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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start again, and starting to get warmer: 17°C now, and aiming for 25° this afternoon. It’s supposed to be cloudy too, but maybe that will come later. The barometers have shot up to 1017/1025mB

Somebody’s moving out of this end of the adjacent block! Two medium-sized removals vans are parked outside, and they’ve spent twenty minutes or more just unloading boxes and several very large rolls of what I assume is bubble wrap. I don’t know which flat it is, but I daresay I could watch the furniture coming out and cross-reference it with photos on RightMove

[ladymuck]

I believe I have sufficient circumstantial evidence that the magpie which had been investigating my gooseberry bush has been stealing the fruits. I had one fruit on there the other day. Now it's gone.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was the rest of the cold cocktail sausages, and tea has been a rack of ribs and chips, this time from a new range at Sainsbury’s. Pretty nice overall, and at least it’s a change from the standard BBQ sauce that they seem to use on everything

This was accompanied by Police Interceptors of which I have a couple of episodes in reserve, due to trying to vary my viewing habits a bit more in recent weeks

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) which is not only of no interest to people who aren’t Dylan fans, but probably highly annoying to them. I really enjoyed it

One thing I found intriguing in the concert footage was the way Scarlet Rivera, the violin player, kept her eyes constantly fixed on Dylan. He’s renowned for changing things as he goes along, having even been known to sing entirely new verses to songs that just happened to come to him mid-performance, or possibly because he’d forgotten the words and was making it up as he went along. But she gave the impression that she was ready for anything he might do; not bothered, just ready. And he seemed to realise that, as there were times when he glanced momentarily in her direction as if wondering if she’d realised what he was about to do, then looked back, reassured. It was only ever something like keeping his harmonica quiet because he wanted her violin solo to take precedence at that point, but the dynamics of it all were fascinating

Well, they were if you’re a Dylan fan, but I’ll shut up about it now for the sake of those who aren’t

After that, a rewatch of Rush (2013) about the days when driving an F1 car was tantamount to extremely fast suicide

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but bright and dry. Currently 23 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 29 expected. Cloudy should be mostly gone by lunchtime. Barometer down to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 04:51; Sunset 21:20 BST

Dinner was lovely, and would have been better had I not gotten a migraine half way through. I managed to last but couldn't eat anything past the first course due to battling nausea.

Fortunately, it shifted while I slept and did not put my grey hair banishing appointment at the hairdresser in jeopardy.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning (at last).

Saturday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in very few parts.

22.4 deg in here, 22.5 in the kitchen, 22 in the leanto.

1021 mBar, 30.15 in Hg, 765.8 Torr, 14.8 psi, (down from 1022 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 we're on the same page as yesterday: covbob, LM, vetran and WTFH popped in: there was no news on the pineapple.

Walk (2.25 miles) walked in the greyish gloom & wan sunshine. Legs complaining more today.

Spotted some cinnabar moth caterpillars on some ragwort. Haven't noticed any of those in some years.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC. noon o'clock news. Money Box <click>.

Nothing of innerest on the idiot lantern.

Book. Other book.

Freecell score: 85%, running average: 84%. First game took ages to get out. Bit better than the last attempt which had a score in the low 70s.

Some minor decimation of the brambles & goosegrass. I'll need a bonfire soon because the greenhouse is nearly full.

I seem to terminally bored, possibly existentially bored at the moment.

Book.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Fecking Robinson waffling to some Labour ex apparatchik <CLICK> Just Robinson is enough for <click>, the combination leads inexorably to <CLICK>

Maigret S1 E2 "Unscheduled Departure".

Blaze: Hitler's Engineers: it may be Wernher Heisenberg, but I'm a bit uncertain about that. If Hitler had the Bomb, how come the captured scientists at Farm Hall were so surprised when it went off in Hiroshima & Nagasaki (though admittedly rather less surprised than the unfortunate occupants of those cities).

Blaze: the WWII war gaming thing wherein "we" get to dish it out to the Fiendish Hun.

[ladymuck]

The greys have been banished for a few weeks. A perpetual losing battle but I'm too vain to quit.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

There’s a fair amount of blue sky but also a lot of clouds jostling each other, so it’s sunny spells today. Quite windy too, so the 23°C which is as hot as it’ll get “feels like” 20°. The barometers are down a little at 1013/1020mB