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[xoggoth]

Took ghastly old ll2 to garden centre to look for a parasol. Waste of time, she didn't see one she liked.

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all
After a bit of general pottering and hydraulic engineering around the garden, lunch was a ginster's cornish pasty.
wiv lashings and lashings of manly HP sauce.
lovely day, - CBS, but the wind is decidedly protestant.
Start project #3 tomorrow, I wonder if I'll ever get round to retiring again?
we'll see...................

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover bits from last night

[ladymuck]

^^ Mum had robins nesting in her bird box earlier this year (they nicked all the moss off my brother's bonsais) but on recent visits I haven't seen any comings or goings so I suspect it's been abandoned. I'll wait a few more months before clearing it out though.



Morning all

Sunny with high level wispy fluff. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Barometer up to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 05:43; Sunset 20:16 BST

Off to see Mum today. My brother has texted with a few instructions of things he forgot to do before he went out for the day. Mainly little stuff such as where he's put the biscuits and to put an extra toilet roll in the bathroom. (Mum will eat all biscuits and we don't know what she does with loo roll)

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy, but they’re unsubstantial and letting a lot of sunlight through. It’s already 10° and aiming for 18° later; the barometers are back up to 1014/1022mB

Having still been using the electric blanket to keep my toes warm a couple of weeks ago, I’m now contemplating switching to the two-thirds duvet, as the bed was a bit too warm last night. There also appears to be a monster of some kind in the bedroom, probably a mosquito or the like, as there are a number of what seem to be small bites on my right arm. At least the loratadine I take at night to guard against hay fever has prevented them becoming itchy

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc.
A very pleasant walk has been had, now watching the robins flying in and out feeding their young in the sparrow box, while the great tit is still sitting on her 7 eggs.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

16.3 deg in here, 17.5 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.6 Torr, 14.765 psi, (up from 1016 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, with BR14, WTFH, and quackhandle getting a post in edgeways.

Awake at 06:00 again. No return to the land of nod today.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine. Definitely more pleasant than yesterday's sweat inducing heatwave. .

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The Archers omnibus something off r4.

[NickFitz]

The usual Monkey Life and other wildlife stuff today was followed this evening (after the dash cam thing with the vaguely annoying narration) by Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, which had some very interesting footage and eyewitness accounts; the TV series clearly drew heavily on this material. The disaster itself happened forty years and one hour ago, give or take a few minutes

And I started reading Len Deighton’s SS-GB which I’d been meaning to read then forgetting about for years until I was reminded yet again by his recent death

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Just in time bed making this evening.

Dinner was pho from Pho.

[xoggoth]

Must get round to bringing my Window 11 PC from the spare room to my office. My old Windows 10 is getting very slow, just rename a file and you get that annoying little spinning thing for about 5 secs.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a ham bap. And tea was brought to me from the curry house over on the Hindu side of town that I first tried a few weeks ago. Very nice; very generous portions too, so it’ll be leftovers for lunch for a couple of days

In washing news, the dishwasher did its magic this afternoon, and the washer-dryer has taken over this evening, doing the mundane laundry

[xoggoth]

Nice NGS garden thing with not loony lady 3 this afternoon.

[ladymuck]

On taking the duvet cover out to swap for the fitted sheet, I noticed that a local flying rat had made a deposit on it. So that's now back in the WM.

[WTFH]

Come in from gardening as it’s a bit hot and The Wife has an old friend from school visiting, so they are sitting outside while Max and I are staying cool in the shade.

[ladymuck]

First load done and out on the airers in the garden. A good blast of UV to help keep my bed sheets clean!

After doing my bit for Parkinson's research (see General), I then put the duvet cover in the WM.