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  • xoggoth
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    By the time I have put all my umpteen clocks forward it will be time to put them back so I may not bother.

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all

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  • NickFitz
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    TV today has been the usual wildlife stuff in the afternoon, culminating in the orangutan school, followed by the usual run of endlessly repeated police programmes

    Getting an early night now, though any benefit accruing therefrom will be eradicated by the menace of British Summer Time commencing

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    Conversation about an hour ago…
    Me: It feels like my eyelids are on fire.
    The WifeTM: That’s not possible.
    Me: No really
    She goes off and gets an infrared thermometer. Points it at my eyes. It comes back at 38.2oC. First thought is thermometer is reading high. She measures herself, all normal. So, it turns out my eyes and chest are 38.2, my face is 37.7.
    Now, with a few things taken (I don’t ask, just take them), I’m off to bed.


    TFBSZ
    Sounds unpleasant!

    Hope it clears up soon

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  • WTFH
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    Conversation about an hour ago…
    Me: It feels like my eyelids are on fire.
    The WifeTM: That’s not possible.
    Me: No really
    She goes off and gets an infrared thermometer. Points it at my eyes. It comes back at 38.2oC. First thought is thermometer is reading high. She measures herself, all normal. So, it turns out my eyes and chest are 38.2, my face is 37.7.
    Now, with a few things taken (I don’t ask, just take them), I’m off to bed.


    TFBSZ

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  • NickFitz
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    No takeaway tonight; tea has been Scotch broth with a couple of bits of wholemeal, following on from a late lunch of ham sandwiches

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  • ladymuck
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    Landed about 2 hours late. Apparently the delay was due to French strikes.

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  • NickFitz
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    Afternoon denizens

    Cloudy with sunny spells out, and still very breezy. Currently 12°C, with the barometers back up a bit at 992/1000mB

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by eek View Post

    flight delays in Sofia - happens virtually every journey
    Two hours late leaving Heathrow. I have been tracking it on FR24 to make sure it turns up.

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  • eek
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

    Flight home is delayed by 90 mins.
    flight delays in Sofia - happens virtually every journey

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  • ladymuck
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    Hey NF, something to try those binoculars on...

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/...earth-and-moon

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Saturday.

    Knackered.

    Spotted the first flat hedgehog of the year the week before last.

    Wet side of Damp.

    The wind seems to have dropped from the semigale level of yesterday.

    White sky.

    Sunless.

    Grey.

    Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 13 deg in the kitchen, 12.5 deg in the leanto.

    1002 mBar, 29.589 in Hg, 751.561 Torr, 14.533 psi, (up from 997 last night), 74% RH (GDR hair), 75% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 14th of May 2019 NF had assembled a pile of PCW mags that was 3 or 4 feet tall, whilst I'd forgotten to fill the bird feeders and WTFH had missed a shot at a rat.

    Entertainment: Wheeler Dealers S12 E4 BMW 2002 tii. Again. . Ah yes, the one with the ancient guy fixing the ancient mechanical injection pump. Bought: $7750, total: $21450, sold: $35k.

    Sun's out.

    Walk (abbreviated) walked. Not particularly warm & it's windier than I'd thought.

    Lunch: baked potato (with black bits) with cheese & baked beans, red corner yog, bramble jelly and marmalade on slices of toast, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

    Entertainment: yesterday's ep of the R4 thing at 13:45 coz I was busy at the time.

    Freecell score: 89%, running average 85% (85.179%).

    Tea: spag with some bol spiced up with extra chilli, some mango slices, a yog, 0.91*1.51 pints of good Glengettie tea.

    Entertainment: precious little.

    The thing about Skunkworks is on tomorrow which explains why I couldn't find it in the EPG today.

    "Fortress Britain" with that Alice Roberts: E1: Henry VIII. . This isn't cutting the mustard it must be said. Then again, very little seems to do that these days.

    The first half hour of T3.

    Conspiracies Decoded on Quest: Escape from Alcatraz: did they make it to the mainland?

    Wharram Percy deserted village with pit of desecrated bodies: chopped up & burned.

    https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/...ieval-village/

    The Lindbergh baby. Lindbergh was slightly right of Attila the Hun and good mates with a fair number of the leading lights of the National Socialist Party, being a believer in eugenics. Which might have turned out rather badly for his disabled son. Lindbergh ran the investigation into the kidnapping and patsy went to the chair.

    140 Peruvian skeletons and 200 llamas (the camelids not the monks), all with their hearts removed. Chimu Empire, 500 years ago

    Secrets Underground: goodbye California when The Big One hits.

    https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/10/e...nterconnected/

    Thor's Well Oregon.

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/thor-s-well
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 23:15.

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Sunny with lumps of fluff. Currently 20 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Back home it looks like it's cloudy but dry with a high of 13 degrees.

    Hungover. Had a lovely dinner out and too much wine. HWMBO says the buffet breakfast is excellent. I just had some fruit and coffee.

    Flight home is delayed by 90 mins.

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all

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  • NickFitz
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    Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Fall (2022) in which a couple of rock climbing gals ascend a derelict 2000ft high TV tower for YouTube views, but are unexpectedly deprived of the route of descent once at the top. It does make use of several tropes commonly found among the "lost with no way out" genre, but all in all, I thought it was pretty good

    And then a rewatch of The Fugitive (1993) which, it seems, I first watched back in June 2017. The train crash is still very good, as is the film as a whole

    Finally, a couple more episodes of The West Wing. They're getting into the campaign now, which TBH tends to be a bit dull if you aren't American and can therefore see how ridiculous presidential campaigns are over there rather than taking it for granted as something Serious and Important

    Goodnight all

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