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[ladymuck]

Greetings from Helsinki, local time 1736.

The ferry journey was uneventful. Hotel nice. Had a short wander around the immediate area and have secured postcards and stamps already. Warm and sunny.

Posh dinner this evening.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some hot wings

It’s quite Simpsonesque out now, but still very breezy. We have a warning for thunderstorms tomorrow and Thursday

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Dry.

20.5 deg in here, 21.2 in the kitchen, 20 in the leanto, 18 out the back.

1006 mBar, 29.7 in Hg, 754.6 Torr, 14.59 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 08:02 and 09:08, AndyGarbs, Anonimouse, Brillo, LM, MrMarkyMark, scruff, WTFH popped in.

Trip to that Swansea: 38 down, T6 back. Some books donated to Oxfam, two other brought home.

Looked for a book about Parsons' Folly but not sign thereof.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Dashcam bollox <click> Art in Film: David Lean in B&W.

More gardening. The pile of brambles is now twice what it was yesterday. .

I must remember I'm an .

Entertainment: some weird septic thing about Alaskan homesteaders, this homestead being in the Carolinas. So badly built that the recommendation was demolition due to the incredible mould (or mold) infesting the place. The replacement was built on a 20 x 8 foot trailer, using corrugated metal sheets to make it rather more waterproof than the previous attempt had been.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country: the titles now show over his horse blue pulling that cart thing he had built. This one was about old tools, some of the old tools in question being adzes of various kinds, including a cooper's adze, which led to an old cooper showing how the tools were used to repair a barrel. Then: how to string onions when Johnny foreigner doesn't do it for you any more. .

[NickFitz]

Somebody just posted on Bluesky about trying to learn FORTH. I hope they find my multi-tweet response, including half-remembered snippets of source code from something I wrote on the Atari ST about thirty-five years ago, helpful

I realised after posting this that “somebody” is Ben Zotto, author of a book on the 1970s history of Sphere Computer which I bought recently. I also mentioned his site about them in Monday Links

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I struggled to get to sleep for ages last night, with the result that this morning, I managed to turn off both first and second alarms without really waking up, then slept until a bit after eight. Oh well, I feel better for it, even if it does make the morning routine a bit rushed

There’s more cloud out than yesterday, but it’ll be warmer: already 17°C and aiming for 24°, though there’s also a decent breeze to keep the fresh air moving. The barometers are down to 1003/1011mB, continuing that odd trend this summer of the pressure dropping as the weather gets warmer

[WTFH]

Morning all
Cloudy, but no rain forecast. A pleasant walk was had.
Might go to the tip at lunchtime.

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 0832

Blue sky with lumps of fluff again. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 18 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 06:01; Sunset 20:44 EEST

We took advantage of the nicer weather yesterday for more exploration of the old town and I secured the purchase of postcards and stamps. Forgot to take a pen out with me so the writing and posting were delayed to later in the day.

Today we take the ferry to Helsinki.

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the remainder of an episode of the motorway cops (who seldom go on the motorway) plus dashcam thing that I started watching the other night. At least they now try to make the dashcam clips vaguely relevant to whatever they’ve interrupted to slot them in

And tonight I read more of To Each This World where the story’s getting going, which makes the author’s occasionally idiosyncratic writing style slightly less distracting

Somebody just posted on Bluesky about trying to learn FORTH. I hope they find my multi-tweet response, including half-remembered snippets of source code from something I wrote on the Atari ST about thirty-five years ago, helpful

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Finished off some KFC leftovers for tea because they’d only get chucked away otherwise

[sadkingbilly]

listening to 'hot rats'.

pied piper/death of rats booked for tomorrow..........

gonna FIX them rat, that's what i'm gonna do.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been M&S Ardennes pâté on white toast. Rather nice

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[DoctorStrangelove]

morning all
CBS and positively parky, bordering on King Billy this morning.
got a rat in me kitchen..................

Oh lovely. I remember that happening next door. Ever so much fun.

As in "who spilled All Bran in the cutlery drawer".

It wasn't Allbran.

Said rat had come up behind the kitchen units.

The then current cat wasn't much help.

You're never more than 10 feet from a rat.

I had mice in the salting house for a while but the B&Q traps sorted them out.

Found a dead mouse under the burner of the central heating boiler not long after I'd bought the house.

And mice had been exploring the back bedroom which explained why the then current new cat was so innerested in the corner.

[sadkingbilly]

morning all
CBS and positively parky, bordering on King Billy this morning.
got a rat in me kitchen..................

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Blue sky with high not so wispy clouds. I shall shout at them shortly.

20 deg in here, 20.6 in the kitchen, 18.5 in the leanto, 15.5 out the back.

1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.6 Torr, 14.7 psi, (down from 1016 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Ditto: "Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 05:39 and 07:59, AndyGarbs, Brillo, Churchill, MrMarkyMark, and WTFH popped in, with Brillo drivelling.".

Welsh Water are back again, sucking silt out of the sewer.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Welsh Water are still here sucking silt out of the sewer. And judging by the noises coming from that sucking pipe it's coming out in big lumps.

They do seem to be having fun. Every now & again the pipe blocks up & needs fettling.

They've gone. Side passage has now been domestosed to death to ensure there's nothing nasty about. Couldn't find the bottle of other stuff I was looking for, so the Morrisons bleach had to do.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some chap waffling on about art in a NY museum.

Dashcam bollox.

I forgot about the Sky Arts Art in Film thing but there you go and there it went.

Shopping trip to that Aldi done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Exciting trip due to the ongoing gas main replacement which, today, involved a minidigger with a concrete breaker attachment and a really big feckoff vacuum cleaner lorry to clean the resulting hole out.

Plus the requisite 5 people standing around looking at it, though they weren't supplied with shovels to lean on.

Gosh. I've walked 4 miles today. Well there's a thing.

Minor potching in the garden: the pile of brambles is now twice the size it was. Once the deluge returns I may have a nice bonfire to get rid of it all.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country: catching a fish he'd never encountered before: American brook trout, which, as expected, isn't a trout. He caught one. Trotting race. He bought the winning horse.

Tea: chilli con carne with rice. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

Took some empty jam jars down to the garage so I can put yet more nails in them. .

Entertainment: Bab5 S3 E11 "Ceremonies of Light & Dark". The Nightwatch Nazis take the Good Captain and Delenn prisoner.

Maigret (Cremer version: very long & moody). "Maigret's war of nerves": the one where arranges for a chap to escape from prison.

Thought I recognised the chap playing the Septic: turned out (thanks to imdb) that he was in Foyle's War as the Septic Captain. IRL he died of covid in 2020, poor sod.

Blazian bollox: Secrets in the Dark. Fragments of 12 skulls found in Italy, dated 5500 BC, deposited over a 200 yr timespan. Terracotta Army again. Belgian skeleton comprised of bits & pieces of 7 people, most of which were 4k yr old, with a Roman era skull thrown in for good measure. Mexican pyramid tomb: skeleton covered in cinebar just to make sure it's extra red & extra toxic.

John Betjeman "View from Above": the seaside. Followed by "Metroland".

Apparently he'd be 120 if he hadn't died in 1984 when he was 77.