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[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb chops with chips and beans

It’s turned nice and sunny out now

The young magpies were just chasing each other around the rose bushes, but I think there may only have been two of them there. They seem to be a quite independent brood this year, with the parents taking more of a wings-off approach

And I’ve had the bed airing all afternoon so I need to go and make that while I remember

[xoggoth]

Volunteery thing at local nature reserve this morning. Probably good thing I went, else I'd have got up very late after grotty night's sleep. Don't think lying in bed helps.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It seems that “cloudy but mild” will be the default setting for the week, with temperatures expected to be in the low-to-mid-20s. But today is, literally, just the warm-up: currently 15°C with an expected high of 19°, and the wind has dropped a bit so what it “feels like” has been left out of the headline figures, though scrolling down reveals it’s 12°. And the cloud seems quite thin in places so while the initial impression is that it’s rather grey, there are occasional almost-sunny spells. The barometers are much the same at 1009/1016mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

18.5 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 16.3 in the saltinghouse.

1015.5 mBar, 29.9876 in Hg, 761.7 Torr, 14.73 psi, (down from 1017 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 30th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, with LM and Anonimouse each getting a post in edgeways.

Poor night's sleep: awake at 04:00ish, read for a couple of hours & returned to the land of nod eventually.

Awoke to find next door had another batch of washing to hang on the line so I went out & replaced it for them before I had my breakfast tea.

Turns out I had 6 spare washing lines in the salting house: down to 5 now, so I'll have to buy another one soon. .

Knackered now. Used my cunning heatshrink trick on one end, and the Lidl (tm) ladder at the other. All hunkydory now.

In other other news looks like next door but 2 have moved.

I thought I didn't recognise the people wandering up & down the garden.

Would have been nice if the previous occupants had said goodbye. 2nd time that's happened in a couple of years, though Mike, next door but 1 the other direction, did say goodbye later.

Also explains the mass destruction and building work that's going on there at the moment.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Daily Beast: "Inside Trump's head": Happy 80th Birthday you evil Orange Mother****er. Let's hope for No Happy Returns. .

Some septic programme about searching for classic cars: found it whilst scrolling mindlessly through the EPG: first one featured some late 1950s FIAT sports cars: you can tell it's septicland because they hadn't completely dissolved. . 2nd one was about some septic truck thing that they were refurbing to celebrate some chap who'd turned a small business welding stuff into an $80M company, also a Harley Davidson sidecar bike from 1930. The 3 FIATs sold for $70k in total. 3rd one featured a 1915 Harley found in someone's basement. They have large basements in septicland. It had "patina" apparently (i.e. it looked like a pile of scrap).

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine. After 3.5 miles I had to remove my jacket. .

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: The Directors: John Ford.

History's greatest mysteries: TWA800. deja vu is strong in this one.

Sergeant Cork S5 E3: "The case of the simple savage (1966).

The Fonz waffling on about Hazardous History: Precarious Products.

[WTFH]

Morning all

Sunny out, I suspect I will be wrecked later as it’s going to be a heavy shed construction day.

Morning all
My suspicions were correct. Thankfully it wasn’t too hot, but a very nice day. The walls of the shed are up. Roof going on today.

[NickFitz]

Today’s wildlife was watery once again. I get the idea of having a theme, but when they repeat documentaries about the same subject back-to-back, you just end up hearing the same thing about the Great Barrier Reef over and over again

In Future Noir, we’re on to the special effects. Seven miles of optical fibre just to light up the “windows” in the models for the city shots!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Turkish place, mainly because they had a BOGOF offer so there’s leftovers for lunch

[NickFitz]

My car passed the MOT with flying colours.



I should bloody well hope so considering all the money I've spent on it over the past year.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Sunny and Simpsonesque out, for a change. Very windy though. It’s 17°C which is the high for today, and the barometers are up a bit at 1008/1016mB

[ladymuck]

My car passed the MOT with flying colours.



I should bloody well hope so considering all the money I've spent on it over the past year.

[xoggoth]

Nowt on today and more lone days next few weeks, Loony Lady 1 is in US visiting her daughter and Not Loony Lady is on holiday in Norway. Walked home with nice lady neighbour after old fart history thing yesterday, nearly all women as usual. What do retired blokes do with their time?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Intermittently sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

18.1 deg in here, 18.4 in the kitchen, 16.5 in the leanto, 14.3 in the saltinghouse.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.6 Torr, 14.765 psi, (up from 1017 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 30th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, with AndyGarbs, LM, me, xogg & WTFH helping out.

Slept alright. This morning is blessed with a touch of vertigo. All good clean fun.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC <click> Dead Ringers. Just as funny as yesterday evening.

Book.

Shirts etc. in off the line & duly iRoned. All airing upstairs now.

Rescued next door's broken line since they seem to be out.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

Book.

Maigret S4 E12 "Peter the Lett". Dear old Roger Delgado as a murderous villain. He comes to a bad end next week when he loses his head.

Book.

Hitler's Women. His gfs.

Hitler's sex life. Ditto.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Barometer up to 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 04:44; Sunset 22:19 BST

Just about to take yea olde jalopy for its MOT. Need to find a caff for a spot of breakfast to while away some of the waiting time.

[WTFH]

Morning all

Sunny out, I suspect I will be wrecked later as it’s going to be a heavy shed construction day.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Drive Angry (2011) in which the deceased Nicholas Cage breaks out of Hell to rescue his daughter’s baby (ergo, his granddaughter) from a Satanic cult that intends to use her as a human sacrifice. Now that may sound silly, and I went into this film assuming it would be foolish nonsense; but about halfway through, I realised that my disbelief had been wholly suspended pretty much from the start and it was really good! So as long as you’re willing to go along with it (where “it” is a wide-ranging set of preposterous premises), it’s tremendous entertainment

After that, a rewatch of The Beanie Bubble (2023) which is good, but not as good as certain other recent “based very loosely on a true story” films

At this point, I was going to watch a further episode of Silo but I was in the mood for more driving stuff, so I rewatched Le Mans '66 (2019). Also “loosely based”, I assume, and also lots of fast car stuff; so I suppose it kind of tied everything together

Goodnight all