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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Damp.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 13.4 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 11.5 in the leanto.

993 mBar, 29.3232 in Hg, 744.8 Torr, 14.4 psi, (down from 996 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 WTFH's Mrs was off on a secret mission, DaveB's dog was unwell, BR14, AndGarbs and LM popped in, NF was irritated that appointments with the GP were now only available on the phone, and posited the theory that covid was A Cunning Plan by receptionists to kill us all off, the Final Solution to the irritating patients problem.. Whilst discussions were ongoing regarding the carpet shop lights timer.

Yet another dream of working somewhere I didn't want to be, though this was improved by imminent redundancy and, curiously, cream cakes.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Heavy rain overnight, but the forecast rain for this morning has not arrived yet, so our walk was muddy underfoot, cloudy but dry overhead.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s cloudy out, but like yesterday seems as if it might be willing to indulge us in the occasional, brief sunny spell - despite the 45% chance of a spot of rain in the next hour or so. The wind is, apparently, gusty and making the current 6°C “feel like” 2°; the day’s high will be 9° through much of the afternoon, and it’ll be a mild night, not dipping below 6°. The barometers are down a touch at 988/996mB

[NickFitz]

In The Jane Austen Project, things are getting complicated, as time travel tends to be

Monday again tomorrow

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

My bed has been made. No last minute, just in time, nonsense here today.

[NickFitz]

Nando’s leftovers for tea

The ongoing poking around in the new forum software continued this afternoon. And I also spent a bit of time on a Mac app I’d got bogged down with a while ago, where it turned out the time away from it had been sufficient for me to be able to make good progress

[xoggoth]

Nature reserve thing was supposed to be mulching paths but mulch not turn up so went off with another bloke to a nearby nature reserve to clears up piles of apples. Wot fun! Lunch with ll1 was steak and apple crumble, quite chewy.

[WTFH]

In part of the “use up everything that is expired” mode, today I’ve made tahini from some sesame seeds marked as best before October 2023 and then used some of it to make hummus with a tin of chickpeas (March 2025)
Next is to make some trout pate from fish I smoked a couple of years ago before putting it in the freezer.
Going to make myself a rhubarb crumble for dessert tonight as I found a pot of rhubarb we had stewed and frozen in 2022.

[NickFitz]

Pukka steak slice for lunch

And breakfast was a couple of croissants with strawberry jam. Given the number of calories in that lot, I should probably just have something light for tea. But I doubt I will

[ladymuck]

The bed has been stripped to air and the WM pressed into service.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

It was bright and quite sunny when I got up but it's now clouded over. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Rain forecast off and on all day. Barometer up to 1005 mBar.

Sunrise 07:28; Sunset 17:04 GMT

The drive down to Sussex took over 3.5 hours . There was a huge crash on the M25 and I sat 3/4 of a mile away from the A3 turn off for the better part of an hour. We were then all diverted down the A3, which isn't my normal route (I prefer the A24). I wasn't late for the family dinner. Dinner was actually quite good fun and then I drove home afterwards, getting back at 00:15 this morning. The drive home was far less eventful.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s quite cloudy out but there are hazy blue patches and some brighter sunlight getting through occasionally, so not as gloomy as many recent days. The 7°C “feels like” 3°, though it doesn’t seem that breezy; the high will be 9° from lunchtime through the afternoon, though there’s also a chance of rain (45-55%) during that period. The barometers continue upwards at 991/999mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp.

Grey with hints there might be a bit of blue.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 13.6 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 10.5 in the leanto.

997.5 mBar, 29.456 in Hg, 748.2 Torr, 14.467 psi, (up from 993 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, LM popped in, NF figured out why it seemed unusually dark across the road (carpet shop lights timer), and I watched T3 and Homeland.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in drizzle followed by sunshine. Had a chat, which was my interaction for the day.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Just a minute. Archive Hour: "Taxi Driver" which included the Orange Mother****er back when he could string 3 words together and before he went bankrupt several times. TWATO.

Book. Other book. Other other book.

Tea: beans on toast: forgot the scrambled egg. Nice enough.

Bit of "The footage detectives": Ferranti wireless sets from the 1930s.

"The Blitz with Rob Rinder and Ruth Goodman: the Deadend kids from Wapping: Patrick "Patsy" Duggan et al.

Blaze: Secrets in the Ice. Falbygden, Sweden: Passage grave burial mound with 9,800 bones & fragments: plague dna in the teeth of some. 2021: Man's body found in a cave (lava tube) on Etna. Hampton, NZ: fossil of a giant penguin from 60M years ago. Amnya River, Siberia: pits found: might have been a fort of sorts from 6k BC.

Sergeant Cork S3 E3 "The case of Big Ben Lewis". Uriah Heep stars as an oleaginous creep.

Mysteries of the Deep: Noah's Ark: circular. Using ocean bioluminescence for submarine detection.

[WTFH]

Morning all Overcast and murky out but not raining right now. Our perambulation will begin in the next hour, possibly.

[NickFitz]

There was a reasonable amount of wildlife stuff on today, though surely it’s about time we got some new Monkey Life?

Later, I continued reading The Jane Austen Project in which the intrepid time travellers are making good progress at inveigling themselves into the Austen family’s good books

The weather app informed me that there might be some light rain lasting twenty minutes or so. That was forty or more minutes ago as I listened to a torrential downpour beating against the windows, and it hasn’t stopped yet

Goodnight all