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It was foggy when I looked outside late last night and there’s been overnight rain while I slept, but the skies are clearing rapidly and it looks like it’ll be a sunny day, for now anyway. It’ll be windy too though, so it may be variable as different conditions could blow in rapidly. It’s 7°C but “feels like” 1° because of that wind, with the predicted high being just 8° for an hour or so mid-afternoon; the barometers are further down at 984/992mB
Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine.
Tea: beans on toast. Entertainment: something on R4 about joining airfryers to Star Trek(tm) which made little or no sense to me. Then again, these days almost nothing makes any sense to me any more.
Book.
Tina Turner in concert San Bernadino 1993: Legs. I like that bit.
Managed to finish today's toothpaste inspection before rain got heavy. Need me phone to track location and take photos and swipe screens just don't work when they are wet. With GPS on, runs out of charge in about 2 hours thanks to that stupid Google update. Fortunately got a decent little portable charger for a whole £11.33.
It’s a touch milder with it though, at 7°C which is the high for the day. The barometers are down again at 1000/1007mB. And the rain, though quite light, is expected to continue into the evening and possibly start again before sunrise
I see I didn’t remember to record last night’s viewing, so here it is: the major motion picture premiere was The Family Plan (2023) on Apple TV+, mainly because they’ve just released a sequel and that reminded me that I’d not watched the first one. This is along similar lines to Nobody but done worse: family man turns out to have previously been a secret government assassin, his past catches up with him, so he reluctantly kills everybody. The first hour tries too hard to be comedy, and fails for the most part; it could have been cut down to twenty minutes establishing the situation and getting the plot started. The second hour is a bit better, but could probably have been trimmed down by ten or fifteen minutes too. The film also seems to be suggesting that suburban American life is the best of all possible ways of living for all involved, and I have to say it seems like an absolute nightmare to me
To follow that, a rewatch of Man on a Ledge (2012) which is good, but not as good as Phone Booth
Dull, overcast, wet. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) and that's the high for the day. Barometer down to 1017 mBar.
Sunrise 07:31; Sunset 16:03 GMT
Lazy morning. HWMBO and I have cocktails and dinner with friends this evening. He wants to visit Forbidden Planet on the way there so we're just working out what time we'd want to leave.
Chilly in here at 13.7 deg, 11 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto, 9 deg in the saltinghouse.
1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.648 psi, (down from 1019 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 2nd of March 2020 LM and scruff liked the moonwatch, LondonManc had a runny sandwich, Brillo popped in, NF did the Monday links, and it was hailing out of a blue sky onto me.
Was about to go for a walk but it's drizzling so screw that.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC.
Bit of the Australian customs thing: chap burst into tears when found with injectable steroid in his baggage, but all his pills were legal and there was so little steroid in the container that they just let him go, also the usual Chinese undeclared "food", sadly no frog fat, and some rawhide African drums that had to be nuked.
Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine and grey gloom. Met a woman I think used to work in Siliconix though I didn't ask if it was she.
Tea: soup etc. Nice enough.
Entertainment: PM.
Maigret. "A crime for Xmas (1961)".
WWII in Colour. The nukes.
History's Mysteries.
Dear old Adolph's DNA again. 4.
Battle of the Atlantic. Enough already. Book. Other book. Removed labels from other books.
Bit of "Nobody" on Film4+1 until it appeared to break. Ah. It's unborked now. I like that film.
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