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[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb chops with chips and beans. Very nice, it was

Very similar to last night’s tea, due to sloppy management of Use By dates when shopping

This was accompanied by a thing on Netflix called Terrorism Close Calls. This episode is about a plan to bomb the NY subway in similar style to 7/7 in London. But it’s edited in that annoying fast-paced yet repetitious style; I swear they said “anniversary of 9-11” every sixty to ninety seconds in the first five minutes. And then there was some footage that was shown as the narrator was talking about the FBI keeping these guys under surveillance in New York, and it’s clearly in the UK! British houses, British bollards with a left-pointing arrow on the pedestrian island in the middle of the road, and parked vehicles with British number plates. Very sloppy

Then again, the intro was ranting about “the most dangerous terrorist plots in the world” and it’s pretty clear they mean “in the USA”, so this is probably as close as we’ll get to anything to do with the rest of the world

[NickFitz]

In other exciting news, I’m taking the last week of July off!

[NickFitz]

The chemist’s has been gone to, and also the surgery, as they want a bottle of piss for some reason and I wasn’t going to waste any of my empties on them

The promised cloud never arrived; if anything, there’s even less of it than there was before. It’s also 26°C out there. So it was a warm business

I went to the chemist’s first as I knew the prescription would only have come through yesterday or today, and they can be quite slow, so I figured I could go on to the surgery and come back if it wasn’t ready yet; better than sitting around in there for ten minutes. But they happened to be on top of things this time

I walked along the side of the road past the park going to the surgery, but coming back, I followed a track worn in the grass towards bushes and such. Way back when I was a student, that corner of the park was just open grass that got waterlogged in winter, but in the intervening years they’ve planted lots of trees and areas of plants that attract wildlife such as butterflies. Turns out it’s much nicer to walk through the winding grass paths in there than up the pavement next to the traffic, and I emerged just by where I needed to cross the road. I’ll have to explore that area further, as there were bits branching off in various directions along the way

[ladymuck]

It was unreasonably hot when I popped out to post Mum's birthday card. Glad my little office is generally on the cooler side.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bit of leftover curry and naan, cold

I need to go to the chemist’s for the usual monthly bag of pills, which were delayed this month because of the annual medication review stuff meaning I haven’t got any of most of them left and can’t postpone it. Quite annoying, as it’s getting very warm. But apparently it’ll cloud over later in the afternoon so I’m putting it off until then; I may as well avoid getting sunburnt as well as overheated

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with a few wisps. Currently 27 degrees with a high of 31 expected. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 04:53; Sunset 21:19 BST

Meetings this morning. Got asked to do something that I'd already done last week, so my anticipatory skills scored me brownie points

HWMBO is putting on a BBQ this afternoon for a few members of his family (his favourite niece and her kids) while I slave away working. That said, I'd rather not be hanging around a BBQ in this weather.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday apparently (checks clock).

Grey.

Misty.

Can't see Drummau so it's either raining, about to rain, or there's going to be snow.

22 deg in here, 22.9 deg in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto.

1011 mBar, 29.854 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (up from 1010.5 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, LM, MarkyMark, and WTFH popped in.

Another work dream, though of little consequence. .

Washing frenzy in progress, though I could feel the moisture in the air as I pegged the shirts out on the line.

Sun's out now.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Classic Movies: Billy Liar. Not one of my favourites, but inneresting enough.

Book.

Outback Wreckers. Strewth Bruce it's a bit warm. Last in series.

Washing doesn't seem to be drying very well.

That requiring the iRon received it & now airing upstairs.

Entertainment: Archive Hour: The IGY Trans Polar expedition.

Further Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves. More fishing. And kitting out a boat.

Nazi Bunkers: Saint Malo & offshore island bunker. Patton suggested leaving it alone but others disagreed & it took a lot of bombs & napalm to reduce it.

Roy Noble visiting Pontypool, Blaenavon etc.

Bab5 S1 E21 "The quality of mercy". The serial killer and the healing machine one, with added "Lost in Space".

Digging for Britain with Alice Roberts. Well it's on.

Book. Other book. Other other book.

Bit of "Who do you think you are": Kevin Clifton from Grimsby who turns out to have a Native American indigenous Canadian ancestor.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Misty earlier (a bit like yesterday) but it's now burned off.
Even though hot air is supposed to rise, the downstairs of the house is a lot warmer than upstairs. Windows are open, but it appears that local farmers must be muck spreading.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start and the weather app thinks we’re getting some light rain right now and for an hour or so, though we aren’t; maybe it’ll show up soon. It’s 18°C (“feels like” 15°) and expected to reach 26° before getting proper hot over the next few days. The barometers are down a touch at 1004/1012mB

It’s odd that the recent hot spells don’t seem to be associated with particularly high pressure. I’d expect it to go much higher than that when 30°+ is expected in the next couple of days

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was Police Interceptors

And tonight I read more of Eve’s Hollywood. She’s a very good writer, with a distinctive turn of phrase

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

The bed has been remade, thereby averting any cause for dismay

[NickFitz]

There's a reason for leather jackets & trousers being A Good Idea. :.

I don't think my scars are still visible.

No helmet of course.

Them were the days. .

Apparently this guy’s helmet had broken in two when he hit the road so all in all, he was pretty lucky to have got away with a skinning

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a pork cutlet with chips and beans

[DoctorStrangelove]

He’d fallen off the back of the bike when his mate who was driving pulled a wheelie, so the whole of his back was skinned

There's a reason for leather jackets & trousers being A Good Idea. :.

I don't think my scars are still visible.

No helmet of course.

Them were the days. .

[NickFitz]

I forgot to close the bedroom windows and blinds and it got up to 28°C in there by the time I remembered

But that was about three hours ago and it’s dropped back to a slightly more reasonable 24° already

I’d been meaning to change the bed over the weekend but kept forgetting, so I’ve left the mattress to air for now and will make it later, when it may even be a bit cooler