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[NickFitz]

Movie night tonight! The major motion picture premiere was A Working Man (2025) in which Jason Statham is a former British special forces chap who's Moved On and Doesn't Do That Any More… until his friend's daughter is kidnapped, whereupon he has to revert to being Jason Statham. It's well plotted with a decent story that turns out much as one would expect from one of his films, and none the worse for that

And then a rewatch of Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), the second film of that ilk, which is also much as one might expect. I still think these are generally a lot better than films based on a game would be expected to be

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Timesheets done for the week, dinner book for tomorrow night, The Dog is going to stay with his favourite uncle after I’ve walked him (The Dog) in the morning.

TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

Tonight's tea has been that pork and cider thing I made the other week with chips and peas. It's very nice, but I can't remember how I made it! It must have been based on a recipe I found online, so I'll have to search my browser history

Found it! It was from the Irish Food Board's website; I'll have to see if they've got any other good recipes on there, because that one was a winner

[NickFitz]

Tonight's tea has been that pork and cider thing I made the other week with chips and peas. It's very nice, but I can't remember how I made it! It must have been based on a recipe I found online, so I'll have to search my browser history

This was accompanied by the not-very-motorway cops thing. At least the producers have finally come around to the idea that the dash cam clips and archive footage they include should maybe have some vague relevance to what's going on in the programme

[NickFitz]

I've hauled everything out from the cupboard under the sink, as they'll need to get in there to unhook the old washer-dryer and connect the new one. This has made me realise that it doesn't actually have to be the cluttered and disorganised mess that I've just kind of accepted. That was simply a result of me dumping stuff in there in a hurry when I was first moving in, then adding more stuff as and when something seemed like it belonged in there

It doesn't help that the pipes for the washer-dryer are trailing across it though. Once the new one's been installed, I'll rig something up to run those along the top, or at least higher up, out of the way

[xoggoth]

Just got an email re a Saturday walk with another loony lady. Mmm.

[xoggoth]

History group pub yack followed by walking group pub yack followed by visit to loony lady 1 to retune her TV, then a nice lone walk. Now just me and me little puppet parrot. He doesn't yack unless I squeeze his beak.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz oxtail soup and white toast

It continues to be a gloomy and rather chilly day. It's not even up to 20°C out yet, and only 21.4° in here

[WTFH]

Just past the 50% mark in scrambled maps and have arrived at the town of Sasaguri.

[NickFitz]

Somebody just used the lift to go to the top floor so unless they're still in there, it'll probably be OK for Friday

The drizzly showers continued for a while but seem to have moved on. It's still looking very gloomy and grey out there though, as if it's thinking about bringing them back

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 21 expected. May brighten up as the day progresses. Low risk of rain. Barometer at 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 05:55; Sunset 20:13 BST

Wedding day. None of us want to go. Mum especially was refusing to get dressed, saying her family are all c's and why would she want to see them. Last week she was pleased at the prospect, saying she hasn't seen them in ages. My brother managed to get her bundled in the car a mere 25 mins behind schedule. Said schedule has a heck of a lot of slack, thank goodness. I'm thinking I'd like to come home after the speeches finish at 6pm. This does mean forfeiting a night in the salubrious Travelodge Maidenhead but that's a cost I'm willing to bear.

[NickFitz]

Rain! This was not foretold by the weather app - and it still isn't acknowledging it, even as I look out of the window at the drizzly showers that can also be seen passing over on the radar app

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another rather grey day, though apparently it might brighten up a bit this afternoon. It's staying cooler too: 15°C now with a high of 20° predicted. The barometers are much the same at 1007/1015mB

There's been much activity from the lift this morning, after the manner of a lift engineer checking it out. I hope it's just a routine inspection or a service or something; I doubt the washer-dryer delivery people will be keen on carrying the new machine up to the third floor via the stairs on Friday

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday?

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny (using imagination: actuality is grey).

Cool in here at 21.6, 22 in the kitchen, 20.5 in the leanto.

1011 mBar, 29.854 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (up from 1009 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 9th of February 2020 DaveB made a nice lunch, the rain here went from horizontal drizzle to horizontal murrain of beasts, WTFH asked NF what the weather was like in Memphis, then declared he wanted a weather station, whereas NF had a decent night's sleep, however LM mentioned something about the British Museum to the ankle biter who then wanted to go there despite the weather.

Walk (towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Shared my memories of the time the river was in flood & flowed into the canal by the lock.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: "Loneliness" on R4. Y&Y waffling on about "The Nottingham Knockers" (calm down xogg).

I recall a couple of those 25 or more years ago, and bought some dusters or somesuch from the oik working on the principle that if the bollox he was talking was true then fair enough, and if the bollox he was talking wasn't true then £5 is neither here nor there.

He was tulip out of luck when he returned some weeks later. Fool me once etc.

Which has reminded me of the 419 scam actual letter than I received about 25 years ago from Hong Kong. .

Today's minor potch was short wave radio. Dug the long wire out of the box it was in & strung it down the garden to where the ash tree used to be before I cut it down.

Stone me there's a lot of electrical noise about these days. And not much to listen to. Back in the box it goes, along with that useless Maplin(tm) antenna tuner thing that's basically useless unless used with a transmitter.

I still have a curious urge to potch about with a preselector to see if that helps at all but there's so much noise from all the switch mode power supplies, broadband etc.

Did hear a little of interest: Chinese propaganda station railing at the WWII Japanese fascists etc. Oh, and a numbers station, though this one was giving SSB weather forecasts, plus a fax station, and an RTTY station that was sending RYRYRY.

And somebody talking about the cows keeping the grass down at his transmitter site, whereas some other guy was talking about the chickens not liking his use of a wire fence as a counterpoise (at least that's what I think he was talking about).

Longwire taken down again. The overwhelming hash all over everything seems to have changed things for the worse.

Freecell score: 83%, running average: 83%. Doing well until I didn't stop after losing a game. I will never learn.

Tea: Tesco batter haddock.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Maigret and the tramp.

I'm rather missing dear old Foyle.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast and cooler out, but quite pleasant for walking.

TFI..W
Last working day of the week for me. Need to get last week & this week's time sheets done.