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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Overnight snow!

Very little of it, though; just enough to give the windows of the cars a light dusting to make it a bit more inconvenient for me when I go shopping later

Right now, though, it’s a clear blue sky and will be sunny once the sun manages to get a bit higher. It’s not warm: currently -1°C (which supposedly “feels like” -6°, though I think they’ve overestimated the wind again) and not getting any higher than 2° even with the sunshine lasting all day. The barometers are trivially down at 994/1002mB

Last night, I chucked some bits of veg plus a roast turkey leg in the slow cooker and let it simmer overnight, so this morning I awoke to a delicious aroma spreading through the flat. The veg has now been blended and the meat shredded, along with some slices of breast meat, and the bones discarded; tendons and such appeared to have completely deliquesced overnight. So that’s now going to continue simmering for a few more hours on the way to becoming turkey soup

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with occasional lumps of fluff. Currently 1 degree ('feels like' -3) with a high of 4 expected. There might be some snow, although the weather app is forecasting a total of 0.05 cm to fall. Barometer steady at 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 08:47; Sunset 15:55 GMT

Another quiet day beckons. My last before heading home tomorrow.

I was going to start a project of taking an interesting photo each day this year but am already off to a bad start as no photo was taken yesterday.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Wet (as in it hammered down about 07:00).

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 11.6 deg, 9.5 in the kitchen, 6.5 in the leanto.

1006 mBar, 29.71 in Hg, 754.6 Torr, 14.59 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 58% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 9th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, and LM commiserated with WTFH about his ski resort being closed.

[NickFitz]

Finished There Is No Antimemetics Division v2. It definitely benefits from the rewrite, particularly in the final chapters

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

It's become selfaware & knows you're out to kill it. .

As with everything else it attempts, it’s not doing a very good job

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs and chips

This was accompanied by a bit of Police Interceptors

[DoctorStrangelove]

Bacon bap for lunch

Not sure why the forum keeps logging me out

It's become selfaware & knows you're out to kill it. .

[NickFitz]

PS Why do I sometimes see a brief yellow bar at top with <------something at top when I go to CUK?

It’s a bug in the forum software, though I never have got to the bottom of it. But it’s something to do with the way it caches frequently used data along with the database getting overloaded; sometimes, it seems to lose the cache, and one of the side effects is that yellow thing plus the labels in the menu section at the top, under the logo, disappearing

I did get it fixed for a while by getting the people who run the infrastructure to switch to using Memcache. But then the new owner had to move it, and it came back

[NickFitz]

Bacon bap for lunch

Not sure why the forum keeps logging me out

[ladymuck]

I get that yellow bar too sometimes. I'm sure it's a feature NF won't be carrying forward to the new version.

[xoggoth]

Went to a brilliant Glow Wild thing yesterday evening with ll3. Downside was her, she kept fiddling with my car radio and switched channels to FM instead of DAB although I asked her to stop. Don't think I can take much more of her.

PS Why do I sometimes see a brief yellow bar at top with <------something at top when I go to CUK?

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s another grey day here, though no sign of rain. It’s supposed to be windy, making the current 5°C “feel like” -4°, but I see very little shimmying of the trees outside. Anyway, that’s as warm as it’s going to get, whatever it may feel like. The barometers have dropped sharply to 995/1003mB

[ladymuck]

Sinners was indeed a superb film. HWMBO and I watched it at the cinema.



Morning all, and a happy new year to you and yours

Cloudy but bright with patches of blue poking through. Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' 0) with a high of 6 expected. It'll be a sunshine and clouds kind of day with a slight risk of rain. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 08:48; Sunset 15:54 GMT

Didn't stay up for any New Year shenanigans. Haven't yet looked at the news to see what dramas occurred.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 11.4 deg, 9.5 in the kitchen, 7 in the leanto, 5.6 in the saltinghouse (warmer than yesterday).

1011 mBar, 29.854 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (down from 1017 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile late on the 8th of March 2020 WTFH was thinking of going away to Charmouth, LM had missed the H2G2 extravaganza which I had studiously ignored, whereas on the 9th scruff and opm popped in whilst NF was up late and The Leg was painful again.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some poetry thing about Philip Larkin, Noon o'clock news. Pick of the year <click>

Raining.

Stopped raining. At least it's not snowing FFS.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath, wan sunshine) walked. It seemed less cold than yesterday.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Entertainment: some sciencey thing followed by PM <click>

5 minutes of "Angel & the badman (2009)" with Lou Diamond Philips playing The Duke's part.

"Mysteries from above": more bollox on Blaze. FFS is there nothing on worth watching?

Book.

Freecell score: 90%, running average: 86%.

Last 10 minutes of "Faster" with Billy Bob Thornton and Dwayne Johnson. I prefer the alternative ending on the dvd but there you go & there it went.

Book.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Sinners (2025) which offers a fascinating insight into African American society and culture in the Deep South in the 1930s, and also… vampires!

It really is a winning combination, and makes for a great film

Then a rewatch of Anora (2024), partly because it was seasonally appropriate as it features a New Year party, but mainly because I'm still curious as to why it won Best Picture at the Oscars. I found that, as I thought when I last watched it, it’s a good film! Very entertaining. But best picture? It’s good, but I reckon some of the other nominees were better. Then again, it does have a lot more footage of young ladies in almost no clothes than the other nominees, so maybe the august luminaries of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who vote on these matters are just a bunch of dirty old men

Goodnight all and once again, a Happy New Year