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[xoggoth]

Nice old fart history thing this morning. Exciting (NOT) afternoon doing more shed repairs. Checked my new house insurance and found I'd typed in value of £56600 instead of £566000. Had to pay an extra £37, oh well not too bad. Dunno where you'd get a 4 bed detached house for £56k, Sudan maybe.

[NickFitz]

The search for a rack of ribs and chips that comes up to the standard set by the Castle Inn in Cambridge about seventeen years ago continues, with another contender (M&S Korean) being very nice but not nice enough

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Juror #2 (2024) in which the eponymous juror realises that he knows something not in evidence that could sway his fellow jury members towards the correct verdict, but can’t reveal it. This is an excellent premise and was only let down by the fact that the prosecution case was laughable. It seemed more like an example one might give to twelve year olds with the goal of finding as many reasons for doubt as they could in two minutes, in the confident belief that they would find them all. But this was supposed to be the real case and all the defence managed was vague nonsense. I can see now why so many people on American legal Twitter (it was before we all moved to Bluesky) were so scathing. But it’s a decent enough film if you set all that “making any legal sense at all” stuff aside

After that, a rewatch of Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (2005). It was quite a while ago that I last watched this - pre-pandemic, I reckon - and it’s excellent

And then a further episode of Silo which I must admit I’d almost forgotten about, but that’s me, not it, and it easily pulled me back in. Very good stuff

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning. Awake at sparrow fart yet again.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

23.8 deg in here, 25.3 in the kitchen, 23.5 in the leanto, 23.5 in the saltinghouse, 20 outside, 26 in the front bedroom.

1011 mBar, 29.854 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (up from 1009 last night (assuming I tapped it)), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 AndyGarbs, BR14, covbob, LM, NF, and vetran popped in.

Walk (abbreviated, 2 miles) walked in the unbearable heat of the morning. Some Fast & Furious contestants observed along with shedloads of MAMILs. Things one sees when out without a gun. .

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee. A bit early in the day for it, but needs must & all that.

Right leg now complaining a bit. Ho hum. .

And, as usual, dozed to the strains of "Pulse" followed by "Comfortably Numb" off the 1980/81 live cd, then "Comfortably Numb" off Delicate sound of thunder cd. The Pulse version is by far the best: the 1980/81 version is meh, with the version off DSOT being a little better, plus it doesn't have Waters on it, which can only be for the good.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC. <click>

Discovering Judi Dench.

Am Dro. Penarth. Rhondda. Denbigh. Furnace (not the Llanelli one).

26 in here, 30 in the front bedroom, 30 out the back, 33 in the saltinghouse. Phew wot a scorcher. Fed up with this now.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

Maigret S1 E3 "The Burglar's Wife (1960)".

Hitler's Engineers: Hans Kamler and Die Glocker. .

The U Boat Wargame thing. E4.

[WTFH]

Morning all

CBS, etc. Need to get a walk in quickly before it gets too hot, then start a long hot job list.

[xoggoth]

CBS, etc. Need to get a walk in quickly before it gets too hot

I'm still doing my walkies near sunset. Glad when this *** heat wave is over.

Volunteer thing tomorrow called off due to heat, so free three days. My not loony lady 3 says she is poorly and awaiting investigations, hope it ain't summit serious.

[sadkingbilly]

its been

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a while

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since i had

[sadkingbilly]

one of these