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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

As expected, it’s a gloomy, grey, drizzly start to the day. Must still be quite breezy too as the current 13°C “feels like” 8°. The expected high for the day is 16°, the rain will dwindle away during the morning, and there may be a bit of sunshine in the last few hours before nightfall. The barometers are down a bit at 1000/1008mB

[WTFH]

Morning all After a weekend up in Surrey/London, back home and it’s raining.

[NickFitz]

This afternoon’s viewing was more watery wildlife, and this evening I watched Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Tonight’s reading is Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner (Third Edition, 2017) by Paul M. Sammon

Monday again tomorrow. The rain’s here and should continue till morning, making for a suitably gloomy start to the week

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's been cloudy with intermittent sunshine and some spits of rain. Currently 15 degrees and the high was 19. Barometer up to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 04:46; Sunset 21:15 BST

Overslept. Drove to see Mum. Fed her the dinner my brother had left for her. Uneventful drives in both directions.

The torrential rain in the week had nicely washed off the tree sap that was covering my car last weekend. On returning home, I ignored the parking spaces under trees.

Started watching the latest season of Surgeons: At the Edge of Life on iPlayer.

Tired.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a fry-up, because the bacon Needed to be Eaten™

Turning a bit gloomier out, with rain due any time now and likely to continue till morning

The young magpies were ditzing around not long ago, but I hadn’t seen them all day before that. They’re usually around first thing and back around teatime, but they aren’t here much during the day. I assume they’re quite adventurous and are off exploring the neighbourhood, or maybe messing about down on the park

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start again and it continues to be fairly windy, getting even windier later. No rain until this evening, though - well, in theory. It’s 16°C but “feels like” 10°, and aiming for 19°; the barometers are bouncing back at 1005/1013mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp.

Grey.

Dreary.

Windy.

Sunless.

18.3 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 16.5 in the leanto.

1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759 Torr, 14.678 psi, (up from 1010 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, BR14, LM and WTFH popped in, whilst Brillo popped in a lot.

Today's dream before waking involved going to a train station somewhere only to find that the proposed journey was on a coach. Weird. Somehow or other it was going from one contract to another somewhere else. Glad to wake up.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the initial grey gloom. Wan sunshine later. Two conversations, one of which mentioned the meaning of "Maes Y Llan" and the other "Rivers of Blood".

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: not Di Ti Di.

Especially for NF:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002fjg8

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Freecell score: 70%, running average: 84%, which it won't be for long at this rate.

TPTV "Westerns". The best 25 westerns.

Book.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Entertainment: R4 quiz thing.

Book.

TPTV "The Directors" Federico Fellini. Not that I've ever watched any of his films. Not only that, I didn't watch more than 10 minutes of that crap.

History's Mysteries. More Blazian bollox. Looking for Cleopatra's tomb.

Sergeant Cork S5 E2 "The case of the painted boat (1966)".

The Fonz: Hazardous History: Food. Contamination of septic food: no regs until about 1900. Dumb products: candy cigarettes. Remember them?

DMAX: more UFO bollox: Keksburg Acorn 1965. Socorro, NM, landing witnessed by Lonnie Zamora, 1964. One to beam up, Mr Scott. .

[NickFitz]

Today’s wildlife programming was Attenborough-free and also largely underwater, so quite a few cephalopods and the like

In The Middle Kingdoms, Soviet rule came, and then it went again, though not always peacefully, particularly in Yugoslavia. And that’s that finished; I now know a lot more about the history of Central Europe than I used to. But I fancy a change from history for the next book

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Quite windy out.

Very relaxed day had; nothing notable done.

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought from the South Indian place past the park. Very nice too

The cloud’s cleared quite a bit here, though I think there was a bit of drizzle this afternoon so it looks slightly damp out there

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Cloudy again here, and still somewhat breezy. It’s 16°C, which is the high for the day, but “feels like” 12°; the barometers have reversed course and are down to 991/998mB

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Damp from early morning rain. Overcast. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 26 expected. More rain forecast, although there may be a bit of sunshine later. Barometer down to 1005 mBar.

Sunrise 04:46; Sunset 21:14 BST

HWMBO went home yesterday afternoon. He'll be back in a few weeks.

I opted for a lie in instead of getting myself to Twickers, and rescheduled the plasma donation early this morning before settling down for a bit more sleep.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Ye canna change the laws of Physics, Captain. .

Morning.

Saturday.

Damp.

Blue sky in parts.

Sunny.

Breezy.

18.6 in here, 19 in the kitchen, 16.5 in the leanto.

994.5 mBar, 29.37 in Hg, 745.9 Torr, 14.424 psi, (down from 1002 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 there was much discussion of sourdough with LM, SimonMac, scruff and WTFH contributing, with NF popping in, and me remarking on the jackdaws squabbling on the roof.

In a change for the better today's dream before waking involved some ?? observer from elsewhere/elsewhen/elsesideways doing a bit of the Equalizer type stuff, though parking the machine at 30,000 feet seemed foolish in the extreme due to ongoing traffic, so 70,000 feet it was. Liked half pints of dark too. . Then I woke up. It seemed almost good enough to make a script.

It's rained: I knew the blue sky & sun was too good to be true. Now it's that very fine drizzle that's wetter than a deluge.

Lunch: brunch.

Book.

Freecell score: 50%, running average: 84%. Might as well not have bothered: approaching wall punching by the end of it.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine to start, drizzle for the final half mile.

For those innerested in skinwalkers there's this:

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Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM.

Maigret S4 E11 "The crime at lock 14 (1963)".

Book.

Hitler's wimmin. Dozed through bits of this.

Hitler's sex life.

BBC Alba the cold war 1980s to 2020.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was Barbarian (2022). TBH I only watched this because it’s “free” on Netflix but won’t be in a week or so, and people have spoken highly of it. It’s one of those horror movies where bad things happen to good people, of which there seem to be so many these days. Perhaps it’s a reflection of the times we live in? Anyway, it’s a very good example of its genre; which is just a fancy way of saying that if you like that kind of thing, it’s the kind of thing you’ll like

But while I don’t mind that kind of thing from time to time, one can have too much of it and feel in need of a bit of positivity. And with that in mind, I rewatched The Martian (2015) because that’s all about staying positive in the face of adversity, without needing to bring in gimmicks like somebody trying to eat the hero’s face

Finally, the next episode of Silo, Machines (TV Episode 2023) which was very good because much of it was about mechanical engineering under time and steam pressure, which is always fun - though they did play fast and loose with the laws of physics, which real mechanical engineers know is a very bad idea

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade BBQ ribs, with chips

Still mostly cloudy out, but not in a rainy way

The magpie parents seem very protective this year. The other morning, one of them chivvied some pigeons that happened to be standing near the flowerbed when the young ones wanted to play in it, though only to the extent of making them move a few feet further away. And while they were playing there again this afternoon, a squirrel had wandered in from just past our block and was minding its own business down by one of the parked cars, not even heading for the big lawn, when the Dad came up and chased it off the way it had come