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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start with wisps and strands of mares’ tails hither and yon, possibly presaging a turn in the weather. Today will be a hot one though: currently 18°C, it predicted to hit 29° though it’ll cool down later in the week, even dipping below 20° on Thursday. The barometers are down to 1002/1009mB

Monday again, and back to work. I’m hoping there won’t be much to do, though it’s the start of the month and that’s when the finance people tend to trigger obscure bugs that have been in there since 2020 and just never happened to show up before

[xoggoth]

Got to take me little van to the village garage for service shortly. Old fart meet up at local manor this afternoon, says it's in a shady place thank gawd.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky with high cloud.

21.1 deg in here, 22.5 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto, 19 out the back.

1005.5 mBar, 29.69 in Hg, 754.2 Torr, 14.58 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 54% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 09:45 and 09:48, covbob, LM, and WTFH popped in.

This morning's dream before waking seemed to involve some odd sort of tank in WWII and an unsuccessful attempt to cross the lines & surrender: everyone died (or would have if I hadn't woken up, dunno where the woman came from but there you go). I love a happy ending. .

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Too damn hot out there for a walk today.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some R4 prog about a drug dealer, obviously a slow learner. <click> Tony Hawkes on Inheritance: repeat, listened to it the last time. <click> "How did we get to here, part II: China". Sky Arts: Wonderlands Part I.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country: early agricultural mechanisation (steam driven ploughs), terriers (proper terriers not the overbred show types).

Tea: chilli con carne etc. Entertainment: PM <click> UFO bollox on Blaze.

Am Dro Eisteddfod. 4 celebs (none of which I'd ever heard of) competing for £1000 charity donation by means of 4 walks.

Bab5 S2 E19 "Confessions & Lamentations": Plague. Probly Covid 59. (2259). It doesn't end well at all. A bit like that altered mouse pox virus, all in all.

Secrets in the Sand. .

Secrets in the Dark. .

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Looks damp out. It's allegedly drizzling but I can't see any. More intermittent rain expected until early afternoon when the sun is due to make an appearance. Currently 15 degrees, with a high of 18 expected. Barometer down to 1015 mBar.

Sunrise 05:25; Sunset 21:20 BST

I don't like the look of the forecast down south.

Today I have a meeting with gig1. A waste of time but smile and invoice is the name of the game.

[xoggoth]

I don't like the look of the forecast down south.

Those of us in the SE seem to have the worst of it. 32 today. Not a drop of rain for weeks. Good job I have some permanently shady bits at the bottom of my garden.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some Popeyes hot wings, reheated in the air fryer for a few minutes to crisp them back up, with ketchup

[NickFitz]

First day back over and done with. A bit more hectic than I would have liked, but I suppose it gives me something to do

The shambolic transition to PSR continues to cause unnecessary hassle. This time, the agency they insisted we all transfer to has completely failed to do anything about my extension. Unless they get it together ASAP, I finish on Friday

[NickFitz]

Sainsbury’s have stopped doing the casserole mix around which my oniony chicken casserole recipe had been carefully developed over the years, so tea has been the first attempt at concocting something to replace it. It didn’t turn out the same but it was very nice indeed, and along the right lines

To go with this, the first episode of The Bombing of Pan Am 103 on Netflix, a dramatisation of the events surrounding Lockerbie

[xoggoth]

Sainsbury’s have stopped doing the casserole mix

Yeh, bluddy annoying when they stop selling favourite things, used to like those low sugar apple pies, Weight Watchers ready meals and various other things I can't remember.