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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday apparently.

Woken by the brush cutter cutting the brush in next door's garden (not the relatives garden the other one).

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Black clouds in places.

Chilly in here at 17.7 deg, 18.5 in the kitchen, 17 deg in the leanto.

1010 mBar, 29.825 in Hg, 757.56 Torr, 14.6488 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

The conversion thing has disappeared so feck it: found another one, not the usual one but it did.

Meanwhile on the 2nd of October 2019, so long long ago, NF was Having Fun With Maps and Map APIs, whereas I was watching yet more of Jeremiah, including the one about the librarian who can't read but protects the books in a library (rather reminiscent of the pilot for "Person of Interest" "what is this place? The fall of Western civilisation" set in an abandoned library), while LM was also watching a programme about maps.

[WTFH]

morning all
Currently CBS, so we’re about to go out for a walk.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture was Let It Be (1970), the newly-restored Beatles film. Not a premiere as I saw it when it was on the telly, either at Christmas 1975 or August 1976. It's better than I remembered, probably because I'm a bit more interested in, or indeed aware of, the creative process than I was at age 13

However, being under ninety minutes long and having to include complete takes of the various studio songs and the ones from the rooftop concert, it wasn't able to show as much of that process as we could see in Get Back - so I rewatched the first part of that too

One thing from Let It Be that pleased me, though: I was sure I'd heard a version of the title song that included the line "There will be no sorrow" in the final verse, yet every version I've heard since doesn't have that line. And there it was - in the complete take included in the film, that's the line. I know there were four or five complete takes that have been used on different albums and compilations over the years, but for whatever reason it seems that one doesn't get used, maybe because of that change. I'd got to the point in recent years of wondering if I'd imagined it, so it's nice to know it was real all the time

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

It was a lovely sunny day down in that there Sussex, a bit breezy but nice and warm still.

On the journey home there was a brief, but intense, shower on the M25 whilst driving towards blue sky.

HMWBO's flight has been delayed and he'll be arriving a good 90 mins, maybe 2 hours, later than originally planned.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a roast lamb dinner. Been a while since I had that

There was a bit more rain, but no light show or sound effects

[NickFitz]

I spoke too soon! Sudden downpour, and one (1) lightning/thunder combo

All over now, and starting to brighten up again - unless it's just lulling me into a false sense of security

[NickFitz]

Mundane laundry is on

Getting warnings of lightning strikes some miles away, but nothing's going on here, and the lightning map suggests it's all passing us by. Quite sunny out, actually

[NickFitz]

Leftover onion bhaji and meat samosa for lunch

The bhajis from that place are good, but not as truly excellent as the ones from the place round the corner

Autocorrect keeps turning "bhajis" to "hajis". They're nice, but not worth going on a pilgrimage over

[NickFitz]

Low water pressure earlier, so off to Severn Trent's website to see what gives. They insisted that there was nothing going on hereabouts, despite their map showing a leak just round the corner, so I reported it as a new fault. Now they've updated their "Incidents" page with the admission that they're doing some work in the area, but hadn't realised it would affect anybody

[ladymuck]

Morning all

It's been raining off and on since 3 am. It's taking a break at the moment but more is forecast early evening. The sun is valiantly trying to break through the cloud. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Barometer down to 1013 mBar.

Yesterday evening I did what turned out to be well timed faffing in the back garden.

Bed stripped and airing. The washing will be done later. Off to see Mum today. HWMBO arrives back this evening.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning. None of that petrichor nonsense here. .

Sunday.

Wet.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Cool in here at 17.8 deg, 18.5 deg in the kitchen, 18 deg in the leanto.

1005 and a tad mBar, 29.686 in Hg, 754 Torr, 14.58 psi, (down from 1008 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 71% RH (GDR hair).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of October 2019 I was knackered after the laying of the cable on the first, said cable being a feed to the tv in the bedroom, though I still managed to stagger down to town to the library computer room and Morrisons, before a nice walk up the canal towpath to Tonna for some gentle exercise, WTFH had a date for his op, and NF was Having Fun With Maps, whereas I killed the maidenhair fern that had survived for decades until it moved in here. Painting the porch with masonry paint finished it off though its children survive even yet in the pot that once had a flowering plant in it that died due to frost.

Freecell score: 92%, running average: 86%.

Lunch: baked spud etc.

Entertainment: TWATO <click>

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine/grey gloom/threatening black clouds. Rain free so I timed that right.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 86%.

Tea: spag with what passed for bol etc.

Entertainment: Doctor Who John Betjeman travelling on the Somerset & Dorset from Evercreech Junction to Burnham on Sea in 1963. It was Beechinged not long afterwards.

Trevor Fishlock back in his prime 20 odd years ago. He seems to have aged a lot.

Skinwalker Ranch: "The Return". More bollox.

Flipping Bangers: Triumph Herald: the only one in existence that doesn't require welding everything in sight. Gosh. So that's how you adjust the points in a distributor. Who'd have thunk? . Not sure I'll watch more of this.

Ancient unexplained files: Easter Island statues. Antikythera thingie. Australian aboriginal gentleman not murdered by the evil colonialists (this related by a Septic who was obviously ignoring the fate of the Native Americans) but by a boomerang. Maybe it returned when he wasn't expecting it.. South American mummy in a German museum that they thought was a bog body until they found it was wrapped in llama wool (or somesuch).

S4C: Tudur Owen being painted by an abstract painter. Very odd.

[WTFH]

A short walk has been walked (just over 5km), as I expect some more gardening will be done today. While out walking with the sun blazing and blue skies, my phone pinged me to say that thunderstorms were expected 10:00-18:00 today. Let’s hope the forecast is wrong.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

A hint of petrichor in the FreshAir™ outside my bedroom window this grey morning, along with other signs of showers overnight; and some more light rain is expected soon, though then it'll peter out and just be rather cloudy for the rest of the day. It's 12°C now and only getting to 18° this afternoon, while the barometers are down to 998/1006mB

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff on the box again today, including Monkey Life of course

And I read some more of Blitzed, in which Goering's cunning plans are causing problems - hardly surprising when he mainly comes up with them after injecting morphine, to which he was addicted

Goodnight all