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[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.

[NickFitz]

Ham toastie for lunch

This morning has been quite tedious: first show & tell, in which there wasn’t time for what I’d prepared so I may as well not have bothered

And after a short break, we whizzed through the sprint retrospective and sprint planning in one go, which was worth it because it means one less meeting this afternoon

Anyway, I identified an issue with some recent work before we started and then worked out the root cause and fix while other people were showing and telling, so that’ll help pass the rest of the day

[ladymuck]

...
Been playing flight tracking to work out what plane I will be on later. Narrowed it down to one of two.

If you're flying in/out of Heathrow, I can help

[WTFH]

Morning all
Up at 5:35 for a walk.
10,000 steps done and it's now 26C out.
Been playing flight tracking to work out what plane I will be on later. Narrowed it down to one of two.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with wispy cloud. Currently 26 degrees ('feels like' 28) with a high of 35 expected. Barometer down to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 04:46; Sunset 21:23 BST

An uncomfortable night's sleep. We're off out this evening, which I am not exactly looking forward to travelling to.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

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

It’s not been a cool night though, and it’s not a cool start: already 24° and striving for 32°, though it looks like the afternoon hourly figures only go up to 31° so maybe the high will be a blip. Still horrid though. The barometers are still ambivalent, being down to 1007/1014mB

There isn’t much breeze but I’ve got the windows open anyway in an attempt to get some relatively cooler air through the place, and the air conditioner in the living room has been on since I got up

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

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday apparently.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

24.2 deg in here, 26.5 in the kitchen, 24 in the leanto, 26.5 in the front bedroom.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.649 psi, (up from 1009 last night), 75% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 wattaj posted, LM posted a lot (OM), and AndyGarbs posted. No one else bothered. .

I was going to type something but it took so long to get here that I've forgotten what it was.

Further to "Canticle", it may be of innerest to know there's a followup book "Saint Liebowitz and the Wild Horse Woman". I bought it decades ago but have yet to read it. It was finished by another writer after the premature demise of Walter M. Miller.

Postman just delivered a parcel. I haven't ordered anything for years & there's no birthday or xmas near.

Address label leaves out on of the digits so he attempted to deliver it at the other end of the road but the occupants denied being the addressee.

Turns out it's full of non wacky baccy which is of no innerest or use to me since I don't smoke.

Now attempting to figure out what the scam is. Doesn't look like it came from China and the baccy is duty paid.

Odd.

Not even in tobacco tins which were so useful for storing transistors in half a century and more ago (amazing my father lived as long as he did, considering).

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some thing on R4 about musical projedies. <click>.

Book.

Had to close the windows as the sun has come around. It's getting warmer in here by the minute.

More book.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click> Some UFO bollox on Blaze: not quite as bolloxy as Ancient Aliens but they were trying their best to get there. .

Dara o'Briein waffling on about The Moon.

Jack Hargreaves: Out of Town: two more pieces of mysterious ironwork. A chap who saved some kingfisher chicks from downing when the nests were flooded: he was catching 150 tiddlers a day to feed them, which he did successfully enough to release them & for them to breed. Where the term "threshold" came from, with an example of someone threshing wheat with a flail and using a mandraulic winnowing machine.

Bab5 S1: the dockers strike one wherein our hero makes powerful enemies.

Foxy Coxy waffling on about galaxies. <click> The Motorway Cops thing set on any road that isn't a motorway <cick>

Another programme about spies, this one all about The Cuban Missile Crisis and Oleg Penkovsky in Gaelic on BBC Alba.

[NickFitz]

In A Canticle for Leibowitz, another six hundred years have passed, technology has been redeveloped to the extent of space colonies existing… and, of course, they’ve reinvented nuclear weapons and may be about to use them. So now the monks of the Abbey are considering heading to space, though at least the sacred relics can now be taken on microfilm

Far too hot here now. The bedroom is still nearly 27°C and there’s hardly any breeze to help the 24° air from outside to get in

Goodnight all