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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.

Aha! Proper Blazian bollox: National Park Mysteries: The Grand Canyon: Egyptian relics found in a giant underground cave system, no doubt as built by Ancient Aliens.

[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

[NickFitz]

The usual wildlife stuff was on today

And tonight, extremely bad things happened to good people in Parable of the Talents

Heading south for a barbecue tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday judging by the quiet.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky with high clouds.

20 deg in here, 21.6 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto, 15 out the back.

1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 09:35 and 09:45, covbob and LM popped in.

This morning's dream before waking appeared to involve the now very late Tom Pugh, Physics master, for some odd reason located in what used to be M&S Neath, though without the shopping paraphenalia, where someone who might have been NF was reverse engineering a chip that the manufacturers had just decided to make some more of. For unknown reasons we were stuck in there for a while. I was glad to wake up.

Walk (abbreviated: 3 miles) walked in the increasingly warm sunshine. Wildlife spotted: a bee fly busily visiting my phlox flowers, a large hawk sitting quietly on a tombstone in the cemetery.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the noise the fridge is making.

Dashcam thing on Sky Mix, with subtitles so I don't have to listen to the inane commentary.

Book.

Tea: baked beans and baked spud. Nice enough. Entertainment: 17 o'clock news. A thing about Gina Lollobrigida. The church thing <click>. Thing about Cream on Sky Arts. <click>.

Blaze bollox: Thing about stuff found in jungles. Skeletons covered in calcite crystals in a cave in Belize: Mayan sacrificial offerings. Ancient ?African? Copper coin found on an island off the north of Australia dating prior to Cap'n Cooke et al. Cambodia: hidden city in the jungle. Amazonia: curious henges and squares found after the jungle was cleared: turns out that 2000 years ago it wasn't jungle but savanna. Who'd have thunk?

TPTV Look at Life: Fair Isle (1960). Apparently there were far more men than women on Fair Isle in the 1960s. And out of the 10 or 15 pupils in the skool only two were girls. Chaps had to leave for the main land to find a wife. Though there were 5 times as many sheep as people so in some ways one might have been spoiled for choice. .

Blaze: Danny Trejo Buried mysteries bollox. Discovery that Yellowstone is a supervolcano. Discovery that Chicxulub is where the dinosaur killing bolide hit: no mention of Alvarez et al. Finding of the nutjobs who set off for the north pole in a balloon and ended up on White Island. Discovery of Otsi the chap found up an alp 5000 years after he died. Finding a septic civil war land mine which was detonated for safety reasons. Does gunpowder still work 150 years later? Askin' for a friend. . The Holy Handgrenade of Antioch found on an Israeli beach & only identified as such 40 years later in 2015 or so after the finder's death. Discovery of the jaw bones of an even more ancient version of T. Rex. Why the curse of King Tut also applied to the renovation of a Polish king's tomb: hint: fungus spores can kill you if you inhale them.