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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rosy-fingered dawn earlier, but that crept in beneath the cloud that extended almost but not quite to the horizon, and it’s expected to be cloudy all day with a chance (25%) of rain at lunchtime. It’s currently 12°C but “feels like” 8°, with a predicted high of 17° by late afternoon which will linger into the evening. The barometers are trivially down at 1000/1008mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
No dog to walk, I’m not in Devon.
Overcast, looks like it has rained.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Yet again the Finals dream: this time I hadn't attended some tedious Lib Studies thing. Ho hum.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Wet.

Grey.

Sunless (mostly since it's not dawn yet).

17.2 deg in here, 17.2 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto, 15 out the back.

1003 mBar, 29.62 in Hg, 752.3 Torr, 14.55 psi, (down from 1004 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of April 2020, between 10:41 and 11:30: as per yesterday.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves and Simon Badderley Further out of town: Hedgerow birds, a club that was until the 1981 law change, devoted to breeding finches etc. Pheasant shoot: no law change for the poor old pheasants. It's a "sport" apparently. . Chalk streams. Jack likes chalk streams. He also likes gigantic trees of privet.

Time to go shopping & the drizzle is still drizzling away. Unfortunately it'll be doing it on me. Ho hum.

[NickFitz]

There was wildlife instead of football this afternoon

And this evening, I watched another episode of the Scottish paramedics on iPlayer

Tonight, I finished reading Adulthood Rites. The ending was OK. Will I go on to the final part of the trilogy? Probably, but not yet

Monday again tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Lunch was some leftover chicken bits, then tea was also leftover chicken, but this time it was some of the zaatar and lemon chicken thing I made the other week, with chips

All in all, a very chickeny day

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Getting dark now but it's been a sunny day with cloudy lumps. Currently 13 degrees and the high was 16. Barometer down to 1013 mBar.

Sunrise 07:18; Sunset 18:17 BST

The drive down to Mum's and back was fairly uneventful. There's a local road that's been closed now for a couple of weeks that is causing havoc. Adds at least 20 mins to the journey.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I slept very soundly last night, awaking this morning a bit after eleven, having not even woken up and thought “I should get up now” then gone back to sleep before that

It’s a sunny and Simpsonesque day out. Currently 12°C and aiming for 14°; the barometers are up a little at 1001/1009mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

It looks like the aurora has made it south but it’s cloudy here, as it always is when this happens

Odd, that, innit. . Same happened here. Never mind, I managed to dry the washing. .

Morning.

Sunday.

Inneresting night's sleep with the complaining back. . Read a bit more of the book at 4. Oh, I'm a poet & I didn't know it. .

Dry.

Grey.

16.7 deg in here, 16.6 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto, 10 out the back.

1008 mBar, 29.77 in Hg, 756 Torr, 14.62 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of April 2020, between 10:41 and 11:30, in popped Brillo, BR14, DaveB, LM, and SimonMac.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the greyish gloom with wanish sunshine. Quite chilly by my estimation, though obviously hot by the estimations of those going about in t shirts & the like.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: dashcam bollox S4E5/6 or whatever.

Back is sufficiently uncomfortable to require yet another ibuprofen, though, for some reason, these are capsules rather than the usual caplets.

Well I'm still not feeling up to much even after that. Maybe a proper pill will help more. .

Tea: beans on toast etc. Entertainment: something on R4, though the thing about the gay Jamaican novelist went <click> pretty quickly.

Blazian bollox: Oak Island nutjobbery: finds: a button. A 26gm piece of lead. A chunk of what looks very much like a concrete paving stone: it even has the sorts of marks you see on such things. Obviously a mediaeval paving stone brought across by the Knights that say Ni! to make a shrubbery Templar. Can't decide which of those two options is the more likely: I think I'd go with Monty Python if I'm honest about it. Which is more than the makers of this endless crap are.

BBC4: A stitch in time: reproducing the leather jacket of an 18th C hedger: obviously a high end leather garment when new, passed down through many hands to end up in the portrait of said hedger. Only this morning I mused quietly to myself as I trudged along the towpath that at some time in the past the hedge alongside the towpath had been laid in the traditional manner: all grown out now of course over the many years since it was last done.

More Blazian bollox: Turin shroud. Real bollox.

Blazian bollox with Duchovny: Operation Azorian. Greenlight team: SADM: man carried nuke. The Berlin telephone tap tunnel, they didn't mention George Blake. . Operation Cold Feet: Soviet Ice Station abandoned on an ice floe. Used that skyhook thing to get the personnel back. Operation Pimilico: exfiltration of Gordievsky. Operation Ivy Bells: the tapping of Soviet underwater cables, as betrayed by Ron Pelton. William Colby WWII operation in Norway 1945 blowing up a railway bridge to immobilise the Werhmacht. Operation Rype. Used meth to keep going for 3 days on the way to Sweden.

[NickFitz]

Monkey Life and other wildlife stuff was on earlier

Tonight, I read a bit more of Adulthood Rites. It’s good, but TBH I’m not hooked; I don’t really care what happens to these aliens - or, indeed, that remaining survivors of the human race! Not much of it left to read so I might as well finish it, but I won’t rush on to the final part of the trilogy

It looks like the aurora has made it south but it’s cloudy here, as it always is when this happens

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from KFC

We were hit by a huge CME earlier, it seems. Not sure it’ll result in the aurora reaching this far south from what the NOAA map shows, but it might be a nice show for those in the far north

[xoggoth]

Ah! Post thing was signed for Power of Attorney docs. I expect my sons will soon bung me in the loony bin and pocket all my money. Finished bonfire and off for walky soon. But chilly but quite sunny.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a blustery day today and spitting rain from time to time, though it’s expected to brighten up towards teatime. We’ve already reached the day’s high of 13°C which “feels like” 7°, and the barometers are up a bit at 1000/1008mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Currently 14 degrees ('feels like' 12) and that's the high for the day. Barometer up to 1014 mBar.

Sunrise 07:17; Sunset 18:19 BST

Towels in the WM.

Not sure what to do with my day. Might just bimble around the house.

Never heard anything about the job yesterday. So, either I didn't get it or the client hasn't told the agency who they've picked.

I need to figure a way to encourage the last of the chillies on my chilli plants to ripen before it gets too cold. I can't bring them indoors.

[xoggoth]

After that, a rewatch...

Yeh, I'm rewatching Teeth, I mean Death in Paradise 'cos there ain't nowt else worth watching. Nice when I see a bit and think, yeh, I remember that, proves I'm not quite senile yet.

Nowt on today, probably have a bonfire. Nature reserve volunteer thing tomorrow if I can be bovvered.

Had a Parcel Force note yesterday that signed for thing not delivered. Dunno what it is, I ain't ordered anything. Checked with my neighbour as his things sometimes get delivered to my place by mistake as I'm an infill house with no number, but he ain't expecting anything either. A mystery!

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ About the only thing I remember about "The Avengers" (assuming I'm thinking of the right one) is how badly fitted "Steed"'s bowler hat was. Shocking. Sadly "The Man from Uncle" was equally poor, though having watched some of the originals recently, even those seem much less inneresting than they did 60 years ago. An even more inneresting question is how I conflated The Avengers with The Man from Uncle. .

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry. .

Sunny. .

Blue sky.

17.6 deg in here, 17.4 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto, 12 out the back, 11.8 in the saltinghouse.

1009 mBar, 29.79 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.6343 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of April 2020, between 10:18 and 10:27: as per yesterday.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Entertainment Yng Nghymraeg mit subtitles: thing about Plas Newydd on Anglesey. Takes talent to go through the equivalent of £43M & go bankrupt for £500k in 1900 or so, as the black sheep of the family managed, before dying in Paris at the grand old age of 29. His bust ended up kept in the toilet. .

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: dashcam bollox S4 E4,5.

That requiring the iRon has received its attentions & is airing upstairs.

Everything in off the line.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine & semigale. Back has been playing up for much of the day & the leg was complaining a bit halfway through. Zero conversations.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee, tesco's finest.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

Book.

Maigret "Death of a butcher (1961)". Chap from St Fiacre who knows Maigret gets threatening letters.

Blazian Bollox: "Shadow Man" William Stephenson, aka "A man named Intrepid"*: a Canadian who worked in septicland for Churchill/MI6 and manipulated Wild Bill Donovan to create the OSS eventually, once the septics had had the crap bombed out of them in Hawaii.

*According to some he was never known as Intrepid at all but there you go.