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[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb shank in red wine and redcurrant sauce, with chips and peas. Very nice, and worth the humongous effort involved

And they come in packs of two, so there's a spare one to freeze for a later occasion

The opal hunters all seemed to be doing reasonably OK, so that's nice.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture was an actual premiere, having only been released today; though it's an Apple TV premiere, so no crowds, media, and celebrities beneath the window like when I worked on Leicester Square. And it was… The Beanie Bubble (2023), about the bizarre craze for Beanie Babies back in the 1990s. It starts with the words "There are some parts of the truth you just can't make up. The rest, we did." which seems like a reasonable expansion on the usual "Based on a true story" thing. It's an entertaining story, worth a watch if you have access to it

I've got a book about all that which I haven't yet read, and it's a weird enough story that I'll probably dig that out.

And then a rewatch of Everest (2015) as a timely reminder of why going up mountains and, more generally, taking any form of exercise more extreme than an amble through the park is a Bad Thing and will probably lead to an untimely death

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Dire.

Not drizzly yet, but there's plenty of time.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 19.3 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.

1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750.1 Torr, 14.5 psi, (unchanged), 74% RH (GDR hair), 74% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of July 2019 covbob was singing a lullaby to a furry bee.

Pissing down.

Sun's out.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Smalls in the WM.

Smalls out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

We shall see how successful this transpires to be.

Shirts in off the line having dried in 40 minutes in the semigale.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

It rained a little.

Then it rained a lot, so the smalls are now wetter than they were originally. Ho very hum.

Lunch: baked potato with cheese & baked beans, a red corner yog, bramble jelly & marmalade on assorted slices of Morrisons bread, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey Cage S9 "Science Rocks" Roy Noble & a Python.

Smalls in off the line, slightly damp, they'll air upstairs.

Shirts roughly iRoned, including the gardening shirts, now airing upstairs.

Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey Cage S9 "Should we pander to pandas". Expensive things, pandas, the rent alone is eyewatering.

The Infinite Monkey Cage S9 "Science or Spin" (part of) with that James Burke chap. He's got Connections apparently. .

Churchill: The Gathering Storm. That Adolph chap is Up to No Good.

Churchill: Path to Victory. Winning the war. Visiting the front line. Flying over the front line.

Tea: spag with not so fiery bol, some apricot halves, a yog, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Churchill: Fallen Hero. How to lose an election.

Churchill: Curtain Call. Still an MP at 88 despite spending most of his time in the south of France.

Maigret S2 E3 "Death of a butcher".

The Four Just men E30 "The bystanders". With Ronald Allen of Crossroads fame.

Thing on PBS about the first man to drive across America from San Francisco to New York: Horatio Nelson Jackson in 1903. Stone me, these guys had stones.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/horatios-drive/the-crew

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens (well, it was when I started typing)

Grey day out, and it's supposed to get very windy this afternoon. 19°C now, 21° expected, and the barometers are trivially down at 992/1000mB

Just had a nice breakfast, or possibly lunch, of Lincolnshire sausages and bacon in buttered white toast

[NickFitz]

Managed to get through to theChinese on the first attempt, and the wait is only half an hour!

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 1034

Sunny. Hot. Currently 28 degrees ('feels like' 31) with a high of 30 forecast.

Yesterday we visited the Hollywood Walk of Fame. What a grotty area that is! Today we are going to ride the funicular that apparently featured in La La Land (never seen it). Our journey homewards starts tomorrow with a flight to Boston.

[NickFitz]

Managed to get through to theChinese on the first attempt, and the wait is only half an hour!

And very nice too, as usual

[ladymuck]

Local time 1349

The forecast lied. It is now 32 degrees ('feels like' 34). Melting

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was American Gangster (2007), a based-on-a-true story thing about heroin importation and corrupt cops, which I thought was very good

And then a rewatch of Inside Man (2006), also very good as heist movies go

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Windy.

Cool in here at 19.5 deg, 20.5 deg in the kitchen, 19 deg in the leanto.

1005.5 mBar, 29.69 in Hg, 754.2 Torr, 14.58 psi, (up from 1004 last night), 74% RH (GDR hair), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of July 2019 covbob was watching cbeebies, NF was doing the Monday links, and Diver had saved £90 on the insurance for his Landrover compared with the previous year.

Drizzle arrived.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 86% (85.51%).

Lunch: baked potato with cheese and baked beans, a yellow corner yog, bramble jelly & marmalade on slices of toast, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey Cage S9 "Science and Spin". That's not quantum mechanical spin though, rather it's spindoctor type spin. With James Burke, who took us to the moon & back, long long ago & far far away, where they did things differently.

Bored. Now.

Very bored. Now. The ennui of the afternoon with the endless drizzle is beyond belief.

Can't be arsed to read anything.

Zapping from channel to channel on the box.

Reduced to watching an ancient ep of The Simpsons, then the motor racing on ITV4 where some single seater managed to launch itself into the air.

Is General, Specifically, broken? No posts on there for ages.

"Lease of Life (1954)" with that Robert Donat and Adrienne Corri at her red haired best.

Last five minutes of the NZ Highway cops thing with the bull trapped under the remains of a cattle wagon on a bridge. The bull survived. The bridge less so, & the cattle wagon not at all. It looked like other cattle ended up in the river, or, rather, down in the river.

Motorway Patrol NZ.

Motorway Patrol NZ. Loved the Cadillac driven by The One Armed Man that didn't have a tail lights.

Tea: lentil soup with bread, the last of the apricot halves, a yog, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Some bollox on BBC2 about electric cars. It rapidly went <click>

Joy of Painting. . It comes up on the EPG as "Joy of Pain". very strong.

Joy of Painting. . I watched more of this one than most.

Am Dro. Eisteddfod special: all 4 on Llyn. And a trip to Bardsey. Mici Plwm used a car which is a bit unusual for a programme about going for a walk.

NASA's unexplained files. Tabby's star, alien megastructure. Mysterious lights on the moon as seen by astronauts. Some of it down to cosmic rays in their eyes, some of them still unknown cause. Giant snail on Pluto. Frumious Bandersnatch? "NASA" "weather U2" piloted by Francis Gary Powers, 1960. It didn't end well. Curious pillar of light above clouds in Indiana.12 June 2015. Despite all the mystery bollox it was some sort of sundog: a crown flash.

A spy amongst friends. E4. Wodka. Presumably not from Varrington. .