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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday apparently.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

20.4 deg in here, brrrrr, 21.9 in the kitchen, 19.5 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1014.5 mBar, 29.96 in Hg, 760.9 Torr, 14.71 psi, (up from 1013 last night), 55% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile between 09:06 and 09:30 on the 2nd of April 2020 AndyGarbs, barrydidit, Brillo, eek, LM, and WTFH popped in.

Walk (abbreviated: 3 miles) walked in the pleasant breeze and intermittent strong sunshine. Watched a brown butterfly fight of a good few minutes duration.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: last bit of FOOC, Abandoned Engineering: Gary Indiana C-47 Nike Missile Site. Vindolande, Hadrian's Wall. What did the Romans ever do for us? Askin' for a friend. .

Book.

Tea: soup etc. Enertainment: PM. Book.

Maigret S1 E6 "The Liberty Bar".

Bit of PF on Sky Arts. Delicate Sound of Thunder: mostly the DSOTM bits. Oh. And "Comfortably Numb". .

Blaze: more Hitlerian bollox: his British Island: to wit: Alderney. Part I.

Blaze: Secret Wars uncovered: Greece 1944: civil war.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky, no sign of a breeze. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 26 expected. Barometer up to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 05:25; Sunset 20:49 BST

Warming is expected over the next few days with 32 degrees forecast for Monday. However, I'm off to Glasgow this evening where it'll be lucky to reach 20 degrees and maybe stop raining.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Things out there are much the same: lots of cumuli with the sun getting through the gaps when they’re in the right place. It’s 20°C and aiming for 23°, with the barometers creeping up a little more to 1008/1016mB

Next week, we’ll get back up to 28° on Monday but then revert to the same sort of conditions as now, with a decent chance of rain on Tuesday (70%)

Out the back, there’s a dead pigeon in the little car park, and one of the crows is pecking chunks out of its chest. The pigeon seems unharmed other than that so I have no idea how it might have died

And on the little lawn next to that, there’s been a dead rat for a couple of days; it started near the hedge separating the lawn from the parking spaces, and something has dragged it to the middle. I expect this is rather discombobulating for the Hindu lady on the ground floor who puts water out for the wildlife, as it’s a couple of feet from her water dish out there so she can’t miss it when she goes out to top that up

[ladymuck]

The bed has been stripped and is airing. The linens have been washed and are out in the garden to dry in the sunshine. Could do with a breeze to help it along.

Testing a drip watering method in the hope that my chilli plants survive next week while I'm away.

[NickFitz]

At the dentist. Checkup done and all OK, so now waiting for the hygienist

[NickFitz]

Home!

The hygienist must have been running ahead of schedule as I was called in there about twenty minutes earlier than the nominal appointment time. They did the usual stuff, along with the usual nagging, and that was (I hope) me done with dentistry until next year

As I was over that side of town, I decided to nip down to M&S again for the one thing I forgot when I was there the other day: slippers! The ones I bought when I moved here are pretty worn out now, as they’re worn almost constantly rather than just doing evening shifts like in the old days. I ended up buying a couple more t-shirts while I was there too. I also spotted a couple of shirts I quite liked the look of, but luckily I was already heading to the door at that point and the queue for the self-checkouts was long enough that I wasn’t tempted to double back and go through them again

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from Popeyes

I keep thinking something in the flat is making a weird noise. But it’s actually the very faint sounds of the Caribbean Carnival coming from the park