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[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.

[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.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Guess what? Warm again!

There’s still some of the cloud that formed yesterday evening, but it’s far from murky. It’s already risen from 17°C to 19° in the last thirty minutes or so, and today our target is 32° for four hours in the afternoon, with it not dipping below 20° tonight. Over the next few days, things aren’t going to be quite as bad: tomorrow’s high will be 31°, then two more days of 32°, so at least we don’t get the once-threatened 34°. The barometers are surprisingly ambivalent about the whole affair, being down to 1010/1017mB

[NickFitz]

There’s rumoured to have been light rain here, but I’m not convinced

In A Canticle for Leibowitz, six centuries have passed and though most of humankind is still happy to wallow in ignorance and tribalism, a few scholars have started to discover the treasured scientific manuscripts preserved by the monks of the Abbey of St. Leibowitz

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

I got rained on while walking back from the station after going to see White Rabbit, Red Rabbit.

At least that means I won't have to water the plants tomorrow.

[WTFH]

9 wheelbarrows loads of stones moved from the drive down to the grid at the new sheds, followed by watching the last few episodes of season 2 of Schitt$ Creek.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been more Popeyes leftovers, mainly to get them out of the way and because it involved minimal effort

It’s clouded over quite a bit now, though the lightning seems to be staying further south. Might get some here in a bit if we’re lucky, though

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

Most of them seemed like juveniles, so I’m wondering if our young ones have gone and formed a gang with the rest of the local posse

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover Popeyes hot wings

Getting warmer here but there’s a nice cooling breeze coming through the kitchen window

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Laundry is almost dry.

It's a nice temperature, with the little bit of breeze stopping it from being oppressive.

[DoctorStrangelove]

OM. .

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Blue sky.

High clouds.

Sunny.

21.7 deg in here, 23 in the kitchen, 22 in the leanto, 22 in the salting house (bit cooler than the 29 it reached yesterday).

1017 mBar, 30.03 in Hg, 762.8 Torr, 14.75 psi, (down from 1018 last night), 73% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, BR14, eek, LM, WTFH, and I popped in. WTFH's mrs had returned from The Important Meeting.

Sleep last night was somewhat intermittent: 04:00 was observed but returned to the land of nod eventually.

Washing frenzy II in progress.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done Very Slowly due to the Bad Calf in the right leg. FFS. Now washed dried sanitised & put away.

A400M just flew over here, whilst a B52 was reported over Frome. .

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: something on R4.

Everything in off the line. That requiring the iRon has received its attentions & are airing here & there.

Those high clouds of earlier have turned into grey gloom: and now it's raining. Hot rain. which makes a change I suppose. .

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click> TPTV "Look at Life: Letting off steam (1959)": the replacement of steam engines by diesel electric (diesel hydraulic in Western Region just to be different) and electric locomotives. Even managed to show a Deltic loco. And, apparently, the new breeder reactor at Dounreay would be supplying power for the electric ones. . Ah, them were the days, when the FBR was a coming thing.

It's getting very dark again, though the lightning site doesn't show anything imminent here.

Bit of Bab5 S1 E10. Not one of my favourites. Strewth, a lot of those actors have popped their clogs.

BBC4: "Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons": bloody immigrants.

Blaze: History's mysteries: 'Itler's lost gold. followed by one about JFK and the magic bullet. .

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with wisps and contrails. Gentle breeze wafting about. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 29 expected. Barometer up to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 04:44; Sunset 21:23 BST

Assorted clothings in the WM.

The delicate sound of angle grinders fills the air (the council doing its pavement works), joining the sound of aircraft leaving Heathrow.

EDIT: Thank you DrS for pointing out I'd picked up an OM. How times have changed

[WTFH]

Morning all
Phew, what a scorcher.
CBS, etc.
Currently 23C out, I should have gone out for our walk at 04:15, but didn't go until 05:30. Now cooling off at my desk with the blackout blinds drawn to stay cool.
One of the great things about WfH in this weather is "business from the waist up". It's definitely a day for shorts.