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[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff, including Monkey Life, on the box today

Tonight, I finished reading Ted Chiang’s Exhalations. And then I started on The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu - first part of a trilogy, so I may be on this for a while

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight has been a mixed grill thing from a nearby East African barbecue place. Nice, and lots of it!

[ladymuck]

My smalls have been laundered and draped about to dry.

The bed has not been dealt with and I'll do that tomorrow, perhaps.

[xoggoth]

Just back from usual slow walk with loony lady 1. Rather a gray day but not rainy.

Was looking at trying to get travel distance from my place after clicking on my mappy thing, complicated and not free, then found an easy work round. Get the lat,lon on click then just open in new tab https://www.google.com/maps/dir/My village/latitude, longitude/

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Grey day out again and no soaring of the temperature, the present 9°C being as good as we’ll get. The barometers are up a bit though, at 1014/1022mB

More importantly: Monkey Life is back later!

It’s a repeat of the series before the most recent one; the latter hasn’t yet been shown to the non-paying. Maybe they’ll move on to the new stuff after going through this one again

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy, dull, damp. Currently 10 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer up to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 06:33; Sunset 17:52 GMT

Very lazy day today. I was suppose to give blood this afternoon but rescheduled it yesterday evening as I knew I couldn't be bothered. Will do it next week. Sorry to anyone who needs some O-.

I filled the washing basket with smalls to be washed but haven't got as far as putting them in the WM.

I started stripping the bed to air (I took the pillowcase and liner off one pillow) and decided I couldn't be bothered to do that either.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday. So that's why I woke at 06:50. .

Dry.

Grey.

Gloomy.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 13.9 deg, 1 something in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

1021.5 mBar, 30.16 in Hg, 766.2 Torr, 14.82 psi, (up from 1021 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 19th of March 2020 Brillo, BR14, covbob, LM, and vetran popped in, LM having cooked lunch.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the overwhelming grey gloom. And it's cold with it: the two layers removed the day before yesterday duly back in place and another layer would have been welcome.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Moneybox: Orange Moron's whining voice <click> If they'd only asked nicely I'm sure there'd have been a whip round for the assassination. .

Iolo showing us rare stuff: Fen orchid in that Kenfig Hill marshie bit. Yellow wagtail. Marsh Fritillary butterfly in Carmarthenshire somewhere feeding on devil's bit scabious. Yellow hammer. Gold finches. Linnet.

Look at life: gold in the mud: scampi.

Dial 999: "Escape (1958)". with Harry Towb.

What on earth? Long valley caldera. Oil thieves in the desert. South Atlantic Anomaly (red dot on infrared due to atmospheric heating 100 miles up). Cattails in Florida Everglades (i.e. bulrushes: native but spreading due to disturbance).

According to the EPG there's a described as "new" Monkey Life though it's not flagged as such.

More Blazian bulltulip. Pykecrete. etc. Seen this one before.

"Aberdeen: the silver city". Och ye'll have had yer tea. . 'Tis a late 1950s travelogue from the council.

Maigret: "7 little crosses (1962)". The one with Arthur Lowe as a chap interrupted at his Xmas dinner.

History's Mysteries: the missingest man in America: Judge Crater. Who knew that the clap can bring on arthritis? Well we do now. .

[WTFH]

Morning all

CBS, 7C out, no dog to walk, but having just finished breakfast my dad has told me we are about to go out to meet his brother at a garden centre for morning coffee and a scone.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was going to be one thing, but the first ten minutes or so made me realise I wasn’t in the mood for it. So I started something else, but soon realised I wasn’t in the mood for that either. They both seemed good, just not for me tonight

So finally I picked something pretty much at random, and it turned out to be Belgian and also very good! It was Night Call (2024) or La nuit se traîne in the original Belgian (French-speaking variety), in which a student who also works as a locksmith is duped into opening an apartment he really shouldn’t have, and then has to spend the rest of the night trying to prove to an organised crime gang that they shouldn’t kill him for having done so

I thought it was very good as these things go, and commend it to the House

Then a rewatch of RoboCop 2 (1990) which isn’t as good as the first one as an action/sci-fi thing, but it's still good in the political satire department

Finally, another episode of S2 of Hijack on Apple TV. I vaguely remember a review of this second series that said it wasn’t as good as the first because a train being hijacked wasn’t as exciting as a plane being hijacked, and this episode made me realise that whoever who wrote that review wasn’t qualified to do so, because they clearly aren’t the kind of person who gets excited at hearing about a ghost station on the U-Bahn, just like the ones on the London Underground. If Apple had any sense, they’d have commissioned Secrets of the Berlin U-Bahn to run alongside this

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Just had an email quote for household oil, double what I paid in January. That ******* lunatic Trump!

I meant to fill up the car on Friday but forgot. I should do it soon, while there’s still fuel available

[xoggoth]

Just had an email quote for household oil, double what I paid in January. That ******* lunatic Trump!

[NickFitz]

Rack of ribs (“firecracker” flavour) and chips for tea

Accompanied by a bit of Police Interceptors including a prolonged and unsuccessful search for a bloke who’d run away in the fields of Rothwell Lodge Farm by the A14. I’ve often seen the cows who live there when driving past but as I’m usually doing 70mph and the hedge is quite tall, this is the first time I’ve seen the associated cowpats

[eek]

Raining.

We had sleet this morning.

[ladymuck]

Raining.

[NickFitz]

Last of the southern not-fried chicken for lunch

Still grey here