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[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Indian street food place. Very spicy, very tasty, very filling

[NickFitz]

Bacon bap (white, generously buttered) for lunch

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a cloudy day except for a few small patches of blue, and it’s very windy, with the trees gesticulating frantically. So the current 21°C “feels like” 17° and the high of 22° won’t last very long. It’s expected to be a relatively mild night though, not dipping below 16°. The barometers are hanging around the same general area of 1014/1015mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but dry and bright. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Slight chance of rain. Barometer at 1023 mBar

Sunrise 06:31; Sunset 19:23 BST

I slept very well last night and woke about 10 mins before my alarm.

Today I'm off to Chelsea to see a few exhibitions at the Saatchi gallery with a friend, followed by a long lunch somewhere on the King's Road. She's packed her husband off to spend the day with his parents so it's going to be a good girlie day out.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Grey, very grey, as grey as a 's arse grey.

18.8 deg in here, 19.5 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1015 mBar, 29.97 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.72 psi, (down from 1016 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of April 2020, between 15:34 and 15:50, in popped Brillo a lot, with LM and MrMarkyMark lending a hand.

Did better than yesterday & woke at 05:50 this morning, read book, and went back to sleep. Strange dream where the previous owners of the house wanted it back despite them having died some 20 odd and some 30 odd years ago.

Shocked: someone doesn't know who Sarah Connor is. .

Entertainment: thing about Penrhyn Castle Yng Nghymraeg on S4C. Very Gogledd Cymraeg too. Nice to know it was all built on actual slavery in Jamaica and oppressing the workers in north Wales.

Lunch: brunch.

Dashcam bollox S2 E3

Dashcam bollox S2 E4.

It's drizzling/raining with a really really fresh breeze blowing the trees about. Grass is growing again, feckit.

Ah, all ist klar: 'tis Fairweek: it always rains on Fairweek. All the stalls will be gone & the rest packed up by tomorrow. Oh the relief.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Tice comes on <click> Not listening to rightwing scumbags: elect the bastards once & lo! no more elections. Ever. Next thing you know they'll be looking for lebensraum. .

Entertainment: Maigret "The cactus (1961)" Can a cactus have too much sun? Askin' for a friend.

More Blazian bollox: World War Weird: Fat Herman's Nazi Cunning Plan to resurrect the Aurochs. The tarpan horse. The Heck/Przewalski horse. The V3 cannon. Tallboy/GrandSlam. Russian flying tanks. Illyushin IL2 ground attack aircraft. Psychic SuperSoldiers staring at goats. Project Stargate.

Blazian bollox: Secret Wars: Cambodia. Or how the septics dropped megatons of bombs to very little effect, then Pol Pot killed everyone the septics missed. Operation Daniel Boone. Operation Menu. Those the gods wish to destroy etc.

I noticed in passing down the EPG that "The adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)" was showing on one of the more obscure channels. Brought back memories of the cinema in the EHB at Loogabaroo. Dear dead days thankfully far beyond recall.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was Tornado (2025) in which a Japanese puppeteer and her father find themselves in conflict with a band of robbers in a remote part of 18th century Britain. This was utterly bleak throughout, but in a good way if you know what I mean. Well worth watching, but it’s not setting out to cheer you up, and it won’t

And then I rewatched Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). I appreciated this much more the second time around. I understand why George Miller used the storyboards for this to get people to sign on for Mad Max: Fury Road because it’s a story one really needs to know the resolution of. Although it has plenty of mayhem and insanity in its own right, it does an excellent job of imparting an understanding of just why the mayhem and insanity shown in Mad Max: Fury Road happened, and in the way they did

Finally, the second episode of Dark Matter which is still OK in its way but… I’m not sure it’s going to grab me. It still feels like one of those things that’s worth watching if you’re going to be watching TV anyway, not something that leaves you hungry for the next episode, and then for the next series (or season)

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The drive home was uneventful.

The bed has been made.

Dinner came from Wing Stop.

An episode of The Curse of Oak Island has been watched.

It's early but I feel I've had enough of today.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs and chips, being the mango chutney-based BBQ sauce of my own devising, but no longer with the Sainsbury’s TTD chutney as they’ve stopped making it! There’s an alternative premium mango chutney on offer which looks very similar, though not identical; I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s made by the same outfit as made the own-brand one. Anyway, it works well enough for my purposes

[xoggoth]

Thing with much younger lady is tomorrow. Senile! Went for wander with loony lady 1, one of same old places.

[DoctorStrangelove]

No Mahjong this morning as only me and one lady turned up. After walky and boring shopping ran me old lady neighbour to the doctors. Didn't realise she is almost 90, she seems very with it mentally.

xogg OM!

[sadkingbilly]

greetings and felicitations

lunch today was leftover gammon with honey and mustard sauce in sourdough bread.
back to Z land Monday.
oh, well, i suppose i can't really complain, considering the woes of the SoM thread, and the bumsqueaking tax dodgers.

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

Big Sainsbury’s of course, where Viz was finally obtained

I also discovered that the meat and veg do, in fact, have roughly the same spatial relationship as they previously had. I think I was confused by the way we had to travel via odd routes when parts were still partitioned off; and the drastic rearrangement of spatial relationships within fruit and veg certainly doesn’t help, particularly if you’re looking for the onions. But on further analysis, the real problems seem to be deeper in the store, where - among many more minor dislocations - the relocation of crisps and nuts, alcohol, and cleaning materials, plus the introduction of ~1.5 aisles primarily dedicated to the lunchtime Meal Deal trade, all sow confusion

The rot goes deeper, though. The tepid food counter closed down some time ago yet tepid food still appeared from somewhere, housed in a warm cabinet near the magazines. That’s moved to the end of the new Meal Deal aisle, whence I got a couple of sweet chilli chicken thighs for lunch. However, in the days of the counter, these would have been carefully placed in a paper/plastic bag, designed to keep everything in. Now, they come in a box of the kind designed more for doughnuts or cream cakes; and as a result, leak fatty juices all over your shopping

Anyway, now I’ve cleaned the shopping and bag that were thus contaminated, I suppose I should eat them while they’re still tepid

[xoggoth]

Off to local show soon for tea and cake with much younger lady.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

it’s a partly sunny, partly wispy day. Likely to get cloudier later though. Mild for the time of year, I think, though who knows what normal weather is nowadays: currently 16°C and aiming for 20°, with the barometers up a touch at 1007/1014mB

I slept well, possibly assisted by having changed the bed yesterday, which included switching to the two-thirds duvet. I also closed the big bedroom window, as once again it was getting very windy after nightfall and more cold air was coming in than I wanted. So I was a bit warmer than the last few nights, when I wasn’t actually cold but was on the cusp

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with that pebbly-looking fluff. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer steady at 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 06:31; Sunset 19:25 BST

My brother is coming back about lunchtime. The bed has been stripped and is airing. Mum's bed was done yesterday. My bed at home was stripped before I left, so I'll be making that when I get home. That'll be three beds made in two days! I would get a job as a chambermaid but I think my output would need to be much higher.