New Weird

[PilgrimDan]

I'm well. It's been raining like monsoon season here and he had a genuine tornado.

How've things been here?

[Dina]

(((((((PD)))))))) I've missed you.

Oh. I had not heard that about the weather. I hope you and yours are all right.

Well, pretty much everyone here, both in the SHOV  and in my city are coughing and/or with a cold. It seems an annoying virus is around. Also, the past week (not the one ending today but the previous one) my hubby was in the hospital due to pneumonia. We were truly scared, but in the end it was not so terrible. We spend 3 nights in the hospital but it could have been much worse.

Looking forward to 12 months. Jim official site says he is 78% of it.

Also, the economic situation in my country is dire, and especially for scientists and university teachers so...yes, I am complicated. But I suppose time will tell what happens. Meanwhile, I am doing mostly ok.

[PilgrimDan]

Well, I haven't personally been affected, but the Thames (yes, the same Thames as in London) burst its banks and there's been extensive flooding. The Exeter Hall, a big community centre near me was flooded and so was my parent's garage.

[Dina]

I am glad you are directly unaffected but that is terrible. Along the years, I've knows several people whose garages have been flooded, and it is a real pain in the...back. Your back hurts after all the cleaning and ordering.

I hope the weather improves. One of our central provinces is literally on fire right now but it seems to be getting better. We need more rain, but it has been quite a dry year (again).

On a lighter note, I am watching several shows that I am enjoying. LOTR: Rings of power, season 2, is quite good if you can accept that they changed a lot of canon things. The first episode of The Penguin was interesting. And I am surprised I am enjoying Agatha All Along (I have not much hopes for that one).

[Dina]

Everyone is still here? I hope everyone is doing fine.
I've been quite upset lately because of real life politics that I won't comment here. I will only say that I've been in several manifestations. There is a fight for our public education, which traditionally has been a pride and joy of my country.
On a lighter note, I am watching Only murders in the building, really good I think it is quite fresh. I also finished watching Rings of Power and I am watching Agatha All Along. I was enjoying that one but the last episode I watched was not so pleasant. Not bad, only I did not enjoy it so much.

[Dina]

A former One Direction just died in my country.

[Regenbogen]

A former One Direction just died in my country.

I just googled this. He fell out the hotel window? Did he kill himself, was he killed or was it an accident?

[Regenbogen]

Sorry for the double post. I did something that made the square with the text disappear and wasn't able to bring it back, lol.

We are doing OK, I think. Everyone is ill around us, but so far we have had nothing serious.
My mother was in Italy for a week. Wellness week with friends. Good for her.

At work, I have a new boss. He seems nice and polite to me, but some of the doctors want to quit because of him. We'll see. In my opinion they quit because of themselves. So far he hasn't done or said anything unreasonable.
So there hopefully will be a bunch of new doctors soon. We'll see.


@PilgrimDan:
How is the Thames now?

[Dina]

I just googled this. He fell out the hotel window? Did he kill himself, was he killed or was it an accident?

It is almost proved that he was alone and totally high (probably alcohol + drugs). There are a few reasons to believe he was depressed and could have killed himself but apparently he faint and fell (there are not signs of him trying to stop his fall, so it seems that he was unconcious).

Sorry for the double post. I did something that made the square with the text disappear and wasn't able to bring it back, lol.

I hate when that happens.

We are doing OK, I think. Everyone is ill around us, but so far we have had nothing serious.
My mother was in Italy for a week. Wellness week with friends. Good for her.

Well, I hope you and your family remain healthy. And great about your mom! I hope she had fun.  Next Sunday is Mother's Day here and I am wishing her and you a good day in advance!

At work, I have a new boss. He seems nice and polite to me, but some of the doctors want to quit because of him. We'll see. In my opinion they quit because of themselves. So far he hasn't done or said anything unreasonable.
So there hopefully will be a bunch of new doctors soon. We'll see.

Oh. Well, perhaps he did or say something unreasonable to those doctors who want to quit. Well, if they are new doctors, I hope they are good (as doctors and as people).

We are having a very nice weather this week and apparently the weekend will be Summer-like.

[Dina]

Today is Mother's Day in my country, so I wish a wonderful Day for Regen and her mom. And also to all the forum inhabitants' mothers, and to  those who are mothers themselves  💗

[Regenbogen]

Today is Mother's Day in my country, so I wish a wonderful Day for Regen and her mom. And also to all the forum inhabitants' mothers, and to  those who are mothers themselves  💗

Well, thank you in the name of all mothers.  🥰

We've had sunny weather too. Though the temperatures are lower. But so far it has only been freezing once. Sunrise is around 8 am and sunset around 6 pm now. So the dark periods are now as long as the light periods.

Da Vinci is a bit pissed when he has to stay inside in the evenings and punches his sisters in their faces when they are in his reach. And he does some angry meowing. But once he is fed he gets tired and Mini takes him into her room for the night. That's very cute. He gets to sleep on a cushioned chair beside her bed with her hand in his fur.
Mona seems to have checked out the auto repair shop too. She has walked through gasoline. I cleaned her paws as good as I could and she didn't lick them a lot I think. I am glad the grass is so wet these days so that she cleans her paws just by walking through the grass.

Book news: I have finished the new book by Kevin Hearne: Candle & Crow, which is the third book of a trilogy set in the Iron Druid universe, but after the last druid book and from the point of view of the Scottish sigil agent Al MacBaharrais. I liked it a lot because in a way there was a happily ever after for the druid in there which I missed at the end of Iron Druid. This is the ending I always wished for and I am glad he included this in the book.

There are other new book to read but I wanted to continue Sandman Slim now. I am at book 3. This is also a nice read and there is character development, which is important to me.

[PilgrimDan]

Hi Weirds... looking forward to watching the "Sartana" spaghetti westerns I got for my birthday.

[Regenbogen]

Hi Weirds... looking forward to watching the "Sartana" spaghetti westerns I got for my birthday.

Hi, happy birthday to you. 🥳
Sounds like fun. I am not sure I have ever seen them, but could be. I've seen a lot of those kind of westerns with my dad.

Is the Thames situation OK again?

We are rewatching the Mentalist and Loki.
Have fun with Sartana!

[Dina]

Enjoy your books, Regen, and your movies PD. I've never watched Spaghetti Western but sometimes it was in the background when I played because my parents watched them.
There is a journey of manifestation today, with public classes and things like that. I will tell you later how it went.

[PilgrimDan]

Well, the rivers in Oxford are much lower now and the weather is better, so I think so. Not that ther is fast recovery from flooding, but all the same...

And there were hundreds of westerns churned out in the 60s before the death of the genre in the 70s. The box set I have contains the five "official" Sartana movies, but there were a bunch of others, too, including Sartana and Django crossovers.

On another but related note - Klaus Kinski was in more westerns than I thought....