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[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from an Indian place in town

I’ve not ordered from there previously because it’s located on a precinct consisting largely of eateries (places like TFI Friday and Zizzi) that was created when they extended the big shopping centre some years ago, and my hypothesis is that a restaurant in such a location will always offer food that’s a bit bland, because their primary customer base is families out shopping. Sadly, this meal provided further support for that hypothesis; I reckon there’s more zing and character in a Vesta boxed curry than there was in this. Oh well, now I know

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s sunny! It won’t last because, apart from anything else, the sun will set; and it’s predicted to get cloudier before then anyway. But it’s mostly blue sky out there now, with just a few wisps and strands of very high, thin cloud to provide texture. We’re heading into a cold spell though: currently 4°C as it tries to make it to 5°, and cold or even freezing nights for the next week. The barometers are fairly ebullient, being up to 1005/1013mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunshine! Blue sky! Fluffy lumps. Currently 4 degrees with a high of 6 expected. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses. Barometer up to 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 07:17; Sunset 17:14 GMT

HWMBO and I have been to the farmers' market this morning. Lazy day today. HWMBO wants to watch the rugby later.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Nearly frosty.

Chilly in here at 12.3 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto, 4 in the saltinghouse.

1013.5 mBar, 29.93 in Hg, 760.2 Torr, 14.6995 psi, (up from 1004 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, covbob, NF and I popped in and there was a mention of someone named "zeitghost" and why the smileys popup thing is so random.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC: the results of the Orange Moron's cuts to aid. Noon o'clock news. Moneybox illustrating why Craptia is so called. An hour and 55 minutes average call duration to their so called pension line.

Book. End of book.

Washing in off the line: that requiring the iRon received its attentions, all airing upstairs.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the increasingly grey gloom. Where'd the sunshine go? Two conversations: one with a couple of Midlanders, the other with the couple next door but one. Seized up by the end of that.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. The Robinson thing: Farage FFS: <click with Extreme Prejudice>

Scotland Yard "The unseeing eye (1959)". The dead man with a false eye one.

Maigret. S3 E8: "The crystal ball (1962)". The murdered fortune teller one. She didn't see that coming. . Fell asleep and missed the resolution of one part of the mystery. .

Rome: empire without limit with Mary Beard. :. So inneresting I've been reading about Asimov's Galactic Empire novels (something that the books actually aren't, being standalone Golden Age novels, Pebble in the sky, Currents of Space and The End of Eternity but sticking GE on the cover helped sell them in the 1980s).

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) which was pretty good - but I kind of ruined it by thinking halfway through that they keep making these, and we keep watching them, hoping they’ll be as good as the first; but they never are. Maybe they should just stop? Anyway, it was pretty good

And then a rewatch of She Said (2022). Again, it’s good; but if I wanted to make a film about how a real story had been covered, I’d look at All The President's Men, and Spotlight, and The Post, and then look at this one to try to work out what it’s lacking that the other three had

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

This evening's ents so far has been Inside the Factory, namely chips and throat lozenges.

[NickFitz]

Tea: Pukka steak & kidney pie with chips, peas, and gravy

I resumed watching the motorway cops thing that 5’s streaming was unable to deliver yesterday. 5 aren’t very good at streaming; sometimes the quality really drops off for no reason, and you have to pause it for a couple of minutes whereupon it goes back to normal. Anyway, they still aren’t going on the motorway very much

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Started off cloudy and damp. Then brightened up. There was some rain. Currently 5 degrees ('feels like' 1) and the high was 8. Barometer up to 996 mBar.

Sunrise 07:19; Sunset 17:13 GMT

This morning I went to gig1 clientCo office for a meeting. Then came home immediately after it finished. This ultimately wasn't such a good move as I had to park way up the road. I will aim to move the car tomorrow.

Popped into Morrisons on the way home for tonic water as they have it on offer at the moment. Just been notified by Sainsbury's that they now it have on offer too, albeit at 5p a bottle more than Morrisons. However, I'm willing to pay the 5p for the convenience of the shop being 2 mins from my flat.

[NickFitz]

Still raining

Meanwhile, I’ve spent a fair few hours today working on the forum stuff

[NickFitz]

Lunch: some cold cocktail sausages and a bag of plain crisps

It’s raining, and raining, and raining

[xoggoth]

Back from volunteer litter picky thing. Bit knackered, darn heavy sack of litter. Nowt else I've got to do today. Yawn.

[Pondlife]

Morning all,

Wind 7 kt from the East, varying between Northeast and Southeast
Temperature 8°C
Humidity 93%
Pressure 989 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Scattered clouds at a height of 400 ft
Broken clouds at a height of 3000 ft

Still cloudy but much more reasonable weather promised for tomorrow, so fingers crossed I can get some steps in over the beacons.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Drizzly grey day out there, with the young lady who comes round to collect our rubbish (and test the fire alarm on Fridays) trundling the bins from block to block with her hood up. It’s not as warm either: currently 3°C (“feels like” -4°) with a high of just 4° due later. The rain is expected (85% working its way down to 65%) to continue into the evening. But the barometers are up a bit at 979/987mB

But at least it’s Friday, and I got the shopping done yesterday so I don’t have to go anywhere

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Wet. Very wet.

Sunny, wanly.

Grey.

Blue sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 13.3 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

994.5 mBar, 29.37 in Hg, 745.9 Torr, 14.424 psi, (down from 995 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 BR14, Brillo, and covbob popped in, with Brillo taking the millennium whilst covbob made a coffee, and LM was off to Tesco to do some shopping (probly looking for bog roll).

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The food programme.

Book. Finished book. Well that one didn't take long. . Which is good.

Sun's out.

Sun's back in. Grey again.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the semigale & wanly sunny grey gloom. Rather colder than yesterday and the wind is quite chilly. Should have done the washing, it would have dried well in the semigale.

Tea: chilli con carne with rice etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>.

Vanished Wales. Last in series. PenYBanc village, Darran valley between Fochriw and Deri: demolished in the 1967 due to mining subsidence. Previously an isolation hospital Aberthaw: Marsh House Farm/Fortified warehouse from the 1630s: demolished 1982 to make way for an ash tip for the powerstation. Penley Polish Hospital: built by the Septics in WWII for casualties from D Day, then abandoned after WWII, taken over by the Polish Military Field hospitals & made part of the NHS thereafter. Closed 2002 by which time most of the WWII Polish emigres had passed away.

Taggart S7 E1,2,3 "Violent Delights". Another short one: Jan 1st 1992, so there was no Taggart in 1991. Mmmm, the peeping tom one with the sexy French lady. . .

Some bollox on Blaze: <click> Signal is low of Freesat & I can't be arsed to watch it on Freeview since it's the usual interminable bollox of which they are so fond.

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.

CBS (can't believe I'm saying that) and not raining (yet) today. Must have been chilly overnight as there were cars parked in the next village with frost on their bonnets/windscreens. Misty in the valleys. Still definitely winter.