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[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s sunny and Simpsonesque out, but not as unpleasantly hot at 25°C, which is today’s maximum. The barometers are much of a muchness at 1008/1014mB

[ladymuck]

Dragged HWMBO over to Ilford once the bed linen was washed and put onto the airers in the garden. There was a street art thing going on where you could wander around see bits of walls being scribbled on. HWMBO also found a few shops to visit so it turned into a productive few hours out and about.

The bed linen is mostly dry enough to go straight back onto the bed.

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the nearby East African place with the very hot chilli sauce

[NickFitz]

Big day today, for there were NEW! episodes of Monkey Life

And then some other wildlife stuff, including some interesting stuff involving cheetahs

Later, I finished reading Fahrenheit 451 and moved on to The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland, about a bunch of wealthy Germans who opposed Hitler and the Nazis but were ultimately betrayed by one of their own

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dry.

22.3 deg in here, 24.4 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto, 15 out the back.

1011 mBar, 29.85 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (unchanged), 58% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 17:43 and 18:05, AndyGarbs, Brillo, covbob, and vetran popped in, with Brillo doing most of the popping.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the grey gloom & wan sunshine. Nice enough.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Cartrefi Cymru: workers abodes: estate lodge, crenellated. Old Police Station. Gardner's house: two houses knocked into one & extended (though feck nose why since just the two houses knocked into one was big enough).

Dascam bollox again. More madness: no guns on this one, just the usual rednecks driving trucks very badly.

Ooooer, the chap I emailed about all the tv & radio service manuals just woke up & emailed me back. Maybe I'll be able to get shot of them yet.

Thing about Welsh Placenames Yng Nghymraeg. I find it a bit odd that Welsh pronunciation these days doesn't match what I learned back in the 60s. Then again I don't suppose that reading Y Fanner ac Amserau Cymru is much in demand nowadays.

Tea: baked beans & baked spud. Nice enough. Entertainment: Brain of Britain. I knew the correct answer to some of the questions. Well there's a thing.

Book. This book is raising my hackles. Philip Green. Jack Welch. The facebook twat. etc. etc. Don't subsequent events change the rating on some of the above. .

Blazian bollox: Secrets in the Jungle. Strange metal remains on Pelelu, whatever can they be? WTF. The battle is covered endlessly FFS. It's an LVT, used by the marines to get off the beach. It took 20 minutes to get this far. Walking palm tree in Ecuadorian jungle: it sprouts new roots on the side it wants to move towards and lets the roots on the opposite side die off. Columbia coal mine: vertebra of the largest snake found so far: "Carbon dated" to 58M year ago (a neat trick in and of itself, the limit being rather less at 57k but there you go). Fecking big coal mine too, and not a Welshman in sight. Ceramic jars full of bones in the Cambodian jungle, placed on ledges high above the floor. Dated C14 to C17.

Blazian bollox: Danny Trejo Buried secrets. Tolland Man. Alaska: Native American masks & other items washing out of permafrost due to thaw. 1590 - 1630. Massacre. Bow & Arrow war. Terracotta Army China. Silvianus stolen ring. Lead tablet curse. Mortimer Wheeler. Tolkein. 1970s Aral sea. Water testing due to falling fish stocks. Brown mist. Woman on deck gets smallpox despite being vaccinated due to Soviet virus designed to evade vaccine. Aralsk-7 island: now a peninsula due to the drying up of the Aral sea. What could possibly go (more) wrong? German SC500 bomb found in Plymouth. Ben Franklin's house in London: bones found in cellar. William Hewson, anatomist. Oppin Germany: stone age skeleton weighted down with large rock. Church of San Pablo: tunnels beneath revealed by GPR. The 17 coffins found in a little cave on Arthur's Seat.



Bits of "Highlander (1986)" and bits of "Joe Kidd (1972)". Watched the wonderfully impossible coldbore shot using an unzeroed rifle he'd never fired before in Joe Kidd. And the wonderfully funny rapier dual in Highlander. Makes me laugh every time.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Currently 18 degrees ('feels like' 22) with a high of 26 expected. Looks like it might try to rain. Barometer up to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 05:48; Sunset 20:22 BST

Off to see Mum today. HWMBO is coming too and we're going to do a bit of a house survey to see about external cameras and better WiFi (the house is very solidly built and the power line extenders struggle, so we'll see if we can go for mesh).

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Much more cloud than blue sky out there today, though with enough gaps for plenty of brighter spells. It’s getting cooler: currently 18°C and it'll peak at 23° today, with forecast highs below 20° for the end of the week onwards! The barometers are still dithering around the 1007/1015mB mark

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a couple of leftover spicy lamb chops, and tea has been steak with fried onion and chips

The latter was accompanied by some more of the Scottish paramedics thing

[NickFitz]

There was some wildlife stuff on this afternoon to help pass the time

Tonight, I decided I wasn’t in the mood for the book about the anti-Nazi Germans. Instead, I started reading Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, in which a SARS-style plague has wiped out much of humanity. It’s from 2014, which made me wonder how alarming the events of early 2020 might have been for the author, who’d clearly put a lot of work into imagining what might happen if what was happening then happened… Anyway, it’s very good so far

Monday again tomorrow. There should be a law

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There’s a lot of high, thin cloud but the sun’s getting through a lot as well. The day’s generally predicted to be cloudy, though. It’s 17°C and the expected high is only 23°; the barometers are down a touch at 1004/1012mB

I had an unsettled night’s sleep for some reason, so I’m not feeling at my best today