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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start with some wisps of cloud here and there. No rain expected! Currently 12°C with an expected high of 21°; the barometers are up at 1007/1015mB

I pressed the summer duvet into service last night, being the first time with anything more than a duvet cover for at least a couple of months. Soon be time for the autumnal one!

Speaking of which: happy autumn to the meteorologists (though not yet to sun worshippers and pagans)!

[NickFitz]

Still not quite at the end of To Each This World because it’s building to a really exciting and intriguing ending, and I don’t want to rush through it half-thinking about needing to get up for work tomorrow

Speaking of which: Tuesday tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Pork steaks with chips and beans for tea

Accompanied by another episode of Netflix’s homicide series, about an American car racing bloke and his wife who were murdered outside their house in a fancy gated community in LA in the late 1980s

[NickFitz]

Mattress topper and pillow protectors in the wash

It went a bit gloomy and there was, apparently, some drizzle. But now it’s brightened up again

[xoggoth]

Rain must have been really rainy last night, little stream at bottom of my garden was full of water. Been tearing me hair out trying to find why my business accounts don't add up. Damn waste of time, if my sister wasn't so keen I'd close it down to save myself the hastle.

[NickFitz]

Chicken and barley soup with a crust of wholemeal for lunch

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with lumps of fluff out one window. Grey cloud out another. Light breeze. Damp from overnight precipitation. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 22 expected. Barometer up a bit to 1011 mBar.

Sunrise 06:12; Sunset 19:50 BST

No plans for the day.As is right and proper for a bank holiday.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I was awoken by the sound of very heavy rain a couple of times in the night. But it’s sunny and Simpsonesque at the moment; windy though, and going to be quite changeable. It’s 15°C and expected to reach 20°, albeit briefly, with the barometers steady at 996/1004mB

I see I neglected to sign out last night, which I blame on tiredness. So for the record, other viewing during the day had been wildlife stuff, including a film in which David Attenborough told the life story of Jumbo, the elephant who now lends his name to so many things that are bigger than other things. And I had expected to finish To Each This World but I’d been led astray: it’s printed on quite thin, though good quality, paper, and the pages are relatively large. So the upshot is that after last night’s reading, I still have around a hundred pages to go which is probably equivalent to, say, a hundred-and-twenty pages in a regular-size paperback

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

Misty.

21.3 deg in here, 21.8 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1003.5 mBar, 29.6 in Hg, 752.7 Torr, 14.55 psi, (up from 998 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 12:29 and 13:28, AndyGarbs, eek, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, and vetran popped in, with MrMarkyMark down to his last 4 pack of bogroll. .

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: what did the Black Death ever do for us? Why the villages on the chalk disappeared whilst the villages on the lower lands didn't. Visited Knowlton Henge & church. The pond he visits with Ghost in the opening sequence is at Ashmore in Dorset. Ain't the interweb good. . It's a dewpond, which led to yet more twisty passages. No dwarf person of restricted height yet.

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

Washing frenzy started, which should induce the return of the deluge in about 20 minutes or so.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about ADHD and autism.

Dashcam bollox. S3 E1. Missed bits of that due to pegging out stuff on the line.

Shirts in off the line & duly met the iRon, now airing upstairs along with the tea towels.

A mug of coffee was required after all the day's exertions.

The last of the washing met the iRon & is airing upstairs.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country. You can never have too much about The Black Death. . Dozed a bit through that, I seem to be .

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. I rather enjoy this version of it. Entertainment: PM. UFO Bollox on Blaze.

Speaking of which, S12 of the Oak Island nutjobbery returns on the 7th.

Bab5 S3 E16 "War without end": Sinclair returns (briefly).

Maigret's Mistake (Cremer).

Secrets in the Dark, though my tolerance for this particular brand of Blazian bollox seems to be wearing very thin. Chinese grave with bone flute & strange marks on leg bones. Trieste, Italy: copper dagger found in grave. Altamura, Italy: early neanderthal skull covered with calcite: 130k - 170k years old. Looked really freaky. Probably fell down a sink hole & starved. Australia, Clogs cave, Victorian alps: 10k & 12k sticks suggesting that Aborigine practices were strongly conserved since they were doing much the same sort of thing in the 19th C. Curse stick.

Thankfully the last one: the oak island nutjobs are back next week but Maigret is on at the same time so they are tulip out of luck.

Terminator: dark fate. Curiously there was a thing on Airrang TV (Korean news) about quantum computing: apparently the future is not written it's up to generation Z. . That's it, we're ****ed.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Indian leftovers

On the box, the next episode of Emergency 24/7 on iPlayer

[ladymuck]

Uneventful drives to/from Sussex today.

Mum has taken to smashing mugs on the patio then complaining that mugs are going missing.

My brother goes on holiday on Saturday so I'll be staying with her to keep an eye on such shenanigans.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover belly pork bits from the other day in a bap (wholemeal, homemade) with apple sauce

The magpies were down on the lawn together! I think they’ve had to be going further afield because of the parched lawn having less of whatever it is they peck at down there, which is why they haven’t been around so much

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I awoke bright and relatively early this morning, but managed to get back to sleep for another couple of hours

It’s sunny and Simpsonesque out at the moment, and the wind has dropped a bit. Currently 18°C, it’s expected to reach 21° by early afternoon. But then the rain is likely to return, and we even have a yellow warning for thunderstorms! The barometers are back up a bit at 996/1004mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with high level wispy fluff. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 23 expected. Rain may happen around lunchtime / early afternoon. Barometer up to 1010 mBar.

Sunrise 06:11; Sunset 19:52 BST

There ended up being quite a bit of rain yesterday and I never did check if the farmers market had returned. All holiday laundry was done though.

Off to visit Mum today.