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[NickFitz]

Tea: ribeye steak with fried onions and chips

The sky suddenly cleared towards sunset, so it brightened up a bit

It’s going to be a cold week though, below zero most nights

[xoggoth]

Yeh, happy B day LM. Much better to be 60 than not far off from 80.

[ladymuck]

Thank you 😊

[sadkingbilly]

LM -

[NickFitz]

Today I mark the commencement of my 6th decade of existence. Although I suppose technically that may have been last year seeing as age is a lagging indicator.

Happy birthday!

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and very wet. Raining. Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' 1) with a high of 8 expected. Rain set to continue until mid afternoon when it may turn to snow. Barometer down to 1002 mBar.

Sunrise 07:15; Sunset 17:16 GMT

Today I mark the commencement of my 6th decade of existence. Although I suppose technically that may have been last year seeing as age is a lagging indicator.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Wet.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

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

997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (down from 1008 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 Brillo, BR14, and scruff popped in, LM remarked on how quiet the airport was becoming and how quiet M&S was as she wended her weary way home, whereas NF hadn't noticed any change in the amount of traffic in that Leicester and I just had my tea.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: book.

Sun came out: Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine, after which it got darker & darker, impressive clap of thunder, got home in time to avoid the hailstorm and more thunder.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Tea: baked beans with baked spud, toast, and scrambled egg. Nice enough. Entertainment: the poetry crap <click>.

Cocked up the viewing for this evening: Oak island nutjobbery repeat is at 19:00 and the Ice thing is at 20:00, which is unfortunate as I watched the nutjobbery last Monday and I'll be watching Sergeant Cork in preference to the other crap.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It got very windy late last night, and the weather app was proclaiming that it would snow overnight! It was still asserting that snow was happening, right then, when I awoke this morning, despite it being obvious from a glance out of the window that there was nothing more than wintry drizzle out there

So no snow, but it’s a grey, cold, drizzly start, and expected to continue that way all day. The wind seems to have backed off a bit but it’s still enough to make the current 2°C “feel like” -8°; the forecast high is 6°. And the barometers are back down to 990/998mB

[NickFitz]

There was a reasonable amount of wildlife stuff on today

And this evening I continued reading Peace and War, in which relativity plus compound interest seems like a win, until the 98% tax rate is taken into consideration

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Much sport has been watched today. Olympics and rugby. Plus a thing about Victoria Wood.

Now watching Afterburn on Amazon Prime which is questionable so far.

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from an Indian place in town

I’ve not ordered from there previously because it’s located on a precinct consisting largely of eateries (places like TFI Friday and Zizzi) that was created when they extended the big shopping centre some years ago, and my hypothesis is that a restaurant in such a location will always offer food that’s a bit bland, because their primary customer base is families out shopping. Sadly, this meal provided further support for that hypothesis; I reckon there’s more zing and character in a Vesta boxed curry than there was in this. Oh well, now I know

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s sunny! It won’t last because, apart from anything else, the sun will set; and it’s predicted to get cloudier before then anyway. But it’s mostly blue sky out there now, with just a few wisps and strands of very high, thin cloud to provide texture. We’re heading into a cold spell though: currently 4°C as it tries to make it to 5°, and cold or even freezing nights for the next week. The barometers are fairly ebullient, being up to 1005/1013mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunshine! Blue sky! Fluffy lumps. Currently 4 degrees with a high of 6 expected. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses. Barometer up to 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 07:17; Sunset 17:14 GMT

HWMBO and I have been to the farmers' market this morning. Lazy day today. HWMBO wants to watch the rugby later.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Nearly frosty.

Chilly in here at 12.3 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto, 4 in the saltinghouse.

1013.5 mBar, 29.93 in Hg, 760.2 Torr, 14.6995 psi, (up from 1004 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, covbob, NF and I popped in and there was a mention of someone named "zeitghost" and why the smileys popup thing is so random.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC: the results of the Orange Moron's cuts to aid. Noon o'clock news. Moneybox illustrating why Craptia is so called. An hour and 55 minutes average call duration to their so called pension line.

Book. End of book.

Washing in off the line: that requiring the iRon received its attentions, all airing upstairs.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the increasingly grey gloom. Where'd the sunshine go? Two conversations: one with a couple of Midlanders, the other with the couple next door but one. Seized up by the end of that.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. The Robinson thing: Farage FFS: <click with Extreme Prejudice>

Scotland Yard "The unseeing eye (1959)". The dead man with a false eye one.

Maigret. S3 E8: "The crystal ball (1962)". The murdered fortune teller one. She didn't see that coming. . Fell asleep and missed the resolution of one part of the mystery. .

Rome: empire without limit with Mary Beard. :. So inneresting I've been reading about Asimov's Galactic Empire novels (something that the books actually aren't, being standalone Golden Age novels, Pebble in the sky, Currents of Space and The End of Eternity but sticking GE on the cover helped sell them in the 1980s).

The Dennis Quaid thing on Blaze: Stonehenge and Easter Island: mildly inneresting (that's the 2nd time I've typed this: it deleted everything from Scotland Yard onwards the first time I typed it. WTF?).

[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