Cold yesterday, sleet overnight, turned to rain at some point. Now trying to decide if I take the dog for one big walk and get absolutely soaked, or two normal length ones and get absolutely soaked twice.
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Morning all
Raining, and has been for quite some time. Noisy precipitation overnight, maybe sleet or possibly hail? I didn't get up to look. Currently 7 degrees with it warming up to 13 by late afternoon/early evening. Rain set to continue all day. Barometer down to 987 mBar.
Sunrise 08:06; Sunset 16:08
Off to see Mum today. Down there it's 12 degrees and raining. Sunrise 08:03, sunset 16:12. What a difference 60 miles makes.
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Morning.
Sunday.
Grey.
Dark.
Dank.
Dreary.
Sunless.
Snowless.
Very wet.
Unpleasant.
Cold in here at 10.1 deg, 9 deg in the kitchen, 7 deg in the leanto.
984 mBar, 29.06 in Hg, 738.1 Torr, 14.27171 psi, (down from 992 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 17th of December 2019 the walk up the hill was cold, some nuthatches were twittering, optimists were fishing in the res, LM was off up north again, NF was receiving & redirecting xmas cards for people living in a road 2 miles away, including one from Australia.
Oddly, the house being colder that the atmosphere all the windows are fogged up. On the outside.
Lunch: brunch.
Entertainment: "Abilene Town (1946)" with that Randolph Scott: haven't seen this one before. Meh.
Smoke & steel on U&Eden: Saltburn funicular railway. Septic wooden roller coaster ride. Mt Wilson observatory. Samson silver mine: invention of wire rope and man engine (lift). Ski chair lift.
HMS Warrior. USS Intrepid (aircraft carrier with unarmoured wooden deck). Prague waste water treatment system designed by William Heerlein Lindley: removed the "solids". Bazalgette's London sewer system: the loss of "The Princess Alice" in 1878 or how to drown in raw sewage. San Francisco Mint. Didn't burn down or collapse in 1906.
Marc Brunel's Thames tunnel. (It's the one with that spidery cornish beam engine and Bletchley Park).
Tea: beans on toast plus a couple of boiled eggs etc.
Entertainment: nothing I can recall.
Freecell.
Book.
Some bollox about Mediaeval Deaths on Blaze. Chap made a sword. Pretty meh all in all.
It hammered down with rain for a while but it's "dry" at the moment.
In contrast with yesterday the temperature in the salting house is 11 deg as against 2.6 deg, in fact the air outside is warmer than the air in here (aside from the living room) which explains the condensation on the outside of the windows.
Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 5 January 2025, 23:17.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Not a very nice drive down but the roads were quiet so the flow was good. Some nasty patches of flooding here and there on the A24.Comment
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Kaminoyama, Japan in 32 moves! (6 x 6 map)
bored now.
does the world start up again tomorrow?
Why is religion allowed to close the feckin country down for two weeks every bloody year?Comment
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Lunch: ham toasties
I think there's been a shower, which has helped thaw a lot of the snow. Still some patchy areas in the grass, and lines of it at the bottom of car windscreens
There were a young fox and one of the crows down on the lawn earlier. The fox tried casually heading towards the crow, whereupon the crow took off and landed again about four feet further away. Fox tried another casual amble in its direction, and it did the same. The fox gave up and wandered off at this point. Æsop would have made a whole thing about this
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Roads really drenched round here. Won't be doing council toothpaste inspections for a few days, due to deep mud the footpath I need to do will be inaccessible. Was almost impossible to navigate before today's rain.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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Twelfth Night, so I've taken down the Christmas tree
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Just updated MyFitnessPal on which I've been very remiss about logging my daily food intake since I finished work for Christmas. Luckily almost everything I've eaten has been recorded here
Quality Street don't count, of course
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