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[NickFitz]

There was less wildlife stuff than usual on today, and it was all Attenborough again. But after that, there was a documentary about the Avro Lancaster which was good

Later, I read more about The Middle Kingdoms, where one Martin Luther has been stirring things up a bit

It’s still 24°C in here, so the full duvet clearly wasn’t a viable option; but outside is expected to fall to 12° overnight, and I’m not sure how much inside will cool down. I decided to risk going all the way down to the one-third duvet, skipping the two-third option. I suspect I might be considering the no-duvet option tomorrow night if it’s as hot as predicted

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight was from KFC

Still nice out

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s another warm and sunny one, as was foretold: 23°C and likely to reach 24° shortly, though tomorrow and Monday will be the ones where it gets well past that. The barometers are up to 1016/1023mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with some wisps. No breeze. Currently 26 degrees with a high of 29 expected. Barometer up to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 04:59; Sunset 20:58 BST

HWMBO and I had a lovely dinner at Cinnamon Club in St James's last night. A bit fuzzy headed this morning. However we did get up and go to the farmers' market to procure venison, mushrooms, asparagus, pickles, tomatoes, strawberries and raspberries.

At some point we will go to big Tesco as Fever Tree tonic is on offer.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Slightly overcast earlier, but that is burning off now. Very humid.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

18.3 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.

1021 mBar, 30.15 in Hg, 765.8 Torr, 14.8 psi, (up from 1018 last night (assuming I tapped it)), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of March 2020, at the start of Bunter's lockdown, AndyGarbs, eek, LM, NF, and I popped in, whilst Aldi were offering a nice plate compactor for those with concrete patio to lay after the use of the Lidl offer of a chainsaw. .

Trip to that Swansea to donate this month's pile o'books to Oxfam. Not as many as usual due to the interminable T.H.White tome. Glad to see the back of that. .

38 down and an X5 back, this last turned out to be a double decker but I resisted the temptations of the top deck due the pain of coming back down again.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Moneybox <click>. The News Quiz in the hope of staying awake for it this time. .

Been greyish all morning but the sun is out now. Warm it ain't.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked: too knackered to do the full 4 miles, did 3 instead.

Actually raised a bit of a sweat so it's warmed up nicely.

Oddly enough, despite the quantity of clothing worn in bed earlier in the week, no sweat or anything approaching warmth was achieved, which seems to show I was sore afflicted with something or other.

Entertainment: Classic Movies "The 3 days of the condor". Fell asleep this time. I seem to be doing that rather a lot at the moment.

Tea: soup. That one I like. Entertainment: PM.

Dial 999. The gold robbery one.

Maigret S4 E9 "The Judge's House".

Twiglet zone: S2 E9. E10. Time waits for no man.

Blazian bollox: 'Itler's 'Andmaidens.

Blazian Bollox: 'Itler's Sex Life.

Coldwar thing on BBC Alba.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Project Hail Mary (2026) which I’ve been looking forward to since I read the book sometime around the start of the year. I thought it was really good

I’m hoping its success is enough to get the film of his novel Artemis off the starting blocks, because I reckon that would make a good film too

After that, a rewatch of 21 Bridges (2019) which is a good take on the copaganda theme of the cop with an undeserved bad rep dealing with a situation where only his style of policing will get the job done

And finally, the final episode of S1 of Pluribus, which was clearly written once they’d been guaranteed S2, and none the worse for that as it sets up a new direction for things, suggesting the alien group mind may not be as impenetrable as it seems

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a thick-cut ribeye steak with fried onions and chips

This was accompanied by the rest of the shoplifting thing from yesterday

This afternoon, I thoroughly investigated the matter of tulips; specifically, the replacement of the word “tulip” with “tulip”. I’d forgotten that this isn’t done using vB’s naughty words list, which will only replace things with *s, but using another feature that allows for replacement of arbitrary strings. In XenForo, there is no such global replacement feature but the censored words feature can do replacement. The importer doesn’t do anything about either of them, so I need to add a custom step to make that all work as it currently does

Fun fact (may not be that much fun): the replacement happens as the page is rendered, so all your naughty words are safely in the database, awaiting an age that’s more linguistically relaxed

[ladymuck]

Much laundry washed and dried out in the garden. HWMBO hadn't unpacked from holiday so it was all my stuff that got done. If it's not in the basket, it doesn't get washed! Although I was kind and did his jeans.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a roast beef bap (white) and a bag of plain crisps

Very Simpsonesque out now. No need for the air conditioner yet, but I suspect it’ll be proving its worth some time this weekend

Some bedding is in the wash

[ladymuck]

Om.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Om.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with occasional wisps. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 27 expected Barometer down to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 05:00; Sunset 20:57 BST

Looking at the 10-day forecast, it's going to be in the 30's for most of next week. Marvellous.

Gig1 have found some money down the back of the sofa for a 2 day a week extension for two months, so I'll be lingering on until the end of August. Gig2 have confirmed the project will end, due to lack of innerest, at the end of June. Gig3 continues to be a well paying mess.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start, with just some areas of mare’s tails high up to add texture. And it’ll be a warm one: already at 19°C (“feels like” 17°, as if that matters), it’s expected to soar to 26° this afternoon, though it’ll also get cloudier then. The barometers are steady at 1012/1020mB - though strictly speaking, they’re down a couple of notches in the decimal places; but I assume that isn’t significant

I had a very good night’s sleep, only to be awoken a little after seven by a knot of cramp in a calf muscle

I got up and hopped around briefly until it eased, and went back to sleep for another hour. The second time of arising, I had a bit of a limp as it was still painful. But pottering around and showering seems to have eased it for now

[DoctorStrangelove]

The Middle Kingdoms have become infested with Habsburgs! It’ll take centuries to get rid of that lot

And they got a bit lippy. .

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Blueish sky with high white cloud.

Wanly sunny.

17.6 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 17 in the saltinghouse.

1017 mBar, 30.03 in Hg, 762.8 Torr, 14.75 psi, (unchanged), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, BR14, LM, and I popped in, with Brillo providing the drivel.

Washing frenzy in progress.

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

I'm definitely slowing down a lot. Took a deal of effort to walk out there & back. Must be dying of something after the bad knees & the bad shoulder.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 waffling on about flowering plants. Makes a change from last week's discussion of sodomy. . Not being at all judgemental of course. This week: plants that flower underground and the Corpse Flower. .

Shirts in off the line & duly met the iRon, now airing upstairs. Only a small amount of birdtulip so far this week.

2 lawns mowed. Found two orchids in my lawn. WTF is going on?

Tea: Mr Brains faggots etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. 18 o'clock news. News Quiz.

Book. Other book.

It rained.

Taggart S10 E6 "Black Orchid". The first Non Taggart Taggart ep. The Evil hypnotist one.