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[NickFitz]

More watery wildlife on the box today

Tonight, I read more of One Two Three Four in which an ever-perceptive Ringo, after meeting a young Jeffrey Archer, said “He’s the kind of bloke who’d bottle your piss and sell it”

Goodnight all

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Tea was brought to me from the East African place

Very nice, but their chilli sauce is really hot!

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Afternoon denizens

Lots of cumuli around, making it cloudy with sunny spells. Mild enough at 22°C, which is the high for today; the barometers are up a bit at 1009/1017mB

A bedding wash is underway

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Tonight’s motion picture premiere was No Hard Feelings (2023) in which wealthy helicopter parents pay a penurious Jennifer Lawrence to “date” their son before he goes to Princeton. This rapidly turns complicated, because if it didn’t there’d be nothing to make a film about. It’s very funny,...

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Steak with fried onion and chips for tea

This afternoon has largely been spent on new forum stuff. Specifically, the widget to let you jump to a specific date in a thread

And is it’s not much extra effort to do, it might as well work for forums too

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The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small ...

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Lunch: ham toastie

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Morning denizens

It’s a grey start again, though the wind has dropped. It’s expected to clear soon and remain sunny for the rest of the day. Currently 18°C (but “feels like” 19°!) and it’s expected to soar to 26°, though that’s the hottest it’ll be for the foreseeable...

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Tonight’s reading has been One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown. It’s entertaining stuff, but could have done with being edited with a bit more care. For example, he says that Paul McCartney’s 21st birthday party was in the garden of his Auntie Jin’s house, “across the Mersey...

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Tea has been Sainsbury’s southern not-fried chicken with chips

To accompany this, the rest of the Police Interceptors from last night

And I found time earlier to get the tea towels, aprons, and oven gloves in the wash; they’re just coming to the end of...

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Bummer ...

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Shopping has been done!

And lunch has been a bit of pork pie

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start, with just a few wisps of cloud here and there. There’s a breeze too, so the current 16°C “feels like” 14°. The expected high is 26° for most of the afternoon, and the barometers are back down a touch at 1012/1020mB
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I finished reading Ra tonight. It’s very good; he mentioned on Bluesky that he’s given some thought to rewriting it for “proper” publication as he did with There is No Antimemetics Division, though I suspect he’ll probably work on a new story instead

Thursday tomorrow! And it’s...

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Cheers xog! ...

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I didn’t bother going in the end as it was too hot. They want to repeat one of the blood tests too and the earliest appointment they could give me for that was in August, so I now assume it isn’t that urgent ...

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Tea has been an experimental pork and cider hot pot. Turned out very well, that did

And a bit of Police Interceptors to go with it

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Lunch: a Pukka steak slice

Clear blue sky out there now

Just remembered I need to go down the surgery for another sample pot. I’ll do that later. At least I now know the pleasant route there and back through the “wild” bit of the park

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Morning denizens

It’s another grey start like yesterday and, like yesterday, expected to brighten up soon. I think it’s also less windy but there’s still a bit of a breeze, so the current 16°C “feels like” 13°; the predicted high of 27° is the highest for the next ten...

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Tea has been pork chow mein

And to go with it, Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea on Netflix, about the Costa Concordia. The captain isn’t coming out of it very well

The soup has been divvied up. Not sure how I’ll squeeze it into the freezer TBH. I suppose...