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[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was a sliced chicken and stuffing bap (white), and tea has been takeaway leftovers

I seem to be getting attacked by pollen again. I’ve gone round and shut all the windows, in a vague and probably fruitless attempt to stop it getting in

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy with gaps again, and there’s a light breeze to get the air circulating a bit. It’s 17°C now but the cloud will clear more this afternoon, letting it get to 22°. The barometers are up to 1014/1021mB

[xoggoth]

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 Brillo, covbob, eek, LM, MrMarkyM....

Looking forward to NF releasing that widget to let us jump to a specific date in a thread so we can check if you are lying!

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with occasional lumps of fluff. A breeze wafts every now and then. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Barometer up to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 05:07; Sunset 21:08 BST

I was awoken at 6am by something scurrying around outside. I suspect it was in the garage's junk yard they have out back rather than my little patch of garden. I then dozed for a while and woke again at 8am. I considered this still too early and finally got up at 9am.

I'm all set for the drive down to Mum's; just having a coffee first. Next week I'll be staying with her while my brother has a well earned holiday.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in parts with a lot of cloud.

23.5 deg in here, 25.2 in the kitchen, 23 in the leanto, 20 out the back.

1016.5 mBar, 30.02 in Hg, 762.4 Torr, 14.74 psi, (up from 1013 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 Brillo, covbob, eek, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, and WTFH popped in, and the TPD Summer Holiday Specifically in General was mentioned.

So I've bumped it. .

Walk (up to the res & back down through the woods) walked. A mile up & a mile back down.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus, this being more inneresting than DiTiDi.

More youtube bollox about Inside Trump's Head from the Daily Beast. Well it passes the time.

Book. Other book.

Freecell score (when the box finally booted into safe mode): 95%, running average: 84%.

Tea: baked beans & baked spuds. Nice enough. Entertainment: R4 waffling on about closing CofE churches right left & centre. There're 3 Church in Wales churches within a mile in Neath, one just up the road is 12th C, another 12th C in Neath, and a bit feck off Victorian one 200 yards from that. And there's another two across the river.

[NickFitz]

More watery wildlife on the box today

Tonight, I read more of One Two Three Four in which an ever-perceptive Ringo, after meeting a young Jeffrey Archer, said “He’s the kind of bloke who’d bottle your piss and sell it”

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the East African place

Very nice, but their chilli sauce is really hot!

[xoggoth]

I have been meaning to try and find a good local chippy for years

Hmmm, that's an idea. There's a van that sells fish and chips at top of my road on Saturday afternoon. Myabe I'll wander up there to save me having to cook summit.

[sadkingbilly]

My dream was about all the girls in the village getting pregnant but via some mind control, not by natural method. Out with LL1 later.

the midwitch cuckoo's by any chance?

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Lots of cumuli around, making it cloudy with sunny spells. Mild enough at 22°C, which is the high for today; the barometers are up a bit at 1009/1017mB

A bedding wash is underway

[xoggoth]

My dream was about all the girls in the village getting pregnant but via some mind control, not by natural method. Out with LL1 later.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with occasional lumps of fluff. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 23 expected. Barometer up to 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 05:05; Sunset 21:09 BST

Had some very odd dreams which I don't really remember enough of now. Headachy again but still having a coffee while I decide what chores to do.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

23.5 deg in here, 25.5 in the kitchen, 22.5 in the leanto, 20 out the back.

1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (up from 1010.5 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 Brillo, covbob, LM, and WTFH popped in and WTFH discovered that zero point infractions were available.

Walk (up the hill & reached the res) walked in the unbearable heat of the morning.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: TWInW. That's "Entertainment" in inverted commas really. FOOC. <click>.

Book. Other book. Book.

Freecell score: 85%, running average: 84%. Box is dying by inches. Dunno WTF is up with it, passes various utilities with no problem but it's getting harder & harder to get it to boot, even in safe mode.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM <click>

Some bollox on Blaze

Maigret S1 E4 "The Revolver (1960)".

More bollox on Blaze. Book. Other book. Book.

Blaze: Hitler's Engineers. The Good Doctor Ferdinand Porsche. The KDFwagen was one thing, his tanks were overweight disasters.

Blaze: The U Boat Wargame thing. E5.

?Monster Quest? Ah, my little piranha fish Bit of Terminator 2. Some dross on DMAX about Jack the Ripper: yet another solution.<click>

Book.

Now I'm not walking 4 miles a day I seem to be putting on weight & getting fat. .

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was No Hard Feelings (2023) in which wealthy helicopter parents pay a penurious Jennifer Lawrence to “date” their son before he goes to Princeton. This rapidly turns complicated, because if it didn’t there’d be nothing to make a film about. It’s very funny, and it all turns out OK in the end for everyone, so that was nice

Then a rewatch of Tetris (2023) because it’s always nice to see Robert Maxwell and his son Kevin depicted as the useless thieving ***** they were

And finally, a further episode of Silo

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

I have been meaning to try and find a good local chippy for years. A task which simply requires me walking to one and placing an order to see if I like it. Today, I finally did that.

Verdict: chips good, sausage in batter good, haddock not so good.

The fish was freshly fried to order but was greasy and had an odd, maybe old oil, flavour to it.

The search will resume next time I get the urge to leave the flat for chips.