Monday Links from the Comfy Chair vol. DCCCLI

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Links are up

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I’m on holiday this week. Not that I’m going anywhere

• The Sofa - Spencer Wright on buying a secondhand sofa which turned into a restoration project: ”I’m almost done restoring my old sofa, and I think it’s good, and I want to tell you about it… I saved the nails, and disassembled

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Shopping has been done, at both M&S and Big Sainsbury’s!

I went past the old place on the way over, where the chestnut trees outside are just starting to show their pink candles

I should have gone back that way too, as there were roadworks with temporary lights...

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Morning denizens

A clear blue sky out apart from some distant bands of cloud on the horizon, which satellite imagery suggests are actually over Cambridgeshire and south Lincolnshire. It’s 7°C but “feels like” 11°, so who knows what the expected high of 12° will feel like?...

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Almost finished reading Here, There and Everywhere but I’ll leave the final chapter till tomorrow, as I want to be up at a reasonable time tomorrow

Speaking of tomorrow: it’s Monday again, but I’m not working this week!

Goodnight all

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Tea was brought form the Turkish place, because I couldn’t be bothered cooking

To go with it, the latest episode of Ambulance

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Sausage bap for lunch

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Afternoon denizens

It’s sunny and Simpsonesque out, with enough of a breeze to keep it cool: currently 12°C (“feels like” 10°) and not rising above 13°. The barometers are up to 1014/1022mB

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I missed Monkey Life today due to the family gathering, though there was some good stuff about lions on later

But tonight: a motion picture marathon they said couldn’t be done! Yes, it was a rewatch of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) followed by the premiere...

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In the west, the thinnest possible sliver of New Moon is lying almost on its back as it sets, with Venus looking radiant just up and to the left ...

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I didn’t feel particularly hungry this evening after a big roast dinner this afternoon, but I knew if I didn’t have something, I’d end up feeling famished later. So tea was just a quick top-up of burger and fries

Very nice evening out

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Home again!

Very nice meal, and very nice to catch up with everyone. And, of course, I now have Easter eggs

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Time to go!

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Morning denizens

It’s generally sunny with white fluffy clouds of various sizes, but tending towards the large size, making the lighting levels dip and rise at random. No sign of rain, and expected to become clearer this evening. It’s 11°C (“feels like” 8°) and the expected...

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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Quarantine (2008) in which a TV journalist and a cameraman accompany an LA fire crew on a shout. It turns out to be a medical emergency requiring doors to be broken down, but shortly after entering the building, it’s sealed shut from outside and they and...

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Oh, and no shopping today! Tomorrow’s when I’m heading south for our delayed Easter family get-together, so I might pop into the Sainsbury’s down there on the way back. They sell Old Hooky, which for some reason isn’t stocked by the ones here. I’m planning a proper trip to the shops on Monday...

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Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas. And lunch earlier was a ham bap

On the telly, the third episode of the documentary about the sinking of the ferry Estonia, which is starting to get into the conspiracy theories

The dog’s servants...

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Morning denizens

Quite a sunny day with some clouds here and there. It seems it’ll probably get cloudier though, and the wind will get up; there’s also a chance of showers around teatime. It’s 12°C (“feels like” 6°) and the expected high is 15°. The barometers are up...

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I finished watching the Artemis programme, then continued reading Here, There and Everywhere in which everybody has a terrible time during the recording of the White Album, leading to our narrator walking out on them one evening because he’s had enough of their tulip, and not working with them again...

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Tea has been the shepherd’s pie that I started making the other day. Turned out very well

To go with this, I started watching Artemis: To the Moon and Back on iPlayer