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[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ OM.

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

White sky.

NotQuiteSoChilly in here at 15.5 deg, 15 in the kitchen, 13.5 in the leanto.

1016 mBar, 30 in Hg, 762.1 Torr, 14.736 psi, (down from 1018 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 24th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, covbob, DaveB, LM, vetran, xogg and I popped in, all duly staying at home as instructed by The Wisdom of Bunter.

Another morning of waking at 05:55 FFS. Read book until 07:00 or so, then returned to the land of doze for a while until the wireless woke me up with the sound of the zionists busily bombing Lebanon.

The dream before waking involved avoiding crashing artics on the motorway whilst driving my dad somewhere. Odd.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the chilly grey gloom. Two conversations: Elaine's mum up near the Calor gas place, and Martin in Penydre.

Have I mentioned the grass snake two days ago on the towpath?

Or that the swans have laid 8 eggs this year?

Well if I haven't I have now.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some bollox or other on R4. TWATO.

New washing line installed: in a rush of blood to the head I joined the old rope to the new rope with some heat shrink and lo! the ladder wasn't needed, just pulled the old rope through & the new rope followed.

I'll have to remember that trick for next time.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but bright. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 12 expected. The sun might make an appearance. Barometer up to 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 06:17; Sunset 19:50 BST

I am feeling much better today. Headachy from about 5am and tablets still having little effect. However, when I got up, the mere act of being vertical seems to have helped massively, only for the 10am meeting I'm covering for someone at Gig1 to be cancelled. Gig3 still haven't got their act together about what I'm supposed to be doing. Smile and invoice

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I awoke, unalarmed, just after 9am after a pretty decent night’s sleep

It’s sunny with clouds, and expected to either stay much the same or get cloudier. The warm spell is over: 7°C now and only getting to 11° later. The barometers are up a touch at 1008/1016mB

Off to Big Sainsbury’s shortly. I’m not sure I need that much, as I’m onne again at the point where I need to reduce stocks in the freezer to let new stuff in. But Viz is out, so there I must go

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

The car park and frontage of the store were adorned with things proclaiming the ominous fact that it's undergoing “improvements”, which as we all know can mean anything from moving a couple of shelves to make a bit more room for the queue at Argos to rotating the entire layout of the store by 180° about its vertical axis, then shaking it and leaving things where they land. The only change that affected me on this occasion was that a large open area had appeared where the Habitat stuff was, this having all been crammed into a smaller space, though there were also a couple of shelves of stuff that doesn’t belong at that end of the store at all, apparently put there to make sure Argos customers were still packed in like cattle. Continuing past this area to the furthest corner of the store, I found that Viz (and other magazines) no longer lived there!

So I wandered round and eventually discovered they’d been moved to where they should have been all along - just by the front door near the newspapers, next to where the kiosk used to be

With that anomaly resolved, I proceeded into the food-bearing areas, where it seems nothing has changed… yet. How long this happy state of affairs will last, and how long it will take to rewire my brain if they completely change everything, remains to be seen

The journeys there and back took a few minutes longer than expected due to several lots of roadworks along the way, but it wasn’t too bad. And upon my return, my preferred parking space was still free!

Time for lunch now

[xoggoth]

Nice old fart coffee morning at local historic place this morning. Got me, a bit, out of me brain fog after a cr**y night's sleep. Off to Bluebell walk with loony lady 1 soon. She expects me to replace her light bulb afterwards. Grumble.

[NickFitz]

In catching up on nerdy news earlier this week, I forgot to mention this from our old pal Diamond Geezer:

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2...-line.html?m=1

I thought it quite informative and almost made me consider being more accurate in my sunrise and sunset times, rather than use what value my weather app provides.

Excellent stuff!

FWIW my iPhone weather app is accurate to the times for Leicester according to https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/ so your app might be fine

[sadkingbilly]

Nice old fart coffee morning at local historic place this morning. Got me, a bit, out of me brain fog after a cr**y night's sleep. Off to Bluebell walk with loony lady 1 soon. She expects me to replace her light bulb afterwards. Grumble.

Is that a ufemism??