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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and drizzly start; been a little while since we had one of those. It’s mild enough at 17°C with an expected high of 23°C, the barometers are down a bit more at 1002/1009mB, and we have a yellow warning for thunderstorms

Down on the lawn near the flowerbed, it looks as if some poor pigeon has already been struck by a bolt from the blue, there being almost nothing left of it but a wide circular patch of white feathers with a fragment of wing, another such fragment being a bit further across the lawn, where one of the magpies was pecking at it. I’m guessing a fox lying low beneath the rose bushes got it, though it could be a cat, or even a hawk. But whatever it was - or something that came later - has carried off most of the remains, if that’s any clue

Up here, I’ve got the bread maker started on wholemeal dough as I’m making some baps - first time making wholemeal ones

[WTFH]

Morning all
Misty but dry here, a pleasant walk has been had.
about 22:30 yesterday we had 1 minute of very heavy rain.

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 0946

Sunny with wispy fluff. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer at 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 06:00; Sunset 20:42 EEST

We've just had breakfast and will be off to see some Moomins today, amongst other cultural delights.

Had a fabulous dinner last night. Our blow out meal of the holiday at a Michelin starred restaurant.

[NickFitz]

I finished watching the Phil Spector thing

And tonight I continued reading To Each This World. Really getting into this now

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Busy day, arty farty thing this morning, folllowed by visit to small local art exhibition with ll2, then a wake party this afternoon. Didn't know bloke very well but seemed a nice guy and I admired his hippy look. I used to dress liike that once, got so boring now.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade pork chow mein. Turned out quite nicely; nothing they’d recognise down the Chinese, but I’m managing to refine whatever recipe I started with into something acceptable to me

For viewing, I started watching the LA homicide thing on Netflix about Phil Spector

[ladymuck]

Greetings from Helsinki, local time 1736.

The ferry journey was uneventful. Hotel nice. Had a short wander around the immediate area and have secured postcards and stamps already. Warm and sunny.

Posh dinner this evening.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some hot wings

It’s quite Simpsonesque out now, but still very breezy. We have a warning for thunderstorms tomorrow and Thursday

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Dry.

20.5 deg in here, 21.2 in the kitchen, 20 in the leanto, 18 out the back.

1006 mBar, 29.7 in Hg, 754.6 Torr, 14.59 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 08:02 and 09:08, AndyGarbs, Anonimouse, Brillo, LM, MrMarkyMark, scruff, WTFH popped in.

Trip to that Swansea: 38 down, T6 back. Some books donated to Oxfam, two other brought home.

Looked for a book about Parsons' Folly but not sign thereof.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Dashcam bollox <click> Art in Film: David Lean in B&W.

More gardening. The pile of brambles is now twice what it was yesterday. .

I must remember I'm an .

Entertainment: some weird septic thing about Alaskan homesteaders, this homestead being in the Carolinas. So badly built that the recommendation was demolition due to the incredible mould (or mold) infesting the place. The replacement was built on a 20 x 8 foot trailer, using corrugated metal sheets to make it rather more waterproof than the previous attempt had been.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country: the titles now show over his horse blue pulling that cart thing he had built. This one was about old tools, some of the old tools in question being adzes of various kinds, including a cooper's adze, which led to an old cooper showing how the tools were used to repair a barrel. Then: how to string onions when Johnny foreigner doesn't do it for you any more. .

Bab5 S3 E12 "Sic Transit Vir".

Nuked on AJE. The gypper puts his oar in.

Another Blazian bollox overload to make sure I don't get to bed before 02:00.

Mega Disasters: the eruption of Tuba 70k years ago that caused a genetic bottleneck for homo sap.

History's Most shocking: what not to do as a tornado passes by. Don't use mobile phone whilst driving a train, it doesn't end well. Elevator failures. Swiss mudslide. Killer whales don't like yachts. Bridge strikes: Big Warning Sign lighting up still doesn't stop them. 2005 Tsunami. Don't ride a motorbike into a flash flood.

History's Most shocking: F35B crash on landing ejection seat. Trees falling over one by one. Power failure on cruise ship due to lack of lubricating oil. Floor of porch collapse due to lack of concrete rebar. Hawaiian waves caused by storm surge from Storm Darby breaking over houses. Caving in Georgia and nearly getting stuck. ?Sabotage? of The Hindenburg. Mouse plage in Australia.

[NickFitz]

Somebody just posted on Bluesky about trying to learn FORTH. I hope they find my multi-tweet response, including half-remembered snippets of source code from something I wrote on the Atari ST about thirty-five years ago, helpful

I realised after posting this that “somebody” is Ben Zotto, author of a book on the 1970s history of Sphere Computer which I bought recently. I also mentioned his site about them in Monday Links

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I struggled to get to sleep for ages last night, with the result that this morning, I managed to turn off both first and second alarms without really waking up, then slept until a bit after eight. Oh well, I feel better for it, even if it does make the morning routine a bit rushed

There’s more cloud out than yesterday, but it’ll be warmer: already 17°C and aiming for 24°, though there’s also a decent breeze to keep the fresh air moving. The barometers are down to 1003/1011mB, continuing that odd trend this summer of the pressure dropping as the weather gets warmer

[WTFH]

Morning all
Cloudy, but no rain forecast. A pleasant walk was had.
Might go to the tip at lunchtime.

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 0832

Blue sky with lumps of fluff again. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 18 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 06:01; Sunset 20:44 EEST

We took advantage of the nicer weather yesterday for more exploration of the old town and I secured the purchase of postcards and stamps. Forgot to take a pen out with me so the writing and posting were delayed to later in the day.

Today we take the ferry to Helsinki.

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the remainder of an episode of the motorway cops (who seldom go on the motorway) plus dashcam thing that I started watching the other night. At least they now try to make the dashcam clips vaguely relevant to whatever they’ve interrupted to slot them in

And tonight I read more of To Each This World where the story’s getting going, which makes the author’s occasionally idiosyncratic writing style slightly less distracting

Somebody just posted on Bluesky about trying to learn FORTH. I hope they find my multi-tweet response, including half-remembered snippets of source code from something I wrote on the Atari ST about thirty-five years ago, helpful

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Finished off some KFC leftovers for tea because they’d only get chucked away otherwise