Morning.
Thursday judging by the racket on the road earlier.
Dry.
Sunny.
Blue sky.
Where did the rain go?
21.1 deg in here, 22.75 in the kitchen, 20 in the leanto, 16 out the back, 16.4 in the saltinghouse.
1016.5 mBar, 30.1 in Hg, 762.4 Torr, 14.74 psi, (up from 1012 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 10:44 and 10:57, covbob, eek, LM, MrMarkyMark, and NF popped in.
Washing frenzy in progress.
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Morning denizens
Sunny start today, with the merest wisps of fluff here and there. It’s still quite breezy though, so 14°C right now “feels like” 11°; the expected high is 21°, and the barometers have leapt back up to 1009/1017mB
Thursday!
I was thinking of doing the shopping at lunchtime, as work isn’t exactly busy at the moment. But I want to go to M&S again and it takes too long to get across town and visit both there and Sainsbury’s, so I’ll probably leave it until tomorrow
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This evening’s viewing was more of the Lockerbie thing, in which tiny pieces of circuit board are a bit of a giveaway, while the CIA is trying its best to be as unhelpful as possible
And later, I read more of Just a Shot Away in which the Altamont concert has started degenerating into mayhem almost immediately
Thursday tomorrow!
Goodnight all
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Tea has been burger and chips
Very Simpsonesque out there now
This morning, the dishwasher did its magic, and this afternoon it was the turn of the mundane laundry
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Afternoon all
There's been and now it's just cloudy with occasional sunshine. Currently 15 degrees and the high was 16. There might be more rain later. Barometer up to 1007 mBar.
Sunrise 05:29; Sunset 21:16 BST
A quiet day. I did some washing up while HWMBO and his eldest went grocery shopping. Logged on to gig1 for a couple of hours to justify billing. Had a look about for more work (none suitable found). I'm quite enjoying the time off but I know I'll start getting very bored next week.
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Scrabble with old lady neighbour called off as she has to see a dentist so nowt social to do today. Been fixing me bin storage thing this morning. Walk planned later takes me past a sewage works, what fun.
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Morning.
Is it still Wednesday?
Dry.
Grey.
Wanly sunny.
Windy.
22.7 deg in here, 24 in the kitchen*, 21.5 in the leanto, 19 out the back.
*I didn't have my glasses on to read the thermometer. YMMV.
1007 mBar, 29.74 in Hg, 755.3 Torr, 14.6 psi, (up from 1003 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile ont he 2nd of April 2020, between 10:00 and 10:39, Barrydidit, Brillo, covbob, MrMarkyMark, and vetran popped in.
Walk (abbreviated: 3 miles) walked in the bracing wind and wan sunshine. Warm it ain't.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Wonderlands E3/4. Kipling, Grahame, Enid Blyton.
Mysteries of the Missing: AF447: or how to stall from 35,000 feet into the Atlantic with the engines at full chat & killing everyone on board. Tunguska: inneresting illustration of possible cause using a light gas gun at NASA.
Jack Hargreaves Old country: increase in demand for thatching straw brings back old threshing machine. Fox hounds. Mention of the ?Banwen? miners' hunt.
Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Entertainment: UFO bollox on Blaze.
5 select: Ships: the Mary Rose.
Jack Hargreaves Out of Town: sheep and rams: sheep porn. 100 year old man goes fishing.
Bab5 S2 E20 "The long twilight struggle": Things go badly for Narn. The Centauri show their true colours.
TPTV: An Englishman Abroad by Allan Bennett: Coral Browne meets Guy Burgess in Moscow. Excellent.
Britain's X Files: more Blazian bollox. Meh: beast of bodmin, Bermuda triangle, "crying boy" pictures, 1972 phantom helicopters.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 22:09.
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Where did we go? Most odd.Originally posted by NickFitz View PostAh, we're back
Temperature 25.4 °C (expected 31°C later)
Wind speed 4 km/h from SSE
Wind gusts 6 km/h
Humidity 63%
Pressure 981 hPa
The Rhine is currently warmer than our local lido. 25.3°C.
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Morning all
I almost did some work there while the system was down.
Murky earlier, then the sun came out, but it's overcast again. No rain forecast.
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Ah, we're back
Morning denizens
It's a gloomy grey day out and there's been a brief bit of drizzle. It's also pretty windy, so the current 19°C "feels like" 16° and the expected high is only 22°, for which much thanks. The barometers are up very slightly at 999/1007mB
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This evening’s viewing was E2 of the Lockerbie thing
And tonight’s reading was Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont by Saul Austerlitz
Wind’s windy out there
Goodnight all
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Tea has been lamb cutlets with chips and beans
We’ve had a couple of showers, and the wind’s getting up
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