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[NickFitz]

Tea has been what Sainsbury’s describe as “Chinese style” pork steaks, with chips. I’m not convinced that it’s what they’re eating in downtown Beijing, but it was very nice anyway

More importantly, it didn’t involve spending much time in the kitchen, because it’s already warm in there even without cooking anything

To go with it, the second episode of the NY mob thing

[NickFitz]

The shopping has been done!

I went just after twelve and it was hot. Officially 30°C, but the car reckoned 33° and I found no reason to doubt it

It must be about ten years ago that its sensor broke and it would reckon a day like this was -12° or something ridiculous like that

There were back-to-back departmental or team meetings scheduled for this afternoon, but the 15:00-16:00 one was cancelled by a merciful head of something, so I was just able to grab a quick lunch of cold cocktail sausages

And when I came into the living room with that, there was a huge butterfly batting itself against the window trying to get out, having apparently found its way in through the little narrow window out of which I poke the air conditioner hose. So I opened one of the big windows then got around the other side of it and blew gently at it, which encouraged it to shift along and find the way out without any risk of hurting it by trapping it in something - their wings are very delicate. From looking online, it seems to have been a Peacock

[ladymuck]

Morning all

No cloud. No breeze. Just a searing fiery ball. Currently 29 degrees with a high of 34 expected. Overnight is not expected to drop below 20. Barometer down to 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 04:56; Sunset 21:17 BST

Slept better than I expected to considering the ambient temperature overnight.

Gig3 contract ends on 4 August. I've made the PTB aware but the PM I work with thinks there's a management change a-coming and it could get lost so he's also going to make sure it doesn't expire. However, as HWMBO and I are planning a late August holiday to the Baltics, I won't be too upset at having August off.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

22.1 deg in here, 23.5 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto, 17 outside, 23.8 in the front bedroom, 76 in the porch, 18.9 in the saltinghouse.

1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (down from 1012.5 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 BR14, LM, MarkyMark, vetran, and WTFH popped in.

Entertainment: Who do you think we were?: The Empire Exhibition 1924.

Walk (muchly abbreviated, 2 miles) walked in the unbearable heat of the morning. Legs started complaining after about a mile & a half.

On the way out what appeared to be a rather tall lady walked along next door's front path. After some reflection I think it may have been wot used to be my nephew. FFS.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Classic Movies: "The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp". A tale of opportunities missed.

Book. Other book. Other other book.

Potched about in the garden making sure I know where the orchids are in the lawn so I can mow around them.

Thing on Eden about Secret Nazi Bases: coal to oil conversion plant.

Entertainment: Further Out of Town: sea fishing from small boat, how to prepare a Big Chicken: this is one for NF: didn't show the offing, but the plucking, hanging, drawing, and tying up was covered pretty well. I can see why my grandfather couldn't cope with it, but my gran, being someone who'd been a cook in large house, managed well enough back in the day.

Scott Quinell getting up early to milk cows, then on to a distillery in north Wales.

Bab5 S2 E1: "Points of Departure": Sinclair off to Membar, John "Starkiller" Sheridan takes over command, much to the disappointment of the Membari.

Book.

BBC4: Bletchley Park: Gordon Welchman. (A better option on the endless Blazian UFO bollox).

Blade Runner (Director's Director's Cut) on BBC4. <click>

UFO bollox on DMAX: <click>

Book.

I seem afflicted with tiny flies which are truly irritating. Either that or it's formication.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Clear blue sky here, with that hint of haziness high up and increasing as it comes down to meet the horizon that suggests a warm day to come. And so shall it be: It’s gone from 19°C to 22° in the last forty-five minutes, and won’t stop till 32°. Same again tomorrow! The barometers remain curiously ambivalent at 1007/1014mB

Last night was not at all cool, getting down to 16° but failing to distribute any of that inwards due to lack of wind, meaning the bedroom was still at 26°C when I awoke, as it had been when I went to sleep. I think it cooled slightly then warmed up again, as I half-woke at one point to wrap the discarded duvet cover around myself, though it had been cast away again when I woke up - which I did on the third alarm, having dismissed two and immediately fallen asleep again, suggesting I hadn’t slept at all well

Breakfast is a dairy-free banana, mango and blueberry smoothie, all the fruit being frozen. It’s tasty and refreshing, though of course I’m still having hot coffee as otherwise nothing at all would get done round here

[WTFH]

Morning all
Misty out.
Slept in, so only just managed 10,000 steps on our saunter.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was more of Eve’s Hollywood

Far too hot here. There’s been no wind to blow cooler air in so despite having had the window wide open, the bedroom is still 26°C

Ah well - at least it’s Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

I didn't need the cardigan I took to the office today.

Better to have it & not need it than need it & not have it.

Same thing applies to guns. . (c) "True Romance (1993)".

[xoggoth]

I was always drawing the bedroom curtains in the afternoon to stop the sun heating the room up. Last night noticed the plaster had cracked above the window, assume due to the heat. Fortunately mostly fixed with some No More Nails, just a bit of sanding and repaint needed. I'll use temporary blackout sheet on the window next time.

[NickFitz]

For tea, I continued this week’s theme of “things that are wholly inappropriate for the weather but that’s what’s in the fridge” by having a roast chicken dinner

I made a bit of an effort with the chicken, shoving half an onion, several cloves of garlic, and a whole lemon cut in half in there. It came out tasting very nice indeed

To go with this, Fear City: New York vs The Mafia on Netflix, about the FBI’s efforts to overthrow the Mob in the 1970s and 1980s

[ladymuck]

I didn't need the cardigan I took to the office today.

[xoggoth]

Morning all

Time for a walk before it warms up.

I'm bit of a late getter upper, so tend to do my walkies in evening close to sunset at moment. Been doing more shed repairs this morning while the shed was still in shade of the trees. How exciting!

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a cold chicken leg

This morning was show & tell, in which I showed the stuff they didn’t have time for a fortnight ago as I haven’t done much that’s visible since then

And then it was the loooong quarterly retrospective

Planning meeting this afternoon, but there isn’t much to plan so that should be quite quick

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

22.2 deg in here, 23.2 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto.

1013.5 mBar, 29.93 in Hg, 760.2 Torr, 14.6995 psi, (up from 1012 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 Brillo, covbob, LM, MarkyMark, scruff, vetran and me popped in.

Walk (abbreviated, about 2 miles) walked in the unbearable heat of the mid morning.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Classic Movies: The 39 steps (1935).

Book.

Further Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves: hunting rabbits with a terrier and a ferret. Not a good day to be a rabbit. Gardening.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. Dan Do. Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves: making Partridge fish hooks in Redditch. A really old fashioned firm making hooks from steel wire using basic machines. Showed grinding the point, making the hook, hardening the hook, tempering the hook, hot blueing or browning the hook, cleaning the hook, packaging. Amazingly enough they are still going. Gardening: took up concrete hardstanding to extend garden, then discovered that dead soil doesn't grow anything: added humus, then added earth worms.

Bab5 S1 E22 Chrysalis. Oh dear(tm). Here come the Shadows and this time they're not playing guitars.

Book. Other book. Other other book.

"The 80s: raised on television Part II": all about 80s septic tv shows, most of which I'd never heards of since they weren't shown over here thank feck, others, like Dallas, of which I'd heard & never watched. A whole 30 seconds right at the end showing clips of HSB and Miami Vice, both of which I'd watched. The Orange Mother****er showed up briefly, back in the days when he could string words together & almost make sense, though he was getting porky even then.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s another warm one today, already at 22°C and expected to reach 30° for much of the afternoon and early evening, and only getting down to 17° tonight. The barometers are up to 1008/1016mB

I’ve had a busy start as I had to take my sample to the GPs before noon, and this morning is a bunch of meetings so I had no choice but to take it just now. I went by the route I discovered yesterday through the nature bit of the park, which meant almost all the way was in the shade. The round trip took fourteen minutes, including a couple of minutes telling the receptionist my date of birth and so on, so it wasn’t bad going