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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s tea was brought to me from an East African restaurant not far away. Very good indeed, and big portions too! Definitely going to order from there again

This was accompanied by the next episode of Kingdom on iPlayer, in which the lions are managing to turn things around after a run of bad luck

The usual, already much diminished, wildlife programming has been eliminated entirely, replaced by loads of Christmas-themed junk

[ladymuck]

My flight was on time but Waitrose are running late.

I slipped over outside West Ealing station and ended up sprawled on the pavement. Two lads helped me up and made sure I was ok. My right knee isn't happy and I've definitely pulled a few muscles.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Now where's my ******* dog?

And then I rewatched Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which I assume needs no additional summarising from me after all these years

Shortly to be renamed "The Shape of Things to Come". .

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Rather a grey day out. It’s 11°C which is as good as it’ll get, though supposedly it “feels like” 4°. The barometers are down again at 981/989mB

I again neglected to record last night’s viewing, due to getting to bed very late, so for the record: the major motion picture premiere was actually two premieres, being a double feature of Becky (2020) and its sequel, The Wrath of Becky (2023). In the first of these, a group of escaped white supremacist convicts invade a family's lakeside holiday home (do all Americans have one of these, because they seem to appear in movies all the time?) in search of a McGuffin that had been concealed within some years before, and it’s up to 13-year-old Becky to save the day. She does so with great ingenuity and brutality, including a few ways of killing bad guys that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before in a film. In the sequel, she’s a few years older but still a teenager, and once again is forced into the situation of having to take out a bunch of white supremacists; the USA seems to have plenty of these to go around, but getting rid of a few more always helps! Both of these were great fun and are well worth a watch if you’re in the mood for that kind of thing

And then I rewatched Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which I assume needs no additional summarising from me after all these years

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dull, damp. Currently 9 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer down to 987 mBar.

Sunrise 08:31; Sunset 15:45 GMT

Heading home this afternoon. Hopefully no delays as I have Waitrose delivering later.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Damp.

Grey.

Dreary

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 14 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 11.5 in the leanto.

989 mBar, 29.2 in Hg, 741.8 Torr, 14.344 psi, (up from 986 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

The puddle at the bottom of next door's garden has returned and it's now rather bigger than a couple of days ago.

Meanwhile on the 4th of March 2020 NF observed the football enthusiasts going to & coming back from the footballing emporium, and watched ST IV (the one with the whales), followed by yet more "Killing", LM watched 2 Doctor Who eps & thought them slightly better, WTFH popped in, and I finished watching "Two Mules for Sister Sara" with little enthusiasm.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the occasional deluge.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC. The Australian customs thing S15 E19. No frog fat yet, undeclared foodstuffs from Vietnam.

Book. Other book. Minor potching in the attempt to understand why a win98 box has decided it has to fall over all the time. Even does it in safe mode, though not to the same extent.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM.

Maigret. "The white hat (1962)". Madame Maigret left holding the baby.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been some of the shepherd’s pie for which I laid the groundwork yesterday. Very nice

In the perennial struggle to work out how many spuds to use to get the requisite amount of mash, I erred on the side of too many this time. Better than not enough! And I recently came across a recipe for making fried potato cakes with surplus mash, so I’ll give that a go with what’s left

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice, as the shop actually had some yesterday

It continues to be a bit variable out there. I can see a fair few areas of blue sky from the living room window, but it’s also come over quite gloomy so I suspect a load of cloud is heading in from the other side

The mundane laundry is on

And my washer-dryer has just informed me that a software update is ready to install, which didn’t used to happen with the old one

[WTFH]

Hope you shopped around - the brokers have 15-25% discount of EVs at the moment

Got about £8k off it via a broker.

[eek]

Porsche* Elroq.
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I know it's not a Porsche, I'm not stupid with my money (any more). Priced up the Audi equivalent and it was £18k extra for the 4-ring badge.

Hope you shopped around - the brokers have 15-25% discount of EVs at the moment

[WTFH]

Go on then, I'll bite. What did you get?

Porsche* Elroq.
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I know it's not a Porsche, I'm not stupid with my money (any more). Priced up the Audi equivalent and it was £18k extra for the 4-ring badge.

[ladymuck]

New car ordered, hoping for delivery before Christmas.

Go on then, I'll bite. What did you get?

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but bright enough. The ever-present chance of rain remains. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 3) and that's the high for the day. Barometer down a snifter to 994 mBar.

Sunrise 08:30; Sunset 15:46 GMT

Back in that London I'd be getting an extra 48 minutes of daylight

Clashing meetings this morning meant I attended the one that wasn't recorded then watched the recording of the other afterwards. Neither truly required my attendance and I definitely didn't have to input anything.

Chat yesterday with ex-client was interesting. They have moved onto a different organisation. It's public sector yet outside IR35. In two minds over it as it'll be full on, full time and I quite like the easy life I have at the moment with my two little gigs. But stretching the old grey matter may do me some good too.

[Pondlife]

Afternoon campers

Wind 12 kt from the South
Temperature 9°C
Humidity 81%
Pressure 1000 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Few clouds at a height of 2900 ft
Broken clouds at a height of 3500 ft
light rain

TFIF.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all
Woke up 15 mins ago and decided it was too late to try to go back to sleep, then remembered the Ashes. That will keep me occupied until it’s time to take Max out for a perambulation.

you can watch that game and stay awake???