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[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover zingy chicken bits

Quite variable weather out again, but mostly grey

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ Warnings from the Met Office (pollen forecast dept) a couple of days ago. Tree pollen.

Morning.

Tuesday apparently which must account for the serial killer dream followed by the working in Silicon Valley dream. Most odd. Don't think I've dreamed of Silicon Valley previously.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blueish sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 13.8 deg, 13? in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

1027 mBar, 30.33 in Hg, 770.3 Torr, 14.89 psi, (up from 1025.5 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 23rd of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, BR14 and NF popped in, along with Churchill with the sad news of his mum's demise.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath), walked in the sunshine. Eventually warmed up enough to remove the scarf and open the jacket.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the Radio Astronomy thing waffling on about Mars.

[WTFH]

Just been told officially that a second client of mine is having to re-plan a project due to "global events"

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I see I forgot to wish everybody good night last night. Sorry! For the record, I read more of Death’s End, in which humanity once again finds the Universe to be a bit more complicated than they realised

I really struggled to get to sleep last night, not dropping off until past two in the morning. As a result, I seem to have turned the first alarm off this morning without waking up at all. Usually I have some vague recollection of turning it off, but not today

It’s a grey start again, though no showers this time. Currently 8°C (“feels like” 4°) and expected to reach a balmy 15° along with sunny spells this afternoon, while the barometers are back up to 1017/1025mB

One thing I noticed last night, and also this morning, is a slight irritation of the nasal membranes. I’m wondering if the hay fever season may be getting off to an early start

[WTFH]

Morning all

Overcast, but dry here. Warmer than the last couple of mornings.
Is it just me or is Globle (country version) down? I can get into the cities one, but not the countries, where I was up to 199 wins.

In other news, the gardener turned up yesterday (supposed to be once a month but he seems to be coming every other week), so the greenhouse has been emptied, cleaned and tidied up.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been toad in the hole with onion gravy. Made a nice change

This was accompanied by a bit of the motorway-adjacent cops plus dashcam clips programme

[NickFitz]

Another day done; three days to Easter

The weather continues to take a constantly changing variety of forms. Something for everyone!

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

Very changeable weather today. It keeps going extremely gloomy, then turning sunny, then back again. It’s actually starting to look rather Simpsonesque at the moment, but will it last?

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[Pondlife]

Good morning all,

Wind 12 kt from the West/Northwest
Temperature 9°C
Humidity 81%
Pressure 1026 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Few clouds at a height of 2200 ft
Broken clouds at a height of 2800 ft

Went for an excellent walk in the beacons on Sat so decidedly achy today. Washing machine has started to make a god awful racket when it enters the spin cycle so that can't be good.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy earlier which has mostly cleared, leaving occasional lumps of fluff. Currently 9 degrees ('feels like' 6) with a high of 12 expected. Cloud may return later with a chance of rain. Barometer down to 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 06:41; Sunset 19:31 BST

Dropped yea olde jalopy at the garage for its annual service. Not expecting any horrors to come of that.

An easy enough time beckons at the various coal faces today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

Grey with spots of blue sky.

Chilly in here at 13.7 deg, 12? in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

1021.5 mBar, 30.165 in Hg, 766.2 Torr, 14.82 psi, (up from 1018 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 22nd of March 2020 BR14, LM, NF, LM, AndyGarbs and quackhandle popped in.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Very busy in there this morning.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 thing about Bosnia. Thing about radio astronomy. Techy stuff: makes a change.

Shopping trip to Aldi and Tesco: only just had enough cash on me for that: done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

By the time I returned I'd raised a fair old sweat.

Now recovering by getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

Skinwalker ranch bollox on Blaze. The Truth is in that mesa. They shot a rocket in the air & it stuck. . Plus the "wolf" carcass they found decaying in the stream turned out to have 11% DNA from canids not found in north America, the remaining 89% being totally unidentifiable. The lower jaw bone matches that of a young dire wolf: something that went extinct 12,000 years ago. Cue X Files music.

NCIS S22 E11 "For better or worse". Well that was worse: shoot the writers FFS.

Last bit of Panorama about XL bullies. Shoot the things FFS, though it took 10 rounds to off one (presumably of 9x19).

Last bit of part 1 of a thing about peat on BBC Alba. I'd forgotten (or never knew) that there were peat fuelled power stations in Ireland. And in Finland. 'Tis odd to watch a programme where the normal speech is in Scot Gaelic which is then replaced by Finnish that's equally incomprehensible without the subtitles.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, although with the time change, the sun was still asleep when we went out. Lovely morning though.

Time for all the new tax year planning, that I should really have done weeks ago, but never mind.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

About half-an-hour ago there was a thin patch in the cloud towards the east through which the sun, though not visible as such, was able to cast a bright diffuse light. But this mistake has been corrected, and it’s now uniformly grey with a shower spitting light rain, and potentially more to come. It’s also expected to be quite windy. It’s currently 6°C (“feels like” -1°) and expected to reach 10°, and the barometers are down to 1009/1017mB

I awoke too early this morning, but only because the alarm went off at the usual time but they pulled the rug under the usual time to an earlier position. I was greatly tempted to just go back to sleep, but managed to force myself out of bed on the basis that I might as well get used to it, because they’re not correcting the situation until October

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the latest episode of Ambulance

And tonight’s reading was more of Death’s End

Monday again tomorrow. But it’ll be Easter at the end of the week! Though a four-day weekend isn’t quite as cool as it used to be, given that I normally have a three-day one nowadays

Goodnight all