Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXII

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Apparently this guy’s helmet had broken in two when he hit the road so all in all, he was pretty lucky to have got away with a skinning ...

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Tea has been a pork cutlet with chips and beans

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I forgot to close the bedroom windows and blinds and it got up to 28°C in there by the time I remembered

But that was about three hours ago and it’s dropped back to a slightly more reasonable 24° already

I’d been meaning to change the bed over the weekend but...

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He’d fallen off the back of the bike when his mate who was driving pulled a wheelie, so the whole of his back was skinned ...

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Lunch has been some leftover hot wings with ketchup

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Links are up

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Just woken up after the match last night? You’ll not get anything useful done today, so you may as well read this lot instead

• The Extremist in the Family - A tragic story of religious extremism: ”The Kerrs were devoted to one another and to their faith. But when one of their own rejected modern

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Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start as things begin to warm up again, and the wind which sounded very blustery last night has died down a fair bit, though it’s still there. Currently 18°C, it’s expected to reach 28° for a sustained period this afternoon. The barometers are...

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This evening’s viewing was 24 Hours in A&E. Turns out sliding along a road at 100mph without protective gear doesn’t do much for your complexion

And tonight, I started reading Eve’s Hollywood by Eve Babitz, her book about growing up in Hollywood. She said it was a novel, but it’s...

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Good idea! ...

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Tea has been ribs (out of the freezer) and chips

This was mostly because it was quick and easy, as I’d been working on new forum stuff all day and hadn’t realised the time

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True, but bananas have potassium! And I like mango

Anyway, now I’ve got all this fruit taking up space in the freezer, I’ll have to use it up somehow ...

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Some leftover chicken bots for lunch

It’s brightened up a lot here now

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I recently bought a smoothie maker with the vague notion that it might help me get more fruit into my diet. I’ve just used it for the first time: a banana, mango, and blueberry smoothie. Pretty nice, as I’d frozen the mango and bananas, though I’d forgotten the blueberries which I only got on...

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Morning denizens

It’s a grey day out, with masses of what I think are stratocumulus. It’s also quite breezy, so the current 18°C “feels like” 15°; the expected high is 25°, which isn’t quite as bad as was being predicted last week IIRC. The barometers are steady at 1013/1020mB...

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The watery wildlife stuff was back on the telly today

Tonight in A Game of Birds and Wolves, the new tactics developed by playing games at the Western Approaches have paid off, with Doenitz finally giving up and telling his U-boat packs to back off before they’re all sunk. And the...

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Tea was brought to me from the obscure Indian restaurant across town. Very nice

It’s tucked away down a side street that goes nowhere, in a small, windowless, one-storey former industrial building that looks like it should be a place that sells car parts, trade only. But the food...

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Afternoon denizens

There’s a fair amount of blue sky but also a lot of clouds jostling each other, so it’s sunny spells today. Quite windy too, so the 23°C which is as hot as it’ll get “feels like” 20°. The barometers are down a little at 1013/1020mB

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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) which is not only of no interest to people who aren’t Dylan fans, but probably highly annoying to them. I really enjoyed it

One thing I found intriguing in the concert footage...

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Lunch was the rest of the cold cocktail sausages, and tea has been a rack of ribs and chips, this time from a new range at Sainsbury’s. Pretty nice overall, and at least it’s a change from the standard BBQ sauce that they seem to use on everything

This was accompanied by Police...