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[NickFitz]

The telly people did that weird thing of not having Monkey Life because of the Bank Holiday, instead giving us a few hours of David Attenborough

And tonight I continued reading Goodbye Mickey Mouse

The promised rain arrived, but not very much of it really. And I also found time to do the mundane laundry

Once the laundry was done, the washer-dryer announced it wanted to install a software update. Just so long as it doesn’t start showing ads

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight came from Nando’s, mainly to use up the free half-chicken reward that would have expired at the end of this month

[xoggoth]

Could have gone to a music thing with not loony lady 3 today but felt too flipping tired. Performed a rare charitable action on me walk, guided a lost DOE group back to their meeting place.

[NickFitz]

£50 on the Premium Bonds this month, in the form of two £25 prizes!

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Sunny and Simpsonesque out today, though rain is expected overnight from the weather that can presently be seen on the radar swirling around over the West Country. It’s 18°C and will be briefly hitting 19° later. The barometers are also under the incoming weather's influence, being down to 1003/1011mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all (just)

Cloudy but still sunny. Not much of a breeze. Currently 18 degrees ('feels like' 22) with a high of 21 expected. Cloud cover set to increase with a risk of rain early evening. Barometer down to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 05:31; Sunset 20:26 BST

Waited in for the postman to bring my coffee order. Then popped to Boots to pick up a prescription that was ready on Tuesday.

The Caribbean sauce lady hasn't been at the farmers' market in a long time, and wasn't there when I walked through on my way to Boots. I could order off her website but the sauce I want isn't in stock.

Will be meeting friends for cocktails and a bite to eat later.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Our glorious leader was on Today.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

17.5 deg in here, ?19? in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (down from 1015 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 we're still strange & eclectic as per yesterday.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine. Nice enough. Passed on the details of that Head Prefect chap I researched the other day to the couple who were enquiring about him. Seamus as he was familiarly known by we ones & twos back in the day, despite his name being Colin.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The News Quiz. Am Dro (repeat) on S4C. Aberystwyth. Harlech, Wye valley, etc. <click>

More cleaning of the springs in the living room. I don't think I'll move the tellies this year.

Now outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Now put back together.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM.

Raining rather a lot. The lawn looks happier.

Maigret. S4 E6. "The Flemish Shoppe (1963)".

Blazian bollox: Holy Marvels. Funerals. So inneresting I fell asleep.

Blazian bollox: Battle Treasures: so good it could be on youtube. Assault weapons.

BBC Alba: Arctic Wars E1/6.

TPTV. Possibly more of the Rev Fanthorpe and Fortean Times from 1996 C4.

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Apex (2026) on Netflix, in which an adventurous Charlize Theron heads into the bushland of Australia, only for some weirdo to try to hunt her like prey. He clearly hadn’t watched any of the many films that would have told him what a bad idea that is. It’s pretty good, I thought, though I got the feeling they were relying on the undoubted beauty of the scenery to pad out the first thirty minutes or so; it remains beautiful throughout, but there’s more stuff happening in front of it later in the film

And then a rewatch of A House of Dynamite (2025). It’s a good film, but I do now find myself wondering if the North Koreans are keeping an eye on the USA, assessing just when the Commander in Chief will be sufficiently addled that they can get away with something like this

Finally, the episode of Pluribus in which the foreshadowing of a few weeks ago started coming to fruition at the end. As I suggested, it’s a narrative device Vince Gilligan seems to often use, but knowing that doesn’t diminish its effectiveness

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been beef & Guinness casserole with chips and peas. Turned out very well that casserole

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a chicken bap (wholemeal)

Been mucking about with forum stuff for much of the day

But I remembered to start a beef and Guinness casserole in the slow cooker this morning, so a wonderful aroma is filling the place

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky again. No significant wisps. Gentle breeze. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 22) with a high of 24 expected. Barometer down to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 05:33; Sunset 20:25 BST

Looks like a bit of a mixed bag weather-wise for the bank holiday weekend. More chance of rain in London on Sunday than down on the coast. This is good news as I was hoping to do a bit of sorting out in Mum's garden if it stayed mostly dry.

Back to today: not much going on. A bit of work to do, nothing too onerous.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday. May 1st.

Wet. Very wet. Wetter than wet & it started at midnight with a little picking with rain.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Sunless.

Dreary.

17.5 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto. (It was 27 in the saltinghouse yesterday afternoon).

1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.6 Torr, 14.7 psi, (up from 1013 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, and LM popped in, with the inhabitants of TPD being described as "strange and eclectic". No bog roll in Tesco. Lots of people with facemasks.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom and light drizzle. Nice enough. No funny yellow bird today (still dunno WTF that was) but the swans have hatched 4 of the 8 eggs and the cygnets were meeting the water for the first time with mum & dad looking on proudly. They were back on the nest keeping the rest warm a bit later.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing waffling on about the Telegraph click bait "moslems only" house share thing. <click>

Cleaning more springs in the living room, that's about 2/3rds of it done now.

Found a 35mm SLR camera which appears to have a film in it.

Found some photos I took of the works on the house next door after I sold it.

One photo showed the view from the back bedroom window which has changed radically since it was taken, being sans the viburnam bush (it fell over after the roots rotted), the apple tree (no one wanted the superb crop of apples it produced) and the pear tree (which had a lot of fire blight), plus the hedge thing down by the greenhouse (which was infested with Japanese honeysuckle).

Living room back together again so I have somewhere to sit.

Tea: Mr Brains faggots with peas etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

The News Quiz.

Sun's out. Looks quite nice out there now.

Connected up that "hifi" thing of my dad's. The CD bit is buggered but connecting a portable CD player gives reasonable results with some jiggery pokery of the various digital twiddles. Now playing Pulse. As is my wont. Not very loudly with consideration for the neighbours whose tolerance for 30 year old Pink Floyd CDs is undetermined.

Taggart S10 E5,6,7 "Secrets".

[NickFitz]

Just noticed from the bedroom window that the oh-so-helpful delivery guy yesterday didn’t actually take away the small blue pallet the desk came on - he dumped it in our car park out the back, where it’s taking up one of the small number of spaces!

One star knocked off, because I feel that I have a moral responsibility to go and shift it

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
Overcast, and even had a few spots of light rain on our walk.