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Clouds of the Night: Noctilucents
Jun 29th 2015
We have been watching out for these beautiful clouds every night and tonight at midnight they finally arrived!
Admin1 is reading Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds.
Cloud of the Day: Vapour
Jun 27th 2015
Admins1&2 celebrated 14 years of joint administration by going to a very poorly publicised and signposted ecig expo in Harrogate, involving an inordinately long walk from the nearest bus stop, but we did blag some pens, a box mod and a lift back to the main road.
Admin2 is reading The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst.
Critter of the Day: Chrysolina americana
Jun 22nd 2015
Rosemary beetle. Foreign insects in their fancy clothes coming over here infesting our herbs.
Admin1 is watching The Lord of the Rings. Admin2 is reading Exposed by Liza Marklund.
Spider v Bee
Jun 20th 2015
Slugging it out on a window web on a sunnier than expected afternoon. Admin2 extracted the bee but it took a lot of unsticking.
Admin2 is reading Borkmann’s Point by Håkan Nesser.
We scored ELEVEN on the Guardian Weekend quiz. Woot!
Weather of the Day: Cloudy
Jun 19th 2015
Admin1 is reading the blockbusting 1033 small print pages of The Kills by Richard House.
Critters of the Day: Baby Spiders
Jun 18th 2015
First steps on the web.
Admin2 is reading The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdarsdottir which was incredibly anxietal.
2 Bees or Not 2 Bees
Jun 16th 2015
See you later pollinator.
Our solar panels have, over 3.5 years, now made over 5MWh. At day’s end the Sunny Beam data monitor read 5008.35kWh, while the output meter which measures current supplied to the grid (and therefore governs our FITS payments) read 5151.86kWh. So the monitor has underestimated our generation by 143.51kWh.
Admin1 is reading Big Bad Wolf by Nele Neuhaus, and watched The Butterfly Effect. We are both watching Prime Suspect, and tonight we watched the rather good Ex Machina.
Kaffi dagsins Ethiopian Cherry Red Natural Process: delicious sweet rich raisiny fruity flavours.
The World Made Anew
Jun 13th 2015
It was cloudy and rainy today so we did our jigsaw from 1978 that included Upper Volta, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the USSR and watched Whitechapel. We scored 5.5 on the Guardian Weekend quiz. Bah.
Flower of the Day: Allium
Jun 11th 2015
Another >13kWh day; we’ve had as many 13kWh days this month as we’ve had in the three years before. Admin2 is reading the doorstoppy, infodumpy and palindromic seveneves by Neal Stephenson which will take a while.
Thyme Flies
Jun 7th 2015
Another >13kWh day; our best day ever. Admin1 is reading Disgrace by Jussi Adler-Olson. Admin2 is reading Solo by William Boyd. We are watching Fortitude. We scored 6 on the Guardian Weekend quiz. Ho hum.
Lucky Thirteen
Jun 4th 2015
The solar panels made over 13kWh today, for the first time this year and only the fourth time ever. By a strange coincidence one of the other 13kWh days was exactly 2 years ago.
Rainbow Wheel
Jun 2nd 2015
A rainbow with supernumaries and spokes.
Admin1 is reading He Who Kills the Dragon by Leif GW Persson. Admin2 is reading Dissolution by CJ Sansom and has now read the entire series out of order. The first shall be last.
We are watching Intruders.
DisMay
May 31st 2015
May was colder, wetter and windier than April, but, amazingly, also sunnier than April and indeed all but four months in the last four years.
Admin2 is reading Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen.
Halo sunshine
May 30th 2015
Admin1 is reading The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson.
We scored 9 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.