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[NickFitz]

The BBC's 1952 adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four starring Peter Cushing is on BBC4 tonight and iPlayer afterwards

[NickFitz]

afternoon all
less than 24hrs to wait now, and then (hopefully) i'll have vision restored to my right eye.
might be able to do 6x6 maps in less than 40 moves then!
wish me luck?

Good luck!

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon all
less than 24hrs to wait now, and then (hopefully) i'll have vision restored to my right eye.
might be able to do 6x6 maps in less than 40 moves then!
wish me luck?

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka steak slice

Many clouds out yet it's sunny, so I assume there aren't so many clouds in the other direction

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 13.8 deg (now 14.2), 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto.

1015ish mBar, 29.972 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.72 psi, (unchanged), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of December 2019 there was more discussion of the CUK Cookbook, NF had been watching "The Wire", I was and had a funeral to attend later, hopefully without catching my death. I wonder now if it was some sort of bat related ness. . Probly not since I'm still above ground.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine. No parkrun this morning.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: that pub quiz thing on R4.

Freecell score: 86%, running average: 80%.

Book. Other book. Book. Skip a chapter. Book.

Tea: beans on toast etc.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Blue sky out albeit with areas of cloud starting to encroach, and some evidence of overnight rain. The threatened cold spell seems to be kicking in as it's 6°C but won't get any higher than 8°. The barometers are down an irrelevant amount at 1003/1011mB

[NickFitz]

Today's viewing was lots of Monkey Life plus other wildlife, particularly lemurs and baboons

And this evening, I read some more of Lying for Money

Early night now ready for more ape-related content in the morning

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from KFC

No more rain, as far as I'm aware.

One of the top floor flats in the block opposite has been dark for a couple of weeks. It was on the market recently, and the European flag that hung in the front bedroom window has gone, so I figured they'd moved out. But now it's lit up again, so maybe they'd just gone away? I don't think there's been enough time for the sale to have completed, but I may be wrong and it's new people in there

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 0913

The cloud is back. Overcast but currently dry. Light showers forecast all day. Currently 6 degrees with a high of 8 expected. Barometer at 1018 mBar.

We took advantage of yesterday's sunshine to take the ferry to Bainbridge Island for a mooch about. Timed the boat back to coincide with sunset, which was lovely.

Today is our last full day here so we'll be doing some gift shopping. Postcards were sent yesterday.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning.

And speaking of coming, they, and the septics, were riddled with clap.

It's much easier to spell syphilis. .

ftfy (i hope)

[NickFitz]

Ham toasties for lunch

It's been raining

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Back to cloudy days out it seems. It's 11°C and heading for 12°, so at least it's not as cold as it will be next week when snow is possible. The barometers are down to 1005/1013mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dry apart from hints of drizzle up the hill.

Chilly in here at 14.2 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 12 deg in the leanto.

1017 mBar, 30.03 in Hg, 762.8 Torr, 14.75 psi, (down from 1020 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom & hints of drizzle to come.

The drizzle came along as expected about noon.

Then the sun came out again.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: book: still stuck on the Columbia River. It's in Oregon apparently. Fort Clatsop. Poor Native Americans, they didn't know what was coming.

And speaking of coming, they, and the septics, were riddled with syphilis and gonorrhoea.

It's much easier to spell syphilis. .

Freecell score in the grey gloom: 100%, running average: 80%.

Tea: spag with that bol, much as expected, the extra extra chilli powder helped.

Entertainment: book.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 80%.

Am Dro Selebs from MMXXI.

The last half hour of Joe Kidd: the bit where he offs a chap with a rifle he's never used before: one shot, cold bore, on top of a hill. Twas a Ross .280 apparently.

Massive Engineering mistakes on Quest: sink hole, derailed train melting a bridge, taking the shine off some shiny concave stainless steel covering a building in LA (fecking architects: form over function yet again).

David Baddiel: The not the trilogy trilogy on Sky Arts. E2.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Fall Guy (2024) which was pretty entertaining

Followed by a rewatch of The Adjustment Bureau (2011). I enjoy the underlying premise of this one more each time I watch it

Finally, the final episode of We Own This City (TV Mini Series 2022). The vibe from this is "The Wire was entertainment, now here's the truth about the Baltimore PD"

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Lunch at pub with me son. Portion far too big as usual. Pub lunches are always rubbish. Gotta drive to Reading tomorrow, staying a few days with old uni mate.