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[NickFitz]

Tea has been brought to me from the Chinese restaurant in town

[NickFitz]

This afternoon’s wildlife viewing was largely on dry land, though for some reason they brought David Attenborough back despite having just spent a month repeating everything they had involving him

And in Parable of the Sower, things still aren’t going well for anybody

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday. And thusly awake before 07:00. .

Damp. .

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in parts with lots of clouds.

22.7 deg in here, 23.8 deg in the kitchen, 22 in the leanto, 19 out the back.

1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750 Torr, 14.5 psi, (down from 1002 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile at 17:48 on April 1st 2020 AndyGarbs, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, and I popped in, with NF relating the latest plague stats for Leicester.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the coolth of the breeze. There were puddles! Nearly needed a duffle coat to avoid hypothermia. Another conversation with the couple I spoke with yesterday.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about gardens Yng Nghymraeg.

The Oz Customs thing: S7 E1: just watching this to see how much food the Chinese have concealed & undeclared in their multiple suitcases: fingers crossed for Frog Fat! Birds Nest! Winterworm caterpillars. $250 fine: these days the same offence attracts a fine of $3500 or so from what I saw in S17. And a Nigerian chap who has Nigerian custard powder because he prefers that. He's getting angry enough to attract the attention of the police. All his unidentifiable food was confiscated before they let him in. Yet another NZ chap with previous convictions: guess where he's going (hint: it ain't across the border).

Somewhere in there was Dan Do which visited various new builds.

Book.

Tea: baked spud & baked beans with cheese: nice enough apart from the Big Black Thing in one of the spuds. Entertainment: bit of Brain of Britain, 17 o'clock news, Today in History: the Aga Khan talking about his meeting with Florence Nightingale, The Lady with the Lamp, in 1900 or so when she was a rather old & infirm lady and he was a mere stripling.

Danny Trejo Buried Crap thing on Blaze: meh. ancient sword found in sea off Israel: dated from the Crusades: might be Richard the Lionheart's. . As fecking if. Assorted ancient texts. PreViking gold with Odin shown. Couple of pages of the oldest Koran known found in a library in Birmingham. Coptic scriptures, variously gospels of Thomas & Judas. The Antikythera shipwreck. Some other shipwreck (I was dozing by then).

UFO bollox on DMAX:Why did everyone start making stone constructions 10,000 years ago? Derek von Heiniken makes an appearance: <click>.

News: the scumbag in Germany was offed by special forces as is only right & proper: 35p for a 9x19 is a lot cheaper than keeping the **** alive for the rest of his miserable life. Not that I'm in any way judgemental of course. . Everyone has the right to plot his/her/its road to hell.

Nobody is on again. Since I'm now word perfect, I'll give it a miss.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with fleks of grey and a stuff breeze. Current 20 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 23 expected. It might rain but it's a slim chance. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 05:50; Sunset 20:57 BST

Tired this morning. Slept ok but woke about 5.30 and again at 7.30, after which I didn't get back to sleep.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There’s quite a bit of cloud but some of it is clearing, so it’s tending towards sunny spells. There was a brief shower not long ago, though nothing more along those lines is expected. It’s also very breezy, so the current 19°C “feels like” 15° and the expected high for the day is a mere 21°. The barometers are down a touch more at 991/999mB

[ladymuck]

Raining! The wind is such that it's coming down at a jaunty angle. The ground is so dry I doubt it'll make much difference.

[WTFH]

Very windy overnight and then at 7am it started to rain. It stopped about 15 mins later and then it was a mix of drizzle and just damp air until 10am. Now clearing.

[xoggoth]

Rain here lasted less than 5 minutes. Not gonna do much for the plants. Free day today, boring morning fixing some patio slabs.

Not loony lady waiting for some scan results, don't sound good, hope she's ok.

[NickFitz]

Leftover crispy duck for lunch

No more rain here. Pretty windy though

[NickFitz]

Spag bol for tea

Accompanied by 24 Hours in A&E