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[ladymuck]

Afternoon all, greetings from Sussex by the Sea

Sunny with fluff. Still damp from much rain yesterday. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 7) with a high of 11 expected. Barometer at 1000 mBar.

Sunrise 07:31; Sunset 16:06 GMT

Uneventful drive down. Made bacon sandwiches.

[NickFitz]

Morning all
Off to the airport shortly.

Bon voyage!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It was foggy when I looked outside late last night and there’s been overnight rain while I slept, but the skies are clearing rapidly and it looks like it’ll be a sunny day, for now anyway. It’ll be windy too though, so it may be variable as different conditions could blow in rapidly. It’s 7°C but “feels like” 1° because of that wind, with the predicted high being just 8° for an hour or so mid-afternoon; the barometers are further down at 984/992mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Wet overnight.

Blue sky in one direction.

Wanly sunny from the other through the grey.

Chilly in here at 14.2 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.4747 psi, (down from 1003 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of March 2020: watches.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & nearly put away.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: listening to the dehumidifier rattling away.

Noticed that Tim Berners Lee was on Desert Island Discs last week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002m96c

Well there's a thing.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Off to the airport shortly.

[NickFitz]

Today’s reduced quota of wildlife programmes was again supplemented with an episode of Kingdom on iPlayer

And tonight, I started reading A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene, a gritty crime story he wrote in the 1930s before Brighton Rock

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

The mundane laundry has been done

Now waiting for my tea to be brought to me from the south Indian restaurant past the park

[xoggoth]

Managed to finish today's toothpaste inspection before rain got heavy. Need me phone to track location and take photos and swipe screens just don't work when they are wet. With GPS on, runs out of charge in about 2 hours thanks to that stupid Google update. Fortunately got a decent little portable charger for a whole £11.33.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Rainy grey day here

It’s a touch milder with it though, at 7°C which is the high for the day. The barometers are down again at 1000/1007mB. And the rain, though quite light, is expected to continue into the evening and possibly start again before sunrise

I see I didn’t remember to record last night’s viewing, so here it is: the major motion picture premiere was The Family Plan (2023) on Apple TV+, mainly because they’ve just released a sequel and that reminded me that I’d not watched the first one. This is along similar lines to Nobody but done worse: family man turns out to have previously been a secret government assassin, his past catches up with him, so he reluctantly kills everybody. The first hour tries too hard to be comedy, and fails for the most part; it could have been cut down to twenty minutes establishing the situation and getting the plot started. The second hour is a bit better, but could probably have been trimmed down by ten or fifteen minutes too. The film also seems to be suggesting that suburban American life is the best of all possible ways of living for all involved, and I have to say it seems like an absolute nightmare to me

To follow that, a rewatch of Man on a Ledge (2012) which is good, but not as good as Phone Booth

[ladymuck]

^^



Afternoon all

Dull, overcast, wet. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) and that's the high for the day. Barometer down to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 07:31; Sunset 16:03 GMT

Lazy morning. HWMBO and I have cocktails and dinner with friends this evening. He wants to visit Forbidden Planet on the way there so we're just working out what time we'd want to leave.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Om.

So far from the Glory Days of TPD and CUK when there would have been a fierce fight for the privilege of an Om or a PALI.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Grey.

Dark.

Sunless.

Damp.

Dreary.

But, looking on the bright side:

Chilly in here at 13.7 deg, 11 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto, 9 deg in the saltinghouse.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.648 psi, (down from 1019 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of March 2020 LM and scruff liked the moonwatch, LondonManc had a runny sandwich, Brillo popped in, NF did the Monday links, and it was hailing out of a blue sky onto me.

Was about to go for a walk but it's drizzling so screw that.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC.

Bit of the Australian customs thing: chap burst into tears when found with injectable steroid in his baggage, but all his pills were legal and there was so little steroid in the container that they just let him go, also the usual Chinese undeclared "food", sadly no frog fat, and some rawhide African drums that had to be nuked.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine and grey gloom. Met a woman I think used to work in Siliconix though I didn't ask if it was she.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM.

Maigret. "A crime for Xmas (1961)".

WWII in Colour. The nukes.

History's Mysteries.

Dear old Adolph's DNA again. 4.

Battle of the Atlantic. Enough already. Book. Other book. Removed labels from other books.

Bit of "Nobody" on Film4+1 until it appeared to break. Ah. It's unborked now. I like that film.

Arctic coldwar thing on Alba 5/6.

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribeye steak, fried onions, and chips

It turned out to be a thick-cut steak, though I hadn’t realised that when I bought it last week. Some antisocial customer had completely messed up the steak display, presumably searching for The One, and turned it into a lucky dip where you couldn’t be sure if the next thing you picked up would be ribeye, fillet, or sirloin. After the third attempt, I noticed there was a ribeye one shelf up with lovely marbling, so just grabbed that one without noticing its extra thickness

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

Not-as-Big Sainsbury's seemed a bit busier than it usually is in the morning, so I don’t think I’ll be rearranging my schedule permanently

On my return, I found a further email from the management company giving more details about the ongoing watery woes. It seems it may be the stack pipe itself that’s the source of the problem, so they now have to commission an investigation of that

For lunch, I got a Pukka sausage roll, which has just finished heating up in the air fryer. So I’m going to eat that now