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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Mostly cloudy today, but there’s the occasional burst of sunshine when it finds a gap. It’s 17°C (“feels like” 13°) and aiming for 21°, with the barometers down to 992/1000mB. More rain is expected, but not until this afternoon

The green patches on the lawn are getting bigger; a bit more rain and they should all join up again

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Wet. Very wet. Torrentially wet on occasion overnight: currently sufficiently wet that the satellite signal has dropped out completely.

Grey.

Dark.

Sunless.

And have I mentioned that it's wet?

22.1 deg in here, 22.9 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto, 18 out the back.

999 mBar, 29.5 in Hg, 749.3 Torr, 14.49 psi, (down from 1001 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 11:13 and 11:26, barrydidit, Brillo, LondonManc, NF, vetran, and I popped.

Due to the lack of Freesat signal, Jack Hargreaves Old Country came through on Freeview: rabbiting using nets & ferrets: two dead rabbits, how rabbits keep brambles down by eating the soft ends of the briars and thusly myxamatosis increased the amount of ground covered by brambles, what to look for in the country: old disused village breweries. Also: how to make a rabbiting net. Goodness me, that's a skill & no mistake.

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.

The Wife got me up at 5am to see the lunar eclipse - a lot safer to stare at than the solar one.
Walk has been had.
Grass is dewy, but otherwise CBS, etc.

[NickFitz]

Read some more of To Each This World

The storm almost got going again over to the east, but then settled down. It’s been a very rainy evening though, and there’s more expected tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Quite an intense storm, that! The nearest strike was about five hundred yards away, on the corner of the park

It’s moved away towards Syston now. Hope it spares the Pukka Pie factory

[NickFitz]

Thunder and lightning are getting closer, and it's suddenly started raining very heavily

[NickFitz]

Home sweet home.

In amongst the post was a Notice of Intended Prosecution from the Police. I was snapped crossing the lights 1.1s after they had changed to red.

Dammit. My first offence in 30 years of driving.

A common criminal!

They’ll probably let you go on an awareness course

[NickFitz]

Are they a cake or a biscuit?

That’s the big question! Sadly, Sainsbury’s didn’t provide a receipt that indicated whether I’d been charged VAT for them

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb chops with chips and beans

The chops were from July, when I froze them, so that frees up a little more space in the freezer

[ladymuck]

But I did treat myself to something strange and new with my afternoon coffee: Jaffa Cake Digestives!

They’re a limited edition, apparently. It’s basically a Jaffa cake with a digestive instead of sponge, which is fine by me

Are they a cake or a biscuit?

[ladymuck]

Home sweet home.

In amongst the post was a Notice of Intended Prosecution from the Police. I was snapped crossing the lights 1.1s after they had changed to red.

Dammit. My first offence in 30 years of driving.

[NickFitz]

Lunch wasn’t, because I went to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s and did the shopping

But I did treat myself to something strange and new with my afternoon coffee: Jaffa Cake Digestives!

They’re a limited edition, apparently. It’s basically a Jaffa cake with a digestive instead of sponge, which is fine by me

It was raining heavily all morning and until I got back, when it started to ease off. As of now, there are some bits of blue sky, but also warnings of more showers

One of the magpies was just down on the lawn; the male from our resident couple, I think. I realised when watching it fly up to rootle around in the top of one of the downpipes of the block opposite that I’d got their wing feathers the wrong way round - theirs are black at the bird end and white at the other end. Pigeons are the other way round, so it seems likely that the unfortunate bird whose remains, such as they were, were scattered across the lawn yesterday was indeed a pigeon

I’ll still be happier once I see the two magpies down there together though

[ladymuck]

Nice view along the Thames as we join the queue for landing.

[ladymuck]

I'm just coming in over the Norfolk coast by the looks of it. Seems quite bright down there.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Dark.

Grey.

Sunless.

Wet! And not taking prisoners when it puts its mind to it.

22 deg in here, 23.1 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto, 18 out the back.

1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750 Torr, 14.5 psi, (down from 1002 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

As per yesterday: Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 09:11 and 10:35, AndyGarbs, barrydidit, Brillo, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, vetran, and I popped in, with NF giving us the "bring out yer dead" toll for Leicester just to cheer us up a bit.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: I thought it was a repeat from yesterday but it wasn't: fly fishing: 6 dead trout. Larmer Tree thing in Wiltshire: no Morris Dancers were harmed in the making of this programme.

The bit of Bab5 I missed yesterday.

Well it's wet out.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the grey gloom, wan sunshine, and high humidity. Like a gorilla's armpit out there this morning.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Dashcam bollox. Hadn't seen that one before. Loved the concrete road without expansion joints. So that's why they put expansion joints in concrete roads. .

Hammering down now: rivers flowing down the gutters in the road. Thankfully the drains seem to be coping at the moment. Unlike those in Birmingham.

Thunderbolt & lightning, very very frightening!

Am Dro. Llangranog. Llanboidy. Bala. Conwy. It was the one where a contestant wearing inappropriate shoes fell over in a field & knackered his shoulder.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country. See above.

Tea: beans on wholemeal toast (the only way to make the bread halfway digestible). Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click> book. PM.

Bab5 S3 E14 "Ship of Tears". The one wherein the details of the Shadowship control system is revealed & exactly why they scream.

Book.

Thing Yng Nghymraeg about a Fairey Swordfish pilot from Gorseinon who crashed in the channel & ended up in Stalag Luft III. Part 1/2. He'd also flown aircover on PQ18 on the Arctic convoys.

DMAX: Expedition Files: Billy the Kid died in 1950 not 1881. The Betty & Barney Hill abduction. The Man in the Iron Mask.