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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky. No wisps. Currently 26 degrees with a high of 31 expected. Barometer down to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 05:37; Sunset 20:35 BST

Off to Sussex-by-the-Sea to visit Mum. Down there it's a much more palatable 24 degree high today.

Taking a couple of trackers to attach to things that Mum "loses". There is a risk she removes the trackers and bins them.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another sunny start with wispy bits. There’ll be a foreshadowing of the week to come as the current 23°C rises to 28° this afternoon. The barometers are down a little at 1002/1009mB

[xoggoth]

Family do in sister's woods yesterday. Tripped and bashed me face on tree roots. Not looking my most attractive at moment. Loony lady 1 later.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky with high hazy cloud.

20.5 deg in here, 21.5 in the kitchen, 19.5 in the leanto, 17 out the back.

1008 mBar, 29.77 in Hg, 756 Torr, 14.62 psi, (down from 1010 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 12:17 and 14:03, Anonimouse, AndyGarbs, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, WTFH, and I popped in.

[NickFitz]

There was less wildlife stuff today because they put boxing on

Tonight, I finished reading Just a Shot Away in which the Hells Angel who killed Meredith Hunter at Altamont was tried and found not guilty, presumably because he was white and his victim was black. Meanwhile, the film Gimme Shelter was completed and released. And so the Sixties came to an end

I see it’s going to be unpleasantly hot again this week. It’s only just got back to normal in here!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought from the Chinese restaurant in town, mainly because I only had a couple of days left to get an £8 off voucher by ordering from them again

[ladymuck]

Entertainment: some lunatic suggesting that 6 year olds should get the vote.

I can't remember who, as it was a while ago, but I remember watching someone argue for something like "children should be allowed to vote". Their logic was that such rules introduce arbitrary reasons for exclusion.

You have to ask what is the purpose of an age cut off. The initial reaction is that a child of 6 doesn't understand what they're voting for. Which is what you can also say about a lot of adults. So then it becomes an argument about intellect and/or educational attainment.

If it's about being a tax payer, then you could argue that everyone in receipt of benefits shouldn't be allowed to vote. Also, a 6 year old child actor, piano virtuoso, etc. could be earning millions, and therefore paying taxes, so surely they should be allowed to vote too.

It actually becomes a very interesting debate about why we find reasons to exclude groups and what a slippery slope it becomes. Not just in voting.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny day, with a reasonable amount of wispy cloud and a bit of a breeze. Currently 25°C, it’ll creep up to 26° shortly; the barometers are back down a bit at 1006/1014mB

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with wispy fluff, although my weather app says it's cloudy. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 28 expected. Barometer at 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 05:36; Sunset 20:37 BST

Uneventful journey home yesterday afternoon. Current me was very happy that past me had put fresh bed linen on the bed before I went up to Glasgow. I was very happy to see that my plants hadn't withered while I was away.

Lazy morning had. An equally lazy afternoon beckons. I might do some cleaning as the floors could really do with an intervention of some sort (it's all laminate here).

[DoctorStrangelove]

Finally, the end of S1 of Silo in which it becomes clear that when you get a contract for a second season, you need to introduce a twist at the end that will let you draw the story out for a bit longer

I've lost count of the number of septic series which ended on unresolved cliff hangers. One is grateful when a series ends up resolved. Well, other than S5 of Fringe all in all. .

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

19.8 deg in here, 21.2 in the kitchen (yes: the graduations are in 20th of a degree ), 19 in the leanto, 14 out the back.

1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.6 Torr, 14.7 psi, (down from 1016 last night), 54% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April between 11:31 and 12:01, Brillo, covbob, DaveB, eek, LM, NF, PhilTheGreek, SimonMac, and WTFH popped in. Apparently MrMarkyMark had a Bakewell Tart.

The duvet was pressed into use once again.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked very slowly this morning. Any slower & I'd have been going backwards.

What I'd previously thought to be a bee fly is more likely to be a Hummingbird Hawk Moth, judging by the one in the front garden this morning. It seemed to like some of the flowers.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some lunatic suggesting that 6 year olds should get the vote.

Car Cam thing on Sky Mix. There's some nutters out there & they are driving things, mostly very badly judging by most of that.

Book. I'll be glad when this one is finished.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click>.

TPTV: Scotland Yard S1 E7 "Fatal Journey (1954)".

To celebrate this, I broke a tooth. .

Maigret S1 E7 "A man of quality (1960)".

Blaze: that 'Itler on Alderney. Very few prosecutions of the Nazi scum.

Blaze: some other bollox: Secret Wars: Syria. <click> No innerest in that.

Blazian real bollox: National Park Mysteries. The Truth is out there, just not on Blaze. Glacier National Park, Montana. Apparently there's a Nazi underground base there, and dear old Adolph spent his declining years at a nice lodge. <click> The bollox is too much even for me.

[WTFH]

Morning all

Mostly blue skies, but no sign of rain for at least 10 days.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was Primate (2025) in which some humans who live with a chimpanzee for vaguely explained reasons get upset when the poor chimp develops rabies. I’m not sure this was an entirely realistic film, TBH. For a start, the (dead) mother who introduced the chimp to the family home was a professor of linguistics, and the father is deaf and communicates by sign language but is apparently an ecologist who writes books. How do these people have an unbelievably luxurious home in Hawaii? But they do. And if the father has to leave because he’s on a book tour and can’t be home that night, why is he able to get back home within an hour of realising something’s wrong? If I was signing books in a shop that close to home, I wouldn’t bother with a hotel. Anyway, the poor sick chimp gets all the blame even though it was the family’s fault it got bitten by a rabid mongoose (are mongooses native to Hawaii?) but I reckon they shouldn’t have had a chimp living there in the first place. If Alison from Monkey World heard about them, she’d come and take it off them no matter how many words it had learned on its iPad

And then a rewatch of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) because one should watch the most incredible film ever made from time to time

Finally, the end of S1 of Silo in which it becomes clear that when you get a contract for a second season, you need to introduce a twist at the end that will let you draw the story out for a bit longer

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been M&S Korean ribs and chips. Very spicy

And to go with it, the final episode of the Lockerbie thing

[ladymuck]

The "might rain" has been upgraded to "enthusiastic rain"

[NickFitz]

Shopping accomplished!

I went via the slightly more direct route rather than past the old flat, which meant going to Sainsbury’s first. The refurbishment drags on, meaning many things still aren't where they ought to be, but I think I managed to get everything I needed, along with the usual assortment of things I didn’t

And then over to M&S, where it turned out the shirt I was thinking of getting wasn’t available in my size. I dithered around for a bit, but almost everything that I thought of buying was also not available in my size, so in the end I didn’t bother getting any clothes at all. Instead, I headed for the Food Hall where, given that I can never get the app to work with the public wi-fi, I used one of their self-scan handsets for the first time. This proved to be adequate at making me no longer look like a shoplifter whilst also avoiding the hassle of tipping everything out again for scanning at the end

And so home. I realised that being parked by M&S with no need to go to Sainsbury’s meant the best route home was the one past the old place. Not because it’s shorter or quicker, but largely because I’d have to drive all the way through the shopping park to take the other route, and I find the place vaguely annoying. So I was able to confirm that the chestnut trees are still OK

Time for lunch now