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Lunch has been a cold roast chicken leg with a bag of plain crisps
I’m feeling a bit out of sorts today. The kind of feeling where one might be coming down with a cold (or worse) or it might just go away after a day or two
Overcast, slightly damp. Currently 4 degrees with a high of 7 expected. Unlikely to rain but the threat persists. Barometer at 1002 mBar.
Sunrise 07:48; Sunset 16:40 GMT
The journey home yesterday was uneventful, despite having to use the Piccadilly instead of the Lizzy Line from the airport. I purposely blocked my diary out until 10 am to have a gentle start to my Monday and it seems no-one noticed nor cared.
Still waiting on gig 3 to produce a contract. At this rate, I might tell them to sod off.
Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto, 6.8 in the saltinghouse.
995 mBar, 29.38 in Hg, 746.3 Torr, 14.43 psi, (unchanged but a tad), 66% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 13th of March 2020 Brillo, BR14, and Churchill popped in (the latter having a pot noodle), whilst LM observed that Ocado was doing well and I observed that the weather was too inclement to bother with the washing, whilst NF locked the back gate then unlocked it after discovering the bins hadn't been done, whereas WTFH went for a drive.
Washing frenzy in progress. Everything pegged out on the line: currently mostly horizontal.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about dry stone walls.
It’s a grey day again, with a slight breeze that seems a bit chilly. It’s only 2°C (“feels like” 1° apparently) and won’t soar any higher than 4° - though once it has, it’ll stay there right through into the early hours of tomorrow morning, when it'll warm up even more, albeit with accompanying rain! The barometers are bouncing back at 990/998mB
It’s a grey day and supposedly breezy but, once again, the trees suggest it isn’t really. The current and highest-for-the-day temperature of 6°C “feels like” -1° according to this theory, but I don’t expect it does. The barometers are trivially up at 982/990mB
Chilly in here at 12.9 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto.
985.5 mBar, 29.1 in Hg, 739.2 Torr, 14.293 psi, (up from 984 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 13th of March 2020 AndyGarbs went beep a lot, LM, covbob, and BR14 popped in, and I had a ginsters Moroccan pasty thing for lunch. I like those & haven't seen one for years.
Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked, eventually in sunshine, which was a bit unexpected.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus which is particularly loud this morning with the ear requiring attention that it's unlikely to get on the nhs any more.
I think I've reached the end of the interweb.
Book. Other book. Book. End of book.
Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: Poetry crap on R4 <click>
Oak Island nutjobbery at 19:00. They found a spike. A piece of silver: the only treasure so far. Wood. More wood. A gold plated button.
Sergeant Cork. S3 E1 "The case of the two poisons". yet more abuse of the working class by the toffs, bastards that they are. Just as well they were all syphilitic really.
Book.
Some bollox on Blaze: discovered by disaster or some such bollox. Youngest Toba Eruption 73k years ago. SM1 in Ethiopia. River pools during drought. Out of Africaaaa. Wind River, Wyoming, SepticLand. Native American ancient sites for processing mountain plants. Chert artefacts. Used for 4 millennia by the Shoshone. Lake Van, Turkey. Uartian Ayanis abandoned castle. Olympia, Greece. Bull sculpture at Temple of Zeus. Aurochs.
Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Bad Boys (1995) which is OK but has that “Nobody in that position would do that” thing going on a LOT. I just realised that in many ways it’s borrowing from Lethal Weapon, so maybe that explains it. Anyway, it’s OK, but if you’re looking for social realism, it ain’t what you're looking for
And then the final three episodes of Hijack. It was supposed to be the next episode, but it’s so good that I couldn’t stop. Cracking stuff
Quite nice sunny walk with ll1. Have yet to plan which restaurant to take her for her birthday. I really don't like restaurants much, food always a bit *** and portions far too big.
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