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[DoctorStrangelove]

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

Most I ever counted was 14 at the staff car park at Ye Olde Sloughe of Desponde on Ye Hill. They were flying about in a flock so the count may be inaccurate, just like my memory.. IIRC that carpark security chap popped his clogs 6 months after he retired.

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Sunny. .

Blue sky.

22.8 deg in here, 24.6 in the kitchen, 23 in the leanto, 23.4 in the saltinghouse (it was 30 last night).

1011 mBar, 29.85 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (down from 1013 last night), 76% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, LM, NF, WTFH, and wattaj popped in, with much discussion of editing PDFs and extracting data from password protected versions of same. NF thought it rather chilly at 9 deg. .

More raspberries and a few gooseberries picked. Lots (as in a few) dark brown butterflies darting about in the garden.

One patch of lawn seems to be taken over with some weed or other, may have to do something about that.

Little yellow privet hedge duly cut. Didn't bother using the hedge trimmer, just tested a few of the many shears in the shed.

One of the repaired (welded) Lidl (tm) shears ain't much good, the other seems to work ok, as does the small ancient shears inherited from my grandfather. It's funny how much better his old tools are compared with the modern crap.

It's very hot out there in the sun so now I'm relaxing with Yet Another Mug of Mediocre yet Consistent coffee.

[ladymuck]

Damp from early morning torrential rain. Sunny with wisps. Currently 24 degrees ('feels like' 26) with a high of 34 expected. Barometer down to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 04:44; Sunset 21:23 BST

Sometime in the 3 o'clock hour the distant sound of thunder woke me up. By about 3.30 am, the storm was making its presence very well known. Pretty much directly overhead for a good 30-40 mins, lots of thunder and lightening plus a lot of rain. I had to get up and close windows to stop my flat getting wet.

Something about thunderstorms at night always reminds me of a scene in a Famous Five book I read as a kid. If memory serves me correctly, in this story, the kids were sleeping in (I want to say but could be wrong) an abandoned house or shed somewhere and there was a thunderstorm. A crack of lightening illuminated a figure standing at a window staring in at them. A second crack a few seconds later, and they were gone. In the morning there were footprints outside the window. Always spooked me.

Anyway, at coalfaces 2 and 3, I have lots of meetings today.

HWMBO is on his way down to stay for a few weeks. Parts of the tube network have given up already and the Elizabeth Line has flooding issues. I'm sure he'll get here eventually.

[xoggoth]

Off to arty thing soon. Looks like few coming, would have cancelled if no showers had given me more advance warning.

There's a bloke opposite who spends much of his life just sitting in his front garden, really annoying as he sometimes seems to be staring up at my bedroom window. Maybe he's a gay gerontophile.