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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Elevation (2024) which is one of those apocalyptic stories involving things that kill everybody - but not above 8,000 feet in this case, which is why it was filmed in Colorado. It’s not bad, though A Quiet Place did it better with decibels instead of altitude

After that, a rewatch of Ronin (1998) because it cropped up on Bluesky the other day and I realised I hadn’t watched it in a few years. It’s still excellent, though it could do with a 4K upgrade

Finally, S2 of Hijack (TV Series 2023– ) is out which reminded me that I still hadn’t got around to watching S1, so I thought I’d give it a try. Turns out it’s excellent - much better than most things of this kind, which have plot holes you could drive a bus through. I’m still thinking there are a few things left unexplained so far, but I’m very much inclined to grant it the “it’s not a documentary” opt-out, because it’s damn good telly

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a rack of ribs and chips. I went for the “firecracker” BBQ sauce one this time; it’s got a bit of a kick to it, but it's not exceptionally hot. Nice enough though

To go with this, the first episode of the new series of Inside the Factory, which is also the Christmas special. It’s about gingerbread and filmed at a fairly small family-run factory, and includes interesting side quests on the making of snow for indoor ski slopes, and Apollo 8’s Christmas visit to the Moon

[ladymuck]

It's clouded over here but has been a nice day for the most part.

I clocked off around 3pm.

[xoggoth]

Nice sunny few hours with loony lady 1. Glad it wasn't like yesterday, although still some big puddles on the road. Seem to be a few new potholes opened up in last week or two.

[NickFitz]

Much-delayed lunch has been a bit of pork pie

I see I forgot to mention that I did the mundane laundry last night, so that’s one less chore to do

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

It was Big Sainsbury’s today, as I wasn’t able to go last week when Viz came out. The journey there proved annoying due to two sets of temporary traffic lights at roadworks. Then when I made it to the outer ring road, it for some reason slowed to a crawl the entire way down the hill and across the river. There weren’t any signs of a crash or breakdown, so no idea what caused that, but the various delays meant it took twice as long to get there as it normally would

Coming back, the ring road had sorted itself out and traffic was flowing smoothly - on that side. I was now on the other side, and that also slowed to a crawl all the way back up the hill, for equally inexplicable reasons

Anyway, the shopping was successfully accomplished, including getting Viz. I would have been annoyed if I’d forgotten it after all that

And just as I arrived home (where my preferred parking place was still free), the sun came out! There are some wisps of grey cloud drifting past quite quickly, suggesting the wind is stronger higher up, but it generally looks quite scenic out there now

[NickFitz]

Royal Mail finally showed up with the ClientGov laptop at 12:45, just squeezing under the wire for “Guaranteed 1pm” delivery. A different van turned up over an hour earlier, but that was for something going to one of my downstairs neighbours, and probably not guaranteed for any particular time

The laptop is useless anyway as they have to phone me with the login details, which won’t happen before Monday at the earliest

I did some mucking around with RealityKit while I was waiting, so the morning wasn’t a complete waste. But I’d sooner have had the shopping done by now and be having lunch

Speaking of which, Sainsbury’s beckons

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with a few wispy fluffs here and there. A bit damp on the ground from yesterday's rain. Currently 9 degrees and that's the high for the day. Cloud cover set to increase and there might be some rain overnight. Barometer up to 1003 mBar.

Sunrise 07:59; Sunset 16:23 GMT

Unsettled sleep, kept waking up. At some point I realised I had a headache but couldn't be bothered to find anything to take for it. I did have a couple of ibuprofen this morning when I got up but it's not helped.

All meetings for the day have been done. I think I'll take it easy for the rest of the day.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning everybody
bit of a sea haar this morning, looking very spooky out.
i agree, - TFIF.
(although i only do 5hrs/day)

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

From the state of the bed I had a restless night. . Included the working somewhere dream: this one was in some tower block that joined halfway up to what looked like BrynSifi Terrace. My Raleigh RSW16 was involved, along with losing my baseball cap when leaving to go home & getting lost on the way to the station going through some market or other. Most peculiar. Glad to wake up.

Drily damp.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 12.3 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen, 9 deg in the leanto, 7 deg in the saltinghouse.

999.5 mBar, 29.52 in Hg, 749.7 Torr, 14.496 psi, (up from 996 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of March 2020 Brillo popped in, covbob was looking for contracts, I bought some soreen, and LM agreed it was very moreish.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine.

Three conversations today. (not counting those with myself).

Raining now.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: TWATO Jenrick <click>

Foyle's War S3 E1 "The French Drop": Foyle and SOE. Rather good. Don't remember watching that one before. Then again it is 22 years old. .

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

Welsh history thing: the wholesale demolition of old Aberavon. They didn't mention the joys of waiting for the level crossing gates on the Rhondda and Swansea Bay. Saunders Roe factory in Beaumaris Anglesey that built flying boats, buses, etc for half a century. A muriel in an underpass in the John Frost square in Newport, duly destroyed by the council. It celebrated the Chartists and the way they were put down by the government to encourage the others. .

Book. Other book.

Taggart. S5 E5,6,7 "Hostile Witness".

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey day and still damp from last night’s rain, though there isn’t any wind to speak of so I doubt the present 4°C really “feels like” 0°. The expected high of 8° will coincide with a sunny spell from the middle of the afternoon, though it’ll cloud over again shortly before sunset. The barometers are up a touch at 993/1001mB

Shopping will be done as soon as Royal Mail have made their “before 1pm” delivery, whenever that is

[WTFH]

Morning all

TFIF, etc.
CBS and a cool 4.5C. The ground is quite wet, but the walk was pleasant enough, with mist in the valleys.

[NickFitz]

I finished Endurance tonight. Shackleton & co. made it to South Georgia, due to Worsley’s remarkable navigational skills. But once there, with their boat damaged in getting ashore, they faced a further problem: the nearest place to get help was twenty miles away on the other side of the island, and the only way to get there was over the mountains and glaciers in the middle, which had never been crossed by humans before. But they did it! So they were (eventually) able to get a ship and head down to Elephant Island to rescue the rest of the crew

ClientGov are sending me a new laptop, and it turns out it’s arriving tomorrow, some time before 13:00. This is annoying as it needs to be signed for, so I’ll have to wait in for it, and I wanted to get the shopping out of the way in the morning

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from Nando’s in the end

I didn’t have anything in that I fancied so I thought of going round to the chemist’s for the monthly prescription, which needs collecting, and then on to the kebab shop. But that would have involved going out in the rain so I didn’t

Viewing so far has been the first half of the first episode of Twisted Sisters: Madness & Manslaughter on Five. This is all about that incredible business on Motorway Cops back in 2008 (when it was still on the BBC) with those two Swedish women who were running around the M6 and got hit by cars, plural - only for them to somehow manage to get back up and run around the motorway some more. One of them then got hit by a lorry, with the other punching to the ground a copper who was trying to stop her jumping over the central reservation. And when they finally caught her after much chasing back in forth in the live lanes of the other carriageway, she exhibited superhuman strength that made it almost impossible to restrain her. At the time, the Beeb ran it as a special episode in primetime within a few days of it happening, and the footage remains just as astonishing today

They’ve tracked down a load of the people who ended up involved - the cameraman, coppers, medics, ordinary drivers who helped restrain them, and so on. Interesting stuff

It all ends tragically, as the title suggests, but that’s a few days to a couple of weeks down the line

[xoggoth]

I went shopping, driving through badly flooded bits constantly, it's been pouring down all day.