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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Clear blue sky here, with that hint of haziness high up and increasing as it comes down to meet the horizon that suggests a warm day to come. And so shall it be: It’s gone from 19°C to 22° in the last forty-five minutes, and won’t stop till 32°. Same again tomorrow! The barometers remain curiously ambivalent at 1007/1014mB

Last night was not at all cool, getting down to 16° but failing to distribute any of that inwards due to lack of wind, meaning the bedroom was still at 26°C when I awoke, as it had been when I went to sleep. I think it cooled slightly then warmed up again, as I half-woke at one point to wrap the discarded duvet cover around myself, though it had been cast away again when I woke up - which I did on the third alarm, having dismissed two and immediately fallen asleep again, suggesting I hadn’t slept at all well

Breakfast is a dairy-free banana, mango and blueberry smoothie, all the fruit being frozen. It’s tasty and refreshing, though of course I’m still having hot coffee as otherwise nothing at all would get done round here

[WTFH]

Morning all
Misty out.
Slept in, so only just managed 10,000 steps on our saunter.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was more of Eve’s Hollywood

Far too hot here. There’s been no wind to blow cooler air in so despite having had the window wide open, the bedroom is still 26°C

Ah well - at least it’s Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

I didn't need the cardigan I took to the office today.

Better to have it & not need it than need it & not have it.

Same thing applies to guns. . (c) "True Romance (1993)".

[xoggoth]

I was always drawing the bedroom curtains in the afternoon to stop the sun heating the room up. Last night noticed the plaster had cracked above the window, assume due to the heat. Fortunately mostly fixed with some No More Nails, just a bit of sanding and repaint needed. I'll use temporary blackout sheet on the window next time.

[NickFitz]

For tea, I continued this week’s theme of “things that are wholly inappropriate for the weather but that’s what’s in the fridge” by having a roast chicken dinner

I made a bit of an effort with the chicken, shoving half an onion, several cloves of garlic, and a whole lemon cut in half in there. It came out tasting very nice indeed

To go with this, Fear City: New York vs The Mafia on Netflix, about the FBI’s efforts to overthrow the Mob in the 1970s and 1980s

[ladymuck]

I didn't need the cardigan I took to the office today.

[xoggoth]

Morning all

Time for a walk before it warms up.

I'm bit of a late getter upper, so tend to do my walkies in evening close to sunset at moment. Been doing more shed repairs this morning while the shed was still in shade of the trees. How exciting!

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a cold chicken leg

This morning was show & tell, in which I showed the stuff they didn’t have time for a fortnight ago as I haven’t done much that’s visible since then

And then it was the loooong quarterly retrospective

Planning meeting this afternoon, but there isn’t much to plan so that should be quite quick

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

22.2 deg in here, 23.2 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto.

1013.5 mBar, 29.93 in Hg, 760.2 Torr, 14.6995 psi, (up from 1012 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 Brillo, covbob, LM, MarkyMark, scruff, vetran and me popped in.

Walk (abbreviated, about 2 miles) walked in the unbearable heat of the mid morning.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Classic Movies: The 39 steps (1935).

Book.

Further Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves: hunting rabbits with a terrier and a ferret. Not a good day to be a rabbit. Gardening.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. Dan Do. Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves: making Partridge fish hooks in Redditch. A really old fashioned firm making hooks from steel wire using basic machines. Showed grinding the point, making the hook, hardening the hook, tempering the hook, hot blueing or browning the hook, cleaning the hook, packaging. Amazingly enough they are still going. Gardening: took up concrete hardstanding to extend garden, then discovered that dead soil doesn't grow anything: added humus, then added earth worms.

Bab5 S1 E22 Chrysalis. Oh dear(tm). Here come the Shadows and this time they're not playing guitars.

Book. Other book. Other other book.

"The 80s: raised on television Part II": all about 80s septic tv shows, most of which I'd never heards of since they weren't shown over here thank feck, others, like Dallas, of which I'd heard & never watched. A whole 30 seconds right at the end showing clips of HSB and Miami Vice, both of which I'd watched. The Orange Mother****er showed up briefly, back in the days when he could string words together & almost make sense, though he was getting porky even then.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s another warm one today, already at 22°C and expected to reach 30° for much of the afternoon and early evening, and only getting down to 17° tonight. The barometers are up to 1008/1016mB

I’ve had a busy start as I had to take my sample to the GPs before noon, and this morning is a bunch of meetings so I had no choice but to take it just now. I went by the route I discovered yesterday through the nature bit of the park, which meant almost all the way was in the shade. The round trip took fourteen minutes, including a couple of minutes telling the receptionist my date of birth and so on, so it wasn’t bad going

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Some wisps. Currently 20 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 32 expected. Barometer at 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 04:54; Sunset 21:18 BST

Tired.

On my way to the office. Was very tempted to stay in bed but there's air conditioning where I'm headed.

[WTFH]

Morning all

Time for a walk before it warms up.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was a bit of Ra by qntm, and more of Eve’s Hollywood, in which it’s becoming increasingly clear that being a teenager in 1950s Hollywood was quite dissimilar to anything I’ve experienced, at that or any other age

Bit too hot again, isn’t it?

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb chops with chips and beans. Very nice, it was

Very similar to last night’s tea, due to sloppy management of Use By dates when shopping

This was accompanied by a thing on Netflix called Terrorism Close Calls. This episode is about a plan to bomb the NY subway in similar style to 7/7 in London. But it’s edited in that annoying fast-paced yet repetitious style; I swear they said “anniversary of 9-11” every sixty to ninety seconds in the first five minutes. And then there was some footage that was shown as the narrator was talking about the FBI keeping these guys under surveillance in New York, and it’s clearly in the UK! British houses, British bollards with a left-pointing arrow on the pedestrian island in the middle of the road, and parked vehicles with British number plates. Very sloppy

Then again, the intro was ranting about “the most dangerous terrorist plots in the world” and it’s pretty clear they mean “in the USA”, so this is probably as close as we’ll get to anything to do with the rest of the world