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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Hamnet (2025), which I believe I remember ladymuck and HWMBO going to see in the cinema last year, with lm speaking highly of it afterwards. I agree; it’s very good and I thought the ending was wonderful. I should watch films of this nature and calibre more often, rather than all that stuff about robots and such

But beauty and art are variable quantities, as I was reminded the the other day when somebody on Bluesky posited that a person who’s seen 100 films will assert that Citizen Kane is the best, a person who’s seen 1,000 will assert that 8½ is the best, and a person who’s seen 10,000 films will assert that Crank: High Voltage is the best.

I thought it important to undertake the arduous duty of testing the validity of this opinion. I’m not going to waste my time watching Citizen Kane again, because every bit of it has been adapted by The Simpsons so we all know everything there is to know about it. And 8½ is one of those French things involving circuses. In my view, the only worthwhile depiction in film of anything to do with circuses is that minute or so in La Cabina (1972) when the circus people travelling in the opposite direction gaze at the chap in the phone box as he gazes back at them.

So there was only one thing to do: rewatch Crank (2006) (because you have to watch the first film before you watch a sequel) and then rewatch Crank: High Voltage (2009). And I did, and I reckon Crank is better than Crank: High Voltage because in the latter, they try too hard to get clever with the premise and the context, and they aren’t as clever as they think they are. But Crank is simply the film it set out to be: a ludicrous premise as an excuse for mayhem. Therefore, Crank must be the best film ever made

It all started from what somebody I don’t know said on Bluesky and they were just joking anyway, so maybe it was a waste of time. But both films are good fun, so I was fine with it

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

GOOD MORNING HAPPY CAMPERS!!
just got incentivised* to stay with this gig for a while longer.
might stave off senility for a bit. fingers crossed.


*got filthy lucre waved in my face
oh, and I intend to pay all due taxes on it.

Boomed!

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Sainsbury’s TTD “Texas-inspired” BBQ pork belly, with chips. Quite nice that one

[xoggoth]

Close shave. Was waiting for loony lady1 at local National Trust place and NOT loony lady 3 came up to me. When ll1 came out of the bog I told her it was just someone I knew from my group walks. She don't like me seeing other ladies even though we are not a thing.

[NickFitz]

Ham toastie for lunch

The white loaf turned out very well

Unfortunately, I managed to cut myself with the ultra-sharp bread knife while slicing it up for freezing. Just a small cut on the edge of a finger by the nail, but it bled a lot

[sadkingbilly]

GOOD MORNING HAPPY CAMPERS!!
just got incentivised* to stay with this gig for a while longer.
might stave off senility for a bit. fingers crossed.


*got filthy lucre waved in my face
oh, and I intend to pay all due taxes on it.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s sunny and Simpsonesque out, but not getting too hot: 15°C now, but not pushing past 19°, which is sensible of it. The barometers are bouncing back at 1002/1010mB

I awoke not long after the alarm would have woken me had it been set, which it wasn’t. This was clearly far too early, so I went back to sleep and reawoke a couple of hours later; and I feel much better for it. I’ve been getting to sleep later than I should have been this week, so I had some catching up to do

[xoggoth]

Nowt exciting. Loony lady 1 walk later.

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc. Light cloud, but dry.

[ladymuck]

Morning all, Tallinn calling, local time 1127

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Rain set to return this afternoon/evening. Currently 18 degrees ('feels like' 21) with a high of 20 expected. Barometer at 1007 mBar.

Sunrise 05:52; Sunset 20:55 EEST

Yesterday I had a brain fart and got myself confused about how far north we were and couldn't understand why sunset in Glasgow was before here

Dinner was in the hotel yesterday as we were both knackered. It has a very good Nikkei restaurant, decently priced.

Today we are doing more exploring of the old town. There's lots of independent shops, which is always nice to see.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

21.2 deg in here, 21.6 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto, 14 out the back.

1006.5 mBar, 29.72 in Hg, 754.9 Torr, 14.598 psi, (up from 1004 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 21:51 and 22:09, Brillo posted a lot, whilst NF got a post in edgeways.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the bracing air of the morning. Took a while to warm up, but the hill up from the lock certainly helped with that.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Sky Arts: Film thing: Korda.

Dan Do repeat.

Expedition thing waffling on about Brother XII and de Courcy Island off British Columbia.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country: The history of the Bowler Hat aka The Coke Hat and its replacing of the top hat for riding after 1914. Steam traction engine used to drive a really big feck off circular saw that then cut seasoned oak. Now that's wot I call a Real Circular Saw. The introduction of the coarse fish close season by A. J. Mundella M.P. by a private members bill, 1878. There were some rather irritated tench in this programme but they seemed to go back into the water alive. .

Tea: Mr Brains faggots etc. Entertainment: PM.

Bab5 S3 E10 "Severed Dreams". Last best hope & all that.

Taggart S16 E2: "A fistful of chips". Salt & vinegar with those?

[NickFitz]

I finished reading Station Eleven tonight. Excellent book

The white loaf seems to have turned out very nicely

I don’t think we’ve had any more rain, but it still seems a bit windy out. It looks like tomorrow will be sunny but, thankfully, won’t get any warmer as a result

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

My walk this afternoon was scuppered by a road closure, alternative long route had big queque of traffic. Was going to do a nearer walk later and it started pouring down. Ended up just wandering round the village.

[NickFitz]

Back in May, I got some lamb mince for shepherd’s pie, but it got too hot for that, so the mince has been in the freezer all summer. Yesterday I cooked it and left it in the fridge overnight for the flavours to develop, and this evening I finally had the pie

I also put the dishwasher on, and started a white loaf in the bread maker. And I paid the car tax too. So it’s been quite a productive evening so far

It’s not rainy as such, though there have been a couple more showers, but it’s got very breezy now

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Lunch was nothing, because I went and did the shopping at Not-as-Big Sainsbury's. I thought I’d have time to grab a quick bite when I got back, but the journey out was initially slow because, it transpired, of a fender-bender about a mile down the main road, and then it turned out the roadworks on the dual carriageway have got even worse. But I kept myself going with a few ginger nuts and coffee during the developer huddle mid-afternoon

There were a few stray spots of rain as I trundled the shopping back to the car, but it held off pouring until I was home. There’s been a number of showers, some quite heavy, and it looks as if there’ll be another soon