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[xoggoth]

3 days to meself, loony lady free. Pretty heavy rain today, not sure if I'll get me walky. Been moaning for weeks about the sun, now I'm moaning about the rain. At my age, moaning is all one is good at. At least my water butts should be filled up.

PS Butts, Mmmm.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a drizzly day here, with the bonus of possible thunderstorms. The 17°C we have at present apparently “feels like” 14°, but ti should be creeping up to 19° eventually. The barometers are down a bit more at 990/998mB

The lawn seems a little greener again. It occurred to me that I could photograph it each day to analyse the change in the ratio of brown to green areas. But I can’t be bothered

[NickFitz]

The other day, Jo Kibble did one of his 24 hour bus challenges, which brought him to Leicester around 11 at night. Having a wait, he set off in search of sustenance which he found at Bombay Bites, an Indian fast food place with three branches in the city. I congratulated him on his choice and he said the food was absolutely delicious, and it reminded me that I haven’t had anything from there for a while. So this evening’s tea was brought from the branch that’s a bit closer to me, and he’s right - it’s really good stuff if you fancy some nice spicy “street food” as it’s apparently called nowadays

[NickFitz]

Today’s viewing was, of course, Monkey Life and other wildlife things

And tonight’s reading was more of To Each This World - I’m quite near the end of that now

There’s been some more rain tonight but it looks like tomorrow will be a bit brighter, with the rain returning in the evening

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday: another 05:00 awakening: always a joy & much appreciated every fecking time it happens.

Wet. Very wet. Stair rods wet.

Grey now, it was black earlier.

Sunless. Completely.

Can't see Drummau, lost in the low cloud.

22.1 deg in here, 22.1 in the kitchen, 20 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1001 mBar, 29.56 in Hg, 750.8 Torr, 14.52 psi, (up from 1000 last night, in turn up from 995 in the afternoon), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 11:31 and 12:06: as per yesterday.

Today's dream before waking seemed to involve the cat and my failing to install a litter tray, followed by some strange goings on in next door's hall where the wallpaper was billowing off and strange people were banging on the wall in an attempt to get through. Very odd.

The attempt to return to the land of nod via "Pulse" was unsuccessful, and since there's someone living next door the permissible volume wasn't great. However I must have dozed for a while since I missed the bells on Time yet again.

Book.

Lunch: brunch. Bit earlier due to being up since sparrow fart.

Cartrefi Cymru: Flatau (Flats if you require the translation): Penarth. Cowbridge ex Grammar Skool conversion. Something else I dozed through.

Dashcom bollox S6 E11. S6 E2 (the one with the rednecks and shotgun).

Hammering down again. And gusting impressively with it. Horizontal rain. Lovely.

Front bedroom windows closed for the first time in a couple of months. Winter must be on its way. .

The back bedroom tilt & turn was closing itself with the gusts, so I shut it properly.

The afternoon doze was accompanied by more of "Pulse", still no sign of "Time" since I put the wrong CD in the player and dozed off without realising. Hope next door enjoyed it. Not terribly keen on many of the tracks on there, so put the other CD in & listened to Comfortably Numb.

Tea: baked beans & baked spuds. Nice enough. Entertainment: some tosh on R4, followed by stuff off sounds that'll save me remembering tomorrow & Tuesday morning, one of which explained how Pat Buchanan led inexorably to the Orange mother****er. Predictably enough the Orange Mother****er hasn't an original thought in his orange syrup covered head. All together now: USA! USA! USA!.

Jungle Secrets.

Possibly Yet Another Dashcam bollox bollox. It's easy to watch & keeps me awake.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with high level wispy fluff. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 23 expected. Rain may happen around lunchtime / early afternoon. Barometer up to 1010 mBar.

Sunrise 06:11; Sunset 19:52 BST

There ended up being quite a bit of rain yesterday and I never did check if the farmers market had returned. All holiday laundry was done though.

Off to visit Mum today.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I awoke bright and relatively early this morning, but managed to get back to sleep for another couple of hours

It’s sunny and Simpsonesque out at the moment, and the wind has dropped a bit. Currently 18°C, it’s expected to reach 21° by early afternoon. But then the rain is likely to return, and we even have a yellow warning for thunderstorms! The barometers are back up a bit at 996/1004mB

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover belly pork bits from the other day in a bap (wholemeal, homemade) with apple sauce

The magpies were down on the lawn together! I think they’ve had to be going further afield because of the parched lawn having less of whatever it is they peck at down there, which is why they haven’t been around so much