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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading turned out to be more Lissa Evans, and why not: Small Bomb at Dimperley, in which the youngest son of a no-longer-wealthy family finds himself unexpectedly inheriting a Baronetcy, along with the eponymous estate and shambolic country house, just as he’s demobbed at the end of WWII after an undistinguished spell of wartime service. As usual, some excellent characters and humour

Monday again tomorrow. Oh well, only four weeks until I have a week off at the end of October

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Pork cutlet with chips and beans for tea

To go with it, an episode of Emergency 24/7 on iPlayer

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s overcast and grey out today, and likely (60%) to rain shortly. A bit breezier too, so the current 15°C “feels like” 10°, though it’s still quite mild and the high for the day will be 21°. The barometers are heading down again at 1002/1010mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Might rain later. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:55; Sunset 18:48 BST

Off to Mum's today, to have a stab at installing stuff.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless apart from a brief illumination of the marsh just now.

19.1 deg in here, 19.3 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1005 mBar, 29.6776 in Hg, 753.8 Torr, 14.576 psi, (down from 1013.5 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of April 2020, between 12:54 and 14:39, in popped barrydidit, Brillo, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, and me, with me having cooking a leg of lamb to a turn, something I've not done in 4 years or so.

In other news, this cold manflu is a real cracker. . And that broken tooth ain't helping a lot.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom 1 conversation.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: BBC News. Sky News. It's all transpiring at the moment.

In other other news: it's raining.

Book. Finished book.

Tea: beans on crustless toast to avoid yet more problems. Entertainment: BBC News. Sky News. Tina Turner live in Barcelona 1990.

Oak Island nutjobbery: 18:05. Well there's a thing. Another "Roman" coin. No wood. Rumbling noise from underground.

History's Mysteries: Montezuma's Gold.

David Duchovny's Secrets declassified: he couldn't have appeared less inneresting if he'd tried: U2/Area51/UFOs 1950s, Malmstom AFB UFO incident, Goldsboro B52 crash, Israeli Mig21 theft, Avrocar debacle, Madam Mig/Marina Popovich UFO revelations. The truth is out there. Apparently.

70up. Part II.

[NickFitz]

Monkey Life and other wildlife stuff was on to brighten the afternoon

And later, I finished reading Crooked Heart. Another excellent book by Lissa Evans. I’ve got a couple more of hers to read, but I may take a break to read something else first. Or I may not

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The bed was made after dinner so there'll be no last minute shenanigans.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been brought to me from the nearby East African place

[ladymuck]

All bed linen has been washed. Enough of it has dried that it can go straight back onto the bed. Not that I've done that part yet.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s sunny out, with high wispy cloud here and there, and already at the day’s high of 19°C which is expected to persist until teatime. The barometers seem cautiously optimistic, being up a little at 1010/1018mB

The chestnut tree out the back and the huge sycamore in next door’s garden out the front are getting into their colour-changing phase; it started on a small scale a while ago, but they seem to have decided it’s time to go full steam ahead with it now

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with occasional wisps. Currently 19 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Cloud cover set to increase by late afternoon. Barometer up to 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 06:54; Sunset 18:51 BST

The bed has been stripped and is airing. First load in the WM. Might not get it all washed and dried today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

18.8 deg in here, 19.2 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto, 11 out the back.

1016.5 mBar, 30.02 in Hg, 762.4 Torr, 14.743 psi, (up from 1015 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of April 2020, between 09:31 and 12:00, as per yesterday.

Now in full throes of manflu: dreadful night's sleep augmented by some lunes shooting on the marsh since about 06:00 or so. Poor old ducks getting decimated at a guess.

I can't remember the last time I caught a cold.

Entertainment Yng Nghymraeg: Tredegar House. Another monument to the oppressors of the working class. . The bastards.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine with occasional shotgun accompaniments. Two conversations.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: last bit of The News Quiz, 13 o'clock news.

Flipping bangers: Reliant Kitten: or how to put a box of ill assorted bits together when you don't know WTF some of it came from: Fox chassis, Kitten bits, unknown diff, etc. etc. Its MOT ran out in 2019 & it's SORN.

Last 10 minutes or so of "Anzio (1968)" wherein Robert Mitchum plays the role of dear old Wynford Vaughn-Thomas who was actually there as a war correspondent. Well there's tidy then, boyo. Shades of U571 in spades. And almost everything else the septics put out, though this was an Italian American de Laurentis production.

Some minor gardening undertaken: ivy. The burn pile gets ever higher.

Tea: soup etc. Enlivened by another piece of tooth falling off. Getting rather fed up with this now.

Entertainment: PM. It'd be nice if the mouthy presenter would STFU & let others talk a little.

The Robinson interview thing: Paul Greengrass, film maker. All about The Peasant's Revolt film he's just made & its reflections on current events.

Maigret "Shadow Play (1961)".

How the Nazis lost the war: they were ruled by a lunatic. Next.

Blazian bollox: World War Weird: 'Itler and the Spear of Destiny (the one they allegedly stuck into Christ as he hung on the cross). The Battle of the Beams with R.V. Jones et al. The Other Goering brother, being Albert Goering who helped numerous Jewish people during WWII. Porton Down & the way they killed test subjects. Testing various supposedly innocuous agents (ZnCdS and some bug) to what might happen if the real stuff was used. Some of said agents proved to be rather less innocuous than originally thought.

Blazian bollox: the Panama invasion wherein the septics invade Panama again. It gets habit forming. .

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was Crawl (2019) in which a young lady and her father find a way to patch up their fractured relationship by dint of being trapped in the underfloor crawlspace of their Florida home with more than one alligator during a Cat-5 hurricane and the floods attendant thereon. It’s all a bit bitey, as one might expect, and none the worse for that. Apparently there’s a sequel due next year, and I expect - nay, demand - that the continuity people will have all the right scars in all the right places for such of the characters as are in it. There were only her and him left at the end anyway, so that doesn’t seem like too much to ask

And then a rewatch of Whiplash (2014) because it’s excellent; you don’t even have to be in to jazz to appreciate this one

Finally, not one but two episodes of Dark Matter (TV Series 2024– ) being S1E4 and S1E5. I’m less ambivalent about this now because it feels like it’s finally starting to go somewhere with its underlying concept. I reckoned from the fourth one that they should have squeezed all the stuff in the first three into E1, but E5 left me thinking that maybe it needed at least E1 and E2? I still think they could have moved the early stuff along faster, but at least it’s all coming together now

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

For tea, lamb steaks with chips and beans

This was accompanied by a new (to me, at least) thing on C4: Geordie Coppers

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka sausage roll