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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Apex (2026) on Netflix, in which an adventurous Charlize Theron heads into the bushland of Australia, only for some weirdo to try to hunt her like prey. He clearly hadn’t watched any of the many films that would have told him what a bad idea that is. It’s pretty good, I thought, though I got the feeling they were relying on the undoubted beauty of the scenery to pad out the first thirty minutes or so; it remains beautiful throughout, but there’s more stuff happening in front of it later in the film

And then a rewatch of A House of Dynamite (2025). It’s a good film, but I do now find myself wondering if the North Koreans are keeping an eye on the USA, assessing just when the Commander in Chief will be sufficiently addled that they can get away with something like this

Finally, the episode of Pluribus in which the foreshadowing of a few weeks ago started coming to fruition at the end. As I suggested, it’s a narrative device Vince Gilligan seems to often use, but knowing that doesn’t diminish its effectiveness

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been beef & Guinness casserole with chips and peas. Turned out very well that casserole

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a chicken bap (wholemeal)

Been mucking about with forum stuff for much of the day

But I remembered to start a beef and Guinness casserole in the slow cooker this morning, so a wonderful aroma is filling the place

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky again. No significant wisps. Gentle breeze. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 22) with a high of 24 expected. Barometer down to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 05:33; Sunset 20:25 BST

Looks like a bit of a mixed bag weather-wise for the bank holiday weekend. More chance of rain in London on Sunday than down on the coast. This is good news as I was hoping to do a bit of sorting out in Mum's garden if it stayed mostly dry.

Back to today: not much going on. A bit of work to do, nothing too onerous.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday. May 1st.

Wet. Very wet. Wetter than wet & it started at midnight with a little picking with rain.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Sunless.

Dreary.

17.5 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto. (It was 27 in the saltinghouse yesterday afternoon).

1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.6 Torr, 14.7 psi, (up from 1013 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, and LM popped in, with the inhabitants of TPD being described as "strange and eclectic". No bog roll in Tesco. Lots of people with facemasks.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom and light drizzle. Nice enough. No funny yellow bird today (still dunno WTF that was) but the swans have hatched 4 of the 8 eggs and the cygnets were meeting the water for the first time with mum & dad looking on proudly. They were back on the nest keeping the rest warm a bit later.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing waffling on about the Telegraph click bait "moslems only" house share thing. <click>

Cleaning more springs in the living room, that's about 2/3rds of it done now.

Found a 35mm SLR camera which appears to have a film in it.

Found some photos I took of the works on the house next door after I sold it.

One photo showed the view from the back bedroom window which has changed radically since it was taken, being sans the viburnam bush (it fell over after the roots rotted), the apple tree (no one wanted the superb crop of apples it produced) and the pear tree (which had a lot of fire blight), plus the hedge thing down by the greenhouse (which was infested with Japanese honeysuckle).

Living room back together again so I have somewhere to sit.

Tea: Mr Brains faggots with peas etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

The News Quiz.

Sun's out. Looks quite nice out there now.

Connected up that "hifi" thing of my dad's. The CD bit is buggered but connecting a portable CD player gives reasonable results with some jiggery pokery of the various digital twiddles. Now playing Pulse. As is my wont. Not very loudly with consideration for the neighbours whose tolerance for 30 year old Pink Floyd CDs is undetermined.

Taggart S10 E5,6,7 "Secrets".

[NickFitz]

Just noticed from the bedroom window that the oh-so-helpful delivery guy yesterday didn’t actually take away the small blue pallet the desk came on - he dumped it in our car park out the back, where it’s taking up one of the small number of spaces!

One star knocked off, because I feel that I have a moral responsibility to go and shift it

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
Overcast, and even had a few spots of light rain on our walk.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start yet again, though with a Bank Holiday on Monday it’s bound not to last; there’s a 10% chance of rain around teatime, though the cloud that will gather for that purpose is expected to clear again before sunset. It’s currently 12°C and this afternoon it’ll be soaring to 23° in celebration of May Day. But the barometers are noticeably down at 1008/1016mB

Happy May Day to you all!

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was more of Traffic Cops, though with that watched, they appear to have run out of episodes again

And later, I started reading Len Deighton’s Goodbye Mickey Mouse, which is about US fighter pilots in East Anglia during the war

There was a brief flurry of fireworks nearby earlier. Must have been somebody celebrating Beltane

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

My new Freesat box is annoying. It doesn't let you put recordings in folders like the old one did, program list scrolling is c*p and can't see any way to delete current viewed recording without stopping and finding it in long list again.

What make / model of box do you have?

[ladymuck]

Looks like a new series of Surgeons: At the Edge of Life starts on BBC 2 on Wednesday

[xoggoth]

My new Freesat box is annoying. It doesn't let you put recordings in folders like the old one did, program list scrolling is c*p and can't see any way to delete current viewed recording without stopping and finding it in long list again.

[ladymuck]

Catching up on Forensics: The Real CSI. iPlayer seems to have full series from S3 onwards. Currently watching a lovely one about a body in a freezer (S4E1).

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight was kebab and chips. I even went round to the shop for it myself!

[NickFitz]

The week is done!

Still nice and sunny out