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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with occasional fluff. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Looks like cloud cover will increase this afternoon. Barometer up to 1015 mBar.

Sunrise 06:41; Sunset 19:09 BST

Woke around 7.30 with a headache. At around 8.30 I took some tablets which made no difference at all. It's since eased up enough that I can see without squinting.

Today I have my Driver Awareness Course, as is my right as a common criminal.

This evening HWMBO arrives.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a few cold cocktail sausages, originally intended for lunch yesterday

It’s turned overcast and gloomy out there now

I’m concerned about our blackbirds. I don’t recall seeing them for several weeks, and they’re usually in and out of the hedge quite frequently. It’s possible the hot weather was too much for them. Or maybe they’ve moved, either going in search of water during the hot spell, or finding somewhere with autumnal food. And, at least in theory, they could have migrated - apparently Scottish ones are known to spend the winter in Ireland, where it’s less chilly. But that’s not as likely, and I don’t recall them vanishing for long spells like this in previous years, though it’s possible I just didn’t notice

[xoggoth]

Loony lady 1 walk today. Coffee at nice cafe overlooking local reservoir.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a Wagyu ribeye steak served in the traditional Japanese manner: with fried onions, chips, and beans

To go with this, a bit of new Police Interceptors

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was one I’d been meaning to watch for a couple of years or more but kept forgetting about: Fast X (2023). This is the tenth The Fast and the Furious film, and they seem to have abandoned the notion of thinking up tricksy titles (such as The Fate of the Furious for the eighth one, because “fate” rhymes with “eight”; geddit?) in favour of a more minimalist and Romanesque approach. It was much as one would expect: the IMDb “Trivia” section notes that the word “family” is said 56 times, and other than that it’s a lot of fast cars and stunts. The ending was, I assumed, going to feature the usual barbecue; but it turned out the film didn’t end - it finished on a cliffhanger, and then had a post-credits scene introducing a major sub-plot for the next one! A bit presumptuous, as it turned out, because although I keep seeing online chatter about everybody being keen to make the next (and final?) one, it doesn’t seem to be happening yet. Oh well, there’s already plenty of them to be going on with

And then a rewatch of Sucker Punch (2011) because it’s excellent

Finally, I decided to give the third episode of Dark Matter (TV Series 2024– ) a go. I’m still not wholly convinced about this series, but it's going in some interesting directions so I’ll let myself be strung along a bit further

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Wet. Very wet. With that fine drizzly wet that's wetter than any other kind of wet.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Misty: can't see across the valley, boyo.

19.1 deg in here, 19.9 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 17 out the back.

1007 mBar, 29.74 in Hg, 755.3 Torr, 14.61 psi, (unchanged), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of April 2020: as per yesterday.

Entertainment Yng Nghymraeg: Powis Castle. The Herberts. The Clives (of India fame). Gold tiger's head finial thing off Tipu Sultan's throne/bed/whatever (delete where inapplicable).

Dashcam bollox S3 E2.

Lunch: brunch.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in increasingly ungrey gloom which turned into warm sunshine towards the end, which was unfortunate since I was dressed for grey gloom.

Book. New book.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

Maigret "The children's party (1961)".

Blazian bollox: World War Weird:

Blazian bollox: Secret Wars uncovered: Cuba.

So much of me hurts these days that I just ignore it. .

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dull, overcast, breezy. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) and that's the high for the day. Barometer up a smidge to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:42; Sunset 19:07 BST

HWMBO arrived without incident yesterday evening.

Lazy day today. Nothing achieved so far, nothing likely to be achieved later.

My left shoulder hurts.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a grey and showery day today, but with some patches of clearer sky in the offing. Mild enough at 21°C which is the high for today but “feels like” 17°; the barometers are much the same at 1001/1008mB

[NickFitz]

Tea was, eventually, brought to me from Popeyes

It took ages though; the app kept switching back and forth between “rider at the restaurant” and “rider on way to restaurant” for nearly an hour before anybody actually bothered collecting the food and bringing it to me

At least it wasn’t cold. I assume that in a fast food place like that, they don’t actually put the order together until somebody’s there for it

[NickFitz]

Monkey Life and other wildlife things were on today

And tonight I started reading V for Victory by Lissa Evans, set in 1944, about a Hampstead boarding house landlady who's guardian to an orphaned teenage boy - except it seems she has, with his collusion, stolen the identity of the relative of his she’s supposed to be (who was killed in an air raid), for reasons that are not yet clear

This evening, I finally decided to splash out on the new iPhone 18 Pro Max. It won’t get here until mid-October though

Goodnight all