Monday Links from the Deckchair vol. DCCCLXV

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Tonight’s reading was more of Parable of the Talents in which their remote community is gradually expanding, though usually because of some hideous tragedy befalling other people

Goodnight all

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Sweet and sour pork with fried rice for tea

Accompanying this, a series called Homicide on Netflix which is basically NYPD detectives talking about old cases, the first being the murder of Jennifer Stahl and two of her friends in 2001

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The Corolla has been resurrected!

The new jump-start battery pack thing I’d bought looks a lot chunkier and generally competent than the cheaper old ones, and sure enough, it got it started without batting an eyelid and still showed a full charge afterwards when I plugged it...

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Links are up

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I’m off work this week, so you can expect the somewhat gloomier weather to continue for a bit longer

• Strays - ”A homeless man, a lost cat, and a 3600 mile journey.” Michael King rescued a lost cat, which travelled around the USA with him for nearly a year before he found out where it lived

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Morning denizens

Another cloudy and breezy one, and I think there’s been a shower or two overnight and early morning; no more expected, but they said that yesterday and I think there may have been a brief and very light one in the evening. It might brighten up a little later in...

[NickFitz]

There was some wildlife stuff on this afternoon

And tonight I finished The Parable of the Sower in which they managed to get somewhere there was a possibility of building a life on the ruins of society, and started on The Parable of the Talents in which the saga continues
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Spag bol for tea

Accompanied by 24 Hours in A&E

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Leftover crispy duck for lunch

No more rain here. Pretty windy though

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There’s quite a bit of cloud but some of it is clearing, so it’s tending towards sunny spells. There was a brief shower not long ago, though nothing more along those lines is expected. It’s also very breezy, so the current 19°C “feels like” 15° and the...

[NickFitz]

This afternoon’s wildlife viewing was largely on dry land, though for some reason they brought David Attenborough back despite having just spent a month repeating everything they had involving him

And in Parable of the Sower, things still aren’t going well for anybody ...

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Tea has been brought to me from the Chinese restaurant in town

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Afternoon denizens

It’s a sunny day, with clumps and wisps of cloud here and there. Looks like there’s a bit of a breeze too. It’s 25°C which is the high for the day, and the barometers are down to 995/1003mB

I already feel better for not having taken...

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) which was, perhaps inevitably, not as good as the original. It was still pretty good! I enjoyed it, but it was very much a sequel, not a story in its own right. That must be hard to do though. They managed it with The Godfather...

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Tea has been the rest of the pork and cider hotpot I made last week

This was accompanied by the leftover bit of the Police Interceptors from last night

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The CTEK appears to be mains-powered, so no good for me - there’s nowhere to plug it in and have it reach the car simultaneously ...

[NickFitz]

Lunch: nothing yet, as I thought I’d get something when I went shopping. But first I had to wait for the pharmacist to call

They did, a few minutes before the nominal appointment time, and reckoned I should stop taking the new tablets for a week and they’ll call me then to...

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Morning denizens

Sunny with high, wispy bits here and there. It’s 21°C and aiming for its now-standard 25°, and the barometers are down a bit at 1007/1015mB

I set no alarm, expecting to wake up around eight or half eight as usually happens in that situation,...

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Teatime viewing was a bit of Police Interceptors

And tonight, I read more of Parable of the Sower in which things are getting worse for everybody. Well, not the rich or the big corporations, obviously; just for people

I remembered to make the bed, so tonight...

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Bit too sunny if anything! As it needed to be done, I betook myself to the GP surgery to get another sample bottle. Then it was back through the park from there and along to the kebab shop; and home. So tea has been kebab and chips, and very nice it was too

But I was very warm by...