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[xoggoth]

Old arty farty thing this morning. Then, apart from walky, more fencing and sorting errors in accounts. Exciting. Not.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with wispy fluff. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer up to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 06:14; Sunset 19:48 BST

A meeting for gig1 where I will have nothing to contribute. Two hours of billing then back to gig hunting.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday apparently.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

20.4 deg in here, 20.7 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 13 out the back.

1013 mBar, 29.9 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.69 psi, (up from 1012 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 13:31 and 15:06, barrydidit, LM, MrMarkyMark, PhilTheGreek, WTFH, and I popped in.

Back is complaining this morning, dunno why.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: this one was about a two pony two wheeled Boer cart his father had observed in South Africa during the Boer War, and its subsequent investigation and replication. To cut to the chase, it was designed so the ponies trotted in the grooves left by the oxcarts (not the supersonic one) because a single horse couldn't cope with the unflattened bit in between. A Boer could do 100 miles in a day with one of those. Impressive. I wonder if my great great uncle ever saw one when he was fighting the Boers.

Walk (unabbreviated for the first time in months, towpath) walked, initially in warm sunshine, then, towards the end, it rained, just to reward me for my hubris.

Witched by an oik on a bike who remarked "nice to have it dry". .

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Dashcam bollox: S3 E2. The Welsh names thing.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Some high clouds coming in now, but it was CBS earlier. Needed a high-vis on at 05:30 when I went out with the dog.

Short week ahead.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start with some wisps of cloud here and there. No rain expected! Currently 12°C with an expected high of 21°; the barometers are up at 1007/1015mB

I pressed the summer duvet into service last night, being the first time with anything more than a duvet cover for at least a couple of months. Soon be time for the autumnal one!

Speaking of which: happy autumn to the meteorologists (though not yet to sun worshippers and pagans)!

[NickFitz]

Still not quite at the end of To Each This World because it’s building to a really exciting and intriguing ending, and I don’t want to rush through it half-thinking about needing to get up for work tomorrow

Speaking of which: Tuesday tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Pork steaks with chips and beans for tea

Accompanied by another episode of Netflix’s homicide series, about an American car racing bloke and his wife who were murdered outside their house in a fancy gated community in LA in the late 1980s

[NickFitz]

Mattress topper and pillow protectors in the wash

It went a bit gloomy and there was, apparently, some drizzle. But now it’s brightened up again

[xoggoth]

Rain must have been really rainy last night, little stream at bottom of my garden was full of water. Been tearing me hair out trying to find why my business accounts don't add up. Damn waste of time, if my sister wasn't so keen I'd close it down to save myself the hastle.

[NickFitz]

Chicken and barley soup with a crust of wholemeal for lunch

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with lumps of fluff out one window. Grey cloud out another. Light breeze. Damp from overnight precipitation. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 22 expected. Barometer up a bit to 1011 mBar.

Sunrise 06:12; Sunset 19:50 BST

No plans for the day.As is right and proper for a bank holiday.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I was awoken by the sound of very heavy rain a couple of times in the night. But it’s sunny and Simpsonesque at the moment; windy though, and going to be quite changeable. It’s 15°C and expected to reach 20°, albeit briefly, with the barometers steady at 996/1004mB

I see I neglected to sign out last night, which I blame on tiredness. So for the record, other viewing during the day had been wildlife stuff, including a film in which David Attenborough told the life story of Jumbo, the elephant who now lends his name to so many things that are bigger than other things. And I had expected to finish To Each This World but I’d been led astray: it’s printed on quite thin, though good quality, paper, and the pages are relatively large. So the upshot is that after last night’s reading, I still have around a hundred pages to go which is probably equivalent to, say, a hundred-and-twenty pages in a regular-size paperback

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

Misty.

21.3 deg in here, 21.8 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1003.5 mBar, 29.6 in Hg, 752.7 Torr, 14.55 psi, (up from 998 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 12:29 and 13:28, AndyGarbs, eek, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, and vetran popped in, with MrMarkyMark down to his last 4 pack of bogroll. .

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: what did the Black Death ever do for us? Why the villages on the chalk disappeared whilst the villages on the lower lands didn't. Visited Knowlton Henge & church. The pond he visits with Ghost in the opening sequence is at Ashmore in Dorset. Ain't the interweb good. . It's a dewpond, which led to yet more twisty passages. No dwarf person of restricted height yet.

Shopping trip to that Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Washing frenzy started, which should induce the return of the deluge in about 20 minutes or so.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about ADHD and autism.

Dashcam bollox. S3 E1. Missed bits of that due to pegging out stuff on the line.

Shirts in off the line & duly met the iRon, now airing upstairs along with the tea towels.

A mug of coffee was required after all the day's exertions.

The last of the washing met the iRon & is airing upstairs.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country. You can never have too much about The Black Death. . Dozed a bit through that, I seem to be .

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. I rather enjoy this version of it. Entertainment: PM. UFO Bollox on Blaze.

Speaking of which, S12 of the Oak Island nutjobbery returns on the 7th.

Bab5 S3 E16 "War without end": Sinclair returns (briefly).

Maigret's Mistake (Cremer).

Secrets in the Dark, though my tolerance for this particular brand of Blazian bollox seems to be wearing very thin. Chinese grave with bone flute & strange marks on leg bones. Trieste, Italy: copper dagger found in grave. Altamura, Italy: early neanderthal skull covered with calcite: 130k - 170k years old. Looked really freaky. Probably fell down a sink hole & starved. Australia, Clogs cave, Victorian alps: 10k & 12k sticks suggesting that Aborigine practices were strongly conserved since they were doing much the same sort of thing in the 19th C. Curse stick.

Thankfully the last one: the oak island nutjobs are back next week but Maigret is on at the same time so they are tulip out of luck.

Terminator: dark fate. Curiously there was a thing on Airrang TV (Korean news) about quantum computing: apparently the future is not written it's up to generation Z. . That's it, we're ****ed.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Indian leftovers

On the box, the next episode of Emergency 24/7 on iPlayer