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[NickFitz]

Bratwurst for lunch

[ladymuck]

I passed the HR "vibe check" so now I just have to impress the head of department on Monday afternoon

[xoggoth]

Scary! Got this loud noise and took me a while to locate it. A government emergency warning of fire risk on me phone, not any normal mobile sound. Anyone else get one of these?

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a gammon steak with fried eggs, chips, and beans

Scary! Got this loud noise and took me a while to locate it. A government emergency warning of fire risk on me phone, not any normal mobile sound. Anyone else get one of these?

Yes! It went off as I was at the stove frying the eggs, and scared the crap out of me! I thought alarms were going off because the oven was about to explode or something, until I realised what it was

[DoctorStrangelove]

Fire Warning: Place said phone in a bucket of water, it's the Only Way to be Sure.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere happened to feature one of the stars of last night’s, though I only realised that just now: The Housemaid (2025) in which Sydney Sweeney gets a job in Amanda Seyfried’s wealthy household. This was absolutely bloody excellent, and you should watch it - it’s free with Amazon Prime at the moment, but if I’d paid for it in itself, I would have felt every penny was well spent. No spoilers

And then a rewatch of Project Hail Mary (2026) because it’s worth it

Finally, a bit more of For All Mankind in which the Soviets continue to piss the Americans off by upping the propaganda stakes

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Saw that my old neighbour I do Scrabble with is on Google Street View. I am too, standing outside my house. Anyone else found themselves on it?

Woody walk with ll1 later.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Saw that my old neighbour I do Scrabble with is on Google Street View. I am too, standing outside my house. Anyone else found themselves on it?

Yes. I'm on the way to Going Shopping at the corner of Penydre & Russell Street a number of years ago. Not a pretty sight.

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry. (But not on fire yet).

Sunny. (And getting sunnier).

Blue sky with high clouds.

23.7 deg in here, 25.4 in the kitchen, 22.5 in the leanto, 19 out the back, 19.9 in the saltinghouse.

Watered the saltinghouse roof.

1011 mBar, 29.85 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (up from 1010 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 17:37 and 17:43, AndyGarbs, Brillo, covbob, and LM popped in, with Brillo making up for lost time.

Busy old morning: Dan Do with subtitles & a lady signing for the deaf: big expensive house that was originally a farmhouse, duly extended by some singer woman, smaller expensive house, another expensive house conversion from an old chapel.

Catrefi Cymry: Postwar/1950s houses: a Gloster made prefab: really neat, you could tell it was designed by someone who knew WTF he/she was doing, this one made out of aluminium left over from building bombers. A pair of 1950s council houses: one as built and the other "improved" and extended. A 1950s dormer bungalow designed along the lines of a Frank Lloyd Wright building. Bet that cost a bob or two to build. You'd die of lead poisoning from all the lead in the windows.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment:

Two hours of the Dashcam video thing: feck me the septics are quick to get the guns out.

Walk (abbreviated) walked to the res, up into the woods a little, then back down. Back in the day I'd have gone further but the paths are rather overgrown now.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. "Rogue Male (1976)" with that Peter o'Toole. "Look at Life: Bridges (1960)". I wonder if all that red lead lasted better than the modern crap that's recently replaced it.

Entertainment: Maigret "My Friend the Inspector (1960)".

Some Blazian bollox or other. Some bollox about Die Glocke. You can never have too much about Die Glocke in my opinion. .

Secret Wars is one of them: Georgia.

Total Blazian Bollox: National Park Mysteries. The truth certainly ain't in this load of tosh.

[sadkingbilly]

I passed the HR "vibe check" so now I just have to impress the head of department on Monday afternoon

have a , knock 'em bandy.

[ladymuck]

Morning Afternoon all

Some cloud about, and a nice breeze. Currently 25 degrees with a high of 26 expected. Barometer down again, to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 05:47; Sunset 20:24 BST

Bed has been stripped and is airing. First load in the WM.