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[NickFitz]

There was some wildlife stuff on this afternoon to help pass the time

Tonight, I decided I wasn’t in the mood for the book about the anti-Nazi Germans. Instead, I started reading Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, in which a SARS-style plague has wiped out much of humanity. It’s from 2014, which made me wonder how alarming the events of early 2020 might have been for the author, who’d clearly put a lot of work into imagining what might happen if what was happening then happened… Anyway, it’s very good so far

Monday again tomorrow. There should be a law

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a couple of leftover spicy lamb chops, and tea has been steak with fried onion and chips

The latter was accompanied by some more of the Scottish paramedics thing

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Much more cloud than blue sky out there today, though with enough gaps for plenty of brighter spells. It’s getting cooler: currently 18°C and it'll peak at 23° today, with forecast highs below 20° for the end of the week onwards! The barometers are still dithering around the 1007/1015mB mark

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Currently 18 degrees ('feels like' 22) with a high of 26 expected. Looks like it might try to rain. Barometer up to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 05:48; Sunset 20:22 BST

Off to see Mum today. HWMBO is coming too and we're going to do a bit of a house survey to see about external cameras and better WiFi (the house is very solidly built and the power line extenders struggle, so we'll see if we can go for mesh).

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dry.

22.3 deg in here, 24.4 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto, 15 out the back.

1011 mBar, 29.85 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (unchanged), 58% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 17:43 and 18:05, AndyGarbs, Brillo, covbob, and vetran popped in, with Brillo doing most of the popping.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the grey gloom & wan sunshine. Nice enough.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Cartrefi Cymru: workers abodes: estate lodge, crenellated. Old Police Station. Gardner's house: two houses knocked into one & extended (though feck nose why since just the two houses knocked into one was big enough).

Dascam bollox again. More madness: no guns on this one, just the usual rednecks driving trucks very badly.

Ooooer, the chap I emailed about all the tv & radio service manuals just woke up & emailed me back. Maybe I'll be able to get shot of them yet.

Thing about Welsh Placenames Yng Nghymraeg. I find it a bit odd that Welsh pronunciation these days doesn't match what I learned back in the 60s. Then again I don't suppose that reading Y Fanner ac Amserau Cymru is much in demand nowadays.

Tea: baked beans & baked spud. Nice enough. Entertainment: Brain of Britain. I knew the correct answer to some of the questions. Well there's a thing.

Book. This book is raising my hackles. Philip Green. Jack Welch. The facebook twat. etc. etc. Don't subsequent events change the rating on some of the above. .

Blazian bollox: Secrets in the Jungle. Strange metal remains on Pelelu, whatever can they be? WTF. The battle is covered endlessly FFS. It's an LVT, used by the marines to get off the beach. It took 20 minutes to get this far. Walking palm tree in Ecuadorian jungle: it sprouts new roots on the side it wants to move towards and lets the roots on the opposite side die off. Columbia coal mine: vertebra of the largest snake found so far: "Carbon dated" to 58M year ago (a neat trick in and of itself, the limit being rather less at 57k but there you go). Fecking big coal mine too, and not a Welshman in sight. Ceramic jars full of bones in the Cambodian jungle, placed on ledges high above the floor. Dated C14 to C17.

Blazian bollox: Danny Trejo Buried secrets. Tolland Man. Alaska: Native American masks & other items washing out of permafrost due to thaw. 1590 - 1630. Massacre. Bow & Arrow war. Terracotta Army China. Silvianus stolen ring. Lead tablet curse. Mortimer Wheeler. Tolkein. 1970s Aral sea. Water testing due to falling fish stocks. Brown mist. Woman on deck gets smallpox despite being vaccinated due to Soviet virus designed to evade vaccine. Aralsk-7 island: now a peninsula due to the drying up of the Aral sea. What could possibly go (more) wrong? German SC500 bomb found in Plymouth. Ben Franklin's house in London: bones found in cellar. William Hewson, anatomist. Oppin Germany: stone age skeleton weighted down with large rock. Church of San Pablo: tunnels beneath revealed by GPR. The 17 coffins found in a little cave on Arthur's Seat.



Bits of "Highlander (1986)" and bits of "Joe Kidd (1972)". Watched the wonderfully impossible coldbore shot using an unzeroed rifle he'd never fired before in Joe Kidd. And the wonderfully funny rapier dual in Highlander. Makes me laugh every time.

[NickFitz]

Big day today, for there were NEW! episodes of Monkey Life

And then some other wildlife stuff, including some interesting stuff involving cheetahs

Later, I finished reading Fahrenheit 451 and moved on to The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland, about a bunch of wealthy Germans who opposed Hitler and the Nazis but were ultimately betrayed by one of their own

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the nearby East African place with the very hot chilli sauce

[ladymuck]

Dragged HWMBO over to Ilford once the bed linen was washed and put onto the airers in the garden. There was a street art thing going on where you could wander around see bits of walls being scribbled on. HWMBO also found a few shops to visit so it turned into a productive few hours out and about.

The bed linen is mostly dry enough to go straight back onto the bed.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s sunny and Simpsonesque out, but not as unpleasantly hot at 25°C, which is today’s maximum. The barometers are much of a muchness at 1008/1014mB

[ladymuck]

Morning Afternoon all

Some cloud about, and a nice breeze. Currently 25 degrees with a high of 26 expected. Barometer down again, to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 05:47; Sunset 20:24 BST

Bed has been stripped and is airing. First load in the WM.

[sadkingbilly]

I passed the HR "vibe check" so now I just have to impress the head of department on Monday afternoon

have a , knock 'em bandy.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Saw that my old neighbour I do Scrabble with is on Google Street View. I am too, standing outside my house. Anyone else found themselves on it?

Yes. I'm on the way to Going Shopping at the corner of Penydre & Russell Street a number of years ago. Not a pretty sight.

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry. (But not on fire yet).

Sunny. (And getting sunnier).

Blue sky with high clouds.

23.7 deg in here, 25.4 in the kitchen, 22.5 in the leanto, 19 out the back, 19.9 in the saltinghouse.

Watered the saltinghouse roof.

1011 mBar, 29.85 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (up from 1010 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 17:37 and 17:43, AndyGarbs, Brillo, covbob, and LM popped in, with Brillo making up for lost time.

Busy old morning: Dan Do with subtitles & a lady signing for the deaf: big expensive house that was originally a farmhouse, duly extended by some singer woman, smaller expensive house, another expensive house conversion from an old chapel.

Catrefi Cymry: Postwar/1950s houses: a Gloster made prefab: really neat, you could tell it was designed by someone who knew WTF he/she was doing, this one made out of aluminium left over from building bombers. A pair of 1950s council houses: one as built and the other "improved" and extended. A 1950s dormer bungalow designed along the lines of a Frank Lloyd Wright building. Bet that cost a bob or two to build. You'd die of lead poisoning from all the lead in the windows.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment:

Two hours of the Dashcam video thing: feck me the septics are quick to get the guns out.

Walk (abbreviated) walked to the res, up into the woods a little, then back down. Back in the day I'd have gone further but the paths are rather overgrown now.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. "Rogue Male (1976)" with that Peter o'Toole. "Look at Life: Bridges (1960)". I wonder if all that red lead lasted better than the modern crap that's recently replaced it.

Entertainment: Maigret "My Friend the Inspector (1960)".

Some Blazian bollox or other. Some bollox about Die Glocke. You can never have too much about Die Glocke in my opinion. . <click>

Secret Wars is one of them: Georgia.

Total Blazian Bollox: National Park Mysteries. The truth certainly ain't in this load of tosh.

[xoggoth]

Saw that my old neighbour I do Scrabble with is on Google Street View. I am too, standing outside my house. Anyone else found themselves on it?

Woody walk with ll1 later.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere happened to feature one of the stars of last night’s, though I only realised that just now: The Housemaid (2025) in which Sydney Sweeney gets a job in Amanda Seyfried’s wealthy household. This was absolutely bloody excellent, and you should watch it - it’s free with Amazon Prime at the moment, but if I’d paid for it in itself, I would have felt every penny was well spent. No spoilers

And then a rewatch of Project Hail Mary (2026) because it’s worth it

Finally, a bit more of For All Mankind in which the Soviets continue to piss the Americans off by upping the propaganda stakes

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

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