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Creepy, my PC is making faint muttering sounds and I don't have a browser or anything else open. Anyway, off to old arty farty thing soon.
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Morning all
Very wet. It has been raining since the early hours in varying levels of enthusiasm (very enthusiastic at the moment). Very little breeze. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Doesn't look to end until bed time. Barometer down to 1003 mBar.
Sunrise 04:49; Sunset 21:10 BST
The rain kept me awake and so did some very disturbing dream which had me coming to with an attempt at calling out as someone tried to attack me.
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Morning denizens
Last night’s rain continues, but is expected to peter out in a couple of hours. It’s 15°C (“feels like” 11°) and the expected high is only 18°; the barometers are, as might be expected, down at 990/997mB
This morning has brought confirmation that there are three young magpies! They were just down on the lawn with both parents, being taught how to ignore those two squirrels zooming around over there like idiots and concentrate on pecking at whatever it is they peck at
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Morning all
Heavy rain yesterday evening and overnight to the point that the pond is half full (most of the water coming from the summerhouse roof). Have inspected the new shed and it is dry inside.
Sun was out earlier, but there are more dark clouds on the way in.
The garden is appreciating the rain, as are the farmers round here.
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Morning.
Tuesday?
Damp.
Grey.
Sunless.
20.1 deg in here, 20 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.
998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.4748 psi, (down from 1000 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 28th of March 2020 Brillo popped in, along with BR14 and LM, whilst I was watching yet more Sherlock Holmes and mentioning Belker's dad's Al Zheimers disease and the tinned pineapple, whereas NF had placed his order via the interweb but the Chinese suppliers hadn't noticed said order & he had to wait anyway. So not quite reaching the 21st century after all.
. But Janet sorted it out.
Awakened unbidden at 05:50 yet afeckinggain, so read more of book until the need to arise arose and I got up.
The dream before waking seemed to involve some purchases or other of obsolete electronic crap. I used to do a lot of that back in the day when there were all those wonderful adverts in Wireless World and Practical Electronics. I must have the world stock of 14.6pF Nato standard silver mica capacitors.
Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine, torrential rainstorm (brief), wan sunshine. The canal, which was empty above the lock is now a healthy depth again. The river is very brown, as is the upper part of the canal. Lower down, just a bit murky.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: book of the week <click>. Noon o'clock news. Y&Y <click>
Am Dro at 15:00.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 10:54.
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In The Middle Kingdoms, the rise of scientific understanding has inevitably given rise to all kinds of pseudoscience, including eugenics and phrenology. Meanwhile, Bismarck finally got on the imperial gravy train. Put these things together and it ends up being an extremely bad time to be a native of German South West Africa. But now it’s 1914, so the mess he made of the Balkans is about to spill over, starting in Sarajevo
It started raining from time to time here this afternoon. Since then, the wind’s got up, and the rain seems to have settled in for the night
Goodnight all
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Really nice old fart meet up at ancient house. Sat near some people I know, unlike last one. Wandered enormous garden afterwards, 3 big lakes!
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Ribs and chips for tea
To accompany this, E2 of Legends which is developing nicely
There’s a parade of shops on an estate in Liverpool (or supposed to be) in there which is the absolute spit of the shops I used to walk to school through when I was very young. Can’t be the same ones as they were knocked down years ago, along with the maisonettes
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Lunch has been a Pukka sausage roll
I’ve been dealing with data validation stuff this morning, so I’ve been writing tests for weird names such as “Null”
I got a few additional ideas from These unlucky people have names that break computers
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^^ strong sense of deja-vu with DrS's post yesterday; must be the "Al Zeimer's"

Morning all
Bright and sunny, dry, but cloudy. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 21 expected. There's a chance of rain but looks more likely overnight. Barometer at 1016 mBar.
Sunrise 04:50; Sunset 21:09 BST
Slept quite well, now with the summer duvet on. Still tired though.
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Morning.
Monday.
Wet. Remarkably wet.
Grey. As grey as a
's arse.
Sunless.
Misty. Can just about see the other side of the valley over by there boyo.
Drizzly.
20.5 deg in here, 21.5 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.
1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.4 Torr, 14.63 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 28th of March 2020 vetran built a shed and enjoyed an inherited rioja, whilst BR14 watched HSB & related well to Belker (whose dad had "Al Zeimer's disease" in one of the eps), LM had a chicken & leak pie, and NF placed his first interweb order with the Chinese, whilst, of course, Brillo popped in. (as per yesterday).
Today's dream before waking seemed to involve working somewhere again and being lost in that Swansea & unable to find my way to the station/car/whatever. I'm sure it's all deeply meaningless.
Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Finally realised that the way to get over the £30/£35 bonus thingie is to buy more cheese and corned beef.
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Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Mangain & his sister waffling on about sibling rivalry. Soemthing about a nurse and London gangs <click>.
Remember when watching HSB and all the street gangs in that & thinking "well that doesn't happen here".
. Long Long Ago and Far Far Away. It was all fields around here then. And David Caruso looked young.
Book.
Baim Collection: Margate. Though for some reason this included a trip to that France.
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Chuchill's Toy Factory: MD1: destroyed by the Ministry of Supply after Churchill's election loss & the end of WWII.
UFO bollox on Blaze: UK UFOs: Rendlesham forest starred.
Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Entertainment: 18 o'clock news.
Skinwalker Ranch. S6 E13 "Fire in the holes". Odd ceramic stuff out of the mesa. Setting off big feck off explosions to make smoke rings. The usual tech problems with stuff doing things it's never done anywhere else. Last experiment of the season.
NCIS S22 E20 "Nexus". No indication if it's 6 or 7. EOS: only 20 eps this season.
Looks like I went shopping at the right time since it's been hammering down all afternoon & it's not taking any prisoners. Rivers flowing down the gutters as is only rite and proper, like.
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Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 22:10.
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Morning all
Dawn chorus at 04:21
Got up 05:28
Been clouding over since then, good job we had a big walk this morning as it's due to start raining in a couple of hours.
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