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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was The Running Man (2025) being, as the year would suggest, the new one, not the original. I assumed this would land somewhere between acceptable and garbage, so I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be really good! Well worth a watch, I reckon

And then I decided to rewatch The Intern (2015) because I hadn’t in a while and I like it

Today, something turned up in the post addressed to somebody who doesn’t live here. This happened once before, then some stranger turned up and claimed it the same day. They aren’t getting it this time though; it’s going back in the post as “Not known at this address” and if somebody turns up asking for it, I’m inclined to shrug and say I gave to to the police and see how they react

The wind dropped a lot after sunset but I left the bedroom window ajar and it went down from 29°C to 24°. Still feels warm, but that’s definitely better

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ I wonder if it's packets of tobacco like my parcel. .

Morning.

Saturday apparently.

Dry.

Blue sky.

Sunny.

24.9 deg in here, 25.6 in the kitchen, 23.5 in the leanto, 23.8 in the saltinghouse, 22 outside the back door.

1007.5 mBar, 29.75 in Hg, 755.7 Torr, 14.61 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric: it reached 60% yesterday evening).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 BR14, covbob, eek, LM, NF, and WTFH popped in, with WTFH ordering the survival essentials of 66 assorted bottles of wine: no mention of shotgun shells or baked beans.

Lunch: brunch. Enterteainment: FOOC <click>.

In other news: no more Long Wave. .

Attempted to discover what the yellow flowers in the lawn are, still not sure despite some googling.

Never mind, they'll be mown short shortly. If I remember to drop the lawnmower from 6 to 3.

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2 and a bit lawns mown: too knackered to bother with next door's big lawn today. Yellow flowers now in compost heap & the bit where they were mown at 3.5 which should discourage them a bit. Managed not to mow my orchids.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee which was preceded by a mug of cold orange squash since the colour of urine a little earlier was rather inneresting in a highly coloured way.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with a mix of lumpy and wispy fluff. A tiny hint of a breeze. No sign of damp from the 4am rain that woke me up. Currently 28 degrees with a high of 30 expected. There's also a chance that the overnight low will drop below 20. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 04:46; Sunset 21:23 BST

Waiting for a delivery and then HWMBO and I will go over to Costco before stopping at my storage place on way back to check for BBQ parts and make an educated guess as to what size unit to move to. The one I have is technically too big for what's in it and the price increase next month has galvanised me into moving to a cheaper location.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Lots of cumuli en masse outside with blue gaps here and there, and the wind is getting back up. It’s too hot but nowhere near as bad as the last few days: 28°C, which is the worst it’ll be and marks the end of the present heatwave, as it’ll fall back to the low twenties from tomorrow - though there are signs and portents of more unpleasantness starting next weekend. The barometers are down to 1003/1011mB

Sad news for the apes today as the wildlife stuff has been cancelled in favour of cricket! I’ll have to find something else for them to watch among the various streaming services

[NickFitz]

^^^ I wonder if it's packets of tobacco like my parcel. .

Too small for that. It’s an A5-sized envelope with something of moderate thickness in the middle - possibly a few grammes of coke wrapped up

[NickFitz]

The ground floor centre right flat opposite is being emptied of its furniture, which is being deposited in a van parked on the lawn. Just checked and it’s still for sale on RightMove. Maybe I should buy it to keep my books in

And the mundane laundry is on, using the quick cycle that does washing and drying in less than two hours

[DoctorStrangelove]

Maybe I should buy it to keep my books in

That's more or less wot I did. Then I ended up having to fecking live in it with them.

Never mind, I don't suppose I'll last a lot longer, then someone else can dispose of all the crap.

i.e. my dear niece/nephew when I put him down as executor. . <DrS in Mad Cruel Bastard mode>