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[NickFitz]

A few bits of leftover lamb shish for lunch

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[xoggoth]

Shed built, just need to do the finishing touches.

Been spending hours repairing my shed which had rotted in one corner. Hadn't noticed water was leaking in as behind shelving.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning happy campers
Sunrise 04:29 Sunset 21:33
CBS this morning, but still a little protestant out.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with occasional gaps. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 23 expected. A light shower may occur mid-morning. Barometer down to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 04:44; Sunset 21:20 BST

Hmm... suspicious that my sunrise/sunset times are the same as yesterday. A quick look at timeanddate.com suggests different times for London. I am assuming that 'London' is Trafalgar Square but, even so, that doesn't account for the difference.

I woke a good hour before my alarm this morning. Dozed off and woke again when my alarm went off. Then Kier Starmer's droning voice making that announcement about banning social media put me into some kind of soporific state where I kept thinking I might be awake but I wasn't really.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

19.3 deg in here, 20.5 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.

1007 mBar, 29.74 in Hg, 755.3 Torr, 14.6 psi, (down from 1010 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 30th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Churchill, LM, LondonManc, me, NF, and xogg popped in.

This morning's waking happened at 04:50 or so, and nod returned without the need for reading. Which was good.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: "Heatwave" a thing about the summer of 1976, including the Trico equal pay strike.

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Missed the 38 by 30 seconds, so a 20 minute wait for the 34 out, with the 4 back at 37 past the hour.

Now, being outside a mug of consistent yet mediocre coffee, it's time to hack more of the front hedge. .

I noticed that her next door was busy this morning doing something about the brambles. Doing that with bare arms is the height of stupidity unless you enjoy bathing in antiseptic. It's amazing how jungle-like that garden has become since the trans twat got upset about that tree that was bringing the garden wall down. It's notable that he/she/it never manages to bend his/her/its back in any way in the garden. Bet that petrol lawn mower has seized up since I didn't bother emptying the petrol tank or spraying oil up the bore.

[WTFH]

A long walk has been had, and while it's CBS, etc now, at around 5:50 there was an almighty downpour.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It was supposed to dip down to about 8°C last night, and maybe it did, for it’s 11° (“feels like” 8°) at the moment, having been 10° less than an hour ago; but the bedroom was still at 20° when I awoke, so I’ll have to start leaving the big window open. For though today’s predicted high is only 19°, it’ll be up to 23° tomorrow and 25° at the end of the week. That won’t save us from “light” rain though, which is expected to start here shortly, it still being quite cloudy. The barometers aren’t as optimistic as they might be, being down to 1006/1013mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Shed built, just need to do the finishing touches.
Haven’t opened the curtains yet, but will be going for a walk shortly

[NickFitz]

The wildlife was watery again today, though with less Great Barrier Reef

In Future Noir, they’ve managed to make it through production and post-production, but there’s been a lot of argufying as a result of negative feedback from “sneak previews” and disagreements over the whole business of narration. But they’re finally ready to release the film

Monday again tomorrow. At least I left the thorny problem I’d been wrestling with all week in an “understood” state when I finished on Thursday, though now I suppose I’ll have to fix it as well

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's been a lovely sunny day, with a mix of wispy and lumpy fluff, and a bit of a breeze. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 22) and the high was 21. Barometer down to 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 04:44; Sunset 21:20 BST

The drives to / from Sussex were uneventful. Mum was in good spirits and I got her to come with me for a walk around the pond in the park up the road. At the top end is a cafe where we bought ice-creams before finding a bench to sit on where we could watch the ducks, coots, and moorhens while we ate.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb chops with chips and beans

It’s turned nice and sunny out now

The young magpies were just chasing each other around the rose bushes, but I think there may only have been two of them there. They seem to be a quite independent brood this year, with the parents taking more of a wings-off approach

And I’ve had the bed airing all afternoon so I need to go and make that while I remember

[xoggoth]

Volunteery thing at local nature reserve this morning. Probably good thing I went, else I'd have got up very late after grotty night's sleep. Don't think lying in bed helps.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It seems that “cloudy but mild” will be the default setting for the week, with temperatures expected to be in the low-to-mid-20s. But today is, literally, just the warm-up: currently 15°C with an expected high of 19°, and the wind has dropped a bit so what it “feels like” has been left out of the headline figures, though scrolling down reveals it’s 12°. And the cloud seems quite thin in places so while the initial impression is that it’s rather grey, there are occasional almost-sunny spells. The barometers are much the same at 1009/1016mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

18.5 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 16.3 in the saltinghouse.

1015.5 mBar, 29.9876 in Hg, 761.7 Torr, 14.73 psi, (down from 1017 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 30th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, with LM and Anonimouse each getting a post in edgeways.

Poor night's sleep: awake at 04:00ish, read for a couple of hours & returned to the land of nod eventually.

Awoke to find next door had another batch of washing to hang on the line so I went out & replaced it for them before I had my breakfast tea.

Turns out I had 6 spare washing lines in the salting house: down to 5 now, so I'll have to buy another one soon. .

Knackered now. Used my cunning heatshrink trick on one end, and the Lidl (tm) ladder at the other. All hunkydory now.

In other other news looks like next door but 2 have moved.

I thought I didn't recognise the people wandering up & down the garden.

Would have been nice if the previous occupants had said goodbye. 2nd time that's happened in a couple of years, though Mike, next door but 1 the other direction, did say goodbye later.

Also explains the mass destruction and building work that's going on there at the moment.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Daily Beast: "Inside Trump's head": Happy 80th Birthday you evil Orange Mother****er. Let's hope for No Happy Returns. .

Some septic programme about searching for classic cars: found it whilst scrolling mindlessly through the EPG: first one featured some late 1950s FIAT sports cars: you can tell it's septicland because they hadn't completely dissolved. . 2nd one was about some septic truck thing that they were refurbing to celebrate some chap who'd turned a small business welding stuff into an $80M company, also a Harley Davidson sidecar bike from 1930. The 3 FIATs sold for $70k in total. 3rd one featured a 1915 Harley found in someone's basement. They have large basements in septicland. It had "patina" apparently (i.e. it looked like a pile of scrap).

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine. After 3.5 miles I had to remove my jacket. .

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: The Directors: John Ford.

History's greatest mysteries: TWA800. deja vu is strong in this one. Mostly because I watched it last Monday since NCIS has finished.

Sergeant Cork S5 E3: "The case of the simple savage (1966). Very tedious.

The Fonz waffling on about Hazardous History: Precarious Products. Asbestos "snow". Fiesta ware. Poisonous wallpaper (copper arsenate green). Poisonous fridges: early refrigerants such as SO2 etc. Electrically powered wringers/mangles. Talc. Lysol.

Some UFO bollox on DMAX. <click> Nothing to see here.