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snow here since yesterday AM, so going nowhere today.
dentist tuesday, maybe snow'll be gone by then.
the world goes back to normal (AFU) tomorrow, thank feck.
The darts final beckons. I skipped the majority of the waffle and preamble by watching something else for the first half hour of the coverage. It should be actually getting underway in the next few minutes.
you skipped the tedious bit to get to the REALLY EXCRUCIATINGLY boring bit???
Morning all
Scrambled maps completed (nothing special happened at the end)
£75 interest in the January draw. Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
About to venture out for a walk now, and later will be back up a ladder pruning apple trees. Spent 5 hours yesterday on the biggest cooker, still maybe another 2 hours to finish it, but I’d really like to start on the old cider tree as I didn’t prune it last year.
It’s a clear blue sky out there again, which means all the heat is getting out: it’s -3°C now, and that’s after warming up a little; the high will be 1° for two or three hours this afternoon. It’ll get down to -5° tonight, and there’s a 25% chance of a short period of precipitation this evening, which will presumably arrive in the form of sleet or snow. The barometers are up a bit at 1001/1009mB
Meanwhile on the 9th of March 2020 WTFH was having problems cancelling stuff, it was drizzling on me, it had gone grey with LM, SimonMac was having problems with online banking, and NF posted the Monday links as is only right & proper.
Next door's kid(s) were excited to see the snow & went outside to make snowballs earlier.
We got a modicum of wildlife stuff today, which I supplemented this evening with E2 of Planet Earth III
And this evening, I got back to reading The Confessions of Samuel Pepys. He isn’t getting any better. Getting worse, though: he’s definitely managing that
The darts final beckons. I skipped the majority of the waffle and preamble by watching something else for the first half hour of the coverage. It should be actually getting underway in the next few minutes.
I thought I’d try something new for tea. Caribbean, maybe? Thai? Vietnamese? But I spent so long dithering and unable to decide that in the end, I just got something from the south Indian restaurant past the park. Very tasty, as always
I have unpacked and started the returns process of some espresso cups I bought for HWMBO that weren't quite right (advertised as 90ml capacity but clearly only 80ml capacity per the manufacturer's product label). I found another source of what should be the right size cup but that would mean a visit to Belgrade to collect them, as I'm sure that would be cheaper than being stung for import duties.
Chilly out there.
Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' 0, and it does) and that's the high for the day. Barometer at 1010 mBar.
Now I'm back down south, I get about 48 minutes more daylight each day:
Sunrise 08:07; Sunset 16:05 GMT
It’s a sunny day but still cold: 2°C which “feels like” -4°, and that’s as good as it’s getting. The barometers are up a bit at 998/1007
The road still appears to be extremely icy. I would have expected enough grit to have been carried down from the main roads to have cleared it by now, but maybe the council were caught out and didn’t do any gritting, or maybe it’s just that there’s less traffic because of the season of the year
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