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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I was awoken by the sound of very heavy rain a couple of times in the night. But it’s sunny and Simpsonesque at the moment; windy though, and going to be quite changeable. It’s 15°C and expected to reach 20°, albeit briefly, with the barometers steady at 996/1004mB

I see I neglected to sign out last night, which I blame on tiredness. So for the record, other viewing during the day had been wildlife stuff, including a film in which David Attenborough told the life story of Jumbo, the elephant who now lends his name to so many things that are bigger than other things. And I had expected to finish To Each This World but I’d been led astray: it’s printed on quite thin, though good quality, paper, and the pages are relatively large. So the upshot is that after last night’s reading, I still have around a hundred pages to go which is probably equivalent to, say, a hundred-and-twenty pages in a regular-size paperback

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

Misty.

21.3 deg in here, 21.8 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1003.5 mBar, 29.6 in Hg, 752.7 Torr, 14.55 psi, (up from 998 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 12:29 and 13:28, AndyGarbs, eek, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, and vetran popped in, with MrMarkyMark down to his last 4 pack of bogroll. .

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: what did the Black Death ever do for us? Why the villages on the chalk disappeared whilst the villages on the lower lands didn't. Visited Knowlton Henge & church. The pond he visits with Ghost in the opening sequence is at Ashmore in Dorset. Ain't the interweb good. . It's a dewpond, which led to yet more twisty passages. No dwarf person of restricted height yet.

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

Washing frenzy started, which should induce the return of the deluge in about 20 minutes or so.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about ADHD and autism.

Dashcam bollox. S3 E1.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country. You can never have too much about The Black Death. .

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Indian leftovers

On the box, the next episode of Emergency 24/7 on iPlayer

[ladymuck]

Uneventful drives to/from Sussex today.

Mum has taken to smashing mugs on the patio then complaining that mugs are going missing.

My brother goes on holiday on Saturday so I'll be staying with her to keep an eye on such shenanigans.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover belly pork bits from the other day in a bap (wholemeal, homemade) with apple sauce

The magpies were down on the lawn together! I think they’ve had to be going further afield because of the parched lawn having less of whatever it is they peck at down there, which is why they haven’t been around so much

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I awoke bright and relatively early this morning, but managed to get back to sleep for another couple of hours

It’s sunny and Simpsonesque out at the moment, and the wind has dropped a bit. Currently 18°C, it’s expected to reach 21° by early afternoon. But then the rain is likely to return, and we even have a yellow warning for thunderstorms! The barometers are back up a bit at 996/1004mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with high level wispy fluff. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 23 expected. Rain may happen around lunchtime / early afternoon. Barometer up to 1010 mBar.

Sunrise 06:11; Sunset 19:52 BST

There ended up being quite a bit of rain yesterday and I never did check if the farmers market had returned. All holiday laundry was done though.

Off to visit Mum today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday: another 05:00 awakening: always a joy & much appreciated every fecking time it happens.

Wet. Very wet. Stair rods wet.

Grey now, it was black earlier.

Sunless. Completely.

Can't see Drummau, lost in the low cloud.

22.1 deg in here, 22.1 in the kitchen, 20 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1001 mBar, 29.56 in Hg, 750.8 Torr, 14.52 psi, (up from 1000 last night, in turn up from 995 in the afternoon), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 11:31 and 12:06: as per yesterday.

Today's dream before waking seemed to involve the cat and my failing to install a litter tray, followed by some strange goings on in next door's hall where the wallpaper was billowing off and strange people were banging on the wall in an attempt to get through. Very odd.

The attempt to return to the land of nod via "Pulse" was unsuccessful, and since there's someone living next door the permissible volume wasn't great. However I must have dozed for a while since I missed the bells on Time yet again.

Book.

Lunch: brunch. Bit earlier due to being up since sparrow fart.

Cartrefi Cymru: Flatau (Flats if you require the translation): Penarth. Cowbridge ex Grammar Skool conversion. Something else I dozed through.

Dashcom bollox S6 E11. S6 E2 (the one with the rednecks and shotgun).

Hammering down again. And gusting impressively with it. Horizontal rain. Lovely.

Front bedroom windows closed for the first time in a couple of months. Winter must be on its way. .

The back bedroom tilt & turn was closing itself with the gusts, so I shut it properly.

The afternoon doze was accompanied by more of "Pulse", still no sign of "Time" since I put the wrong CD in the player and dozed off without realising. Hope next door enjoyed it. Not terribly keen on many of the tracks on there, so put the other CD in & listened to Comfortably Numb.

Tea: baked beans & baked spuds. Nice enough. Entertainment: some tosh on R4, followed by stuff off sounds that'll save me remembering tomorrow & Tuesday morning, one of which explained how Pat Buchanan led inexorably to the Orange mother****er. Predictably enough the Orange Mother****er hasn't an original thought in his orange syrup covered head. All together now: USA! USA! USA!.

Jungle Secrets. Nan Madol. Giant rocks obviously moved by Ancient Aliens to build walls 25 feet high on a coral reef. Crashed B24 "Hot Garters" found off Hansa Bay, PNG, shot down by the Japanese: 4 bailed out which did them no favours since the Japs killed them, the other 8 went down with the B24. The remains were buried by PNG natives & dug up for ID purposes & returned whence they'd come for burial. Glowing fungi in Indian forest. Cave found in Rondonia, Brazil: much discussion on what animal formed it.

Possibly Yet Another Dashcam bollox bollox. It's easy to watch & keeps me awake..

Book. Gosh James Cameron did get around a bit, from Operation Crossroads to a party given by Mao. Who'd have thunk. And he had dinner with WSC and Onassis at Beverbrook's house in France, though WSC spent the entire time asleep.

Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening.

Still hammering down.

[NickFitz]

Today’s viewing was, of course, Monkey Life and other wildlife things

And tonight’s reading was more of To Each This World - I’m quite near the end of that now

There’s been some more rain tonight but it looks like tomorrow will be a bit brighter, with the rain returning in the evening

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

The other day, Jo Kibble did one of his 24 hour bus challenges, which brought him to Leicester around 11 at night. Having a wait, he set off in search of sustenance which he found at Bombay Bites, an Indian fast food place with three branches in the city. I congratulated him on his choice and he said the food was absolutely delicious, and it reminded me that I haven’t had anything from there for a while. So this evening’s tea was brought from the branch that’s a bit closer to me, and he’s right - it’s really good stuff if you fancy some nice spicy “street food” as it’s apparently called nowadays

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a drizzly day here, with the bonus of possible thunderstorms. The 17°C we have at present apparently “feels like” 14°, but ti should be creeping up to 19° eventually. The barometers are down a bit more at 990/998mB

The lawn seems a little greener again. It occurred to me that I could photograph it each day to analyse the change in the ratio of brown to green areas. But I can’t be bothered

[xoggoth]

3 days to meself, loony lady free. Pretty heavy rain today, not sure if I'll get me walky. Been moaning for weeks about the sun, now I'm moaning about the rain. At my age, moaning is all one is good at. At least my water butts should be filled up.

PS Butts, Mmmm.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Wet. Not torrentially wet but drizzly wet: the kind of wet that's wetter than any other kind of wet.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

21.6 deg in here, 22.5 in the kitchen, 20.5 in the leanto, 17 out the back.

995 mBar, 29.38 in Hg, 746.3 Torr 14.43 psi, (down from 1000 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 11:31 and 12:06, Brillo, eek, LM, vetran, and WTFH popped in.

Entertainment: Dan Do. Assorted quite posh houses. Modern meh. Nice victorian/edwardian one in Cardiff. Odd one in Tumble that looks like a bungalow from the front and proves to have another floor from the rear. I'm not sure that gold wall paint is quite to my taste, but I'm sure it would cream the Orange moron's jeans (just as well he wears nappies).

Catrefi Cymru: 1980s & 1990s houses: there's obviously money in this country, nice enough 1980s & 1990s houses, the best being a classically styled Georgian house which was absolukingfutely lovely. Ticked all my boxes about symmetry and the like. Georgious. See wot I did there? .

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: last bit of FOOC: Fray Bentos in Uruguay, Eastern Germany and the AFD. Moneybox: bailiffs <click>.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the unexpectedly hot sunshine. Today's wildlife: a duck, some blue dragonflies & a red dragonfly.

Entertainment: Dashcam bollox: S6 E9 & E10.

Tea:

Entertainment: Look at Life (1962): The Eagle's Nest. Dear old Adolph was out at the time of the visit.

Maigret on Holiday: S1 E10. The one where Madam Maigret is in hospital so he solves two murders to keep his hand in. .

World War Weird. More blazian bollox. That WWI Russian "tank" thing with two big wheels and a little wheel at the back. That Japanese lunatic who was stilll fighting WWII in the Phillipines in the 1970s. The pre-radar Chain Home acoustic mirrors. And last, but not least, the lunacy of Camp Century and Operation Iceworm, or how the septics managed to pollute & irradiate Greenland.

Secret Wars. Nuclear standoff: nukes from Trinity to Fatboy in Korea. 2022 so Bunter, The Fat Owl of the Remove was still in place. Mildly inneresting. Pity about using Operation Crossroads tests to illustrate Castle Bravo, but there you go & there they went. .

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy, lightly raining. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 20 expected. Rain set to continue for a couple of hours on and off, and may return this evening. Barometer steady at 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 06:09; Sunset 19:54 BST

There were a couple of heavy showers yesterday afternoon followed by light rain yesterday evening.

I might put my head outside to see if the farmers' market has returned now that the roadworks have finished. The council have done a nice job of improving the pavements and other bits around here over the past couple of months.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was The Long Walk (2025). I assumed, given its premise, that this would be post-apocalyptic mayhem, along the lines of the running man stuff, but it isn’t. It’s set in that kind of world, but it’s really about people and their relationships, in that world and in this. Well worth watching

And tonight’s rewatch was Ender's Game (2013) which I first watched back in 2019 and wasn’t very impressed by. But we live and learn, and I’ve realised that there were a number of things I watched back then and wasn’t that keen on for reasons that were more to do with me; I enjoyed it this time

Finally, another episode of For All Mankind. Still good, and I’m enjoying it, but I’m also wondering if I should go back to S2 of Silo. Or I suppose I could watch several things at once, like we used to do in the old days

Goodnight all