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[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the South Indian place past the park. Very nice and rather zingy

I need to make the bed soon, as that’s been airing and I’d rather like to lie in it

[ladymuck]

Mum and I took a walk through the park, up to the beach, along the seafront and back. Very nice day for it.

[xoggoth]

Didn't go to woodland volunteer thing this morning, grotty night and couldn't be bothered to roll out of bed. Anyway, we were doing the same thing as last time, rather boring, looking for Rhododendron and hardly finding any. Been trimming the hedge, yawn. Off on walky soon.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but dry and warm. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 25) and that's the high for the day. Barometer down a smidge to 1029 mBar.

Sunrise 07:05; Sunset 18:36 BST

I have run a few errands this morning and popped to Tesco to pick up things for today's and tomorrow's dinners. I'll take Mum out for a walk to the park soon.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a sunny day, with some high wispy cloud here and there and the odd small cumulus bimbling about. It’s 18°C which is the high for the day, and the barometers are up a touch at 1018/1026mB

There were five crows down on the lawn earlier, and the younger ones were absolutely fascinated by a piece of tin foil they’d found, about A5 to A4 in size. I don’t know if it was the sunlight sparkling off it, or the sound and texture as they pecked at it, or if it had traces of something delicious on it. But they couldn’t get enough of it, with one in particular spending a good ten minutes exploring it from every angle

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Odd things happening up the road last night: no idea WTF was going on but there were blue lights up there when I went to bed & the road was closed.

Damp.

Grey.

19.7 deg, in here, 20.2 in the kitchen, 18.5 in the leanto, 15 out the back, 16.7 in the saltinghouse.

1022 mBar, 30.18 in Hg, 766.6 Torr, 14.82 psi, (up from 1020 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of April 2020, between 20:37 and 22:40, barrydidit, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, PhilTheGreek, and I popped in.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: bit of News Quiz. dashcam bollox S4 E1. The bit I missed due to needing bowel movement last Monday involved a bus driver & a moped rider knocking 7 bells out of each other for a good 5 minutes.

That requiring the iRon has received its attentions & is now airing upstairs.

Entertainment: Archive Hour: "Rock bottom: 50 years since the IMF crisis". Gosh.

Came back in to discovered I left an empty kettle on. Which is not a good thing to do. Better buy a spare just in case, like.

Most stuff in off the line & airing upstairs.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Need to buy more eggs. Entertainment: PM. Robinson talking to some Labour lovey or other.

Maigret.

Blazian bollox:

Blazian bollox:

Some other undefined bollox that I haven't found yet.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was The Last First: Winter K2 (2026), a documentary just released on Apple TV+ about a bunch of mountaineers attempting the first winter climb of the notoriously dangerous second-highest peak in the world in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic (which, BTW, is still happening, no matter what middle management might say as they try to get people to work in offices again). It’s pretty clear that at least three of the five people who died did so as a direct result of a business that takes amateurs up Everest taking them to K2 instead, as Nepal was still locked down to outsiders, and then failing to make the appropriate arrangements on the mountain; though the bloke responsible doesn’t admit that, of course. It seems like three competent people who died were victims of the incompetence of others, and K2 has no forgiveness for incompetence: until that winter, 25% of those who’d reached its summit had died before getting back down, and many who didn’t make it to the summit died trying. I can just about understand why people try to climb Everest, but I don’t understand why anybody goes anywhere near such a deadly mountain as K2, let alone takes a bunch of amateurs up there

After that, I was in need of an escape from brutal reality and decided on a rewatch of Inside Man (2006). I’d forgotten how good this is! Cracking bank heist thriller that keeps the twists and turns surprising you right to the end

Finally, a couple more episodes of Dark Matter. I’m still confused by this one, finding it hard to work out which is the “real” universe (i.e. ours) and which of the protagonists (i.e. the same bloke in different universes) I’m supposed to be rooting for. But it’s keeping me watching and I suspect I’m deep enough in that I’ll carry on until I work out what the hell I’m supposed to be making of it all, so it seems to be doing what it was made for

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a Pukka steak slice and, continuing the theme, tea was a ribeye steak with fried onions and chips

I should probably try to organise matters such that I don’t end up having related things for lunch and tea

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all, greetings from Sussex-by-the-Sea

It's a lovely sunny afternoon with lumps of fluff and a gentle breeze. Currently 19 degrees and that is also the high for the day. Barometer at 1030 mBar.

Sunrise 07:04; Sunset 18:38 BST

Had an actual meeting at gig1 this morning with a little bit of follow up that justified the billing.

Then I drove down to Mum's as my brother is at the Swanage Blues Festival this weekend. His band has a gig and he's hoping to see a few other bands play too.

On the way down, I was called by the agent that didn't call me yesterday. All very positive, and they'll be putting me forward for the role.

[sadkingbilly]

morning chaps and chapesses,
been busy this week, trying to train a new PM.
as usual, an uphill struggle.
still, as they say in the trade........... kerCHING!!!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

As is becoming the usual Friday morning thing, I awoke later than if I’d had an alarm, decided to get up, immediately went back to sleep, and finally arose on the second awakening an hour later

It’s sunny with some cloud out there today and a bit windy, becoming even windier after lunch. It remains reasonably mild though: 16°C (“feels like” 13°) with an expected high of 20°, and resurgent barometers at 1017/1024mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Grey's need shooting with guns not cameras

Jack Hargreaves would have concurred when the buggers were eating his strawberries in the garden.

Morning.

Friday.

Grey.

Sunless.

19.9 deg in here, 19.3 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 17 out the back.

1020 mBar, 30.12 in Hg, 765 Torr, 14.794 psi, (up from 1018 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of April 2020, between 19:29 and 20:33, in popped BR14 for the first time in pages, along with LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, WTFH, and me.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves with Simon Baddeley Further Out of Town: a compilation of the location films that lack Jack's "potting shed" links. Inneresting to see him without his beard in one of them. Brownsea Island's red squirrels. Garden pests. Wild flowers. Apparently he didn't like shooting things in the garden (i.e. rabbits, jays, tree rats). I'd have thunk a suppressed .22LR would have been ideal for that &, apart from the jays, you eat the results.

Bob Ross painting stuff. This one's all shades of brown. Apart from the sun, which wasn't.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Did see a shadow at one point. One conversation.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The food programme: food awards.

Dashcam bollox S4 E5. Scottish Islands thing: Skye, Soay, Canna. Ian Fleming's dad Valentine Fleming was in there somewhere, plus the house that the Skyfall house was based on, being Fleming's childhood home.

Unknotted & rewound yet more fishing line. Well it's sommat to do though I do wonder why I bother. The pike lure is quite impressive.

Alaska Homestead Rescue: two 1 hour eps E13, E14. Hope they're better than yesterday's lunacy of doing up someone's weekend 2nd home built on a ridge in the middle of nowhere. If those people yesterday had anything donated by "the community" then it's a disgrace. Gosh. It's amazing how 3000 gallons (US) can disappear from a new duck pond down an armadillo burrow. I'd have thunk a couple or three bags of bentonite clay down the hole would have done the needful doings. This lot were much more involved in their Alto, Tx, homestead than the dome dwellers ever were. Yesterday's cougar looked as if she was wearing high heels during some of it.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM. Book. News Quiz.

It's raining.

Bab5 S4 E18 "Intersections in Real Time". Sheridan interrogated by nasty man. Alright if you like that sort of thing but a bit boring otherwise. The story resumes on Monday with E19 being more inneresting.

Taggart S17 E4 "Football crazy". Funny how one remembers odd bits after all these (25) years: the team training bit in particular where the temporary "manager" is training the team for endurance rather than speed & agility. WTF I should remember that is a mystery wrapped in an enigma.

Nobody is on again.

[NickFitz]

More of Old Baggage has been read

I’ve decided there’s no need to go shopping this week; the freezer is too full again, so I need to work through some of that. Next week is Viz week, so it’ll be a trip to Big Sainsbury’s

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a gammon steak with chips, fried egg, and beans

Only a normal bit of gammon because Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s doesn’t stock the TTD ones. Nice enough though

This was accompanied by a bit of Police Interceptors

[xoggoth]

Mahjong this morning, a whole 3 of us. Then walky and boring shopping. Free day tomorrow as loony lady 1 is visiting her daughter in the USA.