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[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the rest of the Police Interceptors I started watching the other night

And tonight I read more of Station Eleven which continues to be very good

There have been strange noises outside, which I believe to have been caused by water descending from the heavens! What sorcery is this?

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the leftover experimental chicken casserole from… last week? The week before? Can’t remember. Anyway, it was very nice with chips and peas; I’ll have to make that again, with a few minor adjustments

There’s been some rain from time to time, but it’s the kind that you can’t even see when you look out of the window and lasts a very short time. So the only effect is that although it isn’t as hot as it has been, it feels very humid

[ladymuck]

I did some laundry this morning. Discovered I'd left a tissue in my jeans pocket, and there's bits of tissue now stuck to everything.

This afternoon I had a call for a potential gig. I think it went well but we'll have to wait and see.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been assorted charcuterie in a white bap

It was one of the baps I made last week and I was able to confirm that yes, they’re a bit big. But at least I won’t get hungry this afternoon

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[xoggoth]

Day to meself, apart from walky, probably spend most of me time replacing fence at bottom of garden, awkward job as over a stream. Else been trying to calculate more accurate postage costs on checkout page on me little business website. When you rarely do any coding it gets much harder.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with occasional lumps of fluff. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 26 expected. Barometer down to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 05:50; Sunset 20:20 BST

I have a couple of meetings this morning for gig1, which annoyingly overlap. Depending on the agenda of the first meeting, I will either leave it early or stay to the end and be late for the second. The owner of the second meeting has been informed of this.

Once that's done, I need to go to the post office to return some items purchased from Next and to post some letters in the box outside. Mostly "return to sender, addressee unknown".

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday apparently.

Damp. Yes. Really. The garden path is wet. .

Grey. Very grey.

Misty. Can't see Drummau or March Hywel.

Sunless.

22.7 deg in here, 24.2 deg in the kitchen, 22 i the leanto, 20 out the back.

1009.5 mBar, 29.8 in Hg, 757.2 Torr, 14.64 psi, (down from 1010 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 18:14 and 19:19, Brillo, LM, NF, vetran, and I popped in, with discussion of BTVS to keep us all going.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Dunno what I forgot yet.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some oik waffling on about hacking. <click> when it became too irritating.

Sky Arts: The Art of Film: Comedy.

Expedition Unknown: "The Secret": a 1980s cult book that reveals the location of 10 12 hidden treasures in SepticLand. Never heard of it but there you go. They've found 3 so far.

Expedition Unknown: Stonehenge.

Watching this stuff is definite sign of clinical insanity.

Walk (much abbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Pleasant enough when the breeze was blowing.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country. I wonder what he'll kill today. : Mackerel fishing. Gridiron for cooking said fish over a fire on the beach. Walsall brass foundry who make (or made) horse bits: nice illustration of using patterns to produce the sand moulds, then the melting and pouring of the brass, and the parting off of the resultant castings, followed by the finishing. Interesting if you're innerested in things like that. All to obtain a 5" Liverpool bit, whatever that is.

Tea: Mr Brains faggots etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Bit of the UFO bollox on Blaze.

Thing about placenames in Pembroke (don't mention it to Mal, maybe he won't notice).

Bab5 S3 E6 "Dust to Dust". Dear old Bester returns to Bab5. G'Kar samples Dust, this being some telepath enhancing drug invented by the Psi Corps.

Maigret and the spinster 1994, aka "Cecile est mort". Poor old Cecile again. She never gets out alive. .

That Ant chap farting about with a) a 1960s Consul Cortina and b) a house. Looking on the bright side the fat git isn't in this one. Changing the crank bearings was mildly inneresting. Many years since I've done anything like that.

Interspersed with bits of Secrets in the Dark: some Scottish cave full of bones, Voynich again, silver coins found in some Polish forest, and Richard III.

Speaking of that Leicester place, I see that The Country's Most Popular Railway Bridge to Collide With has been hit twice in two days.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Prepping for a big meeting later so I haven't had time to say hello yet.
Warm and a bit cloudy, but no rain.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There’s a lot of high, thin cloud but the sun’s getting through a lot as well. The day’s generally predicted to be cloudy, though. It’s 17°C and the expected high is only 23°; the barometers are down a touch at 1004/1012mB

I had an unsettled night’s sleep for some reason, so I’m not feeling at my best today

[NickFitz]

There was some wildlife stuff on this afternoon to help pass the time

Tonight, I decided I wasn’t in the mood for the book about the anti-Nazi Germans. Instead, I started reading Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, in which a SARS-style plague has wiped out much of humanity. It’s from 2014, which made me wonder how alarming the events of early 2020 might have been for the author, who’d clearly put a lot of work into imagining what might happen if what was happening then happened… Anyway, it’s very good so far

Monday again tomorrow. There should be a law

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a couple of leftover spicy lamb chops, and tea has been steak with fried onion and chips

The latter was accompanied by some more of the Scottish paramedics thing

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Much more cloud than blue sky out there today, though with enough gaps for plenty of brighter spells. It’s getting cooler: currently 18°C and it'll peak at 23° today, with forecast highs below 20° for the end of the week onwards! The barometers are still dithering around the 1007/1015mB mark

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Currently 18 degrees ('feels like' 22) with a high of 26 expected. Looks like it might try to rain. Barometer up to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 05:48; Sunset 20:22 BST

Off to see Mum today. HWMBO is coming too and we're going to do a bit of a house survey to see about external cameras and better WiFi (the house is very solidly built and the power line extenders struggle, so we'll see if we can go for mesh).

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dry.

22.3 deg in here, 24.4 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto, 15 out the back.

1011 mBar, 29.85 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (unchanged), 58% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 17:43 and 18:05, AndyGarbs, Brillo, covbob, and vetran popped in, with Brillo doing most of the popping.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the grey gloom & wan sunshine. Nice enough.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Cartrefi Cymru: workers abodes: estate lodge, crenellated. Old Police Station. Gardner's house: two houses knocked into one & extended (though feck nose why since just the two houses knocked into one was big enough).

Dascam bollox again. More madness: no guns on this one, just the usual rednecks driving trucks very badly.

Ooooer, the chap I emailed about all the tv & radio service manuals just woke up & emailed me back. Maybe I'll be able to get shot of them yet.

Thing about Welsh Placenames Yng Nghymraeg. I find it a bit odd that Welsh pronunciation these days doesn't match what I learned back in the 60s. Then again I don't suppose that reading Y Fanner ac Amserau Cymru is much in demand nowadays.

Tea: baked beans & baked spud. Nice enough. Entertainment: Brain of Britain. I knew the correct answer to some of the questions. Well there's a thing.

Book. This book is raising my hackles. Philip Green. Jack Welch. The facebook twat. etc. etc. Don't subsequent events change the rating on some of the above. .

Blazian bollox: Secrets in the Jungle. Strange metal remains on Pelelu, whatever can they be? WTF. The battle is covered endlessly FFS. It's an LVT, used by the marines to get off the beach. It took 20 minutes to get this far. Walking palm tree in Ecuadorian jungle: it sprouts new roots on the side it wants to move towards and lets the roots on the opposite side die off. Columbia coal mine: vertebra of the largest snake found so far: "Carbon dated" to 58M year ago (a neat trick in and of itself, the limit being rather less at 57k but there you go). Fecking big coal mine too, and not a Welshman in sight. Ceramic jars full of bones in the Cambodian jungle, placed on ledges high above the floor. Dated C14 to C17.

Blazian bollox: Danny Trejo Buried secrets. Tolland Man. Alaska: Native American masks & other items washing out of permafrost due to thaw. 1590 - 1630. Massacre. Bow & Arrow war. Terracotta Army China. Silvianus stolen ring. Lead tablet curse. Mortimer Wheeler. Tolkein. 1970s Aral sea. Water testing due to falling fish stocks. Brown mist. Woman on deck gets smallpox despite being vaccinated due to Soviet virus designed to evade vaccine. Aralsk-7 island: now a peninsula due to the drying up of the Aral sea. What could possibly go (more) wrong? German SC500 bomb found in Plymouth. Ben Franklin's house in London: bones found in cellar. William Hewson, anatomist. Oppin Germany: stone age skeleton weighted down with large rock. Church of San Pablo: tunnels beneath revealed by GPR. The 17 coffins found in a little cave on Arthur's Seat.



Bits of "Highlander (1986)" and bits of "Joe Kidd (1972)". Watched the wonderfully impossible coldbore shot using an unzeroed rifle he'd never fired before in Joe Kidd. And the wonderfully funny rapier dual in Highlander. Makes me laugh every time.