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[xoggoth]

Saw an odd white trail across my lawn, turned out to be feathers. Went up the garden and saw a pigeon wandering about, looked fine but clearly unable to fly. Darn cat maybe. Got me oil tank topped up. Anyway, ll1 bit later.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, a rather chilly 4C right now and I’ve delayed the walk as long as possible.
After that it will be: empty the Wife’s car of the garden tools I picked up from her uncle’s house - he’s about to move into an apartment and his daughter wants family to take everything. I’ve got my name on a pressure washer, petrol brush cutter and petrol edge mower (its deck is only 51cm), but they might still be used at his house in the next month before he moves out.
Next job is to finish the apple trees.
And that’s probably my day done.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Blue sky.

Sunny.

Frosty. Chilly in here at 10.7 deg, 8 in the kitchen, 4 in the leanto, 3 in the saltinghouse.

1013 mBar, 29.91 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.69 psi, (up from 1006 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 11th of March 2020 SimonMac and BR14 popped in, LM was railing at the disruption of the tube trains and having to work 5 days onsite, WTFH met a chap who'd lost £350k due to cancellations and eek popped in to agree that The Ides of March bode ill and worse was to come. .

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Goebbels and the Führer (2024). This addresses the rise and fall of the Third Reich from the perspective of Hitler’s propagandist, and the filmmakers state at the start that although they realise that presenting the views of these people is risky, they think it’s important to do so in order that we can recognise it when such opinions arise again. Given that in the last couple of days I’ve seen reports of people in Trump’s inner circle endorsing assertions that are mere paraphrases of things Goebbels said, I conclude that they are right to sound a warning, and that Trump’s cronies don’t have any creative abilities and can only recycle what those they admire have said. I don’t know whether this will make it any easier to destroy them and grind them into the dust they deserve to be. It’s a very good film, but it did make me wonder where we’ll end up this time; as somebody said, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme

After that I felt the need for something more lighthearted, and what’s more lighthearted than That Thing You Do! (1996)? Not many things is the answer! It’s a great film, and ever so much fun to watch even if it does mean I’ll have the song as an earworm for the next few days. It’s a good song!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: ribeye steak with fried onions and chips. Very nice steak, that was

This was accompanied by Kegworth: Flight to Disaster on iPlayer, about the plane that crashed on the M1, just short of EMA, back in 1989

For many years afterwards there was a big V-shaped gap in the trees pointing up the embankment there, but it seems to have grown back now.

[ladymuck]

I did venture to the great outdoors and returned the poorly sized coffee cups.

The person serving in at the till recognised immediately that I was the customer who had emailed in to advise of the need to return and why. They said they did some investigations and discovered that the cups range in size from 70ml to 90ml capacity so they've updated the info on their website as a result. This is why I like independent shops.

Bitterly cold out, biting wind. Thankfully dry.

[xoggoth]

Quite good little local talk from a lady who's spent her life rescuing elephants and things, followed by boring shopping. LL1 walk tomorrow.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice

Most of the snow on the cars has melted away, though there’s still some on the lawn

[ladymuck]

Ooh this looks interesting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...r-byd-pennod-1

All about the conman Kenner Elias Jones.

[ladymuck]

Morning Afternoon all

Dull. Overcast. Wet. Currently 5 degrees ('feels like' 0) with a high of 6 expected. Not currently raining but more expected. A bit on the breezy side. Barometer down to 993 mBar.

Sunrise 08:04; Sunset 16:13 GMT

Meetings this morning. Time sheets to submit. Then I need to decide whether to head off to South Kensington / Knightsbridge way this afternoon or tomorrow morning. The coffee cups I bought for HWMBO need to be returned.

Oh, and contract no.3 start date postponed to w/c 19 January.

[Pondlife]

Good morning all, TFIF!

Wind 14 kt from the Northwest
Temperature 4°C
Humidity 87%
Pressure 999 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more

Weather warnings seemed a bit over dramatic here as I didn't even have to chase the recycling bags down the road.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Wet as in raining a little.

Dead calm.

Chilly in here at 11.2 deg, 8.5 deg in the kitchen, 6 in the leanto, 6 in the saltinghouse.

997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (up from 986 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of March 2020 Scruff and BR14 popped in, LM cleared up where the theatre was (not Woking), NF was Feeding His Cold, whilst WTFH was variously egg collecting, with 35 in the fridge, and shooting at rats but contemplating a night sight, and I listened to some drama or other on Di Ti Di Hello Tom Me Old Pal Me Old Beauty.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Some thing on R4. Book. Other book. TWATO. <click>

Book. Other book. Book. Other book. Book. Other book.

Next door in the semi has "music" on. It's a tad irritating. I can feel some Hawkwind coming on. .

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Entertainment: PM. 18 o'clock news. The News Quiz.

Welsh history thing ITV. Temperance Town, Cardiff, demolished 1930s. Merchant Navy training ship Menai Strait closed 1974: HMS Conway. Triang factory Merthyr, closed 1981.

Taggart S5 E4 "Love Knot". A new year ep: 2 hrs. The dead girl in the river one.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a snowy start, though it seems the overnight snow must have turned to sleet or rain as some of the snow that fell in the evening has been washed away and the drive is slushy rather than icy. It’s 2°C (“feels like” -8°) and won’t get above 3° and, though no more precipitation is expected, it’ll remain windy. The barometers are, as could be expected, well down at 982/990mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
The storm blew through, a lot of rain/sleet fell. Worst damage I have found so far is that one of our (empty) wheelie bins blew over.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was The Perfect Neighbor (2025), a documentary film on Netflix about an obnoxious woman hassling all her neighbours, ultimately shooting one of them because she was annoyed about her kids playing near her house. It’s largely made up of body cam footage from the local police, because she called them so often to make spurious complaints and unfounded allegations about the neighbours. Horrible woman

And speaking of horrible people, Sam Pepys really isn’t doing himself any favours by keeping that diary of the things he gets up to

I also managed to get the mundane laundry done during the evening

Meanwhile outside: snow! And plenty of it. But the last time I checked, it had gone back to sleet. Looks like a heavy band of whatever it may be is circling back around to us now though, so it’ll probably still be very white out there tomorrow

Goodnight all