An occasional journal
Weather
Mid Autumn Full Moon Festival
Oct 4th 2017
Sadly it is cloudy and rainy tonight.
Admin2 is reading Europa Blues by Arne Dahl, a strangely amusing book about ghastly murders, Nazis, prostitutes and ninja feminists, with a pleasant line in idle thoughts and cop shop banter.
Clouds of the Evening: Fishbones
Oct 3rd 2017
A red sky at night is an eye-catching sight.
Admin1 is reading Common Murder by Val McDermid. Admin2 is reading Chameleon People by Hans Olav Lahlum.
Stormzy
Oct 2nd 2017
Our washing blowing in the wind…
…and our poor old back door blown to bits. Sad!
Admin1 is reading You Can Run by Steve Mosby (excellent, and a local author, from Horsforth). Admin2 is reading Common Murder by Val McDermid; an entertaining mystery set in the days of the Peace Camps.
We scored 9 on the GWQ.
Raindrops
Sep 29th 2017
September has been the wettest month this year so far.
Admin1 is rewatching Fargo and reading Chameleon People by Hans Olav Lahlum. Admin2 is reading You Can Run by Steve Mosby, which was compulsively readable if a bit writerly.
Cloud of the Day: Disintegrating UK
Sep 28th 2017
Admin1 is reading Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. Admin2 is reading Shadow Play by Karen Campbell which was overlong, overwritten, overemotional, overfull of office politics and an over-the-top Mills&Boon style romance.
Circle of Light; Heart of Darkness
Sep 22nd 2017
Autumn equinox. Winter is coming.
Admin1 is reading Protector by Larry Niven, which, after the ghastly self-indulgence of Footfall, reminds me why I once quite enjoyed LN’s books. Admin2 is reading Hostage to Murder by Val McDermid, which was bollox.
Another Rainbow
Sep 17th 2017
Admin1 is reading A Conspiracy of Tall Men by Noah Hawley. Admin2 is reading Final Edition by Val McDermid; another soppy gay girly book about a cold-blooded murder. We scored 12 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Rainbow’s End
Sep 15th 2017
Pot of gold in next door’s garden.
Admin1 is reading When It Grows Dark by Jorn Lier Horst. Admin2 is reading The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indridason
Coffee of the day: Colombian San Agustin.
Raining on Sunday
Sep 10th 2017
Raindrops on window refracting cloudy skies.
We scored twelve on the Guardian Weekend quiz without help or cheating generosity.
Here Comes the Rain Again
Sep 10th 2017
Another wet day.
Admin1 is reading The Bones Beneath by Mark Billingham (dull and characterless). Admin2 is reading When It Grows Dark by Jorn Lier Horst, a pleasant early cold case for Horst’s signature investigator.
Kafo de la tago: Pedregal Espresso; sweet and chocolatey with maybe a soupçon of Chelsea buns.
Electric Avenue
Sep 4th 2017
A very dark day, <3kWh, on which we were glad of our house to house electric lighting.
Admin2 is reading The Good Father by Noah Hawley.
We are watching Peaky Blinders.
And we scored 9 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Cloud of the Day: Cumulus Congestus
Sep 1st 2017
We also enjoyed a brilliant red sky in the evening but the photos were not so brilliant.
August was our second sunniest August since our records began, and our third rainiest
Admin1 is reading The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith. Admin2 is reading A Conspiracy of Tall Men by Noah Hawley, a 1998 book since when conspiracy has become a way of life.
Cloud of the Evening: Band of Gold
Aug 29th 2017
Admin1 is reading The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling.
We are watching The Frankenstein Chronicles.
After the Storm
Aug 23rd 2017
The sun, clouds and corona reflected in a puddle after a morning of thunder and lighting that brought as much rain in an hour as we had in the whole of April. August has been the wettest month this year so far.
Admin1 is reading The Readymade Thief by Augustus Rose, in which a young Philadelphian girl called Lee (!) gets involved with urban explorers, ravers, thieves, hackers and a gang of weirdos obsessed with Marcel Duchamp and intent on re-enacting The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, which may hold the key to the universe. A terrific read, barmy and engrossing.
Admin2 is reading Unforgivable by Mike Thomas.
Sun Day
Aug 21st 2017
On US Eclipse Day, the sun here is just eclipsed by a cloud but embraced by a halo…
…and followed by a dog.
The Inverted World
Aug 20th 2017
Admin1 is reading Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre; a disturbing read. Admin2 is reading Pasquale’s Angel by Paul McAuley, a rollicking tale of Renaissance technology grown bigly.
We scored 12 on the Guardian Weekend quiz, thanks to Gez, Dave, Auds and Bobs (and us, obviously).
Cloud of the Day: Incus
Aug 18th 2017
A distant anvil delivering thunder and lightning to Lincoln, probably.
Admin2 is rereading The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh; a 20-year-old book set in a future of text messages, VR and virtual assistants, and a past of malaria research with more to it than meets the eye.
Rainbow in a Dry Sky
Aug 17th 2017
Last night we had thunder and lightning. Today a rainbow appeared when it was not raining, except probably in the cloud from which the rainbow arose.
Light of Heart
Aug 16th 2017
Admin1 is reading The Blood Strand by Chris Ould. Admin2 is reading Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre: a bloody terrifying ‘girl’ book.
Кофе в день: Black Hole.
A Hard Rain
Aug 8th 2017
We had more rain today than in the whole of April: 14.1 mm.
Admin2 is reading Going Out by Scarlett Thomas, which was ridiculous but not in a bad way.