lockerbie thing, so just one left now

And in Just a Shot Away, Meredith Hunter has been stabbed and beaten to death by the Hells Angels while the Stones continued to play. Then the Stones left the USA in a hurry and have been trying to distance themselves from the whole sorry affair, but Rolling Stone has put together a special issue revealing just what a nightmare Altamont was, even for those who didn’t get killed

Shopping tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky with high wispy clouds.

Brrrr 19.7 deg in here, 21.2 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 12 out the back.

1018.5 mBar, 30.07 in Hg, 763.9 Torr, 14.77 psi, (unchanged), 52% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 10:58 and 11:21, barrydidit, covbob, eek, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, and scruff popped in.

For the first time in ages the upstairs windows were closed overnight, and, even more alarmingly, the duvet was pressed into service for most of the night.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked. Wore jacket: better to have a jacket & not need it, than need a jacket & not have it.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: noon o'clock news. Much crap on the tube about the Demented Orange Mother****er. And one about the SAS teaching the Septics how to do it on a training course.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: "Flapping" races: amateur horse & "long dog" races done in the evenings. Changes in farming practices over his lifetime: remembers returning in 1946 to see some prize winning heavy horses on a ploughing team: the next day they were off to the slaughter house because they'd been replaced by tractors: 2nd time I've heard that story. . 2nd hand tractors sent over by the septics in WWII that replaced the heavy horses. Combine harvesters. The machine that makes those big round bales of straw. How modern wheat is much shorter than the old wheat and how the combine leaves most of the straw on the field so it's either burned or baled.

Tea: chilli con carne with rice etc. Entertainment: PM <click> UFO bollox on Blaze.

Ships: HMS Victory. This proved so inneresting I washed the dishes.

Six Million Dollar Man: S6 E5: Sasquatch. I thought I recognised Geoffrey Lewis.

Bab5 S2 E22 "The fall of night". The excrement has entered the aircon.

Taggart S15 E4. "Long Time Dead". The organlegging one: I have no recall of this whatsoever.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start, with wisps of mares’ tails here and there. The wind seems to have dropped too, so 17°C now feels like 17°; the expected high is 23°, and the barometers are up to 1012/1020mB

Though the nights are getting cooler, the bedroom is still above 20° at bedtime so I haven’t reactivated the duvet yet. But I’ve taken to chucking a throw over the duvet cover under which I sleep, which tends to slide off the bed at some point during the night. It hasn’t been cold enough yet for the loss of it to lead to me waking up

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
9C at 5am, warmed up now.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with outbreaks of sunshine. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Might rain at some point. Barometer steady at 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 05;33; Sunset 21:12 BST

Date night dinner at Margo was very good yesterday evening.

This morning HWMBO has made Scottish morning rolls filled to bursting with egg, bacon, square sausage and potato cakes.

I head home this afternoon where I see it's already 23 degrees.

[NickFitz]

Shopping accomplished!

I went via the slightly more direct route rather than past the old flat, which meant going to Sainsbury’s first. The refurbishment drags on, meaning many things still aren't where they ought to be, but I think I managed to get everything I needed, along with the usual assortment of things I didn’t

And then over to M&S, where it turned out the shirt I was thinking of getting wasn’t available in my size. I dithered around for a bit, but almost everything that I thought of buying was also not available in my size, so in the end I didn’t bother getting any clothes at all. Instead, I headed for the Food Hall where, given that I can never get the app to work with the public wi-fi, I used one of their self-scan handsets for the first time. This proved to be adequate at making me no longer look like a shoplifter whilst also avoiding the hassle of tipping everything out again for scanning at the end

And so home. I realised that being parked by M&S with no need to go to Sainsbury’s meant the best route home was the one past the old place. Not because it’s shorter or quicker, but largely because I’d have to drive all the way through the shopping park to take the other route, and I find the place vaguely annoying. So I was able to confirm that the chestnut trees are still OK

Time for lunch now

[ladymuck]

The "might rain" has been upgraded to "enthusiastic rain"

[NickFitz]

Tea has been M&S Korean ribs and chips. Very spicy

And to go with it, the final episode of the Lockerbie thing