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Cloudy start but not any more despite what my weather app says. Currently 27 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer is at 1023 mBar.
Sunrise 04:51; Sunset 21:20 BST
Didn't visit Mum today; headache still lingering from Friday night as I spoke too soon in thinking it had passed. However, HWMBO and I did go to big Tesco, as Fevertree tonic is on offer, and to do some general shopping. Now sitting in the dark with the fan on, waiting for the sun to go away.
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
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
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.
Freecell score: 82% (and that was a fecking struggle), running average: 84%. Even gave up one game unsolved since I was rapidly reaching the wall punching level of frustration.
Tea: beans & baked spuds. Nice enough. Entertainment: the random postcode thing.
TPTV: The Directors: William Wyler.
Some Blazian Bollox or other. History's Mysteries.
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
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