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[ladymuck]

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Been playing flight tracking to work out what plane I will be on later. Narrowed it down to one of two.

If you're flying in/out of Heathrow, I can help

[WTFH]

Morning all
Up at 5:35 for a walk.
10,000 steps done and it's now 26C out.
Been playing flight tracking to work out what plane I will be on later. Narrowed it down to one of two.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with wispy cloud. Currently 26 degrees ('feels like' 28) with a high of 35 expected. Barometer down to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 04:46; Sunset 21:23 BST

An uncomfortable night's sleep. We're off out this evening, which I am not exactly looking forward to travelling to.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

While I slept last night, the temperature of the bedroom didn’t change by so much as a tenth of a degree: 26.8°C when I turned out the light, exactly the same when I awoke

It’s not been a cool night though, and it’s not a cool start: already 24° and striving for 32°, though it looks like the afternoon hourly figures only go up to 31° so maybe the high will be a blip. Still horrid though. The barometers are still ambivalent, being down to 1007/1014mB

There isn’t much breeze but I’ve got the windows open anyway in an attempt to get some relatively cooler air through the place, and the air conditioner in the living room has been on since I got up

Ironically, this morning’s first chore has been to repressurise the boiler. The hot water had started making ominous faint knocking noises even for something as simple as running the tap on the basin in the bathroom for a few seconds and seemed quite unhappy during showers, and the pressure gauge showed it was down to about 0.5 to 0.6 when I checked last night. But one of the two valves that needed to be turned was very stiff, so I left it then. This morning, a pair of pliers gave me the leverage I needed to get the valve turning, so I was able to repressurise it to 1.2 - it didn’t want to go any higher, but the manual says “between 1.0 and 1.5” so that’s fine. And when I showered: no knocking!

N.B. This isn’t a sudden thing, so I don’t believe there’s a leak anywhere; I’ve been looking at it occasionally for well over a year thinking I should do something about it as it gradually got lower, but it’s only in the last couple of weeks that it became increasingly clear the time was now. Apparently it’s done well to have lasted this long without being topped up. I really must get it serviced though

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday apparently.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

24.2 deg in here, 26.5 in the kitchen, 24 in the leanto, 26.5 in the front bedroom.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.649 psi, (up from 1009 last night), 75% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 wattaj posted, LM posted a lot (OM), and AndyGarbs posted. No one else bothered. .

I was going to type something but it took so long to get here that I've forgotten what it was.

Further to "Canticle", it may be of innerest to know there's a followup book "Saint Liebowitz and the Wild Horse Woman". I bought it decades ago but have yet to read it. It was finished by another writer after the premature demise of Walter M. Miller.

[NickFitz]

In A Canticle for Leibowitz, another six hundred years have passed, technology has been redeveloped to the extent of space colonies existing… and, of course, they’ve reinvented nuclear weapons and may be about to use them. So now the monks of the Abbey are considering heading to space, though at least the sacred relics can now be taken on microfilm

Far too hot here now. The bedroom is still nearly 27°C and there’s hardly any breeze to help the 24° air from outside to get in

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

HWMBO arrived. I was just clocking off as he turned up. Waitrose delivered a selection of groceries and he prepared a very nice gazpacho.

He's been watching the football so that means I'm now on my second match this evening. The commentators for the earlier one that was aired on ITV were terrible. The current match is on BBC and they seem slightly less awful.

[NickFitz]

For tea, I rummaged in the freezer and came up with something I didn’t remember. It turned out to be tomatoey sausage casserole from the other week, and it was pretty nice with some chips

To go along with this, a thing on HBO Max about Swedish Border Control. It’s basically the same as all these border programmes, except they don’t get much in the way of Chinese people bringing in frog fat, and probably wouldn’t mind if one did. I don’t think Sweden has the same biosecurity issues as Down Under

[xoggoth]

Reasonable attendance at arty thing this morning. Too hot for messing around in garden or walking, I'll go for me walky in the evening again.

Just looking at Sussex news, there's a man being sought for an 'indecent act' in Brighton. Oh dear, looks rather like me. It wasn't, honest!

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon
CBS and rather warm (27C) here today.
only 49% wet though, so far, so good.
Lunch was Pasta, Pine nut, Parmesan and Pesto* with EV oil.
made up a big batch in anticipation of 'the heatwave'
rather pleasant in this weather.
stay cool maaaaan.


I wonder if that'll Prevent Piss Poor Performance???

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a ham bap

I did think of making ham toasties, but I haven’t got any white bread. So I’ll bake a loaf of that this evening, and I can make them with the rest of the ham tomorrow

Rather Simpsonesque here now, and just about to hit 30°C

[xoggoth]

Off to arty thing soon. Looks like few coming, would have cancelled if no showers had given me more advance warning.

There's a bloke opposite who spends much of his life just sitting in his front garden, really annoying as he sometimes seems to be staring up at my bedroom window. Maybe he's a gay gerontophile.

[ladymuck]

Damp from early morning torrential rain. Sunny with wisps. Currently 24 degrees ('feels like' 26) with a high of 34 expected. Barometer down to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 04:44; Sunset 21:23 BST

Sometime in the 3 o'clock hour the distant sound of thunder woke me up. By about 3.30 am, the storm was making its presence very well known. Pretty much directly overhead for a good 30-40 mins, lots of thunder and lightening plus a lot of rain. I had to get up and close windows to stop my flat getting wet.

Something about thunderstorms at night always reminds me of a scene in a Famous Five book I read as a kid. If memory serves me correctly, in this story, the kids were sleeping in (I want to say but could be wrong) an abandoned house or shed somewhere and there was a thunderstorm. A crack of lightening illuminated a figure standing at a window staring in at them. A second crack a few seconds later, and they were gone. In the morning there were footprints outside the window. Always spooked me.

Anyway, at coalfaces 2 and 3, I have lots of meetings today.

HWMBO is on his way down to stay for a few weeks. Parts of the tube network have given up already and the Elizabeth Line has flooding issues. I'm sure he'll get here eventually.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Meanwhile on the lawn a few minutes ago, there were NINE magpies ditzing around in and near the flowerbed!

Most I ever counted was 14 at the staff car park at Ye Olde Sloughe of Desponde on Ye Hill. They were flying about in a flock so the count may be inaccurate, just like my memory.. IIRC that carpark security chap popped his clogs 6 months after he retired.

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Sunny. .

Blue sky.

22.8 deg in here, 24.6 in the kitchen, 23 in the leanto, 23.4 in the saltinghouse (it was 30 last night).

1011 mBar, 29.85 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (down from 1013 last night), 76% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, LM, NF, WTFH, and wattaj popped in, with much discussion of editing PDFs and extracting data from password protected versions of same. NF thought it rather chilly at 9 deg. .

More raspberries and a few gooseberries picked. Lots (as in a few) dark brown butterflies darting about in the garden.

One patch of lawn seems to be taken over with some weed or other, may have to do something about that.

Little yellow privet hedge duly cut. Didn't bother using the hedge trimmer, just tested a few of the many shears in the shed.

One of the repaired (welded) Lidl (tm) shears ain't much good, the other seems to work ok, as does the small ancient shears inherited from my grandfather. It's funny how much better his old tools are compared with the modern crap.

It's very hot out there in the sun so now I'm relaxing with Yet Another Mug of Mediocre yet Consistent coffee.

Book.

Tea: soup etc. Nice Hot Soup. Entertainment: PM. Nonsense about UFOs on Blaze.

Alice Roberts Digging for Britain on BBC2.

Forgot about the Outback Wreckers, so that's pencilled in for 21:00 on Blaze. Goodness me, the cars on that island were really rusty. One of the chaps on the island was actually named Bruce. Just to keep things clear. . And they made AuD300 on a scrap Ford F100 thing which had a 351 V8 in it, plus the inevitable Holley POS. Another lot bought an ex police car: V8 again, but fuel injected so less likely to spit fire back through the carb. Since it hasn't got one.

Just been blocked by reddit for "security reasons". .

[WTFH]

Morning all
Phew, what a scorcher. Currently 23C, expected to climb to 31C again.
Dog walk at 05:30 was pleasant for the first bit with a gentle breeze helping to negate the feel of the humidity.
Off to cooler climes tomorrow evening, which will be nice.