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[NickFitz]

I missed Monkey Life today due to the family gathering, though there was some good stuff about lions on later

But tonight: a motion picture marathon they said couldn’t be done! Yes, it was a rewatch of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) followed by the premiere of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) (which clearly should have been called Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two but I assume Tom Cruise realised he couldn’t keep on doing this stuff forever during the gap between them and wanted something more impressive than “Part Two” for the ending of the series). Anyway, it’s all very good in the ways you would expect

I particularly liked the way they brought back a character from the first M:I film, who I don’t think even had any lines to speak of, and made him a major player in this one for reasons that make perfect sense in the context of the M:I universe. It’s good in a narrative sense, giving some continuity across the entire series of films; but I assume it also means that this actor who had a tiny but important part in the first film, and probably made a couple of months’ rent from it at the time, will have been paid enough for his part in the last that he can now afford a comfortable retirement, and that’s nice

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

In the west, the thinnest possible sliver of New Moon is lying almost on its back as it sets, with Venus looking radiant just up and to the left

[NickFitz]

I didn’t feel particularly hungry this evening after a big roast dinner this afternoon, but I knew if I didn’t have something, I’d end up feeling famished later. So tea was just a quick top-up of burger and fries

Very nice evening out

[NickFitz]

Home again!

Very nice meal, and very nice to catch up with everyone. And, of course, I now have Easter eggs

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny one side of the tree opposite, grey cloud the other side. Currently 16 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer at 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 05:59; Sunset 20:03 BST

Yesterday HWMBO and I met up in Marylebone for cocktails after I was done with a couple of appointments. We then went to a Mexican restaurant for dinner.

Today HWMBO is heading home and I get to sleep with the window open a bit at night for a few weeks until he comes back.

[NickFitz]

Time to go!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s generally sunny with white fluffy clouds of various sizes, but tending towards the large size, making the lighting levels dip and rise at random. No sign of rain, and expected to become clearer this evening. It’s 11°C (“feels like” 8°) and the expected high is 14°; the barometers are up to 1009/1017mB

I need to set off in an hour or so. Rather than the usual faffing around at the last minute leading to vague panic, I’m thinking of pottering around getting everything ready to go once I’ve finished my coffee. Much less stressful that way

[DoctorStrangelove]

And it’s also clear that this will lead to a major twist in the story: maybe not this episode, maybe not even this season, but this guy's going to change everything, though he doesn’t know it yet

Plate of bacon and M60 MG? Just askin' for a friend. Totally irrelevant to me being on Apple TV.

Morning.

Saturday.

Damply dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

NotSoChilly in here at 15.2 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 13.5 in the leanto.

1017.5 mBar, 30.05 in Hg, 763.2 Torr, 14.7575 psi, (up from 1015 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 25th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, and I popped in. The council dump was duly closed due to plague.

Walk (unabbreviated, actually rather longer than usual, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine.

Hair duly trimmed.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus which is particularly loud this morning.

Freecell score in the ongoing tediium of the afternoon: 82%, running average: 84%. Not in the zone. It was down to 70% at one stage.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>

Look at life: "The city's for living" (1968). Them were the days: building some sort of tunnel for traffic in Bath.

Maigret: S4 E4 "the cellars of the Majestic (1963)".

Blaze: Cursed Histories: more bollox. P.T. Barnum & his miraculously frequent fires. And the Great Circus Trainwreck of 1889.

Blaze: Holy Marvels with Dennis Quaid. Legendary Weapons. Go ahead: make my day.

More youtube crap about the Orange mother****er's dementia. Now psychotic on top of malignantly narcissistic.

It's all going to end really really well, isn't it?

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, and since it’s the weekend, we’ve not been out for a walk yet.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Quarantine (2008) in which a TV journalist and a cameraman accompany an LA fire crew on a shout. It turns out to be a medical emergency requiring doors to be broken down, but shortly after entering the building, it’s sealed shut from outside and they and the residents find themselves trapped as some foul virus starts to spread

It was OK, and like many of these things got better towards the end. Nothing special though; for this plot, I think I preferred the one that was filmed in those council tower blocks in Southampton, Containment, that I watched a few years ago

Then I was going to watch a further episode of Pluribus and call it a night as I need to drive south tomorrow. But I’d made the mistake of putting the mundane laundry on a bit later than I usually do, and it always takes longer to dry than bedding, for example, so I ended up watching three episodes before it was done

I’d forgotten that the series is by Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad fame, but the cold open of episode four soon reminded me: a character we haven’t seen before, alone in a situation unlike any other so far, and it soon becomes clear that this is the other, geographically distant, side of something that happened in an earlier episode. And it’s also clear that this will lead to a major twist in the story: maybe not this episode, maybe not even this season, but this guy's going to change everything, though he doesn’t know it yet

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Oh, and no shopping today! Tomorrow’s when I’m heading south for our delayed Easter family get-together, so I might pop into the Sainsbury’s down there on the way back. They sell Old Hooky, which for some reason isn’t stocked by the ones here. I’m planning a proper trip to the shops on Monday or Tuesday though, including popping into M&S - I somehow never get around to going there these days

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas. And lunch earlier was a ham bap

On the telly, the third episode of the documentary about the sinking of the ferry Estonia, which is starting to get into the conspiracy theories

The dog’s servants are back, but probably just to get some more stuff; they were on their balcony earlier. It looks like their big telly’s gone, so no more will I see that flickering away out of the corner of my eye. They seemed to watch a lot of sports

[WTFH]

Drizzling a bit here and I've spent a while this afternoon learning and ordering the bits needed to install a solar panel on a shed.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy with flecks of grey. A light breeze. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer up to 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 06:01; Sunset 20:01 BST

Busy morning of meetings. Now off for the afternoon.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Quite a sunny day with some clouds here and there. It seems it’ll probably get cloudier though, and the wind will get up; there’s also a chance of showers around teatime. It’s 12°C (“feels like” 6°) and the expected high is 15°. The barometers are up a smidgeon at 1005/1013mB

Meanwhile, at the block opposite, a removals van has been backed up close to one of the doors. This, it would appear, heralds the departure of the dogs and their ancillary staff. A sad day; it was always nice to see them trotting to and from the Dogmobiles with whichever of their humans they’d pressed into service that day