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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was Tornado (2025) in which a Japanese puppeteer and her father find themselves in conflict with a band of robbers in a remote part of 18th century Britain. This was utterly bleak throughout, but in a good way if you know what I mean. Well worth watching, but it’s not setting out to cheer you up, and it won’t

And then I rewatched Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). I appreciated this much more the second time around. I understand why George Miller used the storyboards for this to get people to sign on for Mad Max: Fury Road because it’s a story one really needs to know the resolution of. Although it has plenty of mayhem and insanity in its own right, it does an excellent job of imparting an understanding of just why the mayhem and insanity shown in Mad Max: Fury Road happened, and in the way they did

Finally, the second episode of Dark Matter which is still OK in its way but… I’m not sure it’s going to grab me. It still feels like one of those things that’s worth watching if you’re going to be watching TV anyway, not something that leaves you hungry for the next episode, and then for the next series (or season)

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The drive home was uneventful.

The bed has been made.

Dinner came from Wing Stop.

An episode of The Curse of Oak Island has been watched.

It's early but I feel I've had enough of today.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs and chips, being the mango chutney-based BBQ sauce of my own devising, but no longer with the Sainsbury’s TTD chutney as they’ve stopped making it! There’s an alternative premium mango chutney on offer which looks very similar, though not identical; I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s made by the same outfit as made the own-brand one. Anyway, it works well enough for my purposes

[xoggoth]

Thing with much younger lady is tomorrow. Senile! Went for wander with loony lady 1, one of same old places.

[DoctorStrangelove]

No Mahjong this morning as only me and one lady turned up. After walky and boring shopping ran me old lady neighbour to the doctors. Didn't realise she is almost 90, she seems very with it mentally.

xogg OM!

[sadkingbilly]

greetings and felicitations

lunch today was leftover gammon with honey and mustard sauce in sourdough bread.
back to Z land Monday.
oh, well, i suppose i can't really complain, considering the woes of the SoM thread, and the bumsqueaking tax dodgers.

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

Big Sainsbury’s of course, where Viz was finally obtained

I also discovered that the meat and veg do, in fact, have roughly the same spatial relationship as they previously had. I think I was confused by the way we had to travel via odd routes when parts were still partitioned off; and the drastic rearrangement of spatial relationships within fruit and veg certainly doesn’t help, particularly if you’re looking for the onions. But on further analysis, the real problems seem to be deeper in the store, where - among many more minor dislocations - the relocation of crisps and nuts, alcohol, and cleaning materials, plus the introduction of ~1.5 aisles primarily dedicated to the lunchtime Meal Deal trade, all sow confusion

The rot goes deeper, though. The tepid food counter closed down some time ago yet tepid food still appeared from somewhere, housed in a warm cabinet near the magazines. That’s moved to the end of the new Meal Deal aisle, whence I got a couple of sweet chilli chicken thighs for lunch. However, in the days of the counter, these would have been carefully placed in a paper/plastic bag, designed to keep everything in. Now, they come in a box of the kind designed more for doughnuts or cream cakes; and as a result, leak fatty juices all over your shopping

Anyway, now I’ve cleaned the shopping and bag that were thus contaminated, I suppose I should eat them while they’re still tepid

[xoggoth]

Off to local show soon for tea and cake with much younger lady.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

it’s a partly sunny, partly wispy day. Likely to get cloudier later though. Mild for the time of year, I think, though who knows what normal weather is nowadays: currently 16°C and aiming for 20°, with the barometers up a touch at 1007/1014mB

I slept well, possibly assisted by having changed the bed yesterday, which included switching to the two-thirds duvet. I also closed the big bedroom window, as once again it was getting very windy after nightfall and more cold air was coming in than I wanted. So I was a bit warmer than the last few nights, when I wasn’t actually cold but was on the cusp

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with that pebbly-looking fluff. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer steady at 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 06:31; Sunset 19:25 BST

My brother is coming back about lunchtime. The bed has been stripped and is airing. Mum's bed was done yesterday. My bed at home was stripped before I left, so I'll be making that when I get home. That'll be three beds made in two days! I would get a job as a chambermaid but I think my output would need to be much higher.

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.

Light rain overnight, but dry this morning. The walk started warmer than yesterday, 05:40 it was 13C

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Damp.

Blue sky.

Misty.

Sunny.

19 deg in here, 19.8 in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto, 14.5 out the back.

1011.5 mBar, 29.87 in Hg, 758.7 Torr, 14.67 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of April 2020, between 13:35 and 15:34, Brillo, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, scruff and WTFH popped in.

Entertainment: Old Country with Jack Hargreaves: mostly a driving trial with Joe the pony and a cart. Cast iron fire insurance plaque.

Woke at 03:50 again & read book until returning to the land of nod. Curiously the dream before waking involved working in septicland and receiving a parcel (which had been opened) that contained a pcb I'd designed somewhere else. Very odd. I wonder if it conflated the closing of the place I worked from 94 to 97, my Jonah effect finally confining that place to history. WTF I was doing in septicland is anyone's guess.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath, 3 miles) walked in the greyish gloom of the morning. Took umbrella just in case.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The food programme. Pellagra for the win!

Dashcam bollox.

More gardening, as in bramble massacre: some of those feckers were so thick they needed a lopper.

Alaska Homestead thing: part II of The Tyre House. In Amish country, Ohio. Odd that no one pointed out that cob needs to be kept dry. Installed guttering. WTAF the internal garden thing was about is beyond me. Drilled a well and found 50 gal/minute. Well there's a thing.

Alaska Homestead thing: 5 acre (as little as that? WTF?) homestead in Rainier, Oregon, quite close to where Mt St Helens blew its top: salt water ingress into the aquifer: solar powered still, construct a dew pond, create a garden that needs less water. The dew pond seemed to hold water ok when tested. The still sort of worked but needed to be about 10 times bigger to get anything worthwhile out of it. Then they found an old well that had water in it and proved to be drinkable. Goats installed. Low water garden worked.

Bab5 S4 E3 "The Summoning". Sheridan's back. Garibaldi is back. Neither are quite what they were.

Taggart S17 E1 "Ghost Rider".

Gosh. Just found a post from 15th June 2008 by Richard Cranium, a missing member of the congregation for some time, regarding the state of The Neath Canal. Apparently he was impressed by the replacement of the lock gates at Tonnau, which operated sufficiently to allow the sight seeing boat to reach the upper reach of the canal.

It'd be hard pressed to do so these days since there's at least 40 trees in the canal between Calor Gas and Morrisons these days, and not enough water to float a canoe in many places.

[NickFitz]

In Dawn, Lilith has been stuck with the job of deciding which humans to awake from suspended animation to form the first group to be sent back to Earth, and is very much aware that one of the major problems she faces is that many people are arseholes

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been an M&S Tomapork, which is their fancy name for a very large pork chop, with chips and beans

Accompanying this, the second part of 24 Hours in Police Custody

[xoggoth]

No Mahjong this morning as only me and one lady turned up. After walky and boring shopping ran me old lady neighbour to the doctors. Didn't realise she is almost 90, she seems very with it mentally.