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[ladymuck]

Raining.

[eek]

Raining.

We had sleet this morning.

[NickFitz]

Rack of ribs (“firecracker” flavour) and chips for tea

Accompanied by a bit of Police Interceptors including a prolonged and unsuccessful search for a bloke who’d run away in the fields of Rothwell Lodge Farm by the A14. I’ve often seen the cows who live there when driving past but as I’m usually doing 70mph and the hedge is quite tall, this is the first time I’ve seen the associated cowpats

[xoggoth]

Just had an email quote for household oil, double what I paid in January. That ******* lunatic Trump!

[NickFitz]

Just had an email quote for household oil, double what I paid in January. That ******* lunatic Trump!

I meant to fill up the car on Friday but forgot. I should do it soon, while there’s still fuel available

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was going to be one thing, but the first ten minutes or so made me realise I wasn’t in the mood for it. So I started something else, but soon realised I wasn’t in the mood for that either. They both seemed good, just not for me tonight

So finally I picked something pretty much at random, and it turned out to be Belgian and also very good! It was Night Call (2024) or La nuit se traîne in the original Belgian (French-speaking variety), in which a student who also works as a locksmith is duped into opening an apartment he really shouldn’t have, and then has to spend the rest of the night trying to prove to an organised crime gang that they shouldn’t kill him for having done so

I thought it was very good as these things go, and commend it to the House

Then a rewatch of RoboCop 2 (1990) which isn’t as good as the first one as an action/sci-fi thing, but it's still good in the political satire department

Finally, another episode of S2 of Hijack on Apple TV. I vaguely remember a review of this second series that said it wasn’t as good as the first because a train being hijacked wasn’t as exciting as a plane being hijacked, and this episode made me realise that whoever who wrote that review wasn’t qualified to do so, because they clearly aren’t the kind of person who gets excited at hearing about a ghost station on the U-Bahn, just like the ones on the London Underground. If Apple had any sense, they’d have commissioned Secrets of the Berlin U-Bahn to run alongside this

Goodnight all