Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLII

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Links are up

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Back to work this week! Oh well, at least next Monday’s a Bank Holiday

• Good Ghosts and Bad Fathers: The Story of a Haunting, a Kidnapping, and an International Incident - Helen Vogelsong-Donahue on the spirits that kept her company as her family hid from her abusive father: ”Most families

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Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start, albeit with mare’s tails hither and yon in the sky. Already at 10°C, it’s expected to climb to 18° by lunchtime and stay there all afternoon, maybe getting a little cloudier too. The barometers are much the same at 1013/1021mB ...

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There was some wildlife stuff on around teatime, to keep the apes happy

Tonight, I’ve read quite a chunk of SS-GB. He has a way of drawing you in, this Deighton chap

Monday tomorrow, and back to work. I switched over to the work laptop for a quick look at Teams late...

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Tea has been shepherd’s pie out of the freezer

Accompanying this, What Happened at Chernobyl? on iPlayer, which featured much of the same contemporary footage as the programme last night, but less of it because it’s thirty minutes rather than two hours. There’s also interviews...

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Delicious aroma in the kitchen

Unfortunately, it’s coming in through the window. I’m considering going round knocking on doors until I find out which neighbour it’s from and asking for the recipe

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Lunch has been some leftover bits from last night

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Morning denizens

Cloudy, but they’re unsubstantial and letting a lot of sunlight through. It’s already 10° and aiming for 18° later; the barometers are back up to 1014/1022mB

Having still been using the electric blanket to keep my toes warm a couple of...

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The usual Monkey Life and other wildlife stuff today was followed this evening (after the dash cam thing with the vaguely annoying narration) by Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, which had some very interesting footage and eyewitness accounts; the TV series clearly drew heavily on this material. The disaster...

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Lunch was a ham bap. And tea was brought to me from the curry house over on the Hindu side of town that I first tried a few weeks ago. Very nice; very generous portions too, so it’ll be leftovers for lunch for a couple of days

In washing news, the dishwasher did its magic this...

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Afternoon denizens

It’s “mostly cloudy” here too, and also clearing later, but the clouds are lacking in substance with many gaps letting the blue sky show through. Warm day as well, being 17°C and rising to 19° towards teatime. The barometers are down to 1009/1017mB but...

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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Bad Boys for Life (2020), being the third in the series; there’s another I am yet to watch. It was good enough, but I think the problem (for me) with these is that I keep forgetting I’m supposed to be watching all four of them. It was a month or more ago...

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Tea has been a “firecracker” rack of ribs, and chips

To go along with it, the rest of the motorway cops thing from last night

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Sorry to hear that

I should do as you command; if nothing else, it will stop my brother nagging me about it every time I see him ...

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Shopping done!

As predicted, not a huge amount to get. But I remembered to use a voucher for 80p that they’d sent me, being some Nectar Prices that hadn’t been applied the other week for some reason

Upon returning home, I found a notification on my phone concerning...

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Morning denizens

It’s another sunny day with a clear bleu sky, and expected to continue so. It’s 9°C and aiming for 17° again, with the barometers down a little at 1016/1024mB

I’ll be going shopping shortly but I don’t need much, so I’ll just pop...

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I finished reading I Am Legend tonight. It’s very good

Friday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

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Tea has been M&S slow-cooked chicken chasseur, with chips and peas. It turned out to be very nice indeed! I’ll get that again

This was accompanied by a bit of the motorway cops thing. I don’t know what’s going on with Traffic Cops, but all but one episode of the current series...

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Afternoon denizens

Almost clear blue sky today - just the merest of wisps here and there. Warm too, being 16°C and aiming for 17°; the barometers are up to 1019/1027mB

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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Monkey Man (2024), the directorial debut of Dev Patel, who also stars. Set in an Indian city, it’s the story of a chap who’s seeking revenge on the corrupt police chief who murdered his mother and the organised crime bosses who give him power, while scraping...