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[ladymuck]

Well. Neither I nor my brother and Mum made it to the wedding.

Mum refused to get ready and eventually resigned herself to getting dressed so late that my brother couldn't get her there on time.

I got to my car only to discover that someone had tried to rip one of the wing mirrors off. It was left dangling by the wires. I wasn't going to drive it with that hanging off so had to figure out how to make it safe. Fortunately, the garage next door to me was open and the young lad in there was happy to help. However, by the time that was done, there was no way I'd get to the wedding on time.

Why people feel the need to vandalise other people's belongings is something I'll never understand.

[NickFitz]

^^^ Shades of "The Admirable Crichton (1957)" or the one with Anthony Hopkins ("The Edge"). .

Yes, and more recently Triangle of Sadness (2022)

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Nice day out, though it’s quite cloudy; might be stratocumulus? Occasional thinner patches mean it brightens up from time to time and isn’t actually gloomy. It’s 18°C and may reach 19° for a bit shortly; the barometers are up one more notch at 1006/1014mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with wispy fluff. Currently 18 with a high of 21 expected. Barometer up a smidge to 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 05:19; Sunset 20:37 BST

Today is my cousin's wedding, at some fancy stately home/castle thing in Kent. Having checked in with my brother earlier this morning, my Mum is trying her best to get out of going. This is despite her regularly complaining that she never goes out and hardly sees her family.

Hopefully yea olde jalopy will get me there and back, with whatever is going on with the clutch pedal not resulting in major failure today. I did get breakdown cover included in my car insurance last time I renewed, knowing she's getting on a bit, so I'll at least be able to get home.

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ Shades of "The Admirable Crichton (1957)" or the one with Anthony Hopkins ("The Edge"). .

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Cooler in here at 17.3 deg, ?19? in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

1011.3 mBar, 29.86 in Hg, 758.5 Torr, 14.667666 psi, (up from 1010.5 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Awakened unbidden at 05:something & thankfully returned to the land of nod until something past 08.

The dream, as usual, involved some job or other, and this one had a woman in it again. Though no dreamy smell this time.

Meanwhile on the 27th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, BR14, and Churchill managed to squeeze a post in amongst Brillo's outpourings.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine. Quite warm out there. Car with smashed driver's window observed. The chap whose door I knocked on didn't know who it belonged to, other than it had been there for a fortnight. Taxed & MOT until July.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Moneybox. The News Quiz repeat.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was Send Help (2026) in which a deserving employee is passed over for promotion when the boss’s son inherits the business. But then, on a business trip, their executive jet goes down in a storm and she and the new boss are the only survivors, cast away on an island; and she’s been trying to get on the show Survivor for ages and thus is well prepared for the situation, so who’s in charge now? I found this rather enjoyable. It seemed to be veering off course a bit towards the end, but it turned out it was just going in a direction I hadn’t anticipated. Worth a watch; it’s on Disney+ if you have that

Then a rewatch of Gran Turismo (2023) which is both a good story and fun if you like motorcars racing around

Finally, another episode of Pluribus

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

The shed has been successfully removed from the pallets and is now leaning against the utility room. Tomorrow is painting day.

Jobsworths defeated!

[WTFH]

The shed has been successfully removed from the pallets and is now leaning against the utility room. Tomorrow is painting day.

[NickFitz]

Ribeye steak with chips, fried onions, and beans for tea

To go along with it, the remainder of the Police Interceptors I started watching the other evening

[ladymuck]

True to the forecast, the cloud came and so did some very light rain. It's now trying to brighten up a bit.

I popped out to the little Sainsbury's around the corner, picked up half a dozen bottles of tonic and various snacks to bring my total shop to £30.39, thus triggering the bonus points for a £30 spend.

I also picked up my order from Boots. I did not get the bus to Ealing Broadway to pick up my order from Holland and Barrett. It's open until 7pm so I'll have time to do it later, after all my meetings are finished.

[WTFH]

... the first of my new sheds is about to arrive.

Shed has arrived on 2 pallets.
The driver refused to drive onto our driveway ("sorry mate, it's kerbside drop-off only"), so now the pallets are leaning at an angle where our drive slopes onto the road. This makes getting the pieces off a tad difficult because as soon as I remove the straps, the side supports will probably not hold the sections in place, so they will most likely collapse onto the road. Now contemplating how to topple the first pallet onto the drive without damaging the contents.

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

I’m still not sure what I want for tea tonight, but now I have multiple options

There was a lane closure on the dual carriageway going there due to the ongoing works on something at the edges of the roads, but it didn’t cause too much of a delay

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
It was clear, and then half way round the walk it looked like it was going to rain heavily, but that didn't happen. It's now clearing again and the first of my new sheds is about to arrive.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with fluff. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Early afternoon may see an increase in cloud and a chance of rain before reverting back to a sunnier evening. Barometer steady at 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 05:21; Sunset 20:36 BST

I need to leave the house to collect some online orders that have been delivered to Boots and Holland and Barratt. Plus I need to pick up Fever Tree tonic from Sainsbury's while it's on offer.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Grey.

Cooler in here at 16.8 deg, 17.5 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.65 psi, (unchanged), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of March 2020 Churchill got a post in edgeways on page of Brillo.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine. Spotted with rain towards the end.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some bollox about the curious film life of Michael Jackson: the film stopping before the very curious bits in the 90s & naughties. <- See wot I did there? .

Just been looking at a clock that shows equal and unequal hours. It just blew my tiny mind. Designed by Richard of Wallingford, Abbot of St. Albans. The equal hours bit is easy enough, the unequal hours bit is what blew my mind. Midday and Midnight at 7 of the clock.

Bit of a cleaning frenzy in the kitchen: moved stuff, cleaned top, discovered frass: something was eating an ancient leather wallet: well it's not eating it any more, the maggots having demised.

Having returned the contents of one of the cupboards in a rather cleaner condition than when they came out, now getting outside the mandatory mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

The contents of the jar of garlic powder (BBE 07/2025) out of said cupboard have met the compost heap. House is now stinking of garlic.

Looks like the nazis are doing well in the elections.

New bulb in the old meekrowavey: now seems to work ok. Getting the cover back on was a bit of a struggle.

Tea: chilli con carne etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM (from 16:30 today). The excrement seems to have hit the aircon for Labour. .

Oh dear, how sad, never mind. .

Just remember you only have to elect the nazis once. .

Taggart S11 E1 "Hellfire". Not many eps left with Jim Taggart starring. Another spooky one: never very keen on those.