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    #id
    Morning.

    Thursday.

    Dry.

    Sunny.

    Blue sky.

    23.3 deg in here, 25.3 in the kitchen, 23 in the leanto, 21 out the back, 21 in the salting house.

    1013 mBar, 29.91 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.69 psi, (down from 1015 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 17:35 and 17:37, AndyGarbs, Brillo, covbob, and LM popped in.

    Washing frenzy in progress. The shirts have been out on the line for 10 minutes so they should be nearly dry now. .

    I think my barometer is borked. .

    Shirts in off the line & met the iRon along with other stuff that seems to have dried in 10 or 15 minutes.

    Entertainment: The archive hour: The Edwards Archive: interviews with newsreel cameramen in the 70s that was intended to be used to make a LaserVision disc but was cancelled when the format failed to take off. Edwards was given the film back by Pathe about 25 years later.

    Since the WM was complaining about "Hygiene" the bedding wash was at 60 deg & it's all out on the line.

    Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Movies: War. Then some septic twat looking for King John's lost treasure. Good luck with that. Oh feck: the metal detecting moron from Oak Island has just offered the presenter some jellied eels.

    Everything in off the line & airing upstairs: the fitted sheet has met its doom. .

    Jack Hargreaves Old Country: teaching kids to fish. I wonder where those kids are now, some 40 odd years later & if they're still fishing.

    Tea: baked beans & baked spud. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM waffling on until <click>.

    Book. Gosh. Howard Marks does waffle on a bit, though not as much as some of the other contributors.

    Bab5 S3 E4 "Passing through Gethsemene".

    Book.

    Bad Skin Clinic S8 E2. Might have seen it before.

    The Anna Chapman thing E2. Mildly inneresting. Listed the unexpected demises over the last 20 years or so.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 13 August 2026, 22:40.
    When the fun stops, STOP.

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      #id


      Morning all

      Clear blue sky. Currently 24 degrees ('feels like' 26) with a high of 37 expected. Barometer down to 1022 mBar.

      Sunrise 05:43; Sunset 20:28 BST

      Up and about a bit earlier than usual on account of a potential new client wanting to talk to me

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        #id
        Originally posted by ladymuck View Post


        Morning all

        Clear blue sky. Currently 24 degrees ('feels like' 26) with a high of 37 expected. Barometer down to 1022 mBar.

        Sunrise 05:43; Sunset 20:28 BST

        Up and about a bit earlier than usual on account of a potential new client wanting to talk to me
        Have a very early (given the current market even that news is worth it).
        merely at clientco for the entertainment

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          #id
          Lunch has been a roast beef bap

          This was the first sampling of the baps I baked yesterday. Initial conclusions are that though the recipe in the manual said to add an egg, I think they’d be better without it. Also, it would probably be worth leaving them to rise a little longer. I already went longer than the recipe said, but an extra ten or fifteen minutes wouldn’t do any harm. And finally, the recipe said it made ten to twelve but I wanted decent sized ones so I went for six, and eight would have been nearer the size I was aiming for. All duly noted for next time

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            #id
            Tea has been spag bol

            And to go along with it, a further episode of the Manhattan murder thing, this time about a serial killer and rapist in East Harlem

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              #id
              Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was one of those things I knew of through innumerable memes and quotes, but hadn’t actually seen: Mean Girls (2004). I thought it was rather entertaining as these American school-based comedies go

              And then I started watching For All Mankind (TV Series 2019–2027), Apple TV’s alternative history starting with the Soviets beating the USA to the Moon in 1969. I hadn’t watched any of this before but I keep seeing people saying it’s good, and if they’re still doing that seven years after something started, it's usually worth a look. It’s going OK so far

              Still far too warm here, and it’ll only get down to 20°C tonight before going back up to 30° tomorrow. But then it’ll cool down a lot for the next week or so, and we may even get some rain

              Goodnight all

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                #id
                Morning.

                Friday.

                Grey.

                Sunless.

                24.3 deg in here, 26 in the kitchen, 24 in the leanto, 22 out the back, 23 in the saltinghouse.

                1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (down from 1013 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric). Apparently it's actually 1020 but there you go.

                Meanwhile, as per yesterday, on the 2nd of April 2020, between 17:35 and 17:37, AndyGarbs, Brillo, covbob, and LM popped in.

                I see the prospective ReichsChancellor won then. .

                Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the grey gloom. Met JohnTheBike again. Also spotted a duck & 3 ducklings on the canal, the bit that doesn't look like it's builder's tea with milk in.

                Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Hiroshima <click>.

                "Once upon a time in the west (1969)". Them were the days.

                Jack Hargreaves Old Country: cockle fishing on mud flats. Messier than the sand down the Gower. Planting onions for a kidney onion. Who knew there was such a thing?

                Bab5 S3 E5 "Voices of Authority". A rep for the Ministry of Peace turns up.

                Taggart S16 E1 "Bloodlines". From now on in it's 2 hour eps instead of the previous 3 hour eps. Gosh. 30 years in clink for something you hadn't done. That'd never happen in real life would it? .
                Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 14:41.
                When the fun stops, STOP.

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                  #id
                  History group meet up later. Usually walk there but so bleedin' hot may use me little van.
                  bloggoth

                  If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
                  John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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                    #id


                    Morning all

                    Blue sky and some wispy goings on. Currently 27 degrees with a high of 33 expected. Barometer down to 1018 mBar.

                    Sunrise 05:45; Sunset 20:26 BST

                    The call I had yesterday morning was just a "HR culture fit" and the person I met was surprised that I've not spoken to anyone at the client about the actual work. The agent called me yesterday evening to say they hadn't heard anything but have expressed that I'm still interested. They think there will be news next week. I go on holiday on the 19th so they could do with getting a wriggle on.

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                      #id
                      Morning denizens

                      Another sunny day but there’s more high, wispy cloud, and it won’t be quite as unpleasantly warm: currently 26°C, it’ll only hit 30° for a short spell in the middle of the afternoon, and we’ll be back to the low-to-mid twenties from tomorrow onwards. The barometers are down to 1006/1014mB

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