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[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from KFC

We were hit by a huge CME earlier, it seems. Not sure it’ll result in the aurora reaching this far south from what the NOAA map shows, but it might be a nice show for those in the far north

[NickFitz]

Monkey Life and other wildlife stuff was on earlier

Tonight, I read a bit more of Adulthood Rites. It’s good, but TBH I’m not hooked; I don’t really care what happens to these aliens - or, indeed, that remaining survivors of the human race! Not much of it left to read so I might as well finish it, but I won’t rush on to the final part of the trilogy

It looks like the aurora has made it south but it’s cloudy here, as it always is when this happens

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

It looks like the aurora has made it south but it’s cloudy here, as it always is when this happens

Odd, that, innit. . Same happened here. Never mind, I managed to dry the washing. .

Morning.

Sunday.

Inneresting night's sleep with the complaining back. . Read a bit more of the book at 4. Oh, I'm a poet & I didn't know it. .

Dry.

Grey.

16.7 deg in here, 16.6 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto, 10 out the back.

1008 mBar, 29.77 in Hg, 756 Torr, 14.62 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of April 2020, between 10:41 and 11:30, in popped Brillo, BR14, DaveB, LM, and SimonMac.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the greyish gloom with wanish sunshine. Quite chilly by my estimation, though obviously hot by the estimations of those going about in t shirts & the like.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: dashcam bollox S4E5/6 or whatever.

Back is sufficiently uncomfortable to require yet another ibuprofen, though, for some reason, these are capsules rather than the usual caplets.

Well I'm still not feeling up to much even after that. Maybe a proper pill will help more. .

Tea: beans on toast etc. Entertainment: something on R4, though the thing about the gay Jamaican novelist went <click> pretty quickly.

Blazian bollox: Oak Island nutjobbery: finds: a button. A 26gm piece of lead. A chunk of what looks very much like a concrete paving stone: it even has the sorts of marks you see on such things. Obviously a mediaeval paving stone brought across by the Knights that say Ni! to make a shrubbery Templar. Can't decide which of those two options is the more likely: I think I'd go with Monty Python if I'm honest about it. Which is more than the makers of this endless crap are.

BBC4: A stitch in time: reproducing the leather jacket of an 18th C hedger: obviously a high end leather garment when new, passed down through many hands to end up in the portrait of said hedger. Only this morning I mused quietly to myself as I trudged along the towpath that at some time in the past the hedge alongside the towpath had been laid in the traditional manner: all grown out now of course over the many years since it was last done.

More Blazian bollox: Turin shroud.

Blazian bollox with Duchovny:

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I slept very soundly last night, awaking this morning a bit after eleven, having not even woken up and thought “I should get up now” then gone back to sleep before that

It’s a sunny and Simpsonesque day out. Currently 12°C and aiming for 14°; the barometers are up a little at 1001/1009mB

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Getting dark now but it's been a sunny day with cloudy lumps. Currently 13 degrees and the high was 16. Barometer down to 1013 mBar.

Sunrise 07:18; Sunset 18:17 BST

The drive down to Mum's and back was fairly uneventful. There's a local road that's been closed now for a couple of weeks that is causing havoc. Adds at least 20 mins to the journey.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was some leftover chicken bits, then tea was also leftover chicken, but this time it was some of the zaatar and lemon chicken thing I made the other week, with chips

All in all, a very chickeny day