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[NickFitz]

Monkey Life and other wildlife stuff was on earlier

Tonight, I read a bit more of Adulthood Rites. It’s good, but TBH I’m not hooked; I don’t really care what happens to these aliens - or, indeed, that remaining survivors of the human race! Not much of it left to read so I might as well finish it, but I won’t rush on to the final part of the trilogy

It looks like the aurora has made it south but it’s cloudy here, as it always is when this happens

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from KFC

We were hit by a huge CME earlier, it seems. Not sure it’ll result in the aurora reaching this far south from what the NOAA map shows, but it might be a nice show for those in the far north

[xoggoth]

Ah! Post thing was signed for Power of Attorney docs. I expect my sons will soon bung me in the loony bin and pocket all my money. Finished bonfire and off for walky soon. But chilly but quite sunny.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a blustery day today and spitting rain from time to time, though it’s expected to brighten up towards teatime. We’ve already reached the day’s high of 13°C which “feels like” 7°, and the barometers are up a bit at 1000/1008mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Currently 14 degrees ('feels like' 12) and that's the high for the day. Barometer up to 1014 mBar.

Sunrise 07:17; Sunset 18:19 BST

Towels in the WM.

Not sure what to do with my day. Might just bimble around the house.

Never heard anything about the job yesterday. So, either I didn't get it or the client hasn't told the agency who they've picked.

I need to figure a way to encourage the last of the chillies on my chilli plants to ripen before it gets too cold. I can't bring them indoors.

[xoggoth]

After that, a rewatch...

Yeh, I'm rewatching Teeth, I mean Death in Paradise 'cos there ain't nowt else worth watching. Nice when I see a bit and think, yeh, I remember that, proves I'm not quite senile yet.

Nowt on today, probably have a bonfire. Nature reserve volunteer thing tomorrow if I can be bovvered.

Had a Parcel Force note yesterday that signed for thing not delivered. Dunno what it is, I ain't ordered anything. Checked with my neighbour as his things sometimes get delivered to my place by mistake as I'm an infill house with no number, but he ain't expecting anything either. A mystery!

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ About the only thing I remember about "The Avengers" (assuming I'm thinking of the right one) is how badly fitted "Steed"'s bowler hat was. Shocking. Sadly "The Man from Uncle" was equally poor, though having watched some of the originals recently, even those seem much less inneresting than they did 60 years ago. An even more inneresting question is how I conflated The Avengers with The Man from Uncle. .

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry. .

Sunny. .

Blue sky.

17.6 deg in here, 17.4 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto, 12 out the back, 11.8 in the saltinghouse.

1009 mBar, 29.79 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.6343 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of April 2020, between 10:18 and 10:27: as per yesterday.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Entertainment Yng Nghymraeg mit subtitles: thing about Plas Newydd on Anglesey. Takes talent to go through the equivalent of £43M & go bankrupt for £500k in 1900 or so, as the black sheep of the family managed, before dying in Paris at the grand old age of 29. His bust ended up kept in the toilet. .

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: dashcam bollox S4 E4,5.

That requiring the iRon has received its attentions & is airing upstairs.

Everything in off the line.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine & semigale. Back has been playing up for much of the day & the leg was complaining a bit halfway through. Zero conversations.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee, tesco's finest.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

Book.

Maigret "Death of a butcher (1961)". Chap from St Fiacre who knows Maigret gets threatening letters.

Blazian Bollox: "Shadow Man" William Stephenson, aka "A man named Intrepid"*: a Canadian who worked in septicland for Churchill/MI6 and manipulated Wild Bill Donovan to create the OSS eventually, once the septics had had the crap bombed out of them in Hawaii.

*According to some he was never known as Intrepid at all but there you go.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was released this very day on Apple TV+: Matchbox the Movie (2026). It seems that Mattel were so impressed by the success of Barbie (2023) that they believed other toy franchises now in their possession would also be suitable for representation through the medium of film; and this is the result. What it is, is a fairly mediocre “CIA agent framed for theft of nuclear weapon” thing, but the buddies who help him save the world and his own reputation are the friends with whom he played with Matchbox cars when he was a kid. Yes, it really is that tenuous, folks! Though they chuck in the occasional pun about “thinking outside the box” and such, to reinforce the audience’s understanding of how hard it is to make a film based on a range of toy cars that aren’t relevant to the plot. Still, it’s reasonably entertaining in terms of explosions and chases and the like

BTW, somebody should have pointed out to them that you can use colons in film titles now, but the form used above appears to be the official version

After that, a rewatch of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) which is also a mediocre action movie, though maybe not quite as mediocre. As I think I said last time I watched it, they clearly expected to build a franchise on this, judging by the ending and the start of the credits. But it never happened, which was probably a good thing as the main cast have all, or mostly, gone on to make some very good films afterwards, which we may have been denied if they'd carried on turning out this kind of tosh

Finally, the last two episodes of S1 of Dark Matter, which I’m still pretty confused by. But I’ll probably watch S2 as well just to see if I can work out what the hell is going on, which was probably their plan. I suspect my poor memory for faces and names doesn’t help with this one, as I can never work out which timeline/universe somebody is supposed to be from or in

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Rack of BBQ ribs and chips for tea, being the M&S ones that have a bit more kick to them

To go with this, a bit of Police Interceptors

[ladymuck]

The wind's gotten up and it's spitting with rain. A lovely combo to walk into after getting my hair done at the hairdressers.

[NickFitz]

Shopping accomplished!

I went past the old place, where the chestnut trees are only just starting to change colour - they always seem to be a few weeks behind, possibly a different strain? Their husks don’t really have much in the way of pointy bits either. Anyway, approaching from that direction brought me to M&S first, where I bought more than I expected to in the Food Hall. All good stuff though

And so onwards to Big Sainsbury’s, where I also ended up doing a bigger shop than expected. This was partly down to needing various things, but also picking up some bits that Not-as-Big doesn’t stock or often runs out of

I’m glad I went and got my hair cut yesterday lunchtime, as the plan was originally to go there first thing today, and that would have made the morning a bit too hectic

Anyway, time to grab some lunch; I think I’ll have a cold chicken leg

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy and dull. Occasionally the sun gets a look-in but I don't think it'll be returning any time soon. Currently 18 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer down to 1010 mBar.

Sunrise 07:15; Sunset 18:21 BST

HMWBO and his offspring have left for the airport. I'm doing laundry.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

it’s cloudy out and everywhere is damp from overnight rain, though that’s stopped now. It seems a bit blustery too. It’s fairly mild in theory, but the current 16°C “feels like” 11°; the high will be 19° but only very briefly this afternoon. The barometers are down to 996/1004mB

Off to do the shopping shortly, including a trip to M&S while I’m that side of town

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Was damp: now wet, very wet. Raining pouring.

Grey.

Sunless: no rosy fingered dawn this day.

18.6 deg in here, 17.6 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1007.5 mBar, 29.75 in Hg, 755.7 Torr, 14.61 psi, (down from 1012 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of April 2020, between 10:18 and 10:27, in popped Brillo, BR14, DaveB, and SimonMac. Apparently getting into Aldi as a couple was verbotten. .

Sleep went away at 03:31 this morning and didn't return until after 05: something despite the reading of the current book.

Entertainment: Further out of town with Jack Hargreaves & Simon Baddeley: butterfiles (enjoyed this bit), cold water fishing in winter (tedious), summer fishing in the Jack Bass lakes (quite tedious though he did catch a fish): altogether too much fishing.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: dashcam bolloxl. Last ep of that series.

Scottish Island thing: Skye: Old Man Stor, dino footprints, Portree, shinty, Fairy Glen, Uig, Staffin Island, swimming cattle, Quirang, Fladda Cuin.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Rather warm in the waxed jacket when in the sun.

Entertainment: Alaskan Homestead Rescue: Naples, Idaho: built by millennials on 9.5 acres, most of which isn't flat. The bench they dug for the house lacks a wall to stop the land above from sliding. Oh, and there's a railroad line through the property, with a train every half an hour at the busy times. Misty comes down with ?plague? about halfway through. Sounded really rough. In the end it all got sorted.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

News quiz. Mildly amusing.

Bab5 S5 E1 "No compromises". Someone tries to off Sheridan.

Taggart S17 E5 "Falling in love". I have no fecking idea who killed who. .

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast and windy, but 17C warm on our walk earlier.


TFIF, etc.