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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Bad Boys for Life (2020), being the third in the series; there’s another I am yet to watch. It was good enough, but I think the problem (for me) with these is that I keep forgetting I’m supposed to be watching all four of them. It was a month or more ago that I watched the previous one, and a few weeks separated that from the first one. So while they might be turning them out as if it’s a franchise, the films simply don’t have whatever it is that makes you eager to see the next one. I don’t recall having this problem with the Hunger Games, though I suppose that’s all one story; but when I set out to watch all the Dirty Harry films a few years ago, I didn’t keep forgetting about them, and they were also made as disparate stories over a number of years. So I suppose my conclusion is that the films are OK, but not as special as the studio would like us to think

After that, a rewatch of Conclave (2024). I don’t think even Hollywood would have the audacity to inflict Conclave II: The Popening on us, so we’re able to admire this quite excellent film in its own right

And finally, a further episode of Pluribus. Apple TV+ tried to confuse me by re-presenting the last episode I’d watched as unwatched, but it started with that cold open I talked about previously, so they couldn’t fool me. I had to fast forward to the end though, just to make sure it believed I’d watched it - well, I don’t know if I had to, but I did, because it’s never quite clear how to convince these robots of anything. Anyway, E5 was a very good one and ended on an excellent cliffhanger

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Sorry about the will thing skb. I've recently done power of attorney. My eldest son said he will take me to the council tip and rent out my house for asylum seekers. I hope he was joking.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a “firecracker” rack of ribs, and chips

To go along with it, the rest of the motorway cops thing from last night

[NickFitz]

afternoon all
just when all was going well, my estranged wife died intestate.
25 years apart, and NOW i've got to sort her tulip out AGAIN!
MAKE A WILL PEOPLE!!!
PLEASE!

Sorry to hear that

I should do as you command; if nothing else, it will stop my brother nagging me about it every time I see him

[ladymuck]

afternoon all
just when all was going well, my estranged wife died intestate.
25 years apart, and NOW i've got to sort her tulip out AGAIN!
MAKE A WILL PEOPLE!!!
PLEASE!

Sorry to hear that. Yes, I ought to sort out a will; thanks for the reminder

[DoctorStrangelove]

afternoon all
just when all was going well, my estranged wife died intestate.
25 years apart, and NOW i've got to sort her tulip out AGAIN!
MAKE A WILL PEOPLE!!!
PLEASE!

Did think to die intestate & nominate my useless nephew to sort out the chaos.

Trouble is it wouldn't be down to him/her/it, rather to his sister & my sister, so that idea has bitten the dust.

Have a manly .

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon all
just when all was going well, my estranged wife died intestate.
25 years apart, and NOW i've got to sort her tulip out AGAIN!
MAKE A WILL PEOPLE!!!
PLEASE!

<rant over>

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Another cloud-free day. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Feels chilly though, in the shade. Barometer down to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 05:47; Sunset 20:13 BST

Only a few meetings, and no dramas. Just how I like it.

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

As predicted, not a huge amount to get. But I remembered to use a voucher for 80p that they’d sent me, being some Nectar Prices that hadn’t been applied the other week for some reason

Upon returning home, I found a notification on my phone concerning another voucher for the same reason, this time for £1.34

Still a nice, sunny day out. Just a few wisps of cloud starting to appear near the horizon

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s another sunny day with a clear bleu sky, and expected to continue so. It’s 9°C and aiming for 17° again, with the barometers down a little at 1016/1024mB

I’ll be going shopping shortly but I don’t need much, so I’ll just pop up to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

15.9 deg in here, 15 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto.

1019.5 mBar, 30.1 in Hg, 764.7 Torr, 14.787 psi, (down from 1020 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 25th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, whilst BR14, LM, NF, and I managed to squeeze a post in here &amp; there.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked. Shopping trip to Boots to get what I forgot about yesterday, only to find it wasn't in stock.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some oiks waffling on about religious revival.

Instead the R4 thing about the 7 deadly sins.

Box room back together. Somewhere in there is a screwdriver I've just lost FFS. I hate it when that happens.

And a phone call on my bat phone. Haven't had one of those for ages.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

I wonder WTF that screwdriver went. .

Dismantled the boxroom again. Found the screwdriver downstairs in the office cum junkroom, exactly where I'd left it. .

Added some screws to the bookcase which is showing its age.

Put boxroom back together for the 2nd time.

Vacced the sawdust off the carpet.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. the etc. being augmented by some wegetables I bought from Tesco the other day in an experiment. I expect the house to become very fragrant over the next couple of hours.

Entertainment: PM with Heggsy waffling on about how NATO let the Zionists and the Septics down so badly, and how they're reconsidering the status of The Falkland Islands.

Expect the Septics to refer to them as Las Malvinas shortly. .

Funny how the illusory "special relationship" only ever works one way.

Taggart S10 E4 "Forbidden Fruit". A new year's day ep. The one about the fertility clinic where the doctor secretly sires 60 children.

I can't remember if the real world versions of that were known back in 1994.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc
TFIF, etc

[NickFitz]

I finished reading I Am Legend tonight. It’s very good

Friday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

This evening I went to meet a friend who I hadn't seen for a good two years. I was apprehensive but it turned out to be a good evening.

Farringdon was bedlam on arrival and we were lucky to find a pub that had a couple of seats.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been M&S slow-cooked chicken chasseur, with chips and peas. It turned out to be very nice indeed! I’ll get that again

This was accompanied by a bit of the motorway cops thing. I don’t know what’s going on with Traffic Cops, but all but one episode of the current series have been taken down! Didn’t stop them showing me a trailer for it in the ad break though