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[DoctorStrangelove]

OM. .

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Blue sky.

High clouds.

Sunny.

21.7 deg in here, 23 in the kitchen, 22 in the leanto, 22 in the salting house (bit cooler than the 29 it reached yesterday).

1017 mBar, 30.03 in Hg, 762.8 Torr, 14.75 psi, (down from 1018 last night), 73% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, BR14, eek, LM, WTFH, and I popped in. WTFH's mrs had returned from The Important Meeting.

Sleep last night was somewhat intermittent: 04:00 was observed but returned to the land of nod eventually.

Washing frenzy II in progress.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done Very Slowly due to the Bad Calf in the right leg. FFS. Now washed dried sanitised & put away.

A400M just flew over here, whilst a B52 was reported over Frome. .

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: something on R4.

Everything in off the line. That requiring the iRon has received its attentions & are airing here & there.

Those high clouds of earlier have turned into grey gloom: and now it's raining. Hot rain. which makes a change I suppose. .

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click> TPTV "Look at Life: Letting off steam (1959)": the replacement of steam engines by diesel electric (diesel hydraulic in Western Region just to be different) and electric locomotives. Even managed to show a Deltic loco. And, apparently, the new breeder reactor at Dounreay would be supplying power for the electric ones. . Ah, them were the days, when the FBR was a coming thing.

It's getting very dark again, though the lightning site doesn't show anything imminent here.

Bit of Bab5 S1 E10. Not one of my favourites. Strewth, a lot of those actors have popped their clogs.

BBC4: "Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons": bloody immigrants.

Blaze: History's mysteries: 'Itler's lost gold. followed by one about JFK and the magic bullet. .

[ladymuck]

Laundry is almost dry.

It's a nice temperature, with the little bit of breeze stopping it from being oppressive.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover Popeyes hot wings

Getting warmer here but there’s a nice cooling breeze coming through the kitchen window

[NickFitz]

Tea has been more Popeyes leftovers, mainly to get them out of the way and because it involved minimal effort

It’s clouded over quite a bit now, though the lightning seems to be staying further south. Might get some here in a bit if we’re lucky, though

Meanwhile on the lawn a few minutes ago, there were NINE magpies ditzing around in and near the flowerbed!

Most of them seemed like juveniles, so I’m wondering if our young ones have gone and formed a gang with the rest of the local posse

[WTFH]

9 wheelbarrows loads of stones moved from the drive down to the grid at the new sheds, followed by watching the last few episodes of season 2 of Schitt$ Creek.

[ladymuck]

I got rained on while walking back from the station after going to see White Rabbit, Red Rabbit.

At least that means I won't have to water the plants tomorrow.

[NickFitz]

There’s rumoured to have been light rain here, but I’m not convinced

In A Canticle for Leibowitz, six centuries have passed and though most of humankind is still happy to wallow in ignorance and tribalism, a few scholars have started to discover the treasured scientific manuscripts preserved by the monks of the Abbey of St. Leibowitz

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Guess what? Warm again!

There’s still some of the cloud that formed yesterday evening, but it’s far from murky. It’s already risen from 17°C to 19° in the last thirty minutes or so, and today our target is 32° for four hours in the afternoon, with it not dipping below 20° tonight. Over the next few days, things aren’t going to be quite as bad: tomorrow’s high will be 31°, then two more days of 32°, so at least we don’t get the once-threatened 34°. The barometers are surprisingly ambivalent about the whole affair, being down to 1010/1017mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Phew, what a scorcher. Currently 23C, expected to climb to 31C again.
Dog walk at 05:30 was pleasant for the first bit with a gentle breeze helping to negate the feel of the humidity.
Off to cooler climes tomorrow evening, which will be nice.