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It’s sunny and Simpsonesque out, with enough of a breeze to keep it cool: currently 12°C (“feels like” 10°) and not rising above 13°. The barometers are up to 1014/1022mB
Went to cinema with not loony lady 3 yesterday after me woodland volunteery thing. Gawd, what a boring film! Nearly all the seats empty as usual, dunno how cinemas survive these days. Got to travel to Rye tomorrow to meet up with an old uni friend.
Chilly in here at 14.4 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.
1022 mBar, 30.18 in Hg, 766.6 Torr, 14.82 psi, (up from 1021 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 25th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, LM & I popped in, whilst Brillo popped in a lot.
Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about Paddington the musical's songwriter chap.
I think my mikro wav eee is wearing out: the turntable intermittently stopped going around. I may have to get the old one out of the garage.
"Tina Turner live in Barcelona 1990" turned on just in time for "Don't need another hero". She's wearing that chainmail(like) dress. What there is of it. Strewth, looks like it was a bit warm in Barcelona in July 1990. Goodness me, she was hot. The next dress had lots of holes for ventilation.
Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg, just for a change. Entertainment: thing about microplastics in food & drink.
Beyond Skinwalker Ranch. More Blaze bollox. This time they visit the alleged landing place in 1965 of Die Glocke. .
Sergeant Cork. S3 E13 "The case of the cynical traitor". Cooperation between the German and British merchants of death with pressure from The Great and The "Good".
Blaze: A ship through time: stone me, a documentary on Blaze that's not bollox: all about the ship found in Newport, Gwent (as it was then) in 2002.
DMAX: Ancient unexplained files. Ah, that's better. CT scans on ancient mummies.
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
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
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.
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
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