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[NickFitz]

Magpie on the living room window ledge!

I've never seen a bird on there since I moved here, so it's pretty cool that it was one of the resident magpies rather than one of the multiplicity of pigeons

It completely ignored me though. Didn't even look in

[WTFH]

A rainy Sunday morning in Devon. Max and I have delayed going out for a walk, but I don’t think we can delay any longer. A good excuse to try out my new Fortis trousers.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy out but with some gaps starting to open up, and sunny spells likely. It's 12°C and will get up to 15° this afternoon - but this will be accompanied by a likelihood of rain, varying from 65% to 75% from mid-afternoon through to midnight, and accompanied by a bit of a breeze which is already starting to build up. The barometers are down to 993/1001mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ LM OM.

Morning.

Sunday.

Wet.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 17.3 deg, 17 in the kitchen, 15.5 in the leanto.

997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

[NickFitz]

Much dismay among the apes today, for the programme schedulers have cut the wildlife programming back to a mere three hours around teatime

But I found out about the orangutan documentary on Netflix, so I put that on for them this evening

Later, I finished reading Ossian's Ride, which was quite entertaining all in all. And then, as it's in a volume of three Fred Hoyle novels, it was straight on to October the First is Too Late, in which I've just go to the point where it turns weird

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been brought from the south Indian place past the park. I had one of their curries that I hadn't tried before and it was very nice indeed, albeit very hot

[xoggoth]

Loony lady 3 earlier. Got back to her place and she found she'd left her walking stick in the cafe. Said I'd collect it for her when I went on me walk tomorrow but she insisted we drive all the way back! She drives me nuts!

Mood improved by call in at a local art exhibition where I know a few of the artists. Lovely lady there who's a local burlesque performer. Cor! Chewy she is.

Close shave earlier, had to brake when a child shot right out across the road on a bike. Good job I'd just pulled out of the parking spot and was only doing about 10mph or he could have been killed.

[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was a sausage and bacon baguette (red sauce) - well, half of one, as a whole one seemed a tad excessive, and now I have the other half for another day

Preparation of this was slightly delayed as the baguette was one of those you reheat at home, and furthermore was starting from frozen. I popped it in the oven in plenty of time, but somehow managed to accidentally turn on the oven's child lock a few minutes later, which disabled it when it was still only slightly warm. Once I realised what had happened, I had to go and check the manual to find out how to turn the lock off again

So the sausages and bacon got to rest for a few minutes while the baguette was heated up on the second attempt

[ladymuck]

After returning from being stabbed and having yet more blood taken for testing, HWMBO and I strolled down the road to have a look at the local shops. We stopped at a deli where cheese was purchased. We also had a look at the bakery which had a notable queue. We didn't need anything so just had a look through the window before taking a gentle pootle up to a tapas restaurant for a spot of brunch.

Now back home and ready for a nap.

[xoggoth]

Loony lady 3 soon. Odd thing when went shopping earlier there was a big van with a US flag and MIAMI POLICE on the back. Surely, if it was just a joke, you wouldn't be allowed to write POLICE on a vehicle.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Unsurprisingly, it's an overcast sort of day. Currently 12°C and expected to be up at 14° for much of the afternoon. No rain expected before tomorrow (when there's a 90% chance of some) and the barometers are a little further down at 1012/1020mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday apparently. Woke early as is only right & proper these days.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 17.1 deg, 16.5 in the kitchen, 15.5 in the leanto.

1017 mBar, 30.03 in Hg, 762.8 Torr, 14.75 psi, (down from 1019 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 24th of February 2020: as per yesterday.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the dehumidifier.

More welding practice. Not going very well. I have no idea what is going wrong but going wrong it certainly is. Ho hum.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. The Robinson thing <click>.

Maigret. Sommat to watch. "The triumph of Inspector Lognon". Pity I fell asleep in the middle.

Twilight Zone: "100 yards over the rim": from 1847 to 1961 & back again.

Twilight Zone: "The rip van winkle caper": gold robbers and a 100 year sleep in suspended animation.

Book. Next book.

I eventually realised that "Taggart" was in 3 1 hour eps back in the day, rather than one humungous lump of 2:45:00

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Currently 11 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Barometer down to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 07:31; Sunset 18:01 BST

On my way to the GP for B12 stab no.3 and a blood test. No traffic on the roads so the bus is hurtling along. I'll be about 15 mins early at this rate

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Black Bag (2025) in which it initially appears that the wife of an SIS (aka MI6) analyst, also working at SIS, may have gone over to the dark side, and he and his colleagues have to establish the truth of the matter. I enjoyed this: a thriller which eschews the car chase and gun fight stuff in favour of showing a group of people trying to understand one another's relationships and discern their motivations in a milieu where deception is the norm and secrecy is a given. Well worth a watch if you fancy a spy movie with a bit of depth to it

After that, a rewatch of 28 Days Later (2002) - I'l be watching the new one soon, so I thought it only proper to refresh my memory of the first two before that. Such a good film! The poor quality of the picture because of the filming on digital cameras soon stops being annoying, and there are many shots where it's actually beneficial to the mood. Always worth watching, this one

Finally, S1E1 of Alien: Earth, Neverland (TV Episode 2025). I felt it suffered a bit from feeling that it had to introduce all angles of what is intended to be a complex story at the same time. Maybe developing one aspect first then introducing others later would have been a better approach? But what do I know; I just watch the stuff. Anyway, from what I've read online, it manages to get itself together a bit more in subsequent episodes, so I'll cut it some slack for now

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Turkish place, because I'm on holiday so I don't have to cook if I don't want to

To accompany this, a bit of the fare dodgers thinking they're clever by pulling a scam that all the others also pull