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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp but no drizzle.

Wanly sunny.

Greyish.

Chilly in here at 13.4 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

1012.5 mBar, 29.899 in Hg, 75.44 Torr, 14.685 psi, (unchanged), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast but clearing skies out. Walk about to happen.

[NickFitz]

Various wildlife things enlivened the TV today

Tonight, I continued Peace and War, getting to the end of Forever Free and starting Forever Peace

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

After last week’s disappointing Indian meal from the place in town with the fancy branding, tonight’s tea came all the way from a little Indian/Nepalese place on the Golden Mile, the name given to the main route through the predominantly Hindu part of the city. This was a much better choice, being full of flavour and with generously-sized portions - I’m going to have to freeze half of the rice, there was so much of it

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a sausage and bacon bap, sausages and bacon being from one of the butchers down the market. Very nice

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Cloudy sort of day out, and windy to boot. Chance of rain later too. It’s 12°C (“feels like” 5°) and that’s as good as it gets; the barometers are up a touch at 1004/1012mB

My calves felt a bit stiff when I got up due to all the walking yesterday, but are OK now. I really need to exercise more often

[ladymuck]

^^



Afternoon all

Dull. Damp from overnight rain. Warmer at 13 degrees and that's the high for the day. Rain forecast later. Barometer up to 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 07:03; Sunset 17:27 GMT

Lazy morning. Didn't go to the farmers' market. Bed has been stripped and left to air while the WM does the first load.

We're off out this evening to Club Gascon with some friends as a belated birthday celebration/general catch up.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Om.

[DoctorStrangelove]

This was accompanied by the start of Fukushima: Days That Shook the World on All4. It’s still on the initial arrival of the tsunami at the moment, but I assume the conclusion at the end of E2 will be “Don’t operate your nuclear power plant in such a way that its name becomes part of the War Boys’ chant in Mad Max: Fury Road"

I took it to mean "don't build BWR powerstations designed for Kansas on the shores of Japan with the emergency cooling diesel generators in the basement". But that's just me.

Morning.

Saturday.

Drizzly, very.

Grey, very.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 13 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

1015 mBar, 29.97 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.72 psi, (up from 1013 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of March 2020 scruff, LM, NF, BR14 and I popped in, and the Tory bastards had found the Magic Money Tree all of a sudden.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC. <click> Too depressing. Book.

Even more drizzly. .

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. <click>. Book. Other book.

Maigret S3 E9 "The crooked castle (1962)": the one about the jewel thieves at the crossroads and the sister that isn't. Unlike the Cremer version the "brother" doesn't get shot. . Hadn't seen this version before.

[WTFH]

Morning all
There was a ceilidh last night at the wedding do. Good fun, but I’m a bit old for all that.
Murky out, so delaying the walk a tad.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Predator: Badlands (2025) which I thought was very good, though only once I realised that it wasn’t trying to be a sequel to Prey. It’s more about the Predator folk and also involves Alien stuff, so it’s a completely different kettle of fish really, and also quite humorous. So watch it on its own terms is my advice

(I still prefer Prey, but only in terms of the kind of story I prefer.)

And then a rewatch of RoboCop (1987), mainly because I recently saw a comment online about the sequel which made me think I should watch that again, so I need to watch the first one first. But it’s worth watching anyway, because it’s excellent

And as Apple have nearly got to the end of Hijack S2, I thought it was safe to start watching that and viewed the first two episodes. It’s set on the Berlin underground this time, and I have to fault it for requiring obvious impossibilities to set the story up in S2E1. Firstly, a train held at red at a station would not be able to leave that station without being automatically stopped within a few yards (or metres, as they’re called on the Continent). Secondly, if we let that slide, the train then passes another signal at red, and all that happens is that the lady in the control room calls them on the radio to ask why when, again, the train would be stopped automatically. And no, there’s nothing to suggest that the safety systems have been tampered with. But they do send in GSG-9, who I’d never heard of until I read that book about them recently, so at least I was able to say “Ooh, I know about them! I read a book!”

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: ribeye steak, fried onions, and chips

This was accompanied by the start of Fukushima: Days That Shook the World on All4. It’s still on the initial arrival of the tsunami at the moment, but I assume the conclusion at the end of E2 will be “Don’t operate your nuclear power plant in such a way that its name becomes part of the War Boys’ chant in Mad Max: Fury Road"

[ladymuck]

The grey hairs have been banished for a few weeks.

One more meeting (in about an hour) and then I'm done for the day. Trying to decide whether I want to update some documents for dodgy SwissClientCo (gig2) or do it next week. I also need to create some 'New Market Onboarding' process documentation.

[NickFitz]

Home again, again - this time with the Corolla

I walked in the end. Turns out it’s under two miles via the shortest route, through the polytechnic, and it's downhill from here

I’ve only done just under 900 miles since last year and he felt there wasn’t much point giving it a full service. He’d adjusted the brakes for free as it only took him a few minutes, rather like the other year when one of the exhaust brackets was dodgy so he just welded it there and then rather than mucking about getting my approval for the work and calculating an estimate

So that was why it was ready by lunchtime rather than around teatime, as often happens. This meant I was able to pop along to Big Sainsbury’s while I was that side of the river, and get various bits and bobs that I would have had to get next week otherwise.

Upon finally returning home, not only was the preferred parking space free, but this entire edge of the lawn was empty, so I didn’t even have to parallel park. And just to round things off, the lift was on the ground floor, so I didn’t have to wait for that!

Time for lunch now; I’m quite peckish as I only had coffee for breakfast. Some hot wings (cold) await

[NickFitz]

Car’s ready!

I’ve only just recovered from walking about three miles earlier! Tempted to get the bus into town rather than adding another two mile walk. Rain’s due, so I could use that as an excuse, having already been drizzled on quite enough earlier