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[ladymuck]

all this talk of doing time takes me back to my yoof

Contrary to popular opinion, I do actually prefer it when I deliver something useful rather than have endless meetings about meetings

[DoctorStrangelove]

Tiddley tum ti tum

[DoctorStrangelove]

Di ti di, PALI is mine.

Where's eek?

[NickFitz]

Di ti di, PALI is mine.

Where's eek?

Nice pali!

[NickFitz]

After the epic win at lunchtime (going for a haircut) I continued the run of success this evening by getting the shopping done!

I decided it would be nice to get it out of the way and on checking Google Maps, I found the traffic was not at all rush-hour-like all the way there at quarter to six, so I headed off. I went past the old flat, where the chestnut tree was looking very well, as was the Polish café

Onwards to M&S for some bits, before heading over to Big Sainsbury’s. The refurbishment work is continuing, meaning the fresh food was crammed into a rather tight area down one end with the meat in tall fridges with glass doors, just thrown in anyhow by the look of things; this was very annoying as it made it a pain to do things like check dates or assess marbling. But signs assured us it’s a temporary measure so hopefully things are better once they’re finished

Anyway, I got the latest Viz which was the main reason for being there, and the other parts of the store were still largely in the configuration I’ve got used to over the past twenty-five years

With that done, I remembered to fill the car up as well. And then home via the VAT fraud chip shop, so tea has been haddock and chips

So I’ve basically managed all the errands and things ahead of the heatwave and, more importantly, the weekend!

[NickFitz]

The other exciting news of the evening was that when I got home and was getting the bags out of the car, who should appear on the other side of the lawn but all five members of the magpie family, including the youngster I hadn’t seen in a few days!

And I also got to see one of the young ones learning that sometimes when you go to chivvy a squirrel, the squirrel will just rush right at you and chivvy back. The startled magpie had to take off almost vertically to find refuge in an overhanging bush, and the squirrel continued to hang around on the lawn beneath it, showing that it wasn’t going to be intimidated

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was a bit of Traffic Cops

I was thinking of watching the final episode of Legends but I decided to leave that for tomorrow

Tonight’s new book was A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. in which assorted religious orders try to preserve what’s left of mankind’s knowledge for future generations after the world has been devastated by nuclear war, though everybody else feels that given what it led to last time, maybe they’re better off without it

There’s a big funfair on the park at the end of the road. Investigating the reason for its presence, I discovered that the first Leicester Balloon Festival will be happening there this weekend, starting tomorrow evening. This news had somehow managed to pass me by but I assume that if the wind’s in the right direction, this will result in large numbers of hot air balloons drifting overhead at a very low altitude, given that they’ll be launching from only a few hundred yards away

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all

TFIF, etc
CBS, etc now, but misty earlier.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

20 deg in here, 21 in the kitchen, 19.5 in the leanto.

1005.5 mBar, 29.69 in Hg, 754.2 Torr, 14.583 psi, (down from 1007.5 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 30th of March 2020 BR14, LM, NF, WTFH, and I popped in, BR14 after lots of brown sauce on his dinner, LM posted a vid that doesn't play any more, and WTFH's wife had returned home with news of a colleague having a stroke during a meeting.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Warmer than it looked.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some green crap on R4.

It's gradually got darker & darker & now it's raining pretty impressively.

Can't see Drummau and March Hywel is looking a bit doubtful. So much for the heatwave. .

Entertainment in the ongoing deluge: book. Other book.

Oz customs thing.

Titans of the Cold War: Fidel Castro and JFK.

Tea: chilli con carne etc. I wonder if this one will prove as gas producing as last Monday's.

Entertainment: PM <click>. Book. Other book.

Dead Ringers.

Taggart. S13 E1,2,3: "Dead Man's Chest".

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny day, the gardener is out there trimming hedges and shrubs, and the balloon festival starts this evening. Not sure how “gusts up to 20mph” will affect them but the wind seems to be about the right direction to blow them somewhere I can see them as they go past. Currently 21°C with an expected high of 25°, and it’s already nearly 24° in the living room with the curtains still closed. The barometers seem pessimistic though, being down to 999/1007mB