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Blue sky with wisps and contrails. Gentle breeze wafting about. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 29 expected. Barometer up to 1026 mBar.
Sunrise 04:44; Sunset 21:23 BST
Assorted clothings in the WM.
The delicate sound of angle grinders fills the air (the council doing its pavement works), joining the sound of aircraft leaving Heathrow.
EDIT: Thank you DrS for pointing out I'd picked up an OM. How times have changed
Morning all
Phew, what a scorcher.
CBS, etc.
Currently 23C out, I should have gone out for our walk at 04:15, but didn't go until 05:30. Now cooling off at my desk with the blackout blinds drawn to stay cool.
One of the great things about WfH in this weather is "business from the waist up". It's definitely a day for shorts.
Sunny start, with mares tails across the sky doing nothing to filter out the dazzling rays of the sun. It’s 18°C already and expected to reach 28° by teatime; the barometers are up a little more at 1016/1024mB
Tedious drive down to Sussex. I'm guessing a lot of people wanted out of London today.
Mum spent most of the afternoon complaining about a noisy bird that she said was making a ticking noise but to me it sounded more like a chuh chuh chuh noise.
The drive home was uneventful and I found a parking spot that wasn't under a tree.
The duvet cover was dry when I got back (I put it outside before I left this morning) and the WM has just finished with the mattress protector.
Just back from me son's place, he cooked a nice Father's Day Tea. Had a lounge on the patio earlier this afternoon, rather noisy - squealy kid 2 doors up, planes flying over from Gatwick, steam train chuffing through me village and whistling. Still, not as bad as me next door neighbour mowing his lawn with his chug, chug, chug, chug old mower.
No signoff last night as I’d inadvertently let my laptop battery plummet to the point where it entered an enforced sleep
So for the record: there was more watery wildlife stuff on the box, but this finished early because of the Isle of Wight Festival. So in the evening, I watched the final episode of Legends. Excellent series
And later, I read more of A Canticle for Leibowitz, reaching the end of the first part - it was originally three stories in sci-fi magazines, set in the same world over the space of a few thousand years
This morning, it’s supposedly cloudy out but it’s very thin stuff, with the blue of the sky showing through in many areas. And the heatwave starts in earnest: already at 20°C, it’s expected to rise to 26°. The barometers are up some more at 1014/1022mB
And it is, of course, the Summer Solstice! So a very happy Solstice to all
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