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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Juror #2 (2024) in which the eponymous juror realises that he knows something not in evidence that could sway his fellow jury members towards the correct verdict, but can’t reveal it. This is an excellent premise and was only let down by the fact that the prosecution case was laughable. It seemed more like an example one might give to twelve year olds with the goal of finding as many reasons for doubt as they could in two minutes, in the confident belief that they would find them all. But this was supposed to be the real case and all the defence managed was vague nonsense. I can see now why so many people on American legal Twitter (it was before we all moved to Bluesky) were so scathing. But it’s a decent enough film if you set all that “making any legal sense at all” stuff aside

After that, a rewatch of Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (2005). It was quite a while ago that I last watched this - pre-pandemic, I reckon - and it’s excellent

And then a further episode of Silo which I must admit I’d almost forgotten about, but that’s me, not it, and it easily pulled me back in. Very good stuff

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

The search for a rack of ribs and chips that comes up to the standard set by the Castle Inn in Cambridge about seventeen years ago continues, with another contender (M&S Korean) being very nice but not nice enough

[xoggoth]

Nice old fart history thing this morning. Exciting (NOT) afternoon doing more shed repairs. Checked my new house insurance and found I'd typed in value of £56600 instead of £566000. Had to pay an extra £37, oh well not too bad. Dunno where you'd get a 4 bed detached house for £56k, Sudan maybe.

[ladymuck]

Just threw together a quick chimichurri to go with the steak I'm having tonight.

Yum!

[WTFH]

Just threw together a quick chimichurri to go with the steak I'm having tonight.

[ladymuck]

Spent an enjoyable hour working out and booking a couple of holidays with HWMBO.

Tallinn at the end of August and Bologna in late October (our anniversary).

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a bap (wholemeal) with apple sauce

This morning brought the half-yearly bill for the service charge for this place. There was a convoluted explanation of how it had been worked out, but what it boiled down to was that it was about £400 less than expected! It seems they’d been unduly pessimistic about electricity prices for the communal areas when they were working it out last year and have been able to halve their estimate for that, so everyone’s a winner!

[ladymuck]

Morning all

A bit cloudy but the high level wispy stuff. Currently 28 degrees with a high of 32 expected. Overnight low might get down to 18 just as the sun rises to heat it all back up again. Barometer still at 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 04:56; Sunset 21:17 BST

HWMBO is looking forward to returning to Glasgow on Tuesday as next week isn't going to be much cooler.

I don't want to do anything today. I've already submitted my gig3 time sheet (the approver likes to receive them on Thursday) so I can't, in good conscience, skive too much.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Last night saw a repeat of the phenomenon of the bedroom being the same temperature when I awoke as when I went to sleep, but with the starting point a little higher at around 28°

And today is turning into a repeat of yesterday: it’s already 26°C and aiming for 32°, though at least I can spend more time in the living room today. It’s sunny but likely to turn cloudier around lunchtime before going back to sunny this evening, and the barometers are much of a muchness at 1006/1014mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc
TFIF, etc
Shorter walk today as we were both tired. Only just over 9,000 steps.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Sunny.

Dry.

Blue sky.

22.8 deg in here, 24.5 in the kitchen, 22.5 in the leanto, 24.9 in the front bedroom.

1009 mBar, 29.795 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.634 psi, (unchanged), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhille on the 1st of April 2020 AndyGarbs, LM, MarkyMark, NF, openstrike, and WTFH popped in, as did I.

Greatly abbreviated walk due to the unbearable heat: if it was a mile, I'd be surprised. Checked the effect of Agent Orange on the brambles in the cemetery: nil. Will have to repeat the exercise and hack back some of it.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The Food Programme waffling on about pistachio nuts.

Classic Movies: "Passport to Pimlico (1949)". All the "joys" of rationing overturned..

Book. Page of Other book.

Minor potching in the garage. Found Even More Nails.

Strewth it's a bit warm out there Bruce. Nearly hot enough to boil a monkey's bum.

Rewind: "Old Country" with Jack Hargreaves. Sticks. Lots of sticks. Special sticks for killing rats. Coppice / Copse (apparently it's pronounced as "copse" despite the alternative spelling). Chap doing some coppicing of hazel and ash woodland with a billhook. How to make hurdles and sheep hurdles. How to split the hazel using a "throw" "froe".

Tea: chilli con carne with rice etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>

UFO bollox on Blaze.

Dead Ringers.

Bab5 S2 E2. "Revelations". Garibaldi awakens. The chrysalis reveals its contents. Shadowy stuff occurs.

Taggart S14 E1 "Berserker". "D Day minute by fecking minute" though the EPG claims it's showing Taggart. FFS. Then it's on to some programme about a Vet: still showing Taggart on the EPG. I wonder if Ellis will show.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was Officer Black Belt (2024), a Korean film on Netflix in which a young martial arts expert finds a purpose in life from helping the Korean probation service to capture violent recidivists. It was OK

Far too hot again, and still no breeze to circulate some air

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been what Sainsbury’s describe as “Chinese style” pork steaks, with chips. I’m not convinced that it’s what they’re eating in downtown Beijing, but it was very nice anyway

More importantly, it didn’t involve spending much time in the kitchen, because it’s already warm in there even without cooking anything

To go with it, the second episode of the NY mob thing

[NickFitz]

The shopping has been done!

I went just after twelve and it was hot. Officially 30°C, but the car reckoned 33° and I found no reason to doubt it

It must be about ten years ago that its sensor broke and it would reckon a day like this was -12° or something ridiculous like that

There were back-to-back departmental or team meetings scheduled for this afternoon, but the 15:00-16:00 one was cancelled by a merciful head of something, so I was just able to grab a quick lunch of cold cocktail sausages

And when I came into the living room with that, there was a huge butterfly batting itself against the window trying to get out, having apparently found its way in through the little narrow window out of which I poke the air conditioner hose. So I opened one of the big windows then got around the other side of it and blew gently at it, which encouraged it to shift along and find the way out without any risk of hurting it by trapping it in something - their wings are very delicate. From looking online, it seems to have been a Peacock

[ladymuck]

Morning all

No cloud. No breeze. Just a searing fiery ball. Currently 29 degrees with a high of 34 expected. Overnight is not expected to drop below 20. Barometer down to 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 04:56; Sunset 21:17 BST

Slept better than I expected to considering the ambient temperature overnight.

Gig3 contract ends on 4 August. I've made the PTB aware but the PM I work with thinks there's a management change a-coming and it could get lost so he's also going to make sure it doesn't expire. However, as HWMBO and I are planning a late August holiday to the Baltics, I won't be too upset at having August off.