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[NickFitz]

Tea has been a bowl of Scotch broth, followed by a nice strawberry tart

[NickFitz]

It turned sunny this afternoon, but of course it then set almost immediately

As it's the first Sunday of Advent, it's the correct date for putting up the Christmas tree. I've never had one but my parents' one was passed along to me so I just assembled it and hung some baubles (which had been kept in an old Roses tin, as is traditional) on it

Then I put it back in the corner where it had been sitting in pieces in a bag since it arrived, as I can't be bothered to sort out a place for it to be prominently displayed right now. There are fairy lights in the bag too, so I suppose I'll have to find it a space where they can be plugged in

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Overcast. Damp. Currently 13 degrees and that's the high for the day. The sun might make an appearance before it sets. Barometer down to 1012 mBar.

Last night HWMBO and I went to The White Horse in Mayfair for a champagne and English sparkling wine tasting. We then took a walk to Nipperkin and had some very fine cocktails there. Ended the evening with dinner at Bebe Bob in Soho. A long lie in was required this morning.

[xoggoth]

Nice longish walk with neighbours this morning with cafe stop at local vineyard. Nowt this afternoon. Feeling lazy.

[NickFitz]

Light lunch of some leftovers (popcorn chicken, hot wings)

[NotAllThere]

Afternoon.

Cold, clear, blue sky. 2°C.

Cat just got chased into the house by a newly arrived bully boy. Actually, quite a sweet cat to humans, but a terror to our little lady.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Damp.

Misty.

Sunless.

Warm side of chilly in here at 14.4 deg, 13 deg in the kitchen and the leanto.

1007.5 mBar, 29.75 in Hg, 755.687 Torr, 14.61 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of December 2019 LM posted a nice youtube vid so we could all go Ooooooommmmmm together, I was still though there's no confirmation it was early Chinese Bat Plague of course, NF observed that it was windy though the rain was holding off until he went shopping, and Brillo congratulated WTFH on his Millennium though he still couldn't it.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 80%

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: TWTW.

Freecell score: 92%, running average: 80%.

Book. Other book.

Tea: beans on toast etc. with an added boiled egg just for the fun of it.

Entertainment: something or other on R4: it went <click> when it started talking about county lines.

Am Dro. Yng Nghymraeg with subtitles: Chepstow: Offa's Dyke. Harlech. Aberystwyth. Highest waterfall in England & Wales.

"Rise of the Freemen" on PBS.

Some bollox or other, probably on Blaze about the Moors and the Templars or something.

As regards Xmas trees: mine's been perched on top of a video recorder for at least 2 years, maybe 3, replete with baubles, fairy lights, and the mandatory Fairy Liquid bottle on top. It was a right bugger getting the hole big enough to fit the ornament through said bottle: touch things these Fairy Liquid bottles.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rather grey day out with traces of overnight rain and the chance of more showers any time now. Pretty mild at 11°C (albeit "feels like" 5°) and expected to reach 13° later, but the barometers are down a bit more to 999/1007mB

[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life today, followed by lemurs and baboons and such

This evening, in addition to a bit of mucking around with the SwiftUI/Bluesky stuff, I read more of Shepperton Babylon, specifically all about Gainsborough Studios and its stars

Early night now, ready for more Monkey Life in the morning

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been brought to me from KFC

The "limited time offer" hasn't ended yet, so there's plenty of leftovers. The time limit seems to be a few months at the least

[xoggoth]

utterly gobsmacked by the stuff you write

My puppet parrot does it for me now. Google Translate turns his squawks to English.

Initial set up of me new PC this morning. No problems so far. Transfer of favourites etc all done automatically. Just need to copy me essential files and programs.

[NickFitz]

Is that the Final Final Cut or the Final Cut or the Director's Cut?

Obviously not the Theatrical Cut or the Euro Theatrical Cut.

I like the Workprint Cut, this being the one I watched most recently.

Time to die. .

The Final Cut, being the voiceover-free 2007 version according the IMDB's rather lengthy "Alternate versions" page

My UHD Blue-ray edition turns out to include the Workprint one (along with three other versions, not counting the Final Cut) so I'll have to give that a watch some time

[DoctorStrangelove]

Is that the Final Final Cut or the Final Cut or the Director's Cut?

Obviously not the Theatrical Cut or the Euro Theatrical Cut.

I like the Workprint Cut, this being the one I watched most recently.

Time to die. .

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast. 100% cloud cover. Damp. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 14 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer at 1024 mBar.

HWMBO is on his way down. I didn't go to the farmers' market this morning. Scrambled eggs on toast had for breakfast.

[NickFitz]

I seem to have forgotten to hit the "Post Reply" button on this this last night, so here it is for the record

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Conversation (1974). I wasn't sure this would be a premiere as I figured it was probably on the telly some time when I was watching. But it's one of those ones that I've somehow managed to never see in the intervening fifty years, so it was. It's one of those 1970s corporate paranoia things in a noirish tone, and also one of the five movies John Cazales was in before his early death. It's good, but pretty bleak to say the least

Incidentally, I think the reason they no longer make these things that Pakkula in particular was famous for is that back then, the idea that a multinational corporation would clandestinely hire somebody to murder a journalist whose investigations threatened to reduce shareholder value seemed outlandish enough for a movie plot. Now? Nobody would approve of it (or not openly), but nobody would be much surprised either

To follow, a rewatch of Blade Runner (1982) - the "Final Cut" version, as it's necessary to specify versions with there being so many. This is the only version I've ever seen, though a chap I only know through Twitter created a bot that tweets the script line by line endlessly, and it uses the version with the voiceover that Harrison Ford didn't want to do. I reckon Mr. Ford was right

And then the second episode of The Plot Against America, which ends with Lindbergh winning the election for President

Goodnight all