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Cloudy start out with evidence of a bit of a breeze, and also traces of overnight rain. Currently 15°C and not getting any higher than 18°, with the barometers trivially down at 1002/1010mB
Cool in here at 19.8 deg 21 deg in the kitchen, 19 deg in the leanto, 16.8 deg in the saltinghouse.
1010 mBar, 29.825 in Hg, 757.56 Torr, 14.6488 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 66% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 15th of October 2019 it was misty, moisty, raining, eventually raining old women & sticks, and NF had run out of nectarines which meant no breakfast, plus the forum was playing up again..
Shirts in the WM.
Shirts out of the WM and pegged out on the line.
Smalls in the WM.
Smalls out of the WM & pegged out on the line.
Cottons in the WM. Must remember to flip the mattress later.
Not as much wildlife stuff on today, and most importantly: no Monkey Life as the series ended last week
In addition to reading nonsense on the Internet, this evening I read a bit more of Black Box about the problems that came about with computerisation, in particular the many incidents involving the Airbus A320 in its early days
Oh, and we had 4kg of sea bream delivered today along with a gurnard, from the fisherman who doesn’t eat fish (unless I prep it for him). Took the heads off, gutted them and trimmed the fins. Tomorrow I’ll finish prepping before deciding what goes in the freezer, what he gets, and what we’re eating tomorrow night.
A patch of nettles the size of our garden in Surrey has been cleared (by hand, no chemicals of tools used), and not I’ve got that lovely tingling sensation in my arms where the gloves didn’t quite cover.
Off to a plant sale tomorrow.
On the way back, I noticed that one of the windows in my old flat is broken!
They've put a board or something on the inside, but it's going to be pricy to fix that. He wouldn't have had this problem if he hadn't put my rent up so much that I bought a flat and moved out on principle
Cool in here at 19.8 deg, 21 deg in the kitchen, 19 deg in the leanto.
1010.5 mBar, 29.84 in Hg, 757.9373 Torr, 14.656 psi, (down from 1012 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 64% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 14th of October 2019 I watched 4 eps of BTVS S1 including the one where Darla gets dusted, followed by "Castles in the Sky" being the story of British radar development, whereas NF was watching the concluding eps of S4 of "Breaking Bad", everyone had tea, and there was discussion of more heavy weaponry, presumably for offing cyclists as seems to be the wont.
Last night's frustration with the ending of Veronica Mars followed by poor results on Freecell led to punching the wall, and this morning the failure of the kettle led to its complete & utter demise in pieces on the floor. After I'd unplugged it & emptied it of course, I wasn't that irritated so that a litre & a half of water would go everywhere..
Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.
Lunch: beans on toast etc.
"Entertainment": The news quiz. Does anyone else remember when this was about the news? And/or funny? Just askin' like. .
Veronica Mars S1 E22 (continued). Yes. They had chopped rather a lot of that out of the recent broadcast on ITV2.
Looked at some old pictures of Neath wondering why my Dad isn't in one of them whereas everyone else in the business was. Also some pictures of teachers at the Grammar Skool back in the day. Tom Pugh looked exactly the same in 1940 as he did in 1972.
Tea: lentil soup (homemade: 20/5/2020). It was edible. Just about.
Entertainment: PM <click>. Sliced Bread on statins <click>.
Dixon of Dock Green S21 E13 "Conspiracy".
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: S3 E6 "Death Trap (1962)". It had Mick Dundee's mate Wally (John Meillon), Kenneth Cope, and a curiously random sub Carry On appearance from Barbara Windsor in the shower. .
Today's email shenanigans was to do with the estate agent's draft of the brochure for the sale of our parents' house
My contribution to the editing process was to point out two (identical) misspellings and two (identical) grammatical errors in the first sentence of the textual description. It's what they would have wanted, and expected
Tonight's major motion picture experience was, I think, predicated on the concept of teeth due to anticipation of the annoying requirement to attend an appointment at the dentist tomorrow. So first up was a rewatch of The Meg (2018) which is extremely scientifically implausible but manages to be pretty good in the ripping yarn genre, as long as one is willing to accept that it's not a documentary
And then tonight's premiere: Meg 2: The Trench (2023) which is much worse in terms of demanding suspension of belief in the basic facts of physics for the first hour or so. But once it gets away from the bottom of the ocean and turns into a bunch of over-the-top action set pieces in the vicinity of the atmosphere, it improves a fair bit. Neither of them are going to win any awards for scientific accuracy, but again: not documentaries, and shouldn't be expected to act like they are
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