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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Damp from much overnight rain. No current precipitation but there's thunderstorms due this afternoon. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 20 expected. Barometer down to 1012 mBar.

The gin and rum festival was a bit of a damp squib. I don't think the venue was very good, the signage to get there was nonexistent and signage within the venue was equally terrible.

Cocktails and dinner afterwards were much better and we had a very lovely evening.

HWMBO returns home later this afternoon but will be back again next weekend.

[NickFitz]

Oh, and a happy Autumnal Equinox to all!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Gloomy grey rainy day out, and a bit breezy to boot. Only 15°C so far, feeling like 11°, with an expected high of only 19°. The barometers are down some more at 1003/1010mB. And the rain is expected to get heavier as the morning wears on, while recent lightning to the south may well come up to meet us

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dry as in it'll soon be wet.

Chilly in here at 18.2 deg, 19 deg in the kitchen, 17 deg in the leanto.

1007 mBar, 29.7366 in Hg, 755.3 Torr, 14.6 psi, (unchanged), 79% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of November 2019 NF retrieved a bin that was lost but now was found, then had problems deciding on what to have for tea, whilst I spotted a kingfisher on my walk.

[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life earlier, followed by other wildlife stuff including a good one about a young elephant

And after that, an episode of the Gloucestershire night policing thing

Then I started rereading Orwell's Burmese Days, which I haven't read in many years

And now for an early night, for there is more Monkey Life in the morning

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Bit more thunder just now! Looking at the lightning map, it seems there may be further weather heading in along an arc between Market Harborough and Rutland

There was a LOT more weather on the way! Even heavier rain than the first instalment, and almost continuous lightning - it was mainly striking just outside the city in the direction my living room window faces, so I got an excellent light show

Tea has been KFC, though it was delayed a bit as all the KFCs in the city stopped taking orders for delivery during the rain, presumably being snowed under by people who'd decided not to go out and collect an order in that

[NickFitz]

There is, of course, no such word as "tortential" but autocorrect seems to have taken the afternoon off, possibly dismayed by the torrential rain

It's still raining a bit I think, but nothing like it was earlier. It was a long storm, taking around half-an-hour to pass, with occasional rumblings continuing after that

I've received an email from a secondhand bookseller apologising for the fact that the book I ordered from them has been found to have been damaged in storage and asking if I'd like something else or a refund. I've replied explaining that I actually received the book from them a few days ago in excellent condition, so neither option will be necessary

They were listing two copies so I'd picked the one that was described as being in better condition, as they were both the same price

Bit more thunder just now! Looking at the lightning map, it seems there may be further weather heading in along an arc between Market Harborough and Rutland

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bacon bap (white) which was inordinately nice

And as I was frying the bacon, a thunderstorm arrived with tortential rain. It's eased off a bit now but there's still occasional lightning and thundering going on

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Currently 22 degrees with a high of 23 expected. A thunderstorm originally scheduled around 4pm has been postponed with potential for rain overnight. Forgot to look at my barometer; weather app says it's 1018 mBar.

HWMBO and I are off to Oval for the Gin and Rum festival. He's also planned cocktails and dinner.

In the wee hours of this morning there police knocking at the door of one of the flats behind my place. All seemed rather calm, so not a raid. The knocking woke me up and I wondered at first if it was someone at my door until I woke up a bit more and was able to work it out.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Pretty sunny out, albeit with a high haze. It's expected to cloud over later though, with a chance of a shower around three this afternoon. There's a warning of thunderstorms, but who knows? It's quite mild at 20°C and aiming for 21°, with the barometers on the way down at 1007/1015mB

[xoggoth]

Still teetotal, almost. Had half a lager with my nephew at pub last night.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 18 deg, 19.5 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto.

1012.5 mBar, 29.899 in Hg, 759.44 Torr, 14.685 psi, (down from 1015 last night), 77% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of November 2019 xogg shared that he'd become teetotal recently, and NF supplied more information about The Bike, while Morrisons had increased stocks of pumpkin seed bread, much to my delight and satisfaction, however LM had scrambled egg on toasted pikelets and was contemplating baking a large spud.

whatever

It rained.

Lunch: there was.

Rain stopped.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in surprisingly warm sunshine though I took a brolly just in case.

Tea: Brains faggots etc. Meh.

Entertainment: if there was any I didn't find it. Read books.

Freecell score: 76%, running average: 76%. It's dialled itself in to find my flaws. Ho hum.

I thought the ongoing 90% scores were a flash in the pan.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 18 deg, 19.5 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto.

1012.5 mBar, 29.899 in Hg, 759.44 Torr, 14.685 psi, (down from 1015 last night), 77% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of November 2019 xogg shared that he'd become teetotal recently, and NF supplied more information about The Bike, while Morrisons had increased stocks of pumpkin seed bread, much to my delight and satisfaction, however LM had scrambled egg on toasted pikelets and was contemplating baking a large spud.

[NickFitz]

A double major motion picture premiere tonight, starting with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) in which we are forced to consider whether the descendants of Caesar's refugees, now more widely dispersed and developing disparate communities, might not devolve into undesirable patterns of behaviour? A very good start to what is expected to be a new trilogy, but also very unsettling in its implications of what may be to come

And as I was concerned that the apes that hang out here might be perturbed by that, some light relief before bedtime in the form of Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) in which our heroine goes to Washington to seek to enact a law against testing cosmetics on animals. It's an entertaining sequel, and although the legislative process of the USA seems to be shown in a rather ridiculous light, I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually quite close to the reality of how things are done in that rather juvenile country

There was one bit at the end which seems a bit too Hollywood Fantasy but which is, from my own experience, actually very realistic, so SPOILER ALERT: her dog and its mother get to meet and are all over each other, despite not having met since the younger one was a puppy. We had a dog which was a puppy from our next door neighbours' dog, born in 1970. We then moved away from Liverpool in 1971 when our dog was about a year old, or maybe slightly less. Sometime around 1975 or 1976 we went back to Liverpool for Christmas and popped back to the old place on Christmas Eve to say hello to our various former neighbours, unannounced. As it happened, just as we got out of the car across the road, the neighbours with the dog came out of their front door. Our dog immediately started straining at the leash, wagging its tail furiously and looking directly at its mother, and the mother did exactly the same! So they were the neighbours we visited first, and the mother and daughter were all over each other. It was lovely to see, and means that I can safely say that the similar scene at the end of the film was probably the most realistic bit

Anyway, then I watched another couple of episodes of the final season of The Wire

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: ribeye steak (thick cut) with chips, fried onions and beans

Accompanied by a bit of Trucking Hell