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[NickFitz]

Later viewing this evening was also on Netflix: Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall, recorded in March. It's an interesting idea for a programme. The interviewee is guaranteed that it won't be broadcast (well, streamed) until after their death. There aren't even any members of the production crew in the studio, only the interviewer: the cameras are operated remotely, and the operators don't have an audio feed. She had a lot of good things to say, though not about Trump, Musk, Putin, Xi, and Netanyahu

In The Andromeda Strain, the containment of the space organism has started to fail!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the leg, wing, and a bit of breast off the Big Chicken, with chips

To go with it, a further episode of Netflix's Critical: Between Life and Death

[NickFitz]

Lunch was some leftover chicken 65 from last night

Lots of time was going to be spent on doing RealityKit stuff, but it ended up being SwiftUI stuff instead; to wit, sorting out how to handle opening and saving files from the File menu without scattering the relevant code in a load of different parts of the app. Worked it all out in the end, and it's quite tidy now

[ladymuck]

Tedious drive down. Took over 2 hours. Breezy down here with lumps of fluff scurrying about.

The brown sauce has gone missing. Had to have red sauce on our bacon sandwiches. A quick check with my brother reveals it was there yesterday so it's likely she threw it out. That's the current behaviour. I'll pop up to the shop and get a new bottle plus more bread as she's eaten all that too.

[xoggoth]

Walk with loony lady 3 later. Nice to walk with someone who's fit, unlike the other two, I'm just hanging around waiting for them much of the time.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny, barely a wisp in the sky. Occasional strong gusts of wind. Currently 14 degrees ('feels like' 12) with a high of 16 expected. Barometer up to 1015 mBar.

Sunrise 07:09; Sunset 18:30 BST

Off to see Mum when I've finished my coffee.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny in parts.

Breezy.

Cool in here at 17.7 deg, 16.5 in the kitchen, 15.5 in the leanto.

1013 mBar, 29.91 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.69 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 58% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 20th of February 2020 it was hailing here & there Caesar, however the walk got walked, BR14 & Scruff popped in, NF determined it was too cold to push the almost empty recycling bin out so didn't bother, BR14 was still watching S1 of HSB and finding Fay Furillo irritating (just imagine how Frank felt ), whilst I watched one or other of the Magnificent 7s and NF watched "The Killing".

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked. Quite breezy.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Bit of a Columbo from the 1990s where he solves the murder with a call to a pager. Do pagers still exist? Just askin' for a friend, like. .

Thing on R4 (Marianna in Conspiracyland) about the twin who died of lymphoma. There's some crazy people out there.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 84%. It didn't hit me with any difficult ones today.

Curious: FB ads for dildos and butt plugs. Is it trying to tell me something? Just askin' for a friend. .

Tea: beans on toast etc. Entertainment: that fecking poetry programme is back.

Dear old Derek walking around Carreg Cennen.

WWII Land Weapons on PBS.

John Betjeman: King's Lynn to Hunstanton. 1962. PreBeeching. Gosh. Made by the BR transport film thingie with the BBC.

Sergeant Cork. The case of the respectable suicide. Quite fun. Repressed god botherer kills himself. Or did he?

WWII Air Weapons on PBS.

Last 25 minutes of "Faster" after getting bored with the above.

Gosh. He uses a Ruger Super Redhawk Alaskan double action in 454 Casull. Goodness me. Apparently it's ideal for dealing with Kodiak bears. .

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny out, though still a bit breezy after the storm. It's 11°C (but "feels like" 5°) and expected to reach 15°, albeit briefly, in the middle of the afternoon. The barometers are heading back up at 1001/1009mB

[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff on today, as usual

In The Andromeda Strain, they've found the microscopically small blob on the spacecraft, though they haven't been able to work out what it is yet

It got quite sunny here towards teatime, but then it set. It remains windy

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the South Indian place past the park. Very nice indeed

[ladymuck]

The wind has died down and clouds have parted. A nice sunny afternoon beckons.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Overcast but quite bright. Very windy with strong gusts. Damp from overnight rain. Currently 14 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer down to 1010 mBar.

Sunrise 07:07; Sunset 18:32 BST

Lazy start to the day. I had intended to pop to the farmers' market but never bothered, as there's not much I need.

Having checked my scales app, it would seem I've managed to lose 10 kg this year. Slow and steady wins the race, or so they say.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day out, very windy, and rain not just likely but 100% guaranteed in a little while. It's a bit cooler too: currently 10°C ("feels like" -1° ) and aiming for 12°. The barometers are down more at 983/991mB

[xoggoth]

Loony lady 1 walk this PM after me flu jab. Loony lady 3 tomorrow.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Grey in parts, blue in others.

Wanly sunny.

Dry.

Windy, very.

Cool in here at 18.1 deg, 17.5 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.56 Torr, 14.4747 psi, (up from 993 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 20th of February 2020 BR14 popped in, along with eek, WTFH was listening to the guineas, and LM's attempted skive off was ruined by a crash on the M4 link that led to gridlock, whilst there were blue skies for some, for others it was snowing, with a bit of flooding thrown in for good measure.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the semigale: dry for 95%, then a squall passed over & I was rained on.

Freecell score: 0%: powercut.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The News Quiz.

Reading reviews of P.K. Dick on Goodreads.

Am Dro: the ep I forgot about on Tuesday.

Flu jab to ensure that this is Yet Another Lost Weekend.

Entertainment: Look at Life: The Royal Marines in 1964 when we still had a Pacific Fleet & were fighting the Indonesian guerrillas on Borneo.

Foyle's War: The Hide. The one with Andrew Scott.

Tea: soup.

Entertainment: PM. Robinson crap <click>



Maigret (assuming there's power). "The Butcher". There was power, Igor.

The proof is out there. spontaneous combustion. Chinese rocket launch. Guardian Angel protecting a priest. .

Bits of Tina Turner Live in San Bernardino 1993.