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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another sunny start with wispy bits. There’ll be a foreshadowing of the week to come as the current 23°C rises to 28° this afternoon. The barometers are down a little at 1002/1009mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky. No wisps. Currently 26 degrees with a high of 31 expected. Barometer down to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 05:37; Sunset 20:35 BST

Off to Sussex-by-the-Sea to visit Mum. Down there it's a much more palatable 24 degree high today.

Taking a couple of trackers to attach to things that Mum "loses". There is a risk she removes the trackers and bins them.

[NickFitz]

The bed has been stripped and left to air, and the duvet cover (which I’ve decided to wash separately because it's pretty bulky in its own right due to being 1600 thread count) is in the wash

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs and chips, again

This was accompanied by Paramedics on Scene on iPlayer, which appears to be BBC Scotland’s local version of Ambulance but without the budget for fancy 3D map graphics

[ladymuck]

There were lots of special drivers out today. However I made it to Sussex and back without incident.

I was very disappointed that the car wash at the BP garage close to Mum was partially dismantled. I assume someone has vandalised it. I'll have to plan a different car wash location on next week's visit.

[NickFitz]

There was some good wildlife stuff on earlier

Tonight, I started reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. I tried reading this a while ago, but I wasn’t in the mood for it and bailed after about twenty pages. But a few days ago was the date of the events described in There Will Come Soft Rains, the penultimate chapter (or story - it was originally separate short stories, brought together and rewritten as necessary to make it cohesive), so people were posting about that and having read it, I figured it was time to start again. I’m nearly halfway through now

Tonight is unpleasantly warm. But as well as being Monday, tomorrow will be the coolest day of the week, with 34°C predicted for Thursday!

Goodnight all