Reply to: test please delete

[NickFitz]

I thought I’d try something new for tea. Caribbean, maybe? Thai? Vietnamese? But I spent so long dithering and unable to decide that in the end, I just got something from the south Indian restaurant past the park. Very tasty, as always

[xoggoth]

Sunrise 08:07; Sunset 16:05 GMT

Reminded me of this sad old song about gettin old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWVwVTFAs4c

[ladymuck]

The journey home was uneventful.

I have unpacked and started the returns process of some espresso cups I bought for HWMBO that weren't quite right (advertised as 90ml capacity but clearly only 80ml capacity per the manufacturer's product label). I found another source of what should be the right size cup but that would mean a visit to Belgrade to collect them, as I'm sure that would be cheaper than being stung for import duties.

Chilly out there.

Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' 0, and it does) and that's the high for the day. Barometer at 1010 mBar.

Now I'm back down south, I get about 48 minutes more daylight each day:
Sunrise 08:07; Sunset 16:05 GMT

[NickFitz]

Bacon butty for lunch

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a sunny day but still cold: 2°C which “feels like” -4°, and that’s as good as it’s getting. The barometers are up a bit at 998/1007

The road still appears to be extremely icy. I would have expected enough grit to have been carried down from the main roads to have cleared it by now, but maybe the council were caught out and didn’t do any gritting, or maybe it’s just that there’s less traffic because of the season of the year

[WTFH]

Scrambled Maps: 99.7% done, just have to finish Wisconsin.

[xoggoth]

Annoying last night, forgot to keep an eye on the cheap kettle in me bedroom I use for me water bottle and it boiled over, triggering the RCD in the garage and all the lights went out. Clearly the bit of plastic I put over the switch to stop water getting in didn't work.

Freezy walk with loony lady 1 at 12.

Revision: LL1 just phoned to say she couldn't make it, her car is too snowed in. Just me and me puppet parrot today then.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday. <checks clock> yes: Saturday.

Damp.

Snow on the ground. Snow on the hills.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 11.5 deg, 9 deg in the kitchen, 6 deg in the leanto, 2 deg in the saltinghoiuse.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.65 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 9th of March 2020 LM, NF, AndyGarbs, and DaveB popped, whilst Brillo popped in a lot, whereas the hairy spider living over the sink drowned and was no more.

Sad news about "Nobody 2" .

Lunch: brunch. Doesn't look like I'll need to dig my way down to the garage. .

Currently vaccing the house since it's not been done for a while: using both Vax cleaners: the one with the brush that doesn't rotate any more and the big round Orange one that has an air powered rotating brush attachment purchased yonks ago from Lidl(tm).

Found another piece of glass from the self-detonating window. Certainly seems to have spread bits of itself around the hall. I'm sure the next time I move the bookcases I'll find more behind them, but that can wait for The Spring. Or terminal boredome, which ever arrives first.

Couple of blips on the power just now. The front room junk room/office had stuff moved about & vacced under for the first time since Spring Cleaning.

Dunno what they're doing in next door but there was some stuff being moved about earlier.

[WTFH]

Morning all
HNY, etc.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

The sun is not yet ris but the sky is clear with a light frost on the ground. Currently 0 degrees ('feels like' -5, except it doesn't) with a high of 2 expected. Barometer up to 1012 mBar

Sunrise 08:47: Sunset 15:57 GMT

I am on my way to the airport, heading home.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Nobody 2 (2025) and frankly, it’s not very good

I got the impression that they thought “Let’s just devise a setting in which to repeat some of the scenes people liked in the first one, though not the best one because that would be hard to repeat, and then cobble together a vague story to fit around all that.” And though this approach seems to have worked for the Mission: Impossible films, they didn’t manage to pull it off for this one. So it’s very much a curate’s egg: parts of it are excellent, but overall, it stinks

It’s a shame, really. The first one didn’t need a sequel but once they decided to make one, they had such a good springboard to launch from. And they couldn’t be bothered and made this instead

Anyway, I then rewatched Ballerina (2025) which is derivative but manages to be a good film in its own right

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The second darts semi-final has been a superb match!

[NickFitz]

Tea: shepherd’s pie

Just the thing for cold weather! Not that I’m going out in it

This was accompanied by the rest of the Police Interceptors I started watching last night

[NickFitz]

No shopping happened in the end. Next week is Viz week, so I’ll need to go over to Big Sainsbury’s then; but in the meantime, I can use up a load of stuff in the freezer

As the devil makes work for idle hands, my lack of shopping activity led to me remembering that the interest rate on my Cash ISA with Halifax is crap. So I had a look on Martin Lewis’s site, and have arranged to transfer it to a Stocks & Shares ISA elsewhere. Sorry about the global economic collapse that will inevitably ensue

I also worked out what I was doing wrong with the RealityKit stuff, so that’s working again. Turns out reading the documentation properly rather than assuming you know how things work can be helpful

There’s a lovely full moon rising over the block opposite. Well, strictly speaking, it’s not full until tomorrow. But it looks full so that’ll do

[xoggoth]

Quite a bit of snow here. Road was covered in it this morning.