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[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

I decided to skip M&S and go the “quick” way. This turned out to be not very quick, despite the fact that the roadworks which have plagued the route for ages are on a hiatus until Monday

Sainsbury’s was manageable and I got Viz, which is the most important thing. I also got flagged for a “basket check” but it was the abbreviated form, not the one where they have to rescan every single thing

The journey back proved to be even worse, as for some reason that bit of the outer ring road gets clogged up mid-afternoon

Anyway, it’s a bit late for lunch so instead, I shall make myself a coffee and have it with a big chunk of chocolate and Irish cream liqueur cake, which is a new thing on which I had a Nectar Price discount

 

[xoggoth]

Walk with one of usual places with loony lady 1. She got all dizzy and collapsed, sorta recovered but shes' going to phone the doc.

 

[xoggoth]

I also got flagged for a “basket check” but it was the abbreviated form, not the one where they have to rescan every single thing

Yeh, I get that occasionally, once had a bar of chocalate I hadn't scanned but they accepted it was an error.

 

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a ribeye steak with chips, fried onions, and beans

To accompany it, a thing on 5 following the West Midlands Serious Crime Unit. I hope these meetings are staged for the cameras, because otherwise it’s a bit worrying that experienced detectives have to have it explained to them that a gang wielding machetes and firearms on the streets of Walsall is “a very serious matter”

 

[NickFitz]

Yeh, I get that occasionally, once had a bar of chocalate I hadn't scanned but they accepted it was an error.

I think it was about a year ago that I drew a rescan of everything two weeks in a row, at different stores!

 

[xoggoth]

Anybody else had this supposed Microsoft problem? I haven't, Outlook all seems fine, getting emails as usual.

 

[NickFitz]

Anybody else had this supposed Microsoft problem? I haven't, Outlook all seems fine, getting emails as usual.

There’s Outlook on your own computer, which would be fine, and Outlook that depends on being connected to an online thing, which is what’s been ****ed. Back in the day it was Outlook + Exchange Server, but AIUI Microsoft have shoehorned themselves in where the + is so they can guarantee that if their stuff breaks, it breaks for everybody else in the world as well, but they can charge everybody more for the privilege

 

[NickFitz]

Good to see that the Sunday afternoon I spent making sure the naughty words censorship came across from vB5 correctly wasn’t wasted time

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was The Outfit (2022) in which Mark Rylance gives a cracking performance as a Savile Row cutter (he’s quite insistent on that: “Anybody with a needle and thread and half an hour to practice can call themselves a tailor”) who has wound up in Chicago in the post WWII period, and is dragged into gang-related conflict. The film happens during the course of a single night, and although it’s about a bloody gang war happening across the city, every scene is in the three rooms that make up his shop and workshop, giving it a theatrical feel; and it turns out it was actually filmed in a theatre in Wembley. An excellent film, and very much deserving of your attention

After that I fancied rewatching another good drama and settled on Bridge of Spies (2015) only to realise that it also features Mark Rylance in an important role. So if you’re planning a Mark Rylance film festival, ask me to organise it as I can create one without even meaning to

Finally, another episode of Dark Matter which I think was still confusing, though I’m not sure. I also think they may have started a new character arc but there’s only one episode left, so maybe it was a new character right angle?

Goodnight all

 

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Frosty.

12.5 deg in here, 10.6 in the kitchen, 6 in the leanto, 1 out the back.

1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine & cold: ice on the canal above the lock. Seems slightly warmer than yesterday. Two conversations.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC.

Entertainment: book. Other book. New book.

Tea: spag bol. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

Book.

Maigret "Raise your right hand (1961)". The one with Patrick Troughton as the cuckold. It doesn't end well.

Bangers & cash: restoring rusty crap: Toyota Celica 2.0 GT. Midas. (A Mini Marcos by another name). As per usual: spend £11k & get back £5k at auction. At least the garage didn't burn down in this one.

Mythland: Morag the monster of Loch Morar. Nessie's lesser known associate.

Mythland: the Catman of Greenock. Saddest thing: an aerial photo of Greenock back when they built ships there in the 1970s.

 

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Started off cloudy with frost on the grass, and has now brightened up considerably. Currently 9 degrees ('feels like' 7) with a high of 11 expected. Barometer at 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 07:16; Sunset 16:17 GMT

Yesterday I was laid up with a migraine. Proper one with being sick for extra misery. However, I still had to make sure Mum had breakfast and some dinner. I guess this is what parenting is like.

Today I have a lingering headache but I can function much better. Appetite still a work-in-progress.