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[ladymuck]

Morning all

It was bright and quite sunny when I got up but it's now clouded over. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Rain forecast off and on all day. Barometer up to 1005 mBar.

Sunrise 07:28; Sunset 17:04 GMT

The drive down to Sussex took over 3.5 hours . There was a huge crash on the M25 and I sat 3/4 of a mile away from the A3 turn off for the better part of an hour. We were then all diverted down the A3, which isn't my normal route (I prefer the A24). I wasn't late for the family dinner. Dinner was actually quite good fun and then I drove home afterwards, getting back at 00:15 this morning. The drive home was far less eventful.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s quite cloudy out but there are hazy blue patches and some brighter sunlight getting through occasionally, so not as gloomy as many recent days. The 7°C “feels like” 3°, though it doesn’t seem that breezy; the high will be 9° from lunchtime through the afternoon, though there’s also a chance of rain (45-55%) during that period. The barometers continue upwards at 991/999mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp.

Grey with hints there might be a bit of blue.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 13.6 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 10.5 in the leanto.

997.5 mBar, 29.456 in Hg, 748.2 Torr, 14.467 psi, (up from 993 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, LM popped in, NF figured out why it seemed unusually dark across the road (carpet shop lights timer), and I watched T3 and Homeland.

[WTFH]

Morning all Overcast and murky out but not raining right now. Our perambulation will begin in the next hour, possibly.

[NickFitz]

There was a reasonable amount of wildlife stuff on today, though surely it’s about time we got some new Monkey Life?

Later, I continued reading The Jane Austen Project in which the intrepid time travellers are making good progress at inveigling themselves into the Austen family’s good books

The weather app informed me that there might be some light rain lasting twenty minutes or so. That was forty or more minutes ago as I listened to a torrential downpour beating against the windows, and it hasn’t stopped yet

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from Nando’s

[xoggoth]

I celebrate EVERY day mate

Good for you. I need to sign up to some miserable old git therapy lessons.

[sadkingbilly]

Can relax as nowt on today for a change, had things on all week. Back to normal tomorrow, volunteer thing at nature reserve followed by lunch with loon lady 1 for her birthday. Dunno why we celebrate birthdays at our age, should be bemoaning them.

I celebrate EVERY day mate. still above room temperature is a Good Thing.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Patchy cloud here, so there are occasional sunny spells and it doesn’t look as gloomy, though there’s also some light rain expected from time to time into the evening. It’s supposed to be a bit breezy as well, making the present high of 10°C “feel like” 4°, but the trees aren’t showing much evidence of it right now. The barometers are shuffling back up at 981/989mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast and the wetter side of damp. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Drizzle forecast for most of the day, with a chance the clouds may clear early evening. Barometer up to 994 mBar.

Sunrise 07:30; Sunset 17:02 GMT

Will be heading down to Mum's in the next hour or so. My aunt and uncle have decided to visit and we are all going out for dinner. A late drive home but I can lie in tomorrow.

[xoggoth]

Can relax as nowt on today for a change, had things on all week. Back to normal tomorrow, volunteer thing at nature reserve followed by lunch with loon lady 1 for her birthday. Dunno why we celebrate birthdays at our age, should be bemoaning them.

[WTFH]

Morning all
It’s overcast out and there’s been some overnight rain, but it’s brightening up now.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 13.3 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

985.5 mBar, 29.1 in Hg, 739.2 Torr, 14.293 psi, (up from 985 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric)

Meanwhile on the 15th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked. Started raining as soon as I reached the hill. Then I discovered why I'd retired that pair of shoes: wet feet. Not sure they're even any good for gardening.

Lunch: brunch:. Entertainment: FOOC.

The afternoon's excitement: a little Thomson mains/battery tv smoked one of those evil RIFA capacitors and set all the smoke alarms (those that still have batteries) off. Nice to know they work. . It was the LED rather than the Am241 alarms that sounded.

In other other news it's been hammering down for a while now, only to be replaced by that endless drizzle.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Amazingly enough Robinson talking to someone & I didn't turn it off as soon as he opened his mouth. James Graham, playwright.

Maigret S3 E7 "The Dirty House". A 6.35 auto (.25ACP) makes the usual appearance. The French (and James Bond) seem to like the .25ACP for some reason. Maigret can't do anything but beware of tooled up Grannies. .

History's greatest mysteries: "Somerton Man" Tamam Shud. Nuclear spying in Australia in 1947? WTF? Bollox even for Blaze. We might have been firing V2s off now & again but would that be worth spying on? The Monte Bello islands are rather a long way away.

Book. Other book. Other other book.

Freecell score: 80something.

Book.

[NickFitz]

Tonight there was not one but two major motion picture premieres, opening with September 5 (2024) in which terrorists kidnap the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics - but this is about the TV coverage, because the ABC sports team refuse to give back responsibility for covering the story to the news team, on the basis that they’re on the ground and the news team are in the USA, and end up providing the only live TV coverage of the incident from beginning to end, watched by hundreds of millions of people. I like these stories of how stories are covered, and I thought this was a particularly good one

Then Unhinged (2020) in which a young mother annoys another driver by honking her horn, but it turns out he’s a misogynist who already has nothing to lose… This started slow but then turned very violent very quickly, as is the way with psychopaths. Much better than I thought it was going to be for the first fifteen minutes or so, and well worth a watch

And finally, a rewatch of Oblivion (2013) because I hadn’t watched that in a while, and it's good

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a NEW! Sainsbury’s TTD wagyu ribeye steak with fried onions and chips. Very nice

This was accompanied by the rest of yesterday’s Police Interceptors

I stripped the bed and left the mattress to air this morning, so now I need to go and remake it before settling down for the evening