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[NickFitz]

Tea has been a rack of ribs and chips

Not just any rack of ribs, an M&S rack of ribs

Accompanying viewing has been American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing on Netflix

The interior of the flat now seems to be about 30°C or more everywhere, but the air conditioner is keeping the living room at no more than 25° so it’s bearable in here. No respite tonight, when it’ll get no lower than 20°; I thought of doing the early run to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s, but it’ll already be 24° or higher by 8am so I’m leaving it

At least I remembered to buy ice cream in advance this time. Might have some of that in a bit

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny. Not a cloud to be seen from my vantage point. Currently 32 degrees ('feels like' 35) with a high of 33 expected. The forecast overnight low isn't low at all. There might be a thunderstorm around 5-6 am which looks like it'll just make things more humid tomorrow. Barometer at 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 04:45; Sunset 21:23 BST

Busy morning. Just the one 15 minute stand up at gig3, followed by me finally getting some inspiration for the work needed at gig2. Only 4 more billing days remain there

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon
quite nice here today. sea haar this morning, now a greyish 22C.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

Up to 28°C here now. The air conditioner is managing to hold it down to a tolerable 25° in the living room

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc.
Visiting dad, which means the temperature is about 10C cooler than at home. Had a great night’s sleep last night, and looking forward to a pleasant (temperature wise) day today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

25.5 deg in here, 27.3 in the kitchen, 26 in the leanto, 82 in the porch, 27.8 in the front bedroom, 27.1 in the salting house.

1007.5 mBar, 29.75 in Hg, 755.7 Torr, 14.6 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 76% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 AndyGarbs outposted Brillo, LM contributed, as did NF about Men in Llandudno who Stare At Goats, and I was still eating Heinz sandwich spread for some unknown reason: probably to see if it was as nasty as I'd remembered.

Even earlier brunch than usual. Entertainment: some artist chap on R4 <click>

It's now 26.3 deg in here.

R4 Toast today: Orange, or how the future wasn't Orange for Orange. <click>

Secret Nazi Bases: on a roasting hot Thursday afternoon with nothing better to do, what's not to like?

A couple I don't recall watching previously: S1 E3: Villa Winter: The strange house built by a German chap Gustav Winter on Fuerteventura, Canaries, in 1936, 1946, or 1958 according to which report you believe. . Looks a trifle over engineered for its declared purpose.

S1 E6: The Mystery of the Nazi Nukes: Bergkristal. The Austrian tunnels with raised background count that The Authorities are keen no one investigates. .

Tea: baked beans with baked spuds: nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>

Blaze: more UFO bollox.

Dara O'Briein waffling on about The Moon.

Bab5. The Shadows appear along with Mr Morden.

BBC4: Double Cross: the true story of the D Day spies.

BBC Alba: The Atom Spies, in Gaelic.

38 deg in the salting house earlier. 32 in the leanto. 32 in the front bedroom. 28 in here. FFS.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Unsurprisingly sunny start; today will be the same as yesterday though at least it was a touch cooler overnight, having been down to 18°C. But that was ages ago, and it’s already 21° on its inexorable march to 32°. The barometers are back up a little to 1008/1016mB, though still not as high as I would have expected for this kind of weather

Last night, the bedroom plummeted to 26.5° by morning, so slightly better less bad. But I don’t think I slept too well overall as I apparently turned off the first alarm without even waking up, being forced into consciousness only be the more raucous second alarm fifteen minutes later

[NickFitz]

In A Canticle for Leibowitz, the people of 3781 have succumbed to the temptation to start another nuclear war, and now one of the monks is wondering whether to accept the responsibility of going on a journey to a distant space colony. This part of the book has a lot of inner monologue stuff from various characters, which is generally well written but less engaging than things happening. But maybe it’s just too hot right now for that kind of thing

Speaking of which, there was quite a vigorous breeze earlier so once the temperature outside had dropped below the temperature inside, I opened windows in the hope of getting some of the relatively cooler air into the bedroom. Naturally, the wind dropped just then and now it’s not really doing anything to help at all

Oh well, Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

This was accompanied by the rest of the Swedish border thing, in which my previous conjecture was disproved as they confiscated a load of home grown fresh fruit and vegetables from a Thai woman. Not allowed from outside the EU without a certificate, apparently

I’m brooding over whether there’s any need to go shopping this week. I could get up early and pop to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s as soon as it opens, before things get too hot. But I think I could probably put it off altogether - next week will be a much more civilised 22°C at worst

[NickFitz]

In true contractor fashion, you should bleed your radiators after repressurising. There's always a little bit of leakage over time from central heating systems.

Yes, I think it advised that in the manual. The previous owner left a radiator key hanging next to the water meter, so I don’t even have that excuse to put it off

[NickFitz]

The air conditioner has kept the living room down to just under 25°C, while the study is now up to 31°. My first thought on walking in to the former when I knocked off just now: “It’s a bit cold in here!”

[ladymuck]

Ironically, this morning’s first chore has been to repressurise the boiler. The hot water had started making ominous faint knocking noises even for something as simple as running the tap on the basin in the bathroom for a few seconds and seemed quite unhappy during showers, and the pressure gauge showed it was down to about 0.5 to 0.6 when I checked last night. But one of the two valves that needed to be turned was very stiff, so I left it then. This morning, a pair of pliers gave me the leverage I needed to get the valve turning, so I was able to repressurise it to 1.2 - it didn’t want to go any higher, but the manual says “between 1.0 and 1.5” so that’s fine. And when I showered: no knocking!

N.B. This isn’t a sudden thing, so I don’t believe there’s a leak anywhere; I’ve been looking at it occasionally for well over a year thinking I should do something about it as it gradually got lower, but it’s only in the last couple of weeks that it became increasingly clear the time was now. Apparently it’s done well to have lasted this long without being topped up. I really must get it serviced though

In true contractor fashion, you should bleed your radiators after repressurising. There's always a little bit of leakage over time from central heating systems.

[ladymuck]

Yeh, mine was stuck at about 27. Think I've said it before, but I find leaving windows open for hours before bed makes scarcely any difference to temperature at all, It doesn't make sense.

It's still sunny until gone 9pm and once the sun sets the ground starts releasing its heat back into the atmosphere. So, the air temperature stays high for longer. Then when the sun rises less than 8 hours later, the ground hasn't cooled down before it starts heating up again.

[xoggoth]

While I slept last night, the temperature of the bedroom didn’t change by so much as a tenth of a degree: 26.8°C when I turned out the light, exactly the same when I awoke

Yeh, mine was stuck at about 27. Think I've said it before, but I find leaving windows open for hours before bed makes scarcely any difference to temperature at all, It doesn't make sense.

[ladymuck]

Hot. No likey.

All shutters closed at the front of the flat now the sun's come around to that side.