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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There’s some clumps of cloud, mainly low on the horizon, but it’s sunny out! Colder though, because of the sky being left open overnight: 2°C (“feels like” -1°) with an expected high of 7°. The barometers are up a whisker at 995/1004mB

 

[WTFH]

Morning all
A chilly 3.5C on our walk earlier in clear skies. Saw a few stars before the sun came up.

 

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently judging by the racket from the waste disposal & recycling engineers on their merry way along the road.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

13.6 in here, 12.1 in the kitchen, 7.5 in the leanto, 3 out the back.

1003 mBar, 29.62 in Hg, 752.3 Torr, 14.55 psi, (up from 1001 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: shooting wood pigeons using a hide and decoys. Fishing in a millpond (unsuccessful), showing the inner workings of the mill: stone ground barley meal for animal feed, plate ground wheat wholemeal for people feed.

Walk (much abbreviated) walked in the chill of the morning. Sunny.

Entertainment: the last bit of Bab5 "Thirdspace" that I missed yesterday.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: 1956. Tours of Scottish Isles: Mull etc. The rally drive was impressive. He looked petrified.

Shopping to Aldi and Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Entertainment: Alaska rescuing homesteads: Hawaii Watched it about 10 days ago. "Impossible Peace" E8: could deal old Adolph & Hirohito have been stopped?

Look at Life: "High, Wide, and Faster (1963)": plans for transport coordination. Well we all know how that went. . Railway marshalling yards: last one shut 1990. Dear old Ernie Marples busy opening motorways that his company had built, the corrupt bastard. And dear old Doctor Beeching. Just think: in 1963 there was no speed limit on the motorways. Which explains the 186mph AC Cobra. . Them were the days: it was legal before Barbra Castle and her 70 mph limit that's with us even yet.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM.

Entertainment: Bab5 "The river of souls". With Swearengen and Josiah Bartlett. Well there's a thing. Rather good in its way: much better than "Thirdspace". No Sheriden or Delenn or Londo or G'Kar, but ok despite that.

Classic Movies: "The Blue LampAngel (1930)": Marlene Dietrich rather than dear old George Dixon.

Blazian UFO bollox.

"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)". Bit shorter than the 1980 version. Loved the period correct Racal RA17 radio sets. And the Rover P6.

 

[NickFitz]

Good news! One of the blackbirds, who haven’t been seen in a couple of months, just popped out of the hedge and is bimbling about on the lawn

 

[xoggoth]

Another mostly old lady morning looming. Nice sunny day for walky later.

 

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky and lumps of fluff. Currently 6 degrees ('feels like' 3) with a high of 8 expected. Barometer at 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 07:14; Sunset 16:16 GMT

Tired. Had very unsettled sleep.

Bed has been stripped and will be left to air while I'm away. Off to Mum's once I've had my coffee.

I really need to talk to the lad in the flat upstairs. I'm guessing he's training for something and is doing lots of exercise on some machine. He's at it for hours every day and the noise is now really getting to me. All I want is some soundproofing.

 

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a pancetta omelette

Sunny and tending towards the Simpsonesque out

 

[ladymuck]

Uneventful drive to Sussex. Did a spot of presenteeism from the living room sofa. Walked Mum to the shop and back. Chilly out, nice if in the sun and out of the breeze.

 

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

I ordered a fancy Benq reading lamp which arrived this afternoon. It comes in quite a large box, and Amazon had packed that inside an even bigger one - like, really big. So, of course, this was the day when the delivery driver put it in the hallway in the other half of the building instead of ours

So I had to go and find it, then carry it back here. It wasn’t exceptionally heavy because it’s just a fancy lamp and a load of cardboard, but I decided to come back up in the lift rather than risking the stairs with it

 

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken chasseur with potato wedges

This was the M&S stuff, as when I bought it the other week it said “Serves 4” but it turned out to be two “Serves 2” in one box, so I saved one till now

To go with it, the US killers thing on Netflix, this time about the chap who bombed the Atlanta Olympics and went on to also bomb abortion clinics and a lesbian bar