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Porsche* Elroq.
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I know it's not a Porsche, I'm not stupid with my money (any more). Priced up the Audi equivalent and it was £18k extra for the 4-ring badge.

Hope you shopped around - the brokers have 15-25% discount of EVs at the moment

[WTFH]

Hope you shopped around - the brokers have 15-25% discount of EVs at the moment

Got about £8k off it via a broker.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice, as the shop actually had some yesterday

It continues to be a bit variable out there. I can see a fair few areas of blue sky from the living room window, but it’s also come over quite gloomy so I suspect a load of cloud is heading in from the other side

The mundane laundry is on

And my washer-dryer has just informed me that a software update is ready to install, which didn’t used to happen with the old one

[NickFitz]

Tea has been some of the shepherd’s pie for which I laid the groundwork yesterday. Very nice

In the perennial struggle to work out how many spuds to use to get the requisite amount of mash, I erred on the side of too many this time. Better than not enough! And I recently came across a recipe for making fried potato cakes with surplus mash, so I’ll give that a go with what’s left

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Damp.

Grey.

Dreary

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 14 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 11.5 in the leanto.

989 mBar, 29.2 in Hg, 741.8 Torr, 14.344 psi, (up from 986 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

The puddle at the bottom of next door's garden has returned and it's now rather bigger than a couple of days ago.

Meanwhile on the 4th of March 2020 NF observed the football enthusiasts going to & coming back from the footballing emporium, and watched ST IV (the one with the whales), followed by yet more "Killing", LM watched 2 Doctor Who eps & thought them slightly better, WTFH popped in, and I finished watching "Two Mules for Sister Sara" with little enthusiasm.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the occasional deluge.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC. The Australian customs thing S15 E19. No frog fat yet, undeclared foodstuffs from Vietnam.

Book. Other book. Minor potching in the attempt to understand why a win98 box has decided it has to fall over all the time. Even does it in safe mode, though not to the same extent.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM.

Maigret. "The white hat (1962)". Madame Maigret left holding the baby.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dull, damp. Currently 9 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer down to 987 mBar.

Sunrise 08:31; Sunset 15:45 GMT

Heading home this afternoon. Hopefully no delays as I have Waitrose delivering later.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Rather a grey day out. It’s 11°C which is as good as it’ll get, though supposedly it “feels like” 4°. The barometers are down again at 981/989mB

I again neglected to record last night’s viewing, due to getting to bed very late, so for the record: the major motion picture premiere was actually two premieres, being a double feature of Becky (2020) and its sequel, The Wrath of Becky (2023). In the first of these, a group of escaped white supremacist convicts invade a family's lakeside holiday home (do all Americans have one of these, because they seem to appear in movies all the time?) in search of a McGuffin that had been concealed within some years before, and it’s up to 13-year-old Becky to save the day. She does so with great ingenuity and brutality, including a few ways of killing bad guys that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before in a film. In the sequel, she’s a few years older but still a teenager, and once again is forced into the situation of having to take out a bunch of white supremacists; the USA seems to have plenty of these to go around, but getting rid of a few more always helps! Both of these were great fun and are well worth a watch if you’re in the mood for that kind of thing

And then I rewatched Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which I assume needs no additional summarising from me after all these years

[DoctorStrangelove]

Now where's my ******* dog?

And then I rewatched Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which I assume needs no additional summarising from me after all these years

Shortly to be renamed "The Shape of Things to Come". .