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[NickFitz]

That’s Monday done. Only one more till I’m on holiday!

Lunch, by the way, was a Pukka sausage roll

[xoggoth]

Afternoon with couple of old ladies making arrangments for group walk now one of 'em not up to it. Walky after.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy and dull. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Might have some rain. Barometer at 1014 mBar.

Sunrise 07:20; Sunset 18:15 BST

Agent called about the job I interviewed for. No news yet but the hiring manager wants to 'regroup' with them which they think means a second round of interviews and a competency test. My goodness inside IR35 roles are tedious.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rosy-fingered dawn earlier, but that crept in beneath the cloud that extended almost but not quite to the horizon, and it’s expected to be cloudy all day with a chance (25%) of rain at lunchtime. It’s currently 12°C but “feels like” 8°, with a predicted high of 17° by late afternoon which will linger into the evening. The barometers are trivially down at 1000/1008mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
No dog to walk, I’m not in Devon.
Overcast, looks like it has rained.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Yet again the Finals dream: this time I hadn't attended some tedious Lib Studies thing. Ho hum.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Wet.

Grey.

Sunless (mostly since it's not dawn yet).

17.2 deg in here, 17.2 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto, 15 out the back.

1003 mBar, 29.62 in Hg, 752.3 Torr, 14.55 psi, (down from 1004 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of April 2020, between 10:41 and 11:30: as per yesterday.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves and Simon Badderley Further out of town: Hedgerow birds, a club that was until the 1981 law change, devoted to breeding finches etc. Pheasant shoot: no law change for the poor old pheasants. It's a "sport" apparently. . Chalk streams. Jack likes chalk streams. He also likes gigantic trees of privet.

Time to go shopping & the drizzle is still drizzling away. Unfortunately it'll be doing it on me. Ho hum.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Walk (abbreviated, non towpath) walked in the light drizzle. One conversation.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: something about village life on R4: Mayfield.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032qnb

dashcam bollox S5 E1.

House roughly vacced during which I emptied the vac & beat the filter on the garden wall so it returned to use with its ceiling sticking abilities refreshed. As indicated by the amount of crap it subsequently picked up.

Alaska Homestead rescue: Delta Junction Alaska. A homestead with all mod cons that the homesteaders have insufficient experience to use successfully. The Raneys put 'em right.

Tea: spag with tinned bol: mediocre compared with the stuff I used to make but there you go & there it went.

Bab5 S5 E2 "The very long night of Londo Mollari".

Maigret (Cremer)

A bit of the oak island bollox since Maigret finishes at about 21:45ish.

[NickFitz]

There was wildlife instead of football this afternoon

And this evening, I watched another episode of the Scottish paramedics on iPlayer

Tonight, I finished reading Adulthood Rites. The ending was OK. Will I go on to the final part of the trilogy? Probably, but not yet

Monday again tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Lunch was some leftover chicken bits, then tea was also leftover chicken, but this time it was some of the zaatar and lemon chicken thing I made the other week, with chips

All in all, a very chickeny day

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Getting dark now but it's been a sunny day with cloudy lumps. Currently 13 degrees and the high was 16. Barometer down to 1013 mBar.

Sunrise 07:18; Sunset 18:17 BST

The drive down to Mum's and back was fairly uneventful. There's a local road that's been closed now for a couple of weeks that is causing havoc. Adds at least 20 mins to the journey.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I slept very soundly last night, awaking this morning a bit after eleven, having not even woken up and thought “I should get up now” then gone back to sleep before that

It’s a sunny and Simpsonesque day out. Currently 12°C and aiming for 14°; the barometers are up a little at 1001/1009mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

It looks like the aurora has made it south but it’s cloudy here, as it always is when this happens

Odd, that, innit. . Same happened here. Never mind, I managed to dry the washing. .

Morning.

Sunday.

Inneresting night's sleep with the complaining back. . Read a bit more of the book at 4. Oh, I'm a poet & I didn't know it. .

Dry.

Grey.

16.7 deg in here, 16.6 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto, 10 out the back.

1008 mBar, 29.77 in Hg, 756 Torr, 14.62 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of April 2020, between 10:41 and 11:30, in popped Brillo, BR14, DaveB, LM, and SimonMac.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the greyish gloom with wanish sunshine. Quite chilly by my estimation, though obviously hot by the estimations of those going about in t shirts & the like.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: dashcam bollox S4E5/6 or whatever.

Back is sufficiently uncomfortable to require yet another ibuprofen, though, for some reason, these are capsules rather than the usual caplets.

Well I'm still not feeling up to much even after that. Maybe a proper pill will help more. .

Tea: beans on toast etc. Entertainment: something on R4, though the thing about the gay Jamaican novelist went <click> pretty quickly.

Blazian bollox: Oak Island nutjobbery: finds: a button. A 26gm piece of lead. A chunk of what looks very much like a concrete paving stone: it even has the sorts of marks you see on such things. Obviously a mediaeval paving stone brought across by the Knights that say Ni! to make a shrubbery Templar. Can't decide which of those two options is the more likely: I think I'd go with Monty Python if I'm honest about it. Which is more than the makers of this endless crap are.

BBC4: A stitch in time: reproducing the leather jacket of an 18th C hedger: obviously a high end leather garment when new, passed down through many hands to end up in the portrait of said hedger. Only this morning I mused quietly to myself as I trudged along the towpath that at some time in the past the hedge alongside the towpath had been laid in the traditional manner: all grown out now of course over the many years since it was last done.

More Blazian bollox: Turin shroud. Real bollox.

Blazian bollox with Duchovny: Operation Azorian. Greenlight team: SADM: man carried nuke. The Berlin telephone tap tunnel, they didn't mention George Blake. . Operation Cold Feet: Soviet Ice Station abandoned on an ice floe. Used that skyhook thing to get the personnel back. Operation Pimilico: exfiltration of Gordievsky. Operation Ivy Bells: the tapping of Soviet underwater cables, as betrayed by Ron Pelton. William Colby WWII operation in Norway 1945 blowing up a railway bridge to immobilise the Werhmacht. Operation Rype. Used meth to keep going for 3 days on the way to Sweden.

[NickFitz]

Monkey Life and other wildlife stuff was on earlier

Tonight, I read a bit more of Adulthood Rites. It’s good, but TBH I’m not hooked; I don’t really care what happens to these aliens - or, indeed, that remaining survivors of the human race! Not much of it left to read so I might as well finish it, but I won’t rush on to the final part of the trilogy

It looks like the aurora has made it south but it’s cloudy here, as it always is when this happens

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from KFC

We were hit by a huge CME earlier, it seems. Not sure it’ll result in the aurora reaching this far south from what the NOAA map shows, but it might be a nice show for those in the far north

[xoggoth]

Ah! Post thing was signed for Power of Attorney docs. I expect my sons will soon bung me in the loony bin and pocket all my money. Finished bonfire and off for walky soon. But chilly but quite sunny.