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[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Overcast again, though not in a rainy kind of way. It's 14°C which is as good as we'll get, and the barometers have tiptoed down one more notch to 998/1006mB

[ladymuck]

That's almost as old as you!

What a charmer! I'm not far short of being twice as old as that film

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with a bit of stiff breeze. Currently 12 degrees with a high of 15 expected. There may be a shower this morning but the sun might find a gap in the clouds this afternoon. Barometer down to 1007 mBar.

Sunrise 05:57; Sunset 20:05 BST

Tired this morning. Thought I'd slept ok for the most part but it evidently wasn't very restful.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Damp.

Dreary.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 14.5 deg, 13 deg in the kitchen, 13 in the leanto.

1002 mBar, 29.589 in Hg, 751.56 Torr, 14.533 psi, (up from 1000 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of January 2020 it was sunny & I was in with the hoi polloi, LM defrosted bol instead of turkey soup for lunch & found it a bit rich, whereas I recalled defrosting the makings of goulash instead of chilli con carne & found it not rich but disgusting (& ate it anyway), Brillo took a short ride on his bike & found it painful, NF was tempted to try some Pataks madras once the own brand stuff was finished, and a guinea pig was tapping on WTFH's door, whilst LondonManc & NLUK popped in for a quick visit.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away: enough bread & milk to survive tomorrow's horrific shop closure.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom. Saw my shadow once or twice.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: FOOC. Moneybox. The News Quiz.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Apprentice (2024) in which a young Donald Trump learns how to be an absolute piece of tulip from an older absolute piece of tulip. This is one of those "based on a true story" films where it doesn't matter if it's historically accurate because it explains so well how that absolute piece of tulip, Donald Trump, came to be such an absolute piece of tulip

And then a rewatch of The Long Good Friday (1980); partly because somebody was watching it for the first time on BlueSky earlier, partly because it is (or was) Good Friday, but mainly because it's excellent and it's a couple of years since I last watched it

And thanks to the worthy efforts of the BFI in preserving stuff, the other excellent British film of that era is finally available in HD, so it seemed only right to watch that too: Scum (1979). Ray Winstone's performance is a perfect study in how to wait just long enough before saying "Yes, sir" that it's insolence, not obedience; and they know that; and they know that you know that; and they know that they can't do anything about that; and they know that you know that they know that

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Having just seen a trailer for a new film in the Final Destination franchise, I have been inspired to watch the original film that's now 25 years old

That's almost as old as you!

[ladymuck]

Having just seen a trailer for a new film in the Final Destination franchise, I have been inspired to watch the original film that's now 25 years old

[NickFitz]

Tea: ribeye steak, chips, fried onions, and beans

Accompanied by the Norfolk CID thing

And earlier, I read some more of Trainspotting

[sadkingbilly]

Hope it all went OK. I had a checkup on Monday and the results weren't great, but we've got a plan.

I think so, waiting for comms.
plans are good.

[xoggoth]

Boring tidying up (a bit) of front garden done. Must think where to go for a wonky.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a chipolata and bacon baguette with red sauce

Well, half of one, as I managed to exercise a little self control and will save the other half

[xoggoth]

Got another date with new loony lady next week. Right, must stop farting around on the PC and get some gardening done.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with lumps of fluff lazily drifting by. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 16 expected. Looks like the cloud will increase with a chance of rain mid afternoon onwards. Barometer down to 1011 mBar.

Sunrise 05:59; Sunset 20:03 BST

My friend is making a formal complaint about the mishandling of her case. Her ex's current partner is gutted he didn't get sent down as he's making her (and their toddler's) life hell and even just 8 weeks custody would have given her opportunity to escape. I'd forgotten to tell my friend, until I saw it mentioned in her complaint, that the CPS told the court she wasn't after a restraining order as that was being dealt with in the family court. Not true. So she's rewording that part.

I shall now stop banging on about it here and direct my anger into supporting my friend.

In other news, I'm working a half day today. A few things need to be wrapped up to make for a smoother start next week.

[NickFitz]

CloudFlare seems very keen on hunting robots at the moment

I wasn't sure if I was supposed to be meeting the rest of the family for lunch on Easter Sunday. We always have done but it was more of a thing for our parents, really. We've already arranged something for early May as my nieces can't do this weekend.

Anyway, I just checked with my sister and it turns out we aren't doing anything this weekend, which TBH is a bit of a relief as I'd rather just chill out here than have to drive down there and back

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Wet.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 13.9 deg, 13 deg in the kitchen, 12.5 in the leanto.

1002.6 mBar, 29.606 in Hg, 752 Torr, 14.54 psi, (down from 1008 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of January 2020 NF finished watching "Hanna" only to find that there was a 4k offering as well, BR14 popped in as did Scruff and Brillo, DaveB's knee was recovering, eek popped in, WTFH was looking after the creatures while his Mrs was away, and I was listening to the pipes banging away as the WM did its thing. There was a chicken house vid but it doesn't work any more.

Pissing down.

Freecell score: 60%, running average: 82%. Should have given up when it was 80%.

Still pissing down.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: bollox on R4. <click>.

Repaired the Farnell power supply I broke the day before yesterday during the cleaning frenzy of The Great Spider Hunt.

Had to find the 4BA nut spinner since nothing else in the metric selection deigned to fit, only to discover that said nut spinner, in a fit of pique, had welded itself to the floor of the tool tray it lives in, the 6BA spinner had done the same thing. Some sort of plasticiser migration thing, as seen with polystyrene and pvc at a guess.

Following that excitement the tool bags were duly vacced and sorted, happily enough none had suffered apart from the Xcelite screwdriver handle which has gone white (presumably mildew or similar): not mildew, it's a reaction between the plastic Cellulose acetate butyrate & moisture: fortunately it doesn't smell of puke. It must be said that those Xcelite tools do stink.

Then looked and sorted some electronic service sheets from the days of yore. I suppose someone might want them but I won't be sticking them in a parcel, far too heavy.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. It went <click> several times due to irritation with the presenter.

The Long and the Short of It: BBC2 NI: the border.

Bits of Repair Shop.

Abandoned Engineering: El Paso / Juarez Caples Building, Laudry. Taft Diaz meeting. Madero. Pancho Villa. Watching the Mexican civil war 1911 from the roof of the Laundry. East Germany: Sperenberg Airfield. Erich Honecker. Duckett's Grove, County Carlow, Ireland. Duckett treated his tenants well so the locals asked the IRA not to burn it down & it was used as a training base. Burned down in 1933*. Spain: town ordered to be abandoned by Franco so a dam and reservoir could be built. Town wasn't flooded but ended up on a peninsula.

*"The angry shilling": the amount left by Duckett's widow to his step daughter Olive. Court case over it in 1939 Oooo, that's given me an idea for my will. . (Actually I'd thought that one up on my own).

Person of Interest S1 E1 5USA. Got the dvds upstairs so no point in watching it on air.

PBS: The 100 days that defined Modern History: Gulf War 1.

Mysteries from above: more bollox on Blaze. Yamal crater, Siberia: ?methane eruption?. Yemen: the well of hell: sinkhole. Greenland icesheet: lots of holes with black sludge at the bottom plus algae and tardigrades: cryoconite, dark zone, etc. Antarctica: hole in the sea ice over the Maud Rise sea mount: unusual ocean currents bringing up warmer water thusly melting that spot.