Reply to: test please delete

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was the final episode of Critical: Between Life and Death

And then I finished reading October the First is Too Late. Strange stuff

Next up is Fifth Planet, co-written with Geoffrey Hoyle, his son. And that will be enough Fred Hoyle for now - well, unless I find my copy of The Black Cloud

Monday tomorrow, but at least I don't have to work

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Evening all


It's rained off and on all day, both here in London and down in Sussex by the sea. The high has been 15 degrees and it's 14 now. Barometer down to 994 mBar.

Sunrise 07:32; Sunset 17:59 BST

As alluded to above, I have been to visit Mum today. I need to encourage my brother to pop into the local monthly dementia cafe for a bit of extra support. Mum's eating habits are a getting very peculiar and I wonder if some of the people attending will be able to offer some ways to help him manage it.

On returning home, HWMBO had prepped dinner of venison steak, chanterelles, salsify, roast potatoes, and romanesco in a cheese sauce. Very delicious.

[NickFitz]

Tea: ribs and chips, being the mango BBQ ones of my own devising out of the freezer

Must make some more of them

Lunch earlier was leftover pork cutlet in a bap (wholemeal) with apple sauce

And while I've been working on some PHP/WordPress stuff for my sister's website, the washer-dryer has been at work on a mattress topper and pillow protectors. With those washed and dried, I've just put it on a "rinse out fluff" cycle and then it can have the rest of the day off

[WTFH]

Second walk of the day completed, with only heavy rain for about 20 minutes of it.

[xoggoth]

Back from another visit to little local art group. Better than dozing around at home.

[xoggoth]

Local lone walk this morning, got back just before rain got too rainy. Managed to find a little pond me and kids used to go to, pretty inaccessible now and full of fallen branches.

[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).

Meanwhile on the 25th of February 2020 WTFH had broken a laptop when it was plugged directly into the client's network. Don't you just hate it when that happens.

Oh, and with that, we're back.

Freecell score in the grey gloom of the morning: 91%, running average: 84%.

Lunch: brunch.

Freecell score in the grey gloom of the afternoon: 86%, running average: 84%.

Entertainment: Look at Life: Potatoes (1961).

Tea: beans on toast. And something seems to have stuck in my throat & I can't seem to shift it.

Ho very hum.

Entertainment: Look at Life.

Sergeant Cork. "The persistent assassin" with Garfield Morgan as a Silesian prince.

Why does everyone hate the British Empire: Australia.

[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.