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[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere has been Triangle of Sadness (2022) which follows an influencer couple who blag their way onto a cruise aboard a yacht full of multimillionaires where things go very wrong in a variety of drastic ways, ultimately leading to a modern rehash of the plot of The Admirable...

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Tea, then has been braised beef short rib in Guinness gravy, with chips and peas. The beef concoction turned out really well so I'll have to remember whatever it was I chucked in there when I started making it first thing this morning, that being what passes for a recipe in my world
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Mundane laundry is on

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the kitchen, beef short ribs are slow cooking in a Guinness-based gravy. They turned out to be slightly too big for the slow cooker, so I'm using the InstantPot™ in slow cooker mode. They seem to be cooking a bit too slowly on the...

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Lunch has been a few M&S honey & mustard cocktail sausages with a bag of plain crisps

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another sunny start but with some widely-distributed wisps of high haze, and supposedly continuing "cloudy" all day. I believe it was supposed to get down to freezing overnight but it's back up to 5°C now, and expected to get as high as 11° later, though...

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Tea was accompanied by the remainder of a Police Interceptors I didn't bother watching to the end the other day.

And then I finally got around to watching all three episodes of Breathtaking, ITV's drama based on Dr. Rachel Clarke's book of the same title, about how the Covid pandemic's...

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Tea: burger and fries

These were not just any fries, they were M&S frozen fries. They cooked well in the air fryer, though they needed a few minutes longer than the packaging said

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Late lunch has been ham sandwiches, as the ham needed to be eaten and I didn't feel like making toasties

The bread was fresh from M&S as I've been there shopping for a change, pending arrival of the replacement Nectar card. Among other delights, I also splashed out on some big...

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No lunch yet because I want to go shopping, but something was amiss with my Nectar account. Upon investigation by a gentleman on their phone line (who appeared to be working from a nursery judging by the noises off) it transpired that somebody had managed to report my card as lost and request a new...

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Morning denizens

Sunny and Simpsonesque start out there today, though expected to get a bit cloudier, again. Also staying fairly cool at 7°C now and reaching 10° for approximately an hour around lunchtime before getting cooler again, and possibly plummeting to freezing tonight....

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Read a chunk more of The Sisterhood. I don't think it works as well as Julia. The author has tried updating Orwell's Oceania, and I don't think it works.

For example, Orwell has Julia as a mechanic servicing the novel-writing machines in the Ministry of Truth: "He had sometimes seen...

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Tea tonight was leftover Turkish mixed grill

This was accompanied by the Brighton night policing thing, reminding me why I don't like Brighton very much. And then a couple of episodes of a new thing on All4, Murder Case: The Digital Detectives which is the usual sort of murder documentary...

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Lunch: corned beef hash. Very tasty

This was also an excuse to christen the thing-dicer I bought the other day, basically a mandolin with knobs on that can slice, julienne, and dice. Worked very well at chopping a few small spuds into little chunks

Meanwhile in stalking...

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Back from the surgery, where we went through the annual ritual about units-per-week and also discussed my surplus of weight and deficit of exercise, before getting to the highlight of the day: blood

At least the walk there and back closed the green ring

Due to...

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Morning denizens

Sunny and Simpsonesque start out there today, though it's supposed to get a bit cloudier later. Still not as warm as it could be too, at 5°C rising to 9° this afternoon. The barometers are down somewhat at 1006/1014mB

On the question of fasting...

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E2 of the Pompeii thing was also very interesting

And I've read the first few chapters of The Sisterhood by Katherine Bradley, being the other book that covers the events of Nineteen Eighty-Four from Julia's perspective

Tomorrow, I go to the GP surgery for my annual...

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Tea has been leftover chicken and chips

This was accompanied by E1 of Pompeii: The New Dig on iPlayer. Very interesting, so I'm going to watch E2 as well

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Afternoon denizens

Rather on the grey side again today, with the odd light shower. And once again it's not as warm as it could be at 9°C, maybe getting to 10° shortly. The barometers remain uncommitted at 1011/1019mB

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Cheers!

Tonight's major motion picture premieres were a Birthday Barbenheimer Special!

First up: Oppenheimer (2023) because Lynda Carter, aka Wonder Woman, asserted on Twitter that this should be watched before Barbie as "he created the world in which she lives";...