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Dinner is prepped, a variation on Ottolenghi chicken with preserved lemons. Seed bread is prepped, to go in the oven at the same time as the chicken tagine.
Last night’s film entertainment was “Don’t Look Up” from five years ago. Funny, but also a lot of similarities to US politics right now.
On the joblist for this afternoon is to try to work out why the number keys have stopped working on my Zagg iPad keyboard. Very frustrating.
Grey day again, and things seem a little damp after some rain last night. Mild enough though: 7°C (“feels like” 5°) and aiming for 8° this afternoon - though that will coincide with the chance of more rain, continuing into the night (50-70%). The barometers have moved cautiously upwards to 988/996mB
Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto.
997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (up from 996 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 14th of March 2020 Brillo and BR14 popped in and NF was celebrating the opening of his windows by opening the windows a lot, though the cold was a bit offputting.
Raining.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: book. End of book.
New book. Other book.
Sun's out.
Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Warm it wasn't.
Tea: baked spud & baked beans. Nice enough.
Entertainment: The invention of liquid paper back in the 1950s by the mum of one of The Monkees, Mike Nesmith.
Poetry <click> The book of the week thing about dry stone walls.
Secrets in the Ice.
Sergeant Cork. S3 E2 "The case of the 6 suspects".
Morning all
Misty and drizzling, it appears that the heaviest rain has been while I was asleep. The morning walk will wait about an hour to see if this clears.
There was a reasonable amount of wildlife stuff on the box today, and later a further episode of Planet Earth III
Meanwhile in Berlin, the Russians are ready to begin their final assault, Eisenhower has paused his forces at the Elbe because he’s a mug, and the Fuhrer continues to issue orders that depend on units that basically don’t exist any longer
This evening HWMBO and I watched the new Naked Gun film. Very entertaining. We ended up also watching the entire credits because they snuck in silly things. I don't think I got them all.
Drove to Canada today and got home with still over 120 miles range, possibly helped by putting the car into self drive mode (except you can’t call it that, and you can’t let go of the steering wheel for more than 15 seconds, but there’s no need to steer, speed up or slow down, the car does it all.
It’s cloudy with bits of blue showing here and there and a bit of a breeze, with some showers passing through from time to time. The current 8°C supposedly “feels like” 2° but I don’t think it’s that bad, based on poking my head out of the window. The day’s high of 9° has already come and gone, and the barometers are shuffling upwards at 986/994mB
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