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[NickFitz]

There was some good wildlife stuff on earlier

Tonight, I started reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. I tried reading this a while ago, but I wasn’t in the mood for it and bailed after about twenty pages. But a few days ago was the date of the events described in There Will Come Soft Rains, the penultimate chapter (or story - it was originally separate short stories, brought together and rewritten as necessary to make it cohesive), so people were posting about that and having read it, I figured it was time to start again. I’m nearly halfway through now

Tonight is unpleasantly warm. But as well as being Monday, tomorrow will be the coolest day of the week, with 34°C predicted for Thursday!

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

There were lots of special drivers out today. However I made it to Sussex and back without incident.

I was very disappointed that the car wash at the BP garage close to Mum was partially dismantled. I assume someone has vandalised it. I'll have to plan a different car wash location on next week's visit.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs and chips, again

This was accompanied by Paramedics on Scene on iPlayer, which appears to be BBC Scotland’s local version of Ambulance but without the budget for fancy 3D map graphics

[NickFitz]

The bed has been stripped and left to air, and the duvet cover (which I’ve decided to wash separately because it's pretty bulky in its own right due to being 1600 thread count) is in the wash

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky. No wisps. Currently 26 degrees with a high of 31 expected. Barometer down to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 05:37; Sunset 20:35 BST

Off to Sussex-by-the-Sea to visit Mum. Down there it's a much more palatable 24 degree high today.

Taking a couple of trackers to attach to things that Mum "loses". There is a risk she removes the trackers and bins them.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another sunny start with wispy bits. There’ll be a foreshadowing of the week to come as the current 23°C rises to 28° this afternoon. The barometers are down a little at 1002/1009mB

[xoggoth]

Family do in sister's woods yesterday. Tripped and bashed me face on tree roots. Not looking my most attractive at moment. Loony lady 1 later.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky with high hazy cloud.

20.5 deg in here, 21.5 in the kitchen, 19.5 in the leanto, 17 out the back.

1008 mBar, 29.77 in Hg, 756 Torr, 14.62 psi, (down from 1010 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 12:17 and 14:03, Anonimouse, AndyGarbs, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, WTFH, and I popped in.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the unbearable heat of the morning. I thought we were over that & here it is again again.

Lunch: brunch: very carefully made & allowed to cool to body temperature due to the sensitivity of said broken tooth.

Entertainment: the dashcam nonsense. There's definitely a lot of nutters out there. Like the biker who rearended a car driving down the freeway & ended up sat on the roof thereof.

Book.

Tea: baked beans & baked spuds allowed to cool before consumption. Nice enough.

Entertainment: bit of Brain of Britain. 17 o'clock news.

Book.

Blazian bollox: Secrets in the Jungle. Rock pillar (volcanic plug) in Sri Lanka (as mentioned in one of A. C. Clarke's epics: The Fountains of Paradise) with the remains of a giant lion statue half way up, various paintings of naked ladies etc. and an abandoned fort/garden right at the top. Costa Rica stone spheres. Yucatan Peninsula: grave of someone who'd been an ambassador back in the day. Stairway with tiles telling his story.

Last hour of "Once upon a time in the West (1969)" with Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson, Jack Elam, Woody Strode, Jason Robards. Those dusters were ever so fashionable back in the day. .

Danny Trejo bollox: Madagascar: fossil of an unknown animal, mammal 65M yo. Griswold CT: skull in a coffin arranged like a skull & X bones: suspected vampire. East London, SA, 1938, discovery of the coelocanth. Hipos in Columbia: things go better with coke. . 40k yo wolf, bigger than a dire wolf. Fairbanks, Alaska: Blue Bison 50k yo. Alberta Canada: fossil found in a bitumen mine: 140M yo nodosaur. Denmark 1855 Giant Squid. Pink glowing flying squirrel when you shine UV on it. China: Skull of Dragon Man, found during Japanese invasion & hidden in well for 80 years until recovered by grandson.

[NickFitz]

There was less wildlife stuff today because they put boxing on

Tonight, I finished reading Just a Shot Away in which the Hells Angel who killed Meredith Hunter at Altamont was tried and found not guilty, presumably because he was white and his victim was black. Meanwhile, the film Gimme Shelter was completed and released. And so the Sixties came to an end

I see it’s going to be unpleasantly hot again this week. It’s only just got back to normal in here!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought from the Chinese restaurant in town, mainly because I only had a couple of days left to get an £8 off voucher by ordering from them again

[ladymuck]

Entertainment: some lunatic suggesting that 6 year olds should get the vote.

I can't remember who, as it was a while ago, but I remember watching someone argue for something like "children should be allowed to vote". Their logic was that such rules introduce arbitrary reasons for exclusion.

You have to ask what is the purpose of an age cut off. The initial reaction is that a child of 6 doesn't understand what they're voting for. Which is what you can also say about a lot of adults. So then it becomes an argument about intellect and/or educational attainment.

If it's about being a tax payer, then you could argue that everyone in receipt of benefits shouldn't be allowed to vote. Also, a 6 year old child actor, piano virtuoso, etc. could be earning millions, and therefore paying taxes, so surely they should be allowed to vote too.

It actually becomes a very interesting debate about why we find reasons to exclude groups and what a slippery slope it becomes. Not just in voting.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny day, with a reasonable amount of wispy cloud and a bit of a breeze. Currently 25°C, it’ll creep up to 26° shortly; the barometers are back down a bit at 1006/1014mB

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with wispy fluff, although my weather app says it's cloudy. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 28 expected. Barometer at 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 05:36; Sunset 20:37 BST

Uneventful journey home yesterday afternoon. Current me was very happy that past me had put fresh bed linen on the bed before I went up to Glasgow. I was very happy to see that my plants hadn't withered while I was away.

Lazy morning had. An equally lazy afternoon beckons. I might do some cleaning as the floors could really do with an intervention of some sort (it's all laminate here).

[DoctorStrangelove]

Finally, the end of S1 of Silo in which it becomes clear that when you get a contract for a second season, you need to introduce a twist at the end that will let you draw the story out for a bit longer

I've lost count of the number of septic series which ended on unresolved cliff hangers. One is grateful when a series ends up resolved. Well, other than S5 of Fringe all in all. .

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

19.8 deg in here, 21.2 in the kitchen (yes: the graduations are in 20th of a degree ), 19 in the leanto, 14 out the back.

1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.6 Torr, 14.7 psi, (down from 1016 last night), 54% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April between 11:31 and 12:01, Brillo, covbob, DaveB, eek, LM, NF, PhilTheGreek, SimonMac, and WTFH popped in. Apparently MrMarkyMark had a Bakewell Tart.

The duvet was pressed into use once again.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked very slowly this morning. Any slower & I'd have been going backwards.

What I'd previously thought to be a bee fly is more likely to be a Hummingbird Hawk Moth, judging by the one in the front garden this morning. It seemed to like some of the flowers.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some lunatic suggesting that 6 year olds should get the vote.

Car Cam thing on Sky Mix. There's some nutters out there & they are driving things, mostly very badly judging by most of that.

Book. I'll be glad when this one is finished.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click>.

TPTV: Scotland Yard S1 E7 "Fatal Journey (1954)".

To celebrate this, I broke a tooth. .

Maigret S1 E7 "A man of quality (1960)".

Blaze: that 'Itler on Alderney. Very few prosecutions of the Nazi scum.

Blaze: some other bollox: Secret Wars: Syria. <click> No innerest in that.

Blazian real bollox: National Park Mysteries. The Truth is out there, just not on Blaze. Glacier National Park, Montana. Apparently there's a Nazi underground base there, and dear old Adolph spent his declining years at a nice lodge. <click> The bollox is too much even for me.

[WTFH]

Morning all

Mostly blue skies, but no sign of rain for at least 10 days.