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[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover belly pork bits from the other day in a bap (wholemeal, homemade) with apple sauce

The magpies were down on the lawn together! I think they’ve had to be going further afield because of the parched lawn having less of whatever it is they peck at down there, which is why they haven’t been around so much

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I awoke bright and relatively early this morning, but managed to get back to sleep for another couple of hours

It’s sunny and Simpsonesque out at the moment, and the wind has dropped a bit. Currently 18°C, it’s expected to reach 21° by early afternoon. But then the rain is likely to return, and we even have a yellow warning for thunderstorms! The barometers are back up a bit at 996/1004mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with high level wispy fluff. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 23 expected. Rain may happen around lunchtime / early afternoon. Barometer up to 1010 mBar.

Sunrise 06:11; Sunset 19:52 BST

There ended up being quite a bit of rain yesterday and I never did check if the farmers market had returned. All holiday laundry was done though.

Off to visit Mum today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday: another 05:00 awakening: always a joy & much appreciated every fecking time it happens.

Wet. Very wet. Stair rods wet.

Grey now, it was black earlier.

Sunless. Completely.

Can't see Drummau, lost in the low cloud.

22.1 deg in here, 22.1 in the kitchen, 20 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1001 mBar, 29.56 in Hg, 750.8 Torr, 14.52 psi, (up from 1000 last night, in turn up from 995 in the afternoon), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 11:31 and 12:06: as per yesterday.

Today's dream before waking seemed to involve the cat and my failing to install a litter tray, followed by some strange goings on in next door's hall where the wallpaper was billowing off and strange people were banging on the wall in an attempt to get through. Very odd.

The attempt to return to the land of nod via "Pulse" was unsuccessful, and since there's someone living next door the permissible volume wasn't great. However I must have dozed for a while since I missed the bells on Time yet again.

Book.

Lunch: brunch. Bit earlier due to being up since sparrow fart.

Cartrefi Cymru: Flatau (Flats if you require the translation): Penarth. Cowbridge ex Grammar Skool conversion. Something else I dozed through.

Dashcom bollox S6 E11. S6 E2 (the one with the rednecks and shotgun).

Hammering down again. And gusting impressively with it. Horizontal rain. Lovely.

Front bedroom windows closed for the first time in a couple of months. Winter must be on its way. .

The back bedroom tilt & turn was closing itself with the gusts, so I shut it properly.

The afternoon doze was accompanied by more of "Pulse", still no sign of "Time" since I put the wrong CD in the player and dozed off without realising. Hope next door enjoyed it. Not terribly keen on many of the tracks on there, so put the other CD in & listened to Comfortably Numb.

Tea: baked beans & baked spuds. Nice enough. Entertainment: some tosh on R4, followed by stuff off sounds that'll save me remembering tomorrow & Tuesday morning, one of which explained how Pat Buchanan led inexorably to the Orange mother****er. Predictably enough the Orange Mother****er hasn't an original thought in his orange syrup covered head. All together now: USA! USA! USA!.

Jungle Secrets.

Possibly Yet Another Dashcam bollox bollox. It's easy to watch & keeps me awake.

[NickFitz]

Today’s viewing was, of course, Monkey Life and other wildlife things

And tonight’s reading was more of To Each This World - I’m quite near the end of that now

There’s been some more rain tonight but it looks like tomorrow will be a bit brighter, with the rain returning in the evening

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

The other day, Jo Kibble did one of his 24 hour bus challenges, which brought him to Leicester around 11 at night. Having a wait, he set off in search of sustenance which he found at Bombay Bites, an Indian fast food place with three branches in the city. I congratulated him on his choice and he said the food was absolutely delicious, and it reminded me that I haven’t had anything from there for a while. So this evening’s tea was brought from the branch that’s a bit closer to me, and he’s right - it’s really good stuff if you fancy some nice spicy “street food” as it’s apparently called nowadays

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a drizzly day here, with the bonus of possible thunderstorms. The 17°C we have at present apparently “feels like” 14°, but ti should be creeping up to 19° eventually. The barometers are down a bit more at 990/998mB

The lawn seems a little greener again. It occurred to me that I could photograph it each day to analyse the change in the ratio of brown to green areas. But I can’t be bothered

[xoggoth]

3 days to meself, loony lady free. Pretty heavy rain today, not sure if I'll get me walky. Been moaning for weeks about the sun, now I'm moaning about the rain. At my age, moaning is all one is good at. At least my water butts should be filled up.

PS Butts, Mmmm.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Wet. Not torrentially wet but drizzly wet: the kind of wet that's wetter than any other kind of wet.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

21.6 deg in here, 22.5 in the kitchen, 20.5 in the leanto, 17 out the back.

995 mBar, 29.38 in Hg, 746.3 Torr 14.43 psi, (down from 1000 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 11:31 and 12:06, Brillo, eek, LM, vetran, and WTFH popped in.

Entertainment: Dan Do. Assorted quite posh houses. Modern meh. Nice victorian/edwardian one in Cardiff. Odd one in Tumble that looks like a bungalow from the front and proves to have another floor from the rear. I'm not sure that gold wall paint is quite to my taste, but I'm sure it would cream the Orange moron's jeans (just as well he wears nappies).

Catrefi Cymru: 1980s & 1990s houses: there's obviously money in this country, nice enough 1980s & 1990s houses, the best being a classically styled Georgian house which was absolukingfutely lovely. Ticked all my boxes about symmetry and the like. Georgious. See wot I did there? .

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: last bit of FOOC: Fray Bentos in Uruguay, Eastern Germany and the AFD. Moneybox: bailiffs <click>.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the unexpectedly hot sunshine. Today's wildlife: a duck, some blue dragonflies & a red dragonfly.

Entertainment: Dashcam bollox: S6 E9 & E10.

Tea:

Entertainment: Look at Life (1962): The Eagle's Nest. Dear old Adolph was out at the time of the visit.

Maigret on Holiday: S1 E10. The one where Madam Maigret is in hospital so he solves two murders to keep his hand in. .

World War Weird. More blazian bollox. That WWI Russian "tank" thing with two big wheels and a little wheel at the back. That Japanese lunatic who was stilll fighting WWII in the Phillipines in the 1970s. The pre-radar Chain Home acoustic mirrors. And last, but not least, the lunacy of Camp Century and Operation Iceworm, or how the septics managed to pollute & irradiate Greenland.

Secret Wars. Nuclear standoff: nukes from Trinity to Fatboy in Korea. 2022 so Bunter, The Fat Owl of the Remove was still in place. Mildly inneresting. Pity about using Operation Crossroads tests to illustrate Castle Bravo, but there you go & there they went. .

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy, lightly raining. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 20 expected. Rain set to continue for a couple of hours on and off, and may return this evening. Barometer steady at 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 06:09; Sunset 19:54 BST

There were a couple of heavy showers yesterday afternoon followed by light rain yesterday evening.

I might put my head outside to see if the farmers' market has returned now that the roadworks have finished. The council have done a nice job of improving the pavements and other bits around here over the past couple of months.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was The Long Walk (2025). I assumed, given its premise, that this would be post-apocalyptic mayhem, along the lines of the running man stuff, but it isn’t. It’s set in that kind of world, but it’s really about people and their relationships, in that world and in this. Well worth watching

And tonight’s rewatch was Ender's Game (2013) which I first watched back in 2019 and wasn’t very impressed by. But we live and learn, and I’ve realised that there were a number of things I watched back then and wasn’t that keen on for reasons that were more to do with me; I enjoyed it this time

Finally, another episode of For All Mankind. Still good, and I’m enjoying it, but I’m also wondering if I should go back to S2 of Silo. Or I suppose I could watch several things at once, like we used to do in the old days

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a ribeye steak with fried onions and chips

To go along with it, the return of the fare dodgers programme on 5. This first episode was all London, but the next one includes chasing people on Nottingham trams

The sun was covered up again for another session of heavy rain, and then it cleared up for a second time. No guarantees then

[NickFitz]

It went very dark, and then a torrential downpour started along with some thunder. But that only lasted about ten minutes before the rain stopped, though distant rumblings continued for another hour or more. And just now, also over the space of about ten minutes, it’s cleared up and is sunny!

Meanwhile, a towel wash is on

[NickFitz]

Pukka steak slice for lunch

In technology news, I finally managed to get my AirPods Max paired with the telly. I’d done this before a few years ago, but I’d had to do a reset on the telly since then and I couldn’t get it to even see them, never mind pair with them. I finally discovered that an older Samsung TV (this one’s 4K UHD but about ten years old) can’t pair with, or even detect, Bluetooth devices if it's already connected (not merely paired) to one. And since the last time, I’ve gone from connecting the soundbar via HDMI to using Bluetooth, due to a shortage of HDMI ports. So when I tried, it was connected to the soundbar, and of course it doesn’t give you any indication that it won’t work - it just goes through the pantomime of acting like it’s searching for a minute, then shrugs and says “No, nowt there!”

Once I knew that, I disconnected from the soundbar - but it kept automatically connecting again, so I had to turn that off. And then I was finally able to get it to connect to the headphones, then reconnect the soundbar and have them both paired

The main reason for this is to avoid disturbing the neighbours when watching stuff at night on TV or Blu-ray/DVD that deserves to be loud. I do most of my viewing via the Apple TV, which the AirPods naturally just connect to without any effort

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon all

CBS to start, then persisting it down for 30mins, then CBS etc etc.
PAYDAY!! - yay.
Invoice duly sent.
now for a well deserved two weeks off.