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[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some hot wings

It’s quite Simpsonesque out now, but still very breezy. We have a warning for thunderstorms tomorrow and Thursday

[ladymuck]

Greetings from Helsinki, local time 1736.

The ferry journey was uneventful. Hotel nice. Had a short wander around the immediate area and have secured postcards and stamps already. Warm and sunny.

Posh dinner this evening.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade pork chow mein. Turned out quite nicely; nothing they’d recognise down the Chinese, but I’m managing to refine whatever recipe I started with into something acceptable to me

For viewing, I started watching the LA homicide thing on Netflix about Phil Spector

[xoggoth]

Busy day, arty farty thing this morning, folllowed by visit to small local art exhibition with ll2, then a wake party this afternoon. Didn't know bloke very well but seemed a nice guy and I admired his hippy look. I used to dress liike that once, got so boring now.

[NickFitz]

I finished watching the Phil Spector thing

And tonight I continued reading To Each This World. Really getting into this now

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 0946

Sunny with wispy fluff. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer at 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 06:00; Sunset 20:42 EEST

We've just had breakfast and will be off to see some Moomins today, amongst other cultural delights.

Had a fabulous dinner last night. Our blow out meal of the holiday at a Michelin starred restaurant.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Misty but dry here, a pleasant walk has been had.
about 22:30 yesterday we had 1 minute of very heavy rain.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and drizzly start; been a little while since we had one of those. It’s mild enough at 17°C with an expected high of 23°C, the barometers are down a bit more at 1002/1009mB, and we have a yellow warning for thunderstorms

Down on the lawn near the flowerbed, it looks as if some poor pigeon has already been struck by a bolt from the blue, there being almost nothing left of it but a wide circular patch of white feathers with a fragment of wing, another such fragment being a bit further across the lawn, where one of the magpies was pecking at it. I’m guessing a fox lying low beneath the rose bushes got it, though it could be a cat, or even a hawk. But whatever it was - or something that came later - has carried off most of the remains, if that’s any clue

Up here, I’ve got the bread maker started on wholemeal dough as I’m making some baps - first time making wholemeal ones

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning. .

Wednesday apparently.

Torrential rain blanked out Freesat some time around 01:00.

Damp.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

21 deg in here, 22 deg in the kitchen, 20 deg in the leanto, 19 deg out the back.

1005 mBar, 29.6776 in Hg, 753.8 Torr, 14.58 psi, (up from 1004 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 09:11 and 10:35, AndyGarbs, barrydidit, Brillo, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, vetran, and I popped in, with NF giving us the "bring out yer dead" toll for Leicester just to cheer us up a bit.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the unbearable heat & humidity of the morning. The umbrella was not required.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Dashcam bollox. Or Art in Film The News if I've watched that one too many times already.

More gardening. The Great Pile o'tulipe grows ever taller.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country: Kestrel nesting in the hole left by a rotten branch. Chap erects a scaffolding tower to take pictures of same from a hide. Catching a mink in a trap. Mink did not look happy. The difference between a horse trotting and pacing, this last being what a palfrey was trained to do.

Tea: Tesco ?breaded? "White fish". Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Dan Do: the one with the giant shoe bath in Conwy again.

Jack Hargreaves Out of Town (1986): the mole catcher. The dancing horse Sorrel and Mrs Mac Joan McMillen. A remarkable lady & a remarkable horse. Deaths: at least 2 moles, maybe 3. So that's how a mole trap works.

Bab5 S3 E13 "The Arthur Visitor". Guess who turns up on Bab5. .

Catrefi Cymru: Conversions again.

Blazian bollox: What on earth?: Pict hill fort near Aberdeen, cave and standing stone with Pictish symbols. Sahara Pacman dunes, air mail symbol. GPS spoofing and AIS fakery off California. Mexico volcanic crater with white deposit. Kansas Atlas E missile site used to produce LSD. Shades of the West Wales lot in the 70s. .

Blazian bollox: What on earth?: Norway: lidar showing what turned out to be a Viking graveyard. Netherlands: "boats" located about 50 miles from the sea: dear old Adolph's bombing practice range in prep for Operation Sealion. Mojave runway: Stratolaunch plane. Hanford Washington: Trench 94: collection of defunct submarine reactor cores. Strange blob on weather doppler radar: Monarch butterfly migration, now threatened by illegal logging in Mexico.

[xoggoth]

Scrabbly thing with couple of old ladies this morning. Nowt else apart from more fencing and walk.