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[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ It's mostly sugar. Eating a bag of tate & lyle would be about the same. And cheaper.

[NickFitz]

I recently bought a smoothie maker with the vague notion that it might help me get more fruit into my diet. I’ve just used it for the first time: a banana, mango, and blueberry smoothie. Pretty nice, as I’d frozen the mango and bananas, though I’d forgotten the blueberries which I only got on a whim the other day. I think it needed more mango and blueberries as it mostly tasted of banana, but it was OK and presumably good for me

However, I found that I still don’t like milk! Never have TBH. So I’ll have to see what it’s like using water as the base, which is really just going to be diluted juice when you come down to it. But maybe that’s all smoothies are? Also, they aren’t particularly smooth, though I believe that’s expected and it’s just a silly name

[sadkingbilly]

oh, - morning all
cloudy 21C here this morning, with occasional sunny bits.

[sadkingbilly]

Dying young is the cure for that. .

Which also has the side effect of allowing you to stay pretty.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey day out, with masses of what I think are stratocumulus. It’s also quite breezy, so the current 18°C “feels like” 15°; the expected high is 25°, which isn’t quite as bad as was being predicted last week IIRC. The barometers are steady at 1013/1020mB

[WTFH]

Morning all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

21.5 in here, 21.75 in the kitchen, 20.5 in the leanto.

1019.5 mBar, 30.1 in Hg, 764.7 Torr, 14.786 psi, (down from 1021 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 covbob, LM, vetran, WTFH popped in with a little competition for something or other, probly an Om.

Walk (2 miles and a bit) walked in the unbearable heat of the morning.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus, which is pretty loud today.

[NickFitz]

The watery wildlife stuff was back on the telly today

Tonight in A Game of Birds and Wolves, the new tactics developed by playing games at the Western Approaches have paid off, with Doenitz finally giving up and telling his U-boat packs to back off before they’re all sunk. And the war ended, and people went on to other things, and the crucial work the women of the Wrens had done was, of course, forgotten about. Good book

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Don't get old!

Dying young is the cure for that. .

[xoggoth]

Darn it, there was a little street party down the road today and I forgot about it. Busy going to dump with garden waste. What fun.

Sad news, the group walk on Wednesday has been cancelled as partner of nice lady I know who leads it has died. Don't get old!

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the obscure Indian restaurant across town. Very nice

It’s tucked away down a side street that goes nowhere, in a small, windowless, one-storey former industrial building that looks like it should be a place that sells car parts, trade only. But the food is really good

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

There’s a fair amount of blue sky but also a lot of clouds jostling each other, so it’s sunny spells today. Quite windy too, so the 23°C which is as hot as it’ll get “feels like” 20°. The barometers are down a little at 1013/1020mB

[ladymuck]

The greys have been banished for a few weeks. A perpetual losing battle but I'm too vain to quit.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning (at last).

Saturday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in very few parts.

22.4 deg in here, 22.5 in the kitchen, 22 in the leanto.

1021 mBar, 30.15 in Hg, 765.8 Torr, 14.8 psi, (down from 1022 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 we're on the same page as yesterday: covbob, LM, vetran and WTFH popped in: there was no news on the pineapple.

Walk (2.25 miles) walked in the greyish gloom & wan sunshine. Legs complaining more today.

Spotted some cinnabar moth caterpillars on some ragwort. Haven't noticed any of those in some years.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC. noon o'clock news. Money Box <click>.

Nothing of innerest on the idiot lantern.

Book. Other book.

Freecell score: 85%, running average: 84%. First game took ages to get out. Bit better than the last attempt which had a score in the low 70s.

Some minor decimation of the brambles & goosegrass. I'll need a bonfire soon because the greenhouse is nearly full.

I seem to terminally bored, possibly existentially bored at the moment.

Book.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Fecking Robinson waffling to some Labour ex apparatchik <CLICK> Just Robinson is enough for <click>, the combination leads inexorably to <CLICK>

Maigret S1 E2 "Unscheduled Departure". Nice luger. I wonder if it was 7.65 or 9x19?

Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cooke Endeavouring to Discover The Great Southern Continent & finding NZ & the east coast of Oz instead, along with grounding the ship on the Great Barrier Reef. Oh, and managing to prevent his crew from dying of scurvy whilst he was at it. And, in passing, making measurements of the Transit of Venus.

Blaze: Hitler's Engineers: it may be Werner Heisenberg, but I'm a bit uncertain about that. If Hitler had the Bomb (alien derived of course, as shown by Ancient Aliens et al), how come the captured German scientists at Farm Hall were so surprised when it went off in Hiroshima & Nagasaki (though admittedly rather less surprised than the unfortunate occupants of those cities).

Next week we have Hans Kamler, so Die Glocke should show up.

Blaze: the WWII war gaming thing wherein "we" get to dish it out to the Fiendish Hun. Considering how unbelievably dumb the septic admirals were (King in particular), not even bothering with convoys along the septic coast or even blacking out the cities on the coast, it's little wonder that the Germans had another happy time.

Anyone else bought a sombrero and some tequila ready for Sunday night/Monday morning? Oh. Only the Celtic fringe then is it? Hasta la vista, baby. .

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but bright and dry. Currently 23 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 29 expected. Cloudy should be mostly gone by lunchtime. Barometer down to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 04:51; Sunset 21:20 BST

Dinner was lovely, and would have been better had I not gotten a migraine half way through. I managed to last but couldn't eat anything past the first course due to battling nausea.

Fortunately, it shifted while I slept and did not put my grey hair banishing appointment at the hairdresser in jeopardy.