Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXIII

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Links are up

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Apparently the football isn’t over yet but at least they’ve stopped doing the tennis now, leaving more time for reading

• How Tall Is Mount Rainier? New Measurements Show It's Shrinking. - ”Eric Gilbertson has a very particular set of skills. He climbs mountains all over the world, attempting to

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Morning denizens

It’s a grey and overcast start! Makes a change. It’s also pretty breezy, so the current temperature of 15°C “feels like” 11°; the expected high is a mere 25°. The barometers are steady at 1014/1022mB

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There was more watery wildlife on this afternoon

Teatime viewing was 24 Hours in A&E

And tonight I read some more of Ra

Monday again tomorrow. Oh well, only two weeks until my week off!

Goodnight all

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Tea was ribs and chips

This was primarily because it was quick and easy, as I’d spent much of the day mucking around with new forum stuff

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Morning denizens

Clear blue sky for the most part, with just a band of high wispy stuff a long way to the south. It’s quite breezy too, which is helping to get cooler air circulating through the flat. Currently 23°C out there and it’s only getting up to 28°, so high but not...

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There was watery wildlife on the telly this afternoon

Tonight, I read a bit more of Ra as I was more in the mood for that than Eve Babitz’s tales of life in Hollywood

Goodnight all

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Tea tonight was brought from a Chinese restaurant in town. Very nice, and they were doing 2-for-1 on crispy duck so there are leftovers

It’s in the same premises that used to be Janet’s restaurant before she had the takeaway near the old flat

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Afternoon denizens

It’s a sunny day, again, but the drift towards slightly more bearable temperatures starts today! It’s just reached today’s peak of 28°C which is as high as it’ll be for a week, though it’ll still be in the upper-to-middle twenties until next weekend,...

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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...

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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

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Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a bap (wholemeal) with apple sauce

This morning brought the half-yearly bill for the service charge for this place. There was a convoluted explanation of how it had been worked out, but what it boiled down to was that it was about £400 less than expected!...

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Morning denizens

Last night saw a repeat of the phenomenon of the bedroom being the same temperature when I awoke as when I went to sleep, but with the starting point a little higher at around 28°

And today is turning into a repeat of yesterday: it’s already...

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Tonight’s motion picture premiere was Officer Black Belt (2024), a Korean film on Netflix in which a young martial arts expert finds a purpose in life from helping the Korean probation service to capture violent recidivists. It was OK

Far too hot again, and still no breeze to circulate...

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Tea has been what Sainsbury’s describe as “Chinese style” pork steaks, with chips. I’m not convinced that it’s what they’re eating in downtown Beijing, but it was very nice anyway

More importantly, it didn’t involve spending much time in the kitchen, because it’s...

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The shopping has been done!

I went just after twelve and it was hot. Officially 30°C, but the car reckoned 33° and I found no reason to doubt it

It must be about ten years ago that its sensor broke and it would reckon a day like this was -12° or something ridiculous...

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Morning denizens

Clear blue sky here, with that hint of haziness high up and increasing as it comes down to meet the horizon that suggests a warm day to come. And so shall it be: It’s gone from 19°C to 22° in the last forty-five minutes, and won’t stop till 32°. Same again...

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Tonight’s reading was more of Eve’s Hollywood

Far too hot here. There’s been no wind to blow cooler air in so despite having had the window wide open, the bedroom is still 26°C

Ah well - at least it’s Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight...

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For tea, I continued this week’s theme of “things that are wholly inappropriate for the weather but that’s what’s in the fridge” by having a roast chicken dinner

I made a bit of an effort with the chicken, shoving half an onion, several cloves of garlic, and a whole lemon...

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Lunch has been a cold chicken leg

This morning was show & tell, in which I showed the stuff they didn’t have time for a fortnight ago as I haven’t done much that’s visible since then

And then it was the loooong quarterly retrospective

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