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[NickFitz]

They were still all about Attenborough with today’s wildlife programming

Later, I watched the first episode of Legends, a new Netflix drama series based (loosely, I imagine) on HMRC’s undercover activities to eliminate drug smuggling at the behest of Thatcher. (Spoiler: it didn’t work.) It seems pretty good from this episode, so I’ll have to try to remember to keep watching

And in The Middle Kingdoms, the literary world has reacted to industrialisation by veering into Romanticism, while the political world has reacted to ongoing turmoil by veering into Nationalism, thereby creating the conditions for Bismarck to start messing things up for everybody

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Solar panel is now on the shed roof and all wired in.

TFBSZ.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s tea was brought to me from the good-enough Chinese place past the park

The somewhat sunnier spell materialised as promised, and ended as promised. Tomorrow, the temperature starts to fall, with rain likely every day next week

[ladymuck]

The bed has been made, which post-dinner future me will appreciate more than overly warm present me does.

The first load has nearly dried out in the back garden, just in time for the second (the duvet cover) to finish. However, I will be putting the airer inside for that one as we'll be heading out about 3pm.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s “mostly cloudy” out, though there are patches of blue and the clouds are mainly cumulus type things. It feels a bit close but it isn’t excessively hot: 22°C with a high of 24° expected to coincide with a brief sunny spell later in the afternoon. The barometers are down a bit at 1008/1015mB

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with wisps and some lumps. Currently 26 degrees with a high of 28 expected. Barometer down to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 04:52; Sunset 21:07 BST

Slow start to the day on account of another night of poor sleep.

Bed stripped and airing with the first load in the WM. I'll put the summer duvet on when I make the bed later.

Out with friends for dinner this evening. Somewhere near Borough Market. That'll be a nice journey.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday judging by the wireless.

Restless night with the knee complaining regularly, thusly getting up & exercising it every hour or so which is getting really old really quickly.

Blue sky.

Sunny.

21.3 in here, 22 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto. That's more like it.

1015 mBar, 29.97 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.72 psi, (down from 1016 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of March 2020 everyone commiserated with BR14, Brillo popped in a lot, LM was considering cooking stuff, I was watching Sherlock Holmes, and NF was celebrating not having to pound the washing on rocks in the river by praising the washing machine for doing the needful doings.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the almost unbearable heat. I'm getting slower and slower: dunno if it's the knees or what but I'm not doing 4mph any more. Before I loosen up a bit I'm walking like a drunk.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Moneybox waffling on about child benefit. Which is now being claimed by fewer and fewer after Osbourne The Tory Mother****er complicated things.

Due to the ongoing ennervation, a couple of hours have been devoted to dozing to Hawkwind and Pulse.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee. I don't care about the mediocre but I do like consistency.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Attenborough on Dragons.

Maigret. S4 E10 "Another world (1963)".

Blazian bollox: 'Itler's 'Andmaidens.

Blazian Bollox: 'Itler's Sex Life.

Coldwar thing on BBC Alba.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc. I think it’s going to be another hot one.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Locked (2025) in which down-at-heel Bill Skarsgård takes advantage of the unlocked door of a luxury SUV to see if there’s anything worth nicking, only to find it’s no longer unlocked when he tries to leave… for it is a trap car! And not a police trap car, but one controlled by the elderly and vengeful Anthony Hopkins. So as if his life wasn’t bad enough already, now he’s stuck and trying to placate a Welshman. This was pretty good, I thought; there were two or three moments when I thought it got a bit silly or out of kilter, but overall I thought it was worth watching. Free With Prime at the moment

After that, a rewatch of The Accountant 2 (2025). As I probably said when I first watched this, it lacks something the original had; though having never got around to getting a degree in Film Studies, I’m not sure I can put my finger on exactly what it is that it lacks. It’s still good to very good, just not perfect

Finally, S1E2 of Silo. This still shows promise, so I shall continue to assume that the somewhat slow building of the story will pay off in the end

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Walk with ll1 this morning, she brushed some Common Hogweed and her leg was all itchy with big blister.

[NickFitz]

Today has largely been devoted to dealing with some stuff for the new forum software

Lunch was the rest of the cold cocktail sausages left over from yesterday

It’s sunny here but not as hot, so I thought it would be safe to go round to Little Sainsbury’s as I forgot to buy any ice creams when I did the shopping, and I had a feeling I’d fancy one over the weekend. Turns out it’s still very warm if you go walking in the sun. Who knew?

Anyway, the mission was accomplished and as I was already most of the way there, I carried on to the kebab shop; so tea has been kebab and chips

And I’m just watching the end of the final episode of the Estonia thing, in which additional investigations of the wreck by the authorities seem to be doing little to quell the conspiracy theories

[WTFH]

Just a short film which put in a few mins on this Friday afternoon...

[sadkingbilly]

I see someone's stirred up the taxdodgers again.

[eek]

Morning all

Cloudy but sunny. A gentle breeze wafts. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 23) with a high of 24 expected. Barometer steady at 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 04:52; Sunset 21:06 BST

Terrible night's sleep. Woke around 3.30 am, way too hot and never really cooled down. There was zero breeze wafting about at that time and definitely none of this rain that some are getting.

Today is invoicing day for gigs1 and 2. Gig3 is weekly auto billing but I still raise an invoice in my system.

Thanks for that - I forgot to raise the invoice in my system for this gig this month..

[ladymuck]

Morning denizens

But the council still haven’t managed to introduce a legally-mandated food waste collection scheme, and don’t expect to for another couple of years. I’m not even sure how it will work for somewhere like this, with fifty-odd flats across three blocks, none of which faces directly onto a public road. Will they expect us all to dump our potato peelings and pizza crusts in a huge mound at the end of the drive?

RBKC, back when I lived there, had a half-hearted food waste collection scheme that was only available to houses. Blocks of flats were excluded because the collection of said waste wasn't feasible.

Here in Ealing, I've not seen anything to say that blocks of flats are excluded. I make good use of the the food waste recycling but then I'm just in a house that's been converted into two flats with sufficient space out front for the bins.