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[sadkingbilly]

Gordon Bennet. More bad news. My nice lady neighbour just phoned to say she's been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

welcome to the age of looking over your shoulder for the geezer on the white horse.
i've lost 7 friends, dotted all over UK and Europe, in the past year.
like you said.
'don't get old'

[xoggoth]

Woodland volunteery thing this morning. Bit boring, clearing stuff back from newly planted trees, but nice company and brill location.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It's a windy day out with a lot of clouds drifting around, but also quite a few gaps letting the sun shine through pretty often. There's a chance of a bit of rain now and then, but none at the moment. It's 10°C ("feels like" 4°) which is the highest temperature for the day, and the barometers are up at 992/1000mB

There's a dearth of Saturday afternoon wildlife programming again this week. I shall have to seek out other sources to keep the apes happy

[NickFitz]

Tea has been brought from the Turkish place, mainly because I needed to order something from there within the next couple of days to secure an £8 discount

And lunch earlier was a salmon bap. Proper salmon out of a tin, not that weird stuff rich people eat

[ladymuck]

The fillum was very good.

We then tried to get into a local seafood restaurant for dinner but they couldn't squeeze us in so we instead went to a pub that does Thai food, and it was very good indeed. Early home mainly because the football was on.

[NickFitz]

After the greatly curtailed helping of wildlife stuff, I was able to pacify the apes et al. with The Elephant Queen on Apple TV+. One species in there I'd never heard of before were these fish that live in water holes. I was wondering how they got there and survived, given that the holes dry up all the time. It turns out their young grow in their eggs but don't hatch straight away, and when the elephants cover themselves in mud as sunscreen before setting off on their journey to somewhere else that still has water, the fish eggs are in the mud and stick to them, then get washed off at the destination and finally hatch. So they're fish that literally survive (as a species) by riding around Africa on elephants!

Later, I read some more of Heathern. It's a bit disconcerting how apposite this seems now, with the USA basically under martial law at the behest of a huge corporation which has used its extreme wealth to take complete control of the body politic

Extra hour tonight! Or more accurately, the hour that was stolen from us in March is being returned

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's a sunny day with some wispy little bits of cloud here and there. Might rain a bit later, but I reckon it'll just be brief showers if so. Still fairly breezy, so the current 7°C "feels like" 1°, while the expected high of 10° won't arrive until around 20:00 this evening, continuing for several hours and making for a relatively warm night! The barometers are up some more at 997/1006mB

I see the temporal anomaly that arrived in March has dissipated, presumably because of tachyon emissions or something

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 15.7 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto, 8.5 in the saltinghouse.

1009.5 mBar, 29.81 in Hg, 757.2 Torr, 14.64 psi, (up from 1006 last night), 58% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of November 2005 the thread began. .

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine, scarf on again, with the added delight of being crapped on from a height by some avian comedian. Jacket now in the WM.

Meanwhile on the 26th of February 2020, amongst the discussion of LED downlighters, transformers, and LEDs glowing when switched off, there came a great Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! after I'd pulled a muscle in my left leg whilst collecting rubbish around the reservoir, no good deed going unpunished as is only right & proper.

Jacket out of the WM & into the TD since I can't be arsed to peg it out on the line.

Jacket out of the TD and airing in the living room.

Jacket back in the TD on "Extra Dry" to see if it gets to be actually dry this time.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some thing on R4 about the Japanese PM whose hero is The Great She Elephant.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: the poetry crap <click>

Book. Other book.

Look at Life:

Sergeant Cork. S1 E9 "The case of the sleeping coachman". Mildly amusing in an Upstairs Downstairs sort of way.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Currently 8 degrees ('feels like') 6 with a high of 9 expected. Cloud cover set to increase with rain forecast from lunchtime onwards. Barometer up to 1011 mBar.

Sunrise 06:45; Sunset 16:45 GMT

Nice to be back on proper time again.

Off to see Mum. She's been hiding patio door keys, stashing toilet roll in the wardrobe and roaming the house at 2am.

[xoggoth]

Long walk doing toothpaste, I mean footpath, inspection for the council. Must visit lady next door later.