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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) which was pretty good - but I kind of ruined it by thinking halfway through that they keep making these, and we keep watching them, hoping they’ll be as good as the first; but they never are. Maybe they should just stop? Anyway, it was pretty good

And then a rewatch of She Said (2022). Again, it’s good; but if I wanted to make a film about how a real story had been covered, I’d look at All The President's Men, and Spotlight, and The Post, and then look at this one to try to work out what it’s lacking that the other three had

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

This evening's ents so far has been Inside the Factory, namely chips and throat lozenges.

[NickFitz]

Tea: Pukka steak & kidney pie with chips, peas, and gravy

I resumed watching the motorway cops thing that 5’s streaming was unable to deliver yesterday. 5 aren’t very good at streaming; sometimes the quality really drops off for no reason, and you have to pause it for a couple of minutes whereupon it goes back to normal. Anyway, they still aren’t going on the motorway very much

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Started off cloudy and damp. Then brightened up. There was some rain. Currently 5 degrees ('feels like' 1) and the high was 8. Barometer up to 996 mBar.

Sunrise 07:19; Sunset 17:13 GMT

This morning I went to gig1 clientCo office for a meeting. Then came home immediately after it finished. This ultimately wasn't such a good move as I had to park way up the road. I will aim to move the car tomorrow.

Popped into Morrisons on the way home for tonic water as they have it on offer at the moment. Just been notified by Sainsbury's that they now it have on offer too, albeit at 5p a bottle more than Morrisons. However, I'm willing to pay the 5p for the convenience of the shop being 2 mins from my flat.

[NickFitz]

Still raining

Meanwhile, I’ve spent a fair few hours today working on the forum stuff

[NickFitz]

Lunch: some cold cocktail sausages and a bag of plain crisps

It’s raining, and raining, and raining

[xoggoth]

Back from volunteer litter picky thing. Bit knackered, darn heavy sack of litter. Nowt else I've got to do today. Yawn.

[Pondlife]

Morning all,

Wind 7 kt from the East, varying between Northeast and Southeast
Temperature 8°C
Humidity 93%
Pressure 989 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Scattered clouds at a height of 400 ft
Broken clouds at a height of 3000 ft

Still cloudy but much more reasonable weather promised for tomorrow, so fingers crossed I can get some steps in over the beacons.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Drizzly grey day out there, with the young lady who comes round to collect our rubbish (and test the fire alarm on Fridays) trundling the bins from block to block with her hood up. It’s not as warm either: currently 3°C (“feels like” -4°) with a high of just 4° due later. The rain is expected (85% working its way down to 65%) to continue into the evening. But the barometers are up a bit at 979/987mB

But at least it’s Friday, and I got the shopping done yesterday so I don’t have to go anywhere

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Wet. Very wet.

Sunny, wanly.

Grey.

Blue sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 13.3 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

994.5 mBar, 29.37 in Hg, 745.9 Torr, 14.424 psi, (down from 995 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 BR14, Brillo, and covbob popped in, with Brillo taking the millennium whilst covbob made a coffee, and LM was off to Tesco to do some shopping (probly looking for bog roll).

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The food programme.

Book. Finished book. Well that one didn't take long. . Which is good.

Sun's out.

Sun's back in. Grey again.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the semigale & wanly sunny grey gloom. Rather colder than yesterday and the wind is quite chilly. Should have done the washing, it would have dried well in the semigale.

Tea: chilli con carne with rice etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>.

Vanished Wales.

Taggart S7 E1,2,3 "Violent Delights". Another short one: Jan 1st 1992, so there was no Taggart in 1991. Mmmm, the peeping tom one with the sexy French lady. . .

Some bollox on Blaze: <click> Signal is low of Freesat & I can't be arsed to watch it on Freeview since it's the usual interminable bollox of which they are so fond.

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.

CBS (can't believe I'm saying that) and not raining (yet) today. Must have been chilly overnight as there were cars parked in the next village with frost on their bonnets/windscreens. Misty in the valleys. Still definitely winter.

[NickFitz]

I got some more bits done for the Swift app earlier

And for tonight’s reading, I turned to Peace and War by Joe Haldeman. I read his The Forever War last year and quite enjoyed it, and it turned out the best way to get the two others in the trilogy, Forever Peace and Forever Free, was to buy this omnibus volume of all three. So as it’s the first one, I’m reading War again before continuing with the other two

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

They're watching you. .

Do they know you're from Liverpool?

Just askin' for a friend, like. .

<- since I was reminded of it back in 2020 this very morn. .

Given that it’s happened at two different stores, I’m tempted to go to the one in the north of the city next week and see if I get the hat trick

[NickFitz]

Tea: pork cutlet with chips and beans

This was initially accompanied by the NEW! series of the motorway cops that never seem to go on a motorway, but 5’s streaming seemed to pack up after a few minutes and it just sat there showing a spinny thing (“throbber” is the technical term). So I started watching a thing about Three Mile Island on Netflix instead

[DoctorStrangelove]

Lunch is only just about to happen, as I decided to do the quick run to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s, only to meet with roadworks there and back. But the main delay came from being “randomly selected” for a full trolley rescan - which also happened last week at Big Sainsbury’s


The rescan only showed one error, and it wasn’t mine - she’d somehow managed to miss the coffee beans

They're watching you. .

Do they know you're from Liverpool?

Just askin' for a friend, like. .

<- since I was reminded of it back in 2020 this very morn. .