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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Looks damp out. It's allegedly drizzling but I can't see any. More intermittent rain expected until early afternoon when the sun is due to make an appearance. Currently 15 degrees, with a high of 18 expected. Barometer down to 1015 mBar.

Sunrise 05:25; Sunset 21:20 BST

I don't like the look of the forecast down south.

Today I have a meeting with gig1. A waste of time but smile and invoice is the name of the game.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky with high cloud.

21.1 deg in here, 22.5 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto, 19 out the back.

1005.5 mBar, 29.69 in Hg, 754.2 Torr, 14.58 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 54% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 09:45 and 09:48, covbob, LM, and WTFH popped in.

This morning's dream before waking seemed to involve some odd sort of tank in WWII and an unsuccessful attempt to cross the lines & surrender: everyone died (or would have if I hadn't woken up, dunno where the woman came from but there you go). I love a happy ending. .

[xoggoth]

Got to take me little van to the village garage for service shortly. Old fart meet up at local manor this afternoon, says it's in a shady place thank gawd.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start with wisps and strands of mares’ tails hither and yon, possibly presaging a turn in the weather. Today will be a hot one though: currently 18°C, it predicted to hit 29° though it’ll cool down later in the week, even dipping below 20° on Thursday. The barometers are down to 1002/1009mB

Monday again, and back to work. I’m hoping there won’t be much to do, though it’s the start of the month and that’s when the finance people tend to trigger obscure bugs that have been in there since 2020 and just never happened to show up before

[WTFH]

Morning all

A busy weekend, back to work to have a calmer week (I hope).

CBS, but a cooler 13C when we went out earlier. Temperature climbing as we speak.

[NickFitz]

Lunch, naturally, was sausages and burgers and other BBQ-related stuff

And I had enough of it that I didn’t bother having any tea in the end. I’m feeling a bit peckish now TBH, but it’s a bit late

In terms of TV viewing, I missed the wildlife stuff but watched 24 Hours in A&E this evening

And in Parable of the Talents, people are trying to piece things back together after all the bad things happened; though that’s not to say bad things have stopped happening

Monday, and back to work tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Home again!

The BBQ kicked off a bit later than originally planned as our brother was held up due to a crash causing traffic jams in Chesterfield. Also, my younger niece had a migraine and didn’t make it so it was just us old-timers: my siblings and their spouses, and my sister’s mother-in-law, with me as the youngest of the party

Turns out there’s still stuff coming from the estate of our parents! I ended up with a box of USB hard drives, some empty, some containing films and TV shows our Dad had ripped over the years. I also got his old Acer laptop, though he didn’t use it much later in life, preferring to sit at a desktop to do computer things, then return to his armchair to do non-computer things. And I ended up with a couple of first day covers: one for the opening of the Tay Road Bridge in 1966, which I think was sent by D. C. Thompson of Dundee for whom he was writing stories for comics at the time, and one for the Silver Jubilee in 1977 that was addressed to him but sent to his office at the Town Hall by some Press organisation.

But to my delight, in amongst all this lot was my book of Wild Creatures of our Countryside by Gwen Mandley, which was my favourite such book out of several I had in that line, and still holds up as a decent quick reference guide with nice line drawings by the author

I'd been wondering where this was for years; my sister found it in a box of our Mum’s old teaching stuff, so she must have borrowed it to use when preparing lessons or something

[ladymuck]

Simple by HWMBO's standards could still be massively more complex than anyone elses..

Also wish him a happy birthday from someone rather older today..

Thanks! And happy birthday to you too.

Duck in tamarind sauce with pandan and coconut rice.

[NotAllThere]

Morning all, greetings from Glasgow

Cloudy but bright and dry, with outbreaks of sunshine. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 20 expected. Barometer at 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 05:24; Sunset 21:22 BST

The journey up was uneventful.

Today is HWMBO's youngest's 19th birthday. HWMBO will be cooking a dinner which he says will be a simple meal. I don't believe him.

Suffering from the heat down here. 20°C sounds heavenly.

Temperature 33.7 °C
Humidity 29%
Pressure 975 hPa

Heatwave might break in a few days. I do hope so. This isn't fun.

[eek]

Morning all, greetings from Glasgow

Cloudy but bright and dry, with outbreaks of sunshine. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 20 expected. Barometer at 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 05:24; Sunset 21:22 BST

The journey up was uneventful.

Today is HWMBO's youngest's 19th birthday. HWMBO will be cooking a dinner which he says will be a simple meal. I don't believe him.

Simple by HWMBO's standards could still be massively more complex than anyone elses..

Also wish him a happy birthday from someone rather older today..

[xoggoth]

Waylaid by lady neighbour up the road while on drive cleaning me van before tomorrow's service. Nice lady, but Gordon Bennet, can she yack!

[ladymuck]

Morning all, greetings from Glasgow

Cloudy but bright and dry, with outbreaks of sunshine. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 20 expected. Barometer at 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 05:24; Sunset 21:22 BST

The journey up was uneventful.

Today is HWMBO's youngest's 19th birthday. HWMBO will be cooking a dinner which he says will be a simple meal. I don't believe him.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s sunny with cumuli again. It’ll be quite warm here: already 18°C and expected to hit 25°. But it’ll be slightly warmer at the barbecue, where it’s expected to reach 26° - though a couple of days ago, it was predicted to reach 30° down there, so that’s an improvement. The barometers are irrelevantly down at 1007/1015mB

I had a bit of a restless night, with what seemed to be long-running dreams involving long corridors, offices, and that most terrible of monsters: work! I suspect this was triggered by the thought of returning to the regular grind tomorrow, though at least the reality will be considerably more mundane and involve no corridor longer than my hall

[xoggoth]

Cockup yesterday, doing a rare clean in my office and sucked a USB stick into the vacuum cleaner. What fun sorting through loads of fluffy mess in the bag.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday judging by the quiet.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky with high clouds.

20 deg in here, 21.6 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto, 15 out the back.

1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 09:35 and 09:45, covbob and LM popped in.

This morning's dream before waking appeared to involve the now very late Tom Pugh, Physics master, for some odd reason located in what used to be M&S Neath, though without the shopping paraphenalia, where someone who might have been NF was reverse engineering a chip that the manufacturers had just decided to make some more of. For unknown reasons we were stuck in there for a while. I was glad to wake up.

Walk (abbreviated: 3 miles) walked in the increasingly warm sunshine. Wildlife spotted: a bee fly busily visiting my phlox flowers, a large hawk sitting quietly on a tombstone in the cemetery.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the noise the fridge is making.

Dashcam thing on Sky Mix, with subtitles so I don't have to listen to the inane commentary.

Book.

Tea: baked beans and baked spud. Nice enough. Entertainment: 17 o'clock news. A thing about Gina Lollobrigida. The church thing <click>. Thing about Cream on Sky Arts. <click>.

Blaze bollox: Thing about stuff found in jungles. Skeletons covered in calcite crystals in a cave in Belize: Mayan sacrificial offerings. Ancient ?African? Copper coin found on an island off the north of Australia dating prior to Cap'n Cooke et al. Cambodia: hidden city in the jungle. Amazonia: curious henges and squares found after the jungle was cleared: turns out that 2000 years ago it wasn't jungle but savanna. Who'd have thunk?

TPTV Look at Life: Fair Isle (1960). Apparently there were far more men than women on Fair Isle in the 1960s. And out of the 10 or 15 pupils in the skool only two were girls. Chaps had to leave for the main land to find a wife. Though there were 5 times as many sheep as people so in some ways one might have been spoiled for choice. .

Blaze: Danny Trejo Buried mysteries bollox. Discovery that Yellowstone is a supervolcano. Discovery that Chicxulub is where the dinosaur killing bolide hit: no mention of Alvarez et al. Finding of the nutjobs who set off for the north pole in a balloon and ended up on White Island. Discovery of Otsi the chap found up an alp 5000 years after he died. Finding a septic civil war land mine which was detonated for safety reasons. Does gunpowder still work 150 years later? Askin' for a friend. . The Holy Handgrenade of Antioch found on an Israeli beach & only identified as such 40 years later in 2015 or so after the finder's death. Discovery of the jaw bones of an even more ancient version of T. Rex. Why the curse of King Tut also applied to the renovation of a Polish king's tomb: hint: fungus spores can kill you if you inhale them.