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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was Primate (2025) in which some humans who live with a chimpanzee for vaguely explained reasons get upset when the poor chimp develops rabies. I’m not sure this was an entirely realistic film, TBH. For a start, the (dead) mother who introduced the chimp to the family home was a professor of linguistics, and the father is deaf and communicates by sign language but is apparently an ecologist who writes books. How do these people have an unbelievably luxurious home in Hawaii? But they do. And if the father has to leave because he’s on a book tour and can’t be home that night, why is he able to get back home within an hour of realising something’s wrong? If I was signing books in a shop that close to home, I wouldn’t bother with a hotel. Anyway, the poor sick chimp gets all the blame even though it was the family’s fault it got bitten by a rabid mongoose (are mongooses native to Hawaii?) but I reckon they shouldn’t have had a chimp living there in the first place. If Alison from Monkey World heard about them, she’d come and take it off them no matter how many words it had learned on its iPad

And then a rewatch of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) because one should watch the most incredible film ever made from time to time

Finally, the end of S1 of Silo in which it becomes clear that when you get a contract for a second season, you need to introduce a twist at the end that will let you draw the story out for a bit longer

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all

Mostly blue skies, but no sign of rain for at least 10 days.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Finally, the end of S1 of Silo in which it becomes clear that when you get a contract for a second season, you need to introduce a twist at the end that will let you draw the story out for a bit longer

I've lost count of the number of septic series which ended on unresolved cliff hangers. One is grateful when a series ends up resolved. Well, other than S5 of Fringe all in all. .

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

19.8 deg in here, 21.2 in the kitchen (yes: the graduations are in 20th of a degree ), 19 in the leanto, 14 out the back.

1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.6 Torr, 14.7 psi, (down from 1016 last night), 54% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April between 11:31 and 12:01, Brillo, covbob, DaveB, eek, LM, NF, PhilTheGreek, SimonMac, and WTFH popped in. Apparently MrMarkyMark had a Bakewell Tart.

The duvet was pressed into use once again.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked very slowly this morning. Any slower & I'd have been going backwards.

What I'd previously thought to be a bee fly is more likely to be a Hummingbird Hawk Moth, judging by the one in the front garden this morning. It seemed to like some of the flowers.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some lunatic suggesting that 6 year olds should get the vote.

Car Cam thing on Sky Mix. There's some nutters out there & they are driving things, mostly very badly judging by most of that.

Book. I'll be glad when this one is finished.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click>.

TPTV: Scotland Yard S1 E7 "Fatal Journey (1954)".

To celebrate this, I broke a tooth. .

Maigret S1 E7 "A man of quality (1960)".

Blaze: that 'Itler on Alderney.

Blaze: some other bollox: Secret Wars: Syria.

Blazian real bollox: National Park Mysteries. The Truth is out there, just not on Blaze.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with wispy fluff, although my weather app says it's cloudy. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 28 expected. Barometer at 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 05:36; Sunset 20:37 BST

Uneventful journey home yesterday afternoon. Current me was very happy that past me had put fresh bed linen on the bed before I went up to Glasgow. I was very happy to see that my plants hadn't withered while I was away.

Lazy morning had. An equally lazy afternoon beckons. I might do some cleaning as the floors could really do with an intervention of some sort (it's all laminate here).

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny day, with a reasonable amount of wispy cloud and a bit of a breeze. Currently 25°C, it’ll creep up to 26° shortly; the barometers are back down a bit at 1006/1014mB

[ladymuck]

Entertainment: some lunatic suggesting that 6 year olds should get the vote.

I can't remember who, as it was a while ago, but I remember watching someone argue for something like "children should be allowed to vote". Their logic was that such rules introduce arbitrary reasons for exclusion.

You have to ask what is the purpose of an age cut off. The initial reaction is that a child of 6 doesn't understand what they're voting for. Which is what you can also say about a lot of adults. So then it becomes an argument about intellect and/or educational attainment.

If it's about being a tax payer, then you could argue that everyone in receipt of benefits shouldn't be allowed to vote. Also, a 6 year old child actor, piano virtuoso, etc. could be earning millions, and therefore paying taxes, so surely they should be allowed to vote too.

It actually becomes a very interesting debate about why we find reasons to exclude groups and what a slippery slope it becomes. Not just in voting.