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It’s a rainy grey day, and expected to continue so. Quite mild at 10°C (“feels like” 7°) and aiming for 11° shortly. The barometers have gone back down to 987/994mB
Heavy rainy stuff, got soaked coming back from Mahjong thing this morning. Darn it, there's a leak in my conservatory roof. Must have been leaking for some time as one of the cushions is going green with algae.
Dull. Damp. Overcast. Currently 11 degrees ('feels like' 9) with a high of 12 expected. Rain forecast around lunchtime and expected to continue on and off for the rest of the day. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.
Sunrise 08:03; Sunset 15:53 GMT
One gig secured for 2026. Waiting on confirmation of a second. I have a hunch the director of ConsultancyCo is out of the office which is annoying as they've also not approved my November invoice for payment and that's due at the end of the month during the company's Christmas shut down.
The Puddle(tm) is back having gone away yesterday.
Grey.
Dark.
Dreary.
Sunless.
Chilly in here at 14.4 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.
999.5 mBar, 29.52 in Hg, 749.69 Torr, 14.496 psi, (down from 1001.5 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 6th of March 2020 Brillo, eek, LM and BR14 popped in whilst NF regaled us with the rather sad history of the garage he uses.
Lunch: brunch.
Tea: beans on toast etc. Entertainment: PM.
"The War" E11 of 14. Apparenlty after 3 loooong years the Septics were getting tired of the war. Just imagine how the UK & the rest of Europe felt. . <click>.
Book.
Freecell: 87%, running average: 86%.
Tudor Xmas, bah fecking humbug. Seemed even worse than a current one.
Some bollox or other about the Orange Moron.
Some bollox or other about a Christian Dior dress: all 15 minutes of it: no idea the ins & outs.
Tonight’s viewing started with the second part of 24 Hours in Police Custody. A wretched business all round, and I hope he enjoys spending the rest of his life behind bars, secure in the knowledge that he didn’t even achieve what he set out to do. As for the daughter: well, the CPS made its determination on the evidence. She’ll have to live with whatever she may have done, but at least she won’t have benefited from it
On to tonight’s major motion picture premiere, because I figured it was about time I started taking advantage of having some time off: A Line of Fire (2025). One of those things where a retired special agent gets drawn back in, and why shouldn’t it be? Entertaining stuff, and proof that they still make films that don’t involve superheroes, because he gets punched in the face quite a lot
And then I faced a serious decision. Given that I’ve rewatched the first two Terminator films, should I carry on with the third one, or the third one? I decided to go with the third one: Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) because it’s excellent, and also third
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