Monday Links from the Bank Holiday Deckchair vol. DCCCLIII

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Lunch earlier was some leftovers

I’ve gone through some stuff in the study. But my back is a bit grumbly today and doesn’t like me bending or hunching over sorting through stuff, so I’ll leave it for now

Yesterday, my back was OK! I ended up with complaints...

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Links are up

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After the unusually clement weather over Easter, it’s good to see this Bank Holiday reverting to the usual gloomy grey skies with a hint of rain coming soon

• The Problem With Erik: Privilege, Blackmail, and Murder for Hire in Austin - Rich people behaving badly, as usual: ”Erik could have told

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That’s the ideal! ...

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Strange days indeed! It made a change though, and I’m still quite taken with the idea of not letting too many people into the shop at the same time ...

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Morning denizens

It’s a grey start here, and there might have been the odd shower overnight. None predicted for today though, and it doesn’t seem noticeably windy. Despite that, the current 10°C allegedly “feels like” 7°; the expected high for the day is only 14°. The...

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There was more David Attenborough on today; I gather they’ve been rerunning it because of his 100th birthday

Later, I watched the first episode of Breaking the Bank: One Trader, 50 Billion on HBO Max, a French documentary series about the rogue trader at Société Générale who’d...

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I decided I couldn’t be bothered to cook, being too knackered. But there was stuff in the hall blocking the door, so I couldn’t get out to collect a delivery! So I ended up getting the various computers and things back in there, then moving the junk back in too. At least it’s arranged more conveniently...

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The desk is done!

And I am knackered!

I’m not sure the stuff I moved out of there to have room for assembly will all go back in. But I think I’ll worry about that tomorrow, and put up with stuff cluttering the hall, kitchen, and bedroom for now
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All the parts of the desk have been unpacked. I was beginning to wonder if they’d dispensed with old-fashioned notions like including instructions, but the bottom of the smaller of the two boxes turned out to contain a placcy bag with the fixings, and folded up tightly in there was an A4 sheet with...

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Today is desk switchover day, so I’ve been sorting out the study. There’s far too many boxes of junk in there, including one that’s thirty years old, though it’s possible some or all of the contents are only twenty-odd years old. An old box from an Epson printer I got rid of years ago is full...

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Morning denizens

Grey day here, and still a bit damp from the overnight showers. It’s 13°C; the weather app says this “feels like” 9° because of the wind, but it doesn’t seem that windy. Anyway, the expected high is 17°, and the barometers are down to 997/1004mB

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The telly people did that weird thing of not having Monkey Life because of the Bank Holiday, instead giving us a few hours of David Attenborough

And tonight I continued reading Goodbye Mickey Mouse

The promised rain arrived, but not very much of it really. And I also...

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Tea tonight came from Nando’s, mainly to use up the free half-chicken reward that would have expired at the end of this month

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£50 on the Premium Bonds this month, in the form of two £25 prizes!

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Afternoon denizens

Sunny and Simpsonesque out today, though rain is expected overnight from the weather that can presently be seen on the radar swirling around over the West Country. It’s 18°C and will be briefly hitting 19° later. The barometers are also under the incoming weather's...

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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Apex (2026) on Netflix, in which an adventurous Charlize Theron heads into the bushland of Australia, only for some weirdo to try to hunt her like prey. He clearly hadn’t watched any of the many films that would have told him what a bad idea that is. It’s...

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Tea has been beef & Guinness casserole with chips and peas. Turned out very well that casserole

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Lunch was a chicken bap (wholemeal)

Been mucking about with forum stuff for much of the day

But I remembered to start a beef and Guinness casserole in the slow cooker this morning, so a wonderful aroma is filling the place

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Just noticed from the bedroom window that the oh-so-helpful delivery guy yesterday didn’t actually take away the small blue pallet the desk came on - he dumped it in our car park out the back, where it’s taking up one of the small number of spaces!

One star knocked off, because...