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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Wet. Very wet. Torrentially wet on occasion overnight: currently sufficiently wet that the satellite signal has dropped out completely.

Grey.

Dark.

Sunless.

And have I mentioned that it's wet?

22.1 deg in here, 22.9 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto, 18 out the back.

999 mBar, 29.5 in Hg, 749.3 Torr, 14.49 psi, (down from 1001 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 11:13 and 11:26, barrydidit, Brillo, LondonManc, NF, vetran, and I popped.

Due to the lack of Freesat signal, Jack Hargreaves Old Country came through on Freeview: rabbiting using nets & ferrets: two dead rabbits, how rabbits keep brambles down by eating the soft ends of the briars and thusly myxomatosis increased the amount of ground covered by brambles, what to look for in the country: old disused village breweries. Also: how to make a rabbiting net. Goodness me, that's a skill & no mistake.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the wan sunshine then pouring rain, during which I sheltered under a tree until it stopped.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The food programme.

Dashcam bollox: gunfire in this one: car jacker. Took the plod a fair amount of time to bring him to a halt despite many rounds of ?9x19? proving the effectiveness of same.

Another deluge: more rivers running down the gutters in the road. I cleared some of the detritus off the drain grid up the road on my walk.

Now waiting for the water level to rise at the bottom of next door's garden.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Mostly cloudy today, but there’s the occasional burst of sunshine when it finds a gap. It’s 17°C (“feels like” 13°) and aiming for 21°, with the barometers down to 992/1000mB. More rain is expected, but not until this afternoon

The green patches on the lawn are getting bigger; a bit more rain and they should all join up again

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with lumps of fluff wafting past. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 23 expected. Barometer at 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 06:07; Sunset 19:57 BST

I went to bed about 9pm yesterday and slept very well. Long lie in this morning. Now doing a couple of hours' billing time for gig1 (I had an email to respond to!) before submitting my invoice for the month.

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon all

CBS to start, then persisting it down for 30mins, then CBS etc etc.
PAYDAY!! - yay.
Invoice duly sent.
now for a well deserved two weeks off.

[NickFitz]

Pukka steak slice for lunch

In technology news, I finally managed to get my AirPods Max paired with the telly. I’d done this before a few years ago, but I’d had to do a reset on the telly since then and I couldn’t get it to even see them, never mind pair with them. I finally discovered that an older Samsung TV (this one’s 4K UHD but about ten years old) can’t pair with, or even detect, Bluetooth devices if it's already connected (not merely paired) to one. And since the last time, I’ve gone from connecting the soundbar via HDMI to using Bluetooth, due to a shortage of HDMI ports. So when I tried, it was connected to the soundbar, and of course it doesn’t give you any indication that it won’t work - it just goes through the pantomime of acting like it’s searching for a minute, then shrugs and says “No, nowt there!”

Once I knew that, I disconnected from the soundbar - but it kept automatically connecting again, so I had to turn that off. And then I was finally able to get it to connect to the headphones, then reconnect the soundbar and have them both paired

The main reason for this is to avoid disturbing the neighbours when watching stuff at night on TV or Blu-ray/DVD that deserves to be loud. I do most of my viewing via the Apple TV, which the AirPods naturally just connect to without any effort

[NickFitz]

It went very dark, and then a torrential downpour started along with some thunder. But that only lasted about ten minutes before the rain stopped, though distant rumblings continued for another hour or more. And just now, also over the space of about ten minutes, it’s cleared up and is sunny!

Meanwhile, a towel wash is on