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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Locked (2025) in which down-at-heel Bill Skarsgård takes advantage of the unlocked door of a luxury SUV to see if there’s anything worth nicking, only to find it’s no longer unlocked when he tries to leave… for it is a trap car! And not a police trap car, but one controlled by the elderly and vengeful Anthony Hopkins. So as if his life wasn’t bad enough already, now he’s stuck and trying to placate a Welshman. This was pretty good, I thought; there were two or three moments when I thought it got a bit silly or out of kilter, but overall I thought it was worth watching. Free With Prime at the moment

After that, a rewatch of The Accountant 2 (2025). As I probably said when I first watched this, it lacks something the original had; though having never got around to getting a degree in Film Studies, I’m not sure I can put my finger on exactly what it is that it lacks. It’s still good to very good, just not perfect

Finally, S1E2 of Silo. This still shows promise, so I shall continue to assume that the somewhat slow building of the story will pay off in the end

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc. I think it’s going to be another hot one.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday judging by the wireless.

Restless night with the knee complaining regularly, thusly getting up & exercising it every hour or so which is getting really old really quickly.

Blue sky.

Sunny.

21.3 in here, 22 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto. That's more like it.

1015 mBar, 29.97 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.72 psi, (down from 1016 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of March 2020 everyone commiserated with BR14, Brillo popped in a lot, LM was considering cooking stuff, I was watching Sherlock Holmes, and NF was celebrating not having to pound the washing on rocks in the river by praising the washing machine for doing the needful doings.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the almost unbearable heat. I'm getting slower and slower: dunno if it's the knees or what but I'm not doing 4mph any more. Before I loosen up a bit I'm walking like a drunk.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Moneybox waffling on about child benefit. Which is now being claimed by fewer and fewer after Osbourne The Tory Mother****er complicated things.

Due to the ongoing ennervation, a couple of hours have been devoted to dozing to Hawkwind and Pulse.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee. I don't care about the mediocre but I do like consistency.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Attenborough on Dragons. (as in flies).

TPTV: "All that glitters" from the Bain collection: aluminium foil.

Maigret. S4 E10 "Another world (1963)". How the 1%ers live.

Blazian bollox: 'Itler's 'Andmaidens. Women camp guards.

Blazian Bollox: 'Itler's Sex Life. One ball.

Coldwar thing on BBC Alba. 63 to 83.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with wisps and some lumps. Currently 26 degrees with a high of 28 expected. Barometer down to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 04:52; Sunset 21:07 BST

Slow start to the day on account of another night of poor sleep.

Bed stripped and airing with the first load in the WM. I'll put the summer duvet on when I make the bed later.

Out with friends for dinner this evening. Somewhere near Borough Market. That'll be a nice journey.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s “mostly cloudy” out, though there are patches of blue and the clouds are mainly cumulus type things. It feels a bit close but it isn’t excessively hot: 22°C with a high of 24° expected to coincide with a brief sunny spell later in the afternoon. The barometers are down a bit at 1008/1015mB

[ladymuck]

The bed has been made, which post-dinner future me will appreciate more than overly warm present me does.

The first load has nearly dried out in the back garden, just in time for the second (the duvet cover) to finish. However, I will be putting the airer inside for that one as we'll be heading out about 3pm.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s tea was brought to me from the good-enough Chinese place past the park

The somewhat sunnier spell materialised as promised, and ended as promised. Tomorrow, the temperature starts to fall, with rain likely every day next week

[WTFH]

Solar panel is now on the shed roof and all wired in.

TFBSZ.

[NickFitz]

They were still all about Attenborough with today’s wildlife programming

Later, I watched the first episode of Legends, a new Netflix drama series based (loosely, I imagine) on HMRC’s undercover activities to eliminate drug smuggling at the behest of Thatcher. (Spoiler: it didn’t work.) It seems pretty good from this episode, so I’ll have to try to remember to keep watching

And in The Middle Kingdoms, the literary world has reacted to industrialisation by veering into Romanticism, while the political world has reacted to ongoing turmoil by veering into Nationalism, thereby creating the conditions for Bismarck to start messing things up for everybody

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp. Seems to have rained.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Bit of a breeze.

21.3 deg in here, 22 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto, 18 in the saltinghouse.

1011 mBar, 29.85 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (down from 1012 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of March 2020 vetran built a shed and enjoyed an inherited rioja, whilst BR14 watched HSB & related well to Belker (whose dad had "Al Zeimer's disease" in one of the eps), LM had a chicken & leak pie, and NF placed his first interweb order with the Chinese, whilst, of course, Brillo popped in.

Strange dream about my garage, this one being somewhat different to the usual dream garage but there you go. Curiously I was running down the garden path in my underpants for some reason. . And there was a young lady jogging along at the same time . I think I was having to move house or something. Obviously wishful thinking in getting away from my much too close relative. I hope he/she/it wasn't the jogger: <checks memory>: No, thankfully not, it was a genuine female of the species. .

Washing frenzy in progress. Still dunno why I didn't do it yesterday when it was fine.

Shirts dried on the line enough to iRon & thusly met the iRon & are airing upstairs. The usual bird crap washed off one.

Entertainment: Archive Hour: The Louisville Lip in his own words: the last 5 minutes being rather sad.

Lunch: brunch. "Entertainment": thing about the ZionNazi Ben Gvir. Nice chap. All he needs is the death's head badge & he's there.

It rained. Smalls in the TD which is doing its usual random number generation thing.

Dozed to "Do re mi fah sol" by Hawkwind.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked. 3 miles instead of 4. Observed some fish in the canal for the first time in ages. Quite large too, not tiddlers. And some tadpoles. In fact quite a lot of tadpoles so the frogs/toads have been busy. Seems a bit late for them, though.

Book. Other book.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Entertainment: 17 o'clock news. A thing about My Little Pony. . Poetry from Hay <click>.

TPTV: The Directors: David Lean.

More Blazian bollox: History's Mysteries. Nazca Lines.

Sergeant Cork S5 E4 "The case of the hooded students (1966)". We seem to have skipped a few: S4 E6, S5 E1,2,3. Production values seem a bit higher and whatever they're reading it off seems in better condition. Audio is still remarkably bad in places so I watch it with subtitles turned on.

The Fonz again: this week: travel. Liked the Pontiac Fiero, the self incinerating car. Obviously a design feature that appealed to ReichsLeiter Musk, though in the case of the Fiero at least you could open the ******* doors when the thing caught fire. The RotorCycle and the Flying Platform look fun.

Mediaeval Murder Mysteries: Edward II. <click> Not interested in watching a thing about some poor sod having a red hot poker stuffed up his arse.