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[NickFitz]

Once again, today’s wildlife stuff was supplemented with an episode of Kingdom on iPlayer, in which the lions were having a hard time of it

And in The Forgotten Soldier, he’s had two weeks of leave in Berlin in return for volunteering to join an infantry unit. But he spent a lot of it getting bombed by the Allies

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Went to Exeter today. The Wife and The Dog were happy with my car choice. Now just need to get the dealer to deal.

Anyway, TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from Popeyes

It was also brought to somebody at the other end of the adjacent block! Well, not the same tea. But the guy delivered to one of the neighbours there first, then came over to me

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bacon bap

Getting cloudier out now, and the rain is due soon

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Cloud low down near the horizon but blue sky higher up, again. It seems to have rained a bit too, probably last night, and is expected to rain again soon. It’s currently 7°C, it being one of those days where the high of 10° happened early and we’re heading into a short colder spell, The barometers are down in anticipation, at 987/995mB

The mundane laundry is about to be started, as I’ve just remembered it needs to be done

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy, dull, damp. A weather warning for rain is in force. Currently 12 degrees ('feels like' 9) and that's the high for the day. Barometer down to 1000 mBar.

Sunrise 07:42; Subset 15:57 GMT.

Dinner was very good. I got the price wrong. It was £35 for three courses (appetiser, starter, main) or £45 for four (with a dessert). Canapes were complimentary. Sadly my headache turned into a migraine and I wasn't my usual sparkling self.

Today HWMBO and I are off to Glasgow. He's going home and I'm joining him for a week. No visit to Mum this weekend.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Damp.

Blue sky.

Apart from the direction whence the sun: hence: sunless.

Chilly in here at 14.6 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (down from 1000 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of March 2020 we discovered xogg had an Irish grandpa who lived in Brazil, Anonimouse had an exploding lightbulb experience, everyone had tea, LM watched a televised Infinite Monkey Cage & was unimpressed, I watched "A perfect world" with that Kevin Costner cove, and NFhad exploding lightbulbs as an extra cause of worry so he watched more of "The Killing S2" to get over it.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine.

Lots of water in the river & the canal is higher too. Probly explains why the marsh was flooded earlier.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: MoneyBox <click> The commedy thing. <click>

It started raining.

Then it got dark.

Meant to do something this afternoon but read a book instead. And 3 pages of the other book.

Tea: Morrisons 5 bean soup. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Maigret: "The reluctant witnesses (1962)". It's amazing how the Beeb managed to get through in 50 minutes what the others took 2 hours over. . Mind you not nearly as many naked ladies as the French version. . Hadn't seen that episode before: indeed the club wasn't as, er, inneresting as the one visited by Bruno Cremer 25 years later. . Though it was enlivened by the presence of Wallace but no Grommit.

"Breathless (1960)". It seemed long. And senseless. Not to mention plotless.

The Cold War Nuke thing on Alba.

[WTFH]

Morning all
A bit wet and windy overnight, but calmer now.

[NickFitz]

I have no idea why the word “held” appeared in my description of my lunch. I can only assume Apple Intelligence (geddit?) thought it was a good idea to shove it in there, even though it makes no sense. I think I’ll turn “AI” off once I work out how to

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was The Family Plan 2 (2025) because, fool that I am, I thought that they might have learned from their mistakes with the first one. But once again it was too slow about getting started, though I suppose it was a little bit better about it. The London bit included them diving down the alley between the Coliseum and the back of the Harp (which many people say is the narrowest alley in London, though it’s about an inch too wide to claim that crown), which I know very well, then running to meet their kids at St. James’s Square, and onwards to a tourist bus which took them to Piccadilly Circus. By this point, I was thinking that it made a nice change that the movement around London was quite realistic; when I worked at Capital Radio on Leicester Square, I used to head over to the Harp after work, and via St. James’s Square to Fuzzy’s Grub for lunch, so I knew all this was doable. And just then, it cut to show the bus crossing Westminster Bridge from south of the river and past the Houses of Parliament

Anyway, as happened with the first one, it ended up with the last bit of the film being pretty good. They should try doing that all the way through

After that, I needed something less wholesome than Apple’s idea of entertainment. So I rewatched The Terminator (1984). Now that’s a family plan! Also, jokes about smoking, which I don’t suppose we’ll ever see again

Finally, the next episode of Alien: Earth which is a flashback episode to the events on the spaceship that (spoiler alert) brought the alien to Earth. Good bit of backstory, I thought

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

And lunch was held a sausage and bacon baguette with red sauce

The laundry completed, but I think the mattress topper and pillowcases benefit from having a bit of space to themselves, as at the end they were completely dry except for some spots where they were still very damp. So I ended up splitting the load anyway and giving each batch an extra half hour or so

And I’ve been digging into the new forum software, working out how to do various things. Quite a productive afternoon on that, all in all

[WTFH]

Let us know if it blows the bloody doors off, like. .

Handily (or not) it's the other one.

[DoctorStrangelove]

HWMBO and I are off to dinner at The Stafford this evening, where Michael Caines is doing a soft launch of his new menu

Let us know if it blows the bloody doors off, like. .

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with occasional lumps of fluff. Currently 13 degrees ('feels like' 11) and that's the high for the day. Rain expected overnight and there's a heavy rainfall warning in my weather app. Barometer at 1009 mBar.

Sunrise 07:41; Sunset 15:58 GMT

Busy day of meetings. No real work done. Got a headache developing.

HWMBO and I are off to dinner at The Stafford this evening, where Michael Caines is doing a soft launch of his new menu at the bargain price of £45 for three courses. We are encouraged to arrive half an hour early for our booking, to avail ourselves of canapes and aperitifs.

[NickFitz]

Mattress topper and pillow cases in the wash

I’ve decided to see how well they dry together, rather than washing them all then splitting the load across two drying sessions. This process seemed to produce quicker results in aggregate with the old washer-dryer, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the new one can handle it all in one go without a massive increase in the time required

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

I had a personal Nectar Price on Pukka steak slices but they didn’t have any

In fact, they never do have any at Not-as-Big. There’s an empty box on the shelf, but I’m starting to think it’s the same one every week. They just dust it occasionally and leave it there to make customers think it’s their own fault and they should have got there earlier