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[NickFitz]

In A Canticle for Leibowitz, another six hundred years have passed, technology has been redeveloped to the extent of space colonies existing… and, of course, they’ve reinvented nuclear weapons and may be about to use them. So now the monks of the Abbey are considering heading to space, though at least the sacred relics can now be taken on microfilm

Far too hot here now. The bedroom is still nearly 27°C and there’s hardly any breeze to help the 24° air from outside to get in

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

HWMBO arrived. I was just clocking off as he turned up. Waitrose delivered a selection of groceries and he prepared a very nice gazpacho.

He's been watching the football so that means I'm now on my second match this evening. The commentators for the earlier one that was aired on ITV were terrible. The current match is on BBC and they seem slightly less awful.

[NickFitz]

For tea, I rummaged in the freezer and came up with something I didn’t remember. It turned out to be tomatoey sausage casserole from the other week, and it was pretty nice with some chips

To go along with this, a thing on HBO Max about Swedish Border Control. It’s basically the same as all these border programmes, except they don’t get much in the way of Chinese people bringing in frog fat, and probably wouldn’t mind if one did. I don’t think Sweden has the same biosecurity issues as Down Under

[xoggoth]

Reasonable attendance at arty thing this morning. Too hot for messing around in garden or walking, I'll go for me walky in the evening again.

Just looking at Sussex news, there's a man being sought for an 'indecent act' in Brighton. Oh dear, looks rather like me. It wasn't, honest!

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon
CBS and rather warm (27C) here today.
only 49% wet though, so far, so good.
Lunch was Pasta, Pine nut, Parmesan and Pesto* with EV oil.
made up a big batch in anticipation of 'the heatwave'
rather pleasant in this weather.
stay cool maaaaan.


I wonder if that'll Prevent Piss Poor Performance???

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a ham bap

I did think of making ham toasties, but I haven’t got any white bread. So I’ll bake a loaf of that this evening, and I can make them with the rest of the ham tomorrow

Rather Simpsonesque here now, and just about to hit 30°C

[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.

Book.

Tea: soup etc. Nice Hot Soup. Entertainment: PM. Nonsense about UFOs on Blaze.

Forgot about the Outback Wreckers, so that's pencilled in for 21:00 on Blaze.

Just been blocked by reddit for "security reasons". .

[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