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[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff today as usual

Tonight, I started reading The Andromeda Anthology by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot, being A for Andromeda and The Andromeda Breakthrough in one volume. I vaguely remember getting A for Andromeda out of the library when I was about fourteen, but don't remember anything much about it. Of course, I'm too young to have seen the original 1961 TV series!

There's been quite a lot of rain in the last hour, but it seems to have eased off a bit now. I noticed it was getting quite windy too

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Walk with loony lady 2 was too difficult for her. She wasn't up to walking back and a bloke at a campsite gave us a lift! There are some nice people around. Had a nice lunch at pub overlooking a lake and I had a lone wander while she sat chatting to another old lady.

Managed to submit my damn company accounts to HMRC. Hadn't been able to do a submission to Companies House as I had not received an authentication code and was a bit worried I might not get it on time so applied for a filing extension. Just had email that said it had been extended to Dec 31st! Think I'll just keep applying for extensions so I don't have to bother with submissions at all.

[NickFitz]

Continuing the lunchtime theme, tea has been a burger and fries from Five Guys

[NickFitz]

Roast beef bap for lunch

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Cloudy day out, and it's quite likely to start raining before too long; probably just showers, though. The heatwave is tailing off, so we're only at 19°C and not getting any warmer, while the barometers are heading back down at 995/1002mB

[xoggoth]

Off to collect loony lady 2. Ergh!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday apparently.

Wet: started as drizzle & got heavier as time went on.

Grey.

Sunless.

Misty.

Cool in here at 19.6 deg, 20 in the kitchen, 18.5 in the leanto.

1002.5 mBar, 29.6 in Hg, 751.94 Torr, 14.54 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of February 2020 DaveB popped in, LM watched someone nearly getting totalled by an ambulance with blues & twos on, everyone had tea, I'd been to that Swansea and it rained on me in Neath, followed by me watching "Highlander: Endgame" & not understanding WTF was going on since it's a continuation of the tv series.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked, initially dry, then very light drizzle, and eventually full on rain. Feet wet now.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: FOOC.

Freecell score: 95%, running average: 84%.

Another little flock of swifts/swallows/martins spotted on their way to that Africa.

Hammering down now: rivers running down the road. Next door's garden will be under water again at this rate.

Sun was out for at least 30 seconds just now.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM.

Maigret "Shadow Play (1961)". The two hour version was on a couple of weeks ago.

Railway thing on 4. Britain's Railway Empire (2 of 2).

Blaze: The Real Hunt for Red October: the hunt for K-129. Revamping the story of the GloMar Explorer, the CIA, and Howard Hughes.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 21 expected. There may be rain this afternoon, followed by the sun coming out. Barometer down to 1010 mBar.

Sunrise 06:44; Sunset 19:04 BST

Last night I set the WM to a delayed start with some minor laundry. It finished shortly before I got out of the shower, and the cleaned clothings have now been draped on the airer.

I will pop over the road to the farmers' market to see if the Caribbean sauce lady is there when I've finished my coffee (which I'm not supposed to have but one cup a day can't hurt?).

Then the wall painting person is set to arrive by 10:30 to finally finish the garden wall. Once they get here, I will drive down to visit Mum, leaving them to paint and hope they don't nick my stuff.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture was one of those where I wasn't sure if it was a premiere or if I'd seen it on the telly years ago. But when it featured a PDP-8/e being actively used in the first minute or two, I realised I couldn't have seen it before, as I would have remembered that

So it was the premiere, for me, of Three Days of the Condor (1975) in which a PDP-8/e is seen not only scanning the text of a book printed in Chinese (horizontally) but also converting that text from ideograms into a Latin alphabet transcription and, furthermore, an English translation, all in real time! Yeah, no. A PDP-8/e can't do that. Anyway, the rest of the film isn't about that but is a great example of those 1970s thrillers that directors have been trying, and often failing, to copy ever since. Excellent stuff, I thought

And later, a rewatch of Code of a Killer, the ITV drama about Alec Jeffries' invention of DNA fingerprinting and its use in catching Colin Pitchfork for the murders down near Narborough in the 1980s. Last time I watched this was in the old flat, where I was thinking that the crime scenes were just three miles or so down the road; here, the labs in which Jeffries worked are about half-a-mile away across the park on the university campus. Strange how awful tragedies and major breakthroughs can all happen so close to home

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

I think baobab fruit was touted at one time as one of these miracle foods that cures everything.

This week I have been watching the latest series of Shetland, which aired shortly before Christmas last year. I like it but it's a bit like EastEnders - far too high a crime rate for me to want to visit.

[NickFitz]

Today I learned (thanks to Scrambled Maps) that Rustenberg, South Africa has a street called Kremetart Avenue.

Excellent!

Checking Google Translate, I discover that in Afrikaans, it means baobab: "a short tree with an enormously thick trunk and large edible fruit. It can live to a great age."

When I went to Unzoomed yesterday, I took one look and thought "I know this! I used to leave work and go for my tea in a pub in that corner, then walk across that square with the statue in the middle on that diagonal path, on my way to a better pub near the hotel!" For it was Bristol, and unsurprisingly I got it in one

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a pork cutlet with chips and beans

Accompanied by a bit of the last episode (so far) of Trucking Hell

[ladymuck]

Today I learned (thanks to Scrambled Maps) that Rustenberg, South Africa has a street called Kremetart Avenue.

[NickFitz]

^^ semantic shift, I think?

Ah, that's it!

Disappointed to discover that my bread has started to go mouldy so no toast for me this morning.

This is why I now freeze bread straight away - I used to throw out about half of it some weeks due to mould!

[NickFitz]

Lunch, as indicated last night, was the remaining bit of the rack of ribs. Still very nice when cold!

Turning sunnier out now with a lot of the cloud having cleared, though there seems to be a lingering haze high up