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I have been meaning to try and find a good local chippy for years
Hmmm, that's an idea. There's a van that sells fish and chips at top of my road on Saturday afternoon. Myabe I'll wander up there to save me having to cook summit.
Lots of cumuli around, making it cloudy with sunny spells. Mild enough at 22°C, which is the high for today; the barometers are up a bit at 1009/1017mB
Freecell score: 85%, running average: 84%. Box is dying by inches. Dunno WTF is up with it, passes various utilities with no problem but it's getting harder & harder to get it to boot, even in safe mode.
Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM <click>
Some bollox on Blaze
Maigret S1 E4 "The Revolver (1960)".
More bollox on Blaze. Book. Other book. Book.
Blaze: Hitler's Engineers. The Good Doctor Ferdinand Porsche. The KDFwagen was one thing, his tanks were overweight disasters.
Blaze: The U Boat Wargame thing. E5.
?Monster Quest? Ah, my little piranha fish Bit of Terminator 2. Some dross on DMAX about Jack the Ripper: yet another solution.<click>
Book.
Now I'm not walking 4 miles a day I seem to be putting on weight & getting fat. .
Tonight’s motion picture premiere was No Hard Feelings (2023) in which wealthy helicopter parents pay a penurious Jennifer Lawrence to “date” their son before he goes to Princeton. This rapidly turns complicated, because if it didn’t there’d be nothing to make a film about. It’s very funny, and it all turns out OK in the end for everyone, so that was nice
Then a rewatch of Tetris (2023) because it’s always nice to see Robert Maxwell and his son Kevin depicted as the useless thieving ***** they were
I have been meaning to try and find a good local chippy for years. A task which simply requires me walking to one and placing an order to see if I like it. Today, I finally did that.
Verdict: chips good, sausage in batter good, haddock not so good.
The fish was freshly fried to order but was greasy and had an odd, maybe old oil, flavour to it.
The search will resume next time I get the urge to leave the flat for chips.
If anyone is bored this afternoon, may I recommend https://www.youtube.com/@wellthatwentwell
Geoff Norcott (Token Tory Comedian) and Tom Walker (Jonathan Pie) chatting. It's quite good and given that one is right wing and the other left, it's sort of balanced.
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