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[ladymuck]

It's turned quite breezy outside. I can hear the bins being rattled about.

[xoggoth]

Going to local carols in the square thing later with loony lady 2. Boring but summit to do.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was some leftovers

I’ve spent a few hours either side of it working out various things to do with the new forum software. Reasonably confident now about being able to sort out some rather gnarly stuff to do with the data import side of things

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Raining and will continue to do so for much of the day. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Barometer at 999 mBar.

Sunrise 07:53; Sunset 15:53 GMT

Decided against visiting Mum today. Much achiness and the bruises on my knees are already starting to come out. Hobbling a bit as my right knee isn't liking too much weight on steps. One of these days I'll rent a flat that's actually flat.

I put extra blankets on my bed last night, even though it wasn't particularly cold, and was very snuggly and cosy. The extra weight is very nice; reminded me of visiting my grandparents as a kid where beds were made with flannel sheets and woollen blankets, not these modern duvets.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Gloomy grey day out, with a damp feel to things although it’s not actually raining. It will be this afternoon, though. Currently 8°C (which allegedly “feels like” 4°), and supposed to soar to a balmy 13° later. The barometers have crept back up a little, to 987/995mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Drizzly.

Misty.

Damp.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 14.2 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

993 mBar, 29.3232 in Hg, 744.8 Torr, 14.4 psi, (down from 997 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of March 2020 Brillo, AndyGarbs, and LondonManc popped in, LM was irritated by sniffers on public transport, WTFH was leaving coming home on a jet plane, and I was in with the hoi polloi before purchasing some bread.

Raining well now and the mist is even thicker: can barely see across the valley, boyo.

Lunch: brunch.

Raining more. Mist thicker. What a lovely day.

Firkled about with an old Win95 laptop I was given: it was bringing up errors during book, so, for the first time in years, I edited autoexec.bat, config.sys, and system.ini to remove references to stuff that isn't on it any more and to replace references that pointed to the Wrong Place. Boots up more cleanly now but I need to run scandsk on it & scandsk isn't there having been deleted to save space at some time.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: something on R4.

Book. Other book. Book.

[NickFitz]

Tonight I started reading GSG 9: From Munich to Mogadishu by Martin Herzog, being the history of the creation of Germany’s much admired counterterrorism unit, created in the aftermath of the debacle of the 1972 Olympics

Goodnight all

[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.

The last 10 minutes of "Ride the High Country (1962)" with that Randolph Scott chap, the last film he made.

Dunno if I want to watch "Wind River" again.

[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