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[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.

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) which is not only of no interest to people who aren’t Dylan fans, but probably highly annoying to them. I really enjoyed it

One thing I found intriguing in the concert footage was the way Scarlet Rivera, the violin player, kept her eyes constantly fixed on Dylan. He’s renowned for changing things as he goes along, having even been known to sing entirely new verses to songs that just happened to come to him mid-performance, or possibly because he’d forgotten the words and was making it up as he went along. But she gave the impression that she was ready for anything he might do; not bothered, just ready. And he seemed to realise that, as there were times when he glanced momentarily in her direction as if wondering if she’d realised what he was about to do, then looked back, reassured. It was only ever something like keeping his harmonica quiet because he wanted her violin solo to take precedence at that point, but the dynamics of it all were fascinating

Well, they were if you’re a Dylan fan, but I’ll shut up about it now for the sake of those who aren’t

After that, a rewatch of Rush (2013) about the days when driving an F1 car was tantamount to extremely fast suicide

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Lunch was the rest of the cold cocktail sausages, and tea has been a rack of ribs and chips, this time from a new range at Sainsbury’s. Pretty nice overall, and at least it’s a change from the standard BBQ sauce that they seem to use on everything

This was accompanied by Police Interceptors of which I have a couple of episodes in reserve, due to trying to vary my viewing habits a bit more in recent weeks

[ladymuck]

I believe I have sufficient circumstantial evidence that the magpie which had been investigating my gooseberry bush has been stealing the fruits. I had one fruit on there the other day. Now it's gone.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start again, and starting to get warmer: 17°C now, and aiming for 25° this afternoon. It’s supposed to be cloudy too, but maybe that will come later. The barometers have shot up to 1017/1025mB

Somebody’s moving out of this end of the adjacent block! Two medium-sized removals vans are parked outside, and they’ve spent twenty minutes or more just unloading boxes and several very large rolls of what I assume is bubble wrap. I don’t know which flat it is, but I daresay I could watch the furniture coming out and cross-reference it with photos on RightMove

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with high level wispy bits. Currently 19 degrees with a high of 27 expected. Barometer up to 1030 mBar.

Sunrise 04:50; Sunset 21:21 BST

A bit headachy this morning. For the first time in a long time, I snoozed my alarm and had a longer sleep.

Off out for dinner to Kinkally this evening with friends.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

21.1 in here, 22.2 in the kitchen, 19.5 in the leanto.

1023 mBar, 30.2 in Hg, 767.3 Torr, 14.84 psi, (up from 1020 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 covbob, LM, vetran and WTFH popped in: there was no news on the pineapple.

Quarter of an hour of Further Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves on Rewind TV.

About a quarter* of the walk walked in the sunshine. Didn't want to overstress the legs which were rather reluctant to go any further. *About 2 miles in all.

Looked at the parents & grandparents grave: the Agent Orange spray doesn't seem to have done much to the brambles on the grandparents' grave.

Whatever they've sprayed on the parents' grave seems to have successfully killed everything that might possibly have been of interest. The equisetum is, of course, totally unmoved by this.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: "Scott of the Antarctic (1948)". The Golden Age of Empire: 1912.

Book.

All of Further Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves on Rewind TV: mechanical shovel, thing for hammering in fence posts, neat thing for cutting up logs with a chainsaw, various jobs around his garden, the mule having its hooves trimmed by the blacksmith.

Tea: Mr Brains faggots with peas & suchlike. Entertainment: PM <click> Blazian UFO bolloxy bollox.

Dead Ringers.

Bab5 S1 E18 "A voice in the wilderness" Part II of The Great Machine.

Dan Snow bollox about Stonehenge.

Taggart S13 E7,8,9. "Babushka": the Russian bride one.