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[xoggoth]

Darn it, there was a little street party down the road today and I forgot about it. Busy going to dump with garden waste. What fun.

Sad news, the group walk on Wednesday has been cancelled as partner of nice lady I know who leads it has died. Don't get old!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Don't get old!

Dying young is the cure for that. .

[NickFitz]

The watery wildlife stuff was back on the telly today

Tonight in A Game of Birds and Wolves, the new tactics developed by playing games at the Western Approaches have paid off, with Doenitz finally giving up and telling his U-boat packs to back off before they’re all sunk. And the war ended, and people went on to other things, and the crucial work the women of the Wrens had done was, of course, forgotten about. Good book

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

21.5 in here, 21.75 in the kitchen, 20.5 in the leanto.

1019.5 mBar, 30.1 in Hg, 764.7 Torr, 14.786 psi, (down from 1021 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 covbob, LM, vetran, WTFH popped in with a little competition for something or other, probly an Om.

Walk (2 miles and a bit) walked in the unbearable heat of the morning.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus, which is pretty loud today.

In a sudden & unexpected fit of enthusiasm: just spent an hour sorting nails into jam jars in the garage.

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey day out, with masses of what I think are stratocumulus. It’s also quite breezy, so the current 18°C “feels like” 15°; the expected high is 25°, which isn’t quite as bad as was being predicted last week IIRC. The barometers are steady at 1013/1020mB

[sadkingbilly]

Dying young is the cure for that. .

Which also has the side effect of allowing you to stay pretty.

[sadkingbilly]

oh, - morning all
cloudy 21C here this morning, with occasional sunny bits.

[NickFitz]

I recently bought a smoothie maker with the vague notion that it might help me get more fruit into my diet. I’ve just used it for the first time: a banana, mango, and blueberry smoothie. Pretty nice, as I’d frozen the mango and bananas, though I’d forgotten the blueberries which I only got on a whim the other day. I think it needed more mango and blueberries as it mostly tasted of banana, but it was OK and presumably good for me

However, I found that I still don’t like milk! Never have TBH. So I’ll have to see what it’s like using water as the base, which is really just going to be diluted juice when you come down to it. But maybe that’s all smoothies are? Also, they aren’t particularly smooth, though I believe that’s expected and it’s just a silly name

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ It's mostly sugar. Eating a bag of tate & lyle would be about the same. And cheaper.