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Meanwhile on the 27th of October 2019 it was getting cold with much condensation on the bedroom window, whereas I had watched BTVS "Dopplegangland", NF had watched much of MI, to whit: III & IV, and it transpired that it was clock changing frenzy day again, LM was taking a train an hour earlier than the one she'd booked, and NF also found it chilly.
Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the unbearable heat of the day: remembered the sunblock today.
Lunch: beans on toast etc.
Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about cash, 60% of bank branches having closed, looks like D. Adams opinion on the Galactibanks is coming to Earth.
Some poor sod drives from Brecon to Cheltenham to withdraw cash from Barclays.
Sunny start again. By dint of opening windows, I slept a bit better. There's also a very light breeze this morning which has already got the living room temperature down to 24° in the space of half-an-hour or so via the small side window, it being 17°C out there with a predicted high of 27°. The barometers are down again though, at 1006/1014mB
Morning all time for a walk before it gets too hot
The walk has been walked - a rather short one, as I was sweating like a ... actually, most of the analogies I might use would be highly inappropriate... sweating like a very sweaty thing at the world sweaty contest.
Discussion of fava beans on today, next chianti, then liver. .
Dry.
Sunny.
Blue sky.
Cool in here at 19.9 deg, 21.5 deg in the kitchen, 19 deg in the leanto, 16 deg in the saltinghouse.
1015.5 mBar, 29.9876 in Hg, 761.68 Torr, 14.728 psi, (down from 1018 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 26th of October 2019 Farmageddon had proved suitably amusing, NF had some M&S variety of special sausages, and I had some long forgotten bol I found in the freezer compartment of the fridge.
Bedding wash in WM along with a random white shirt.
Out of the WM & pegged out on the line.
Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the unbearable heat.
A400M flew down the valley. Must have been going to the beach.
Lots of butterflies today: nearly a dozen small browns, might have been a brimstone, couple of whites, maybe a peacock.
Jeans & cords in the WM.
Jeans & cords out of the WM and pegged out on the line.
3 lawns mown in the unbearable heat, more to mow if the fecking mower decides it will start again.
Lunch: scrambled egg etc.
Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about countdown timers and wowcher, whatever that is.
TWATO. waffling on about Jnr doctor's pay. Nothing about pay for doctor designers of weapons of mass destruction. Bastards.
The remaining 5 lawns were mown: when the petrol mower flooded I used the electric, then when the petrol mower unflooded I used that.
Defence in depth innit.
Tea: soup: too knackered to bother with anything else.
Even the cold shower wasn't cold enough today. Phew wot a scorcher.
And the backs of my hands are sunburned.
Entertainment: The Mentalist S3 E7, E8, E9, E10, E11, E12.
Sunny start to what promises to be a hot day: already at 16°C and expected to get to 27° this afternoon as the first salvo in a warm week. The barometers are, perhaps unexpectedly, down a little at 1011/1019mB
Loads of Monkey Life seems to have disrupted the rest of the schedule, leading to bits of Australian borders and New Zealand roads policing scattered at random times through the rest of the day
And this evening, as there isn't a new one, a couple of old episodes of 24 Hours in A&E
Monday again tomorrow. It may be the day we finally learn the fate of the project, though it also may not be
I still don't know what's going on with the freezer that made like Lazarus, but for the past week it's worked perfectly - a tad colder than expected, if anything
The thermometer I have in there is one of those that records maximum and minimum temperatures, and the only time it dipped below its set temperature of -18°C was when I put some stuff in it after shopping, and then it got back down to the correct range within a few hours. I'm still not putting anything that's risky if it thaws out in there, like meat, but it's coping for now with bread, Yorkshire puds, and the like
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