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Pali!

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull, overcast, humid. Currently 22 degrees with a high of 24 expected. Barometer down to 1008 mBar.

Popped to the farmers' market this morning. Picked up some goat leg steaks for HWMBO to cook up when he's back next week. The Isle of Wight tomato stall doesn't take back their reusable boxes, which I feel is very poor form.

Off to Petersham Nurseries for lunch this afternoon.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Grey.

Dark.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Cooler side of phew wot a scorcher in here at 21.6 deg, 23 deg in the kitchen, 21.5 deg in the leanto.

1001 mBar, in Hg, Torr, psi, (down from 1006 last night), 75% RH (Lidl electric).

[NickFitz]

Having rewatched the Hunger Games films, it was time for the premiere of the prequel, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023). It's good but let's face it, it was only ever going to be an adjunct to the originals. It's a reasonably entertaining way of passing some time if you like the original story, though

Following which, I was in the mood for something based more in reality, so rewatched In the Name of the Father (1993) about the appalling miscarriage of justice in the case of the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven. Very good, but it cannot be stressed to filmmakers often enough: judges in British courts don't have gavels! They're only used on Bargain Hunt in this country

And then a further episode of The Wire

I remembered to make the bed before all of the above - no duvet

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

I have caught up on 24 Hours in A&E.

I am still very grumpy with Channel4. They insisted that my account hadn't been used for two years and deleted it. I recreated it with the exact same login details I'd been using but obviously had lost all my lists. Will see if they delete it again in two years' time.

[ladymuck]

Pali!

[NickFitz]

While out shopping earlier, I treated myself to a wok. So tea tonight has been sweet & sour pork with fried rice. I'm not about to claim that it was as good as you'd get from a Chinese, but it was very nice

I need to make the bed soon, as I left it to air in the heat of the day. Not sure I need bother with the arduous process of putting a duvet inside the cover until the weather cools down a bit

[NickFitz]

Pali!

[NickFitz]

…if, indeed, it has one

The decision is now with somebody at an external org who is in the middle of their two week holiday. So we won't find out anything until a week on Monday at the earliest

[NickFitz]

Still waiting to hear about the future of the project…

[NickFitz]

That's Friday done

[NickFitz]

The early start this morning went OK in terms of sorting out some useful stuff for the project. And I've used it as an excuse to take an early and extended lunch break, so to Sainsbury's I did go

Lunch, therefore, has been a "well seasoned" chicken leg from the hot food counter - which, due to it already being 26°C and very warm in the car, wasn't even that cold by the time I got it home and guzzled it with a bag of plain crisps

It also became apparent that I was mistaken in thinking the windows at the old flat had been replaced when I caught a quick glimpse as I drove past the other week. The old sashes are still there, though one of the panes is still broken. But the doctor has had his woodwork painted, and it was this bright white gleam that I glimpsed through the trees out of the corner of my eye as I whizzed past

[WTFH]

I wonder if Scooter bought a load of Crowdstrike shares yesterday...

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with wispy fluff and chemtrails. Currently 24 degrees with a high of 32 expected. Barometer down to 1015 mBar.

I think I'll stay indoors.

BT are supposed to be calling me back at 3pm to advise what they're doing about cancelling my old phone line and broadband.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

CBS.

Uncool in here at 20.7 deg, 22 deg in the kitchen, 20 deg in the leanto, 18 deg in the saltinghouse.

1011.5 mBar, 29.869 in Hg, 768.68 Torr, 14.67 psi, (down from 1012.5 last night), 73% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 23rd of October 2019 NF had a plum danish whilst xogg was having problems with distances on his map ap, LM's HWMBO was making Osso Buco, I was pruning gooseberry bushes.

Smalls in the WM.

Smalls out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Cottons in the WM.

Cottons out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine & cool breeze.

Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

Entertainment: thing waffling on about wild fires.

TWATO.

Shirts in off the line & roughly iRoned & airing upstairs.

Cottons in off the line & roughly iRoned & airing over the banisters.

Smalls in off the line & airing upstairs.

Phew wot a scorcher: 27 deg in the saltinghouse during the iRoning.

Entertainment: the Infinite Monkey Cage S22 An astronaut's guide to isolation with Rusty Schweickart et al.

The Infinite Monkey Cage S22: The Sun.

The Mentalist S1 E9, E10.

Tea: chicken in white sauce.

Entertainment: PM.

The News Quiz.

The Mentalist S1 E11, E12 (this last the Azura Skye wikka one).

Thing on R4 about Apollo with that James Burke cove.

Maigret S1 E2 "Dead man". Mr Bean rides again.