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The Secret Garden
Oct 14th 2015
A bit of demolition on the ramshackle house up the road reveals a rather charming mural.
Admin1 is reading Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux. Admin2 is reading The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams which did not give Admin2 any pleasures.
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Oct 11th 2015
Admin1 is reading Rough Country by John Sandford. Admin2 is reading The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne. We scored 9 on the Guardian Weekend quiz, and are witnessing Witnesses, a creepy French crime serial.
Leaf Pattern
Oct 9th 2015
Admin1 is reading Buried Prey by John Sandford. Admin2 is reading Bad Things by Michael Marshall.
Vila i frid Keith
Cloud of the Day: Fumulus
Oct 8th 2015
A mushroom cloud from Ferrybridge power station in the far distance.
Admin2 is reading The Intruders by Michael Marshall.
Waiting for Lightning
Oct 6th 2015
Thunderstorm tonight. Admin2 tried taking pot shots at the night sky and missed every flash, but the street light on the raindrops produced a magnifient display of orbs. Who knew our traffic island was haunted by a multitude of ghosts?
Admin1 is reading Dark of the Moon by John Sandford.
Mellow Fruitfulness
Oct 3rd 2015
Our granadillas are coming along nicely.
Coffee of the day: KAFFE HELA BÖNOR MÖRKROST from Ikea: bitter, but apparently bitter is good.
We scored 8 in the Guardian Weekend quiz but much, much better in the Mars quiz.
All Clear
Oct 2nd 2015
Not a cloud in the sky after the morning fog cleared. It was almost our sunniest October day since the solar panels started, and on Oct 1 we passed the total for 2014.
We watched Mission to Mars which was unmitigated shite. [Admin1: This is perhaps the worst film I've ever seen. It really was gobsmackingly awful, a real car-crash of unbelievably bad direction (and it's Brian de Palma!), appalling acting and scripting, clichéd plotting, feeble effects and terrible music (Morricone!). I kept thinking: This can't possibly get worse. But it did. How the hell did it ever get made?]
Admin2 is reading Pulse by Julian Barnes, which was slow and thready.
Moonrise
Sep 30th 2015
After Bloody Monday, Orange Wednesday. We had our best September ever, solar panels wise.
Admin1 is reading Crashing Heaven by Al Robertson (well-written and impressively imaginative; an auspicious debut). Admin2 is reading The Martian by Andy Weir which had a predictable plot but a good pace and pleasant voice.
Halo Heaven
Sep 28th 2015
Two dogs chasing the sun
A colourful parhelion
A tiny bit of halo touching an upper tangent arc to make a pair of kissy lips in the sky.
There was also a massive (but too faint to photograph) circumzenithal arc smiling down all afternoon.
Admin1 is watching Person of Interest series 3 and reading Gone to Ground by John Harvey.
Balls
Sep 25th 2015
Clouds at lunchtime on an otherwise sunny day, when the solar panels passed the earnings in 2014, previously our best year.
Admin2 is now reading The Last Breath by Denise Mina and Admin1 is reading Firstborn by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter.
Admin1 watched the first couple of episodes of Orphan Black, series 3, and got somewhat lost; a re-watch of the first two series is probably needed to catch up with the convoluted plot.
Ledgers
Sep 24th 2015
Scaffolding planks. They are called ledgers and side-on they look a lot like books.
Admin1 is reading The Last Breath by Denise Mina (well-written and involving, but it would have helped to have read previous books in the series). Admin2 is reading Talking It Over by Julian Barnes. Yakity yak don’t get your lover back.
Web Site
Sep 22nd 2015
Admin2 is reading Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise by Steve Jones. We rewatched The Secret State. Plus ca change plus c’est le meme chose.
Half Moon
Sep 21st 2015
Admin1 is reading Oblivion by Arnaldur Indriðason. Admin2 is reading Birthdays for the Dead by Stuart MacBride. Eurgh.
Critter of the Day: Vanessa atalanta
Sep 20th 2015
This Red Admiral has clearly been in the wars.
Admin1 is reading Mixing with Murder by Ann Granger (another silly book, with idiots and ludicrous coincidences). Admin2 is reading It’s a Battlefield by Graham Greene. We scored 9 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
The Beer Was Cloudy but the Weather Was fine
Sep 19th 2015
Admins 1 & 2 went to the AGS garden party, had a jolly good time and won a fancy dolls’ house in a raffle.
Back home we were greeted by a bright sundog on the warmest day of the month so far.
Weather of the Day: Autumnal
Sep 17th 2015
Admin1 is reading The Day Is Dark by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (a daft book, a prime example of both an idiot plot and its subsidiary, the second-order idiot plot, in which not only are the protagonists all idiots, so is the rest of society). Admin2 is reading Oblivion by Arnaldur Indriðason
105
Sep 15th 2015
A bright ending to a dull day with clouds that look like numbers. Yesterday — 14 Sep — we passed the 2012 solar panel total; that point was reached on 22 Oct in 2013 and 5 Oct in 2014.
Admin1 is rewatching The Fall.
Admin2 is reading Sweet Caress by William Boyd, which was disappointing to be honest, like a creative writing exercise cobbled together from random photographs.
Kaffee des Tages: Bellarom Espresso; not bad considering we got 1.2kg for £6.99
Beklagar din förlust Dave
Day of the Long Sundog
Sep 13th 2015
There were also bits of two concentric halos, and a circumzenithal arc against a clear blue sky.
We watched The Babadook which was basically annoying, squeezing in as many horror film elements as possible without being remotely scary.
We scored 9.5 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
The Kremlin
Sep 12th 2015
Quarry Hill was once earmarked as Hitler’s northern headquarters; now it’s the HQ of the SS.
Admin2 watched The Glass Menagerie which featured real rain on stage.
Admin1 is reading Nexus by Ramez Naam (memo to editor: cut 200 pages, mostly the implausible and tediously extended fight scenes, and we might have a pretty good book).
JEZ WE DID!!!