An occasional journal
Weather
Happy Birthday Admin1
Jun 24th 2018
A crowd gathers on the traffic island to celebrate on yet another hot and sunny day. We saw more noctilucent clouds in the early hours, and there are more tonight.
Admin1 is reading Sympathy for the Devil by William Shaw. Admin2 is reading Don’t Let Go by Michel Bussi, an ingenious mystery set on Reunion and with a plot dependent on the topography and meteorology of that island. We scored 12 on the GWQ!
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Blue Clouds of the Night
Jun 23rd 2018
First noctilucents of the year at 1:30am, after the sunniest day ever: 13.656kWh. Happy birthday of yesterday, twins.
Admin2 is reading After the Crash by Michel Bussi.
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Red Cloud of the Evening
Jun 21st 2018
Hoping for blue clouds of the night.
Admin1 is reading The Last Temptation by Val McDermid.
Contrail Shadows
Jun 18th 2018
Admin1 is reading The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid. Admin2 is reading A Book of Scars by William Shaw.
Cloud of the Day: Mammatus
Jun 17th 2018
An after-rain cloud, not that we’ve had much rain.
Coffee of the day: Brazil Ecoagricola Serra Do Cabral Red Catuai.
We scored 10.5 on the GWQ.
Cloud of the Day: Iridescent Cirrus fibratus
Jun 15th 2018
And here’s the crowd of the day: Jill’s leaving party at the library. Booze for breakfast!
Admin2 is reading Salt by Adam Roberts, actually a rather nasty war book.
Cloud of the Day: Cumulus mediocris
Jun 14th 2018
Storm Hector blew in today with a lot of blustery winds but hardly any rain. We have only had 3mm this month so far.
Admin1 has been rewatching Wire in the Blood and is now rereading The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid.
Cloud of the Day: Virga
Jun 10th 2018
Airborne jellyfish.
Admin1 is reading The Rat Stone Serenade by Denzil Meyrick (amateurish, cliche-ridden, feeble humour). Admin2 is reading The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir.
No. 1 song on our 14th birthdays (a current meme allegedly): Admin1: Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Admin2 (oh god): Johnny Remember Me, but she remembers the most memorable song of those days as I Remember You.
We scored 9.33 on the GWQ.
Sunny Afternoon
Jun 9th 2018
This brilliant segment of halo briefly appeared in the sky and nobody on the crowded street looked up; they were all engrossed in their phones.
Coffee of the day: Java Jampit.
Sun
Jun 7th 2018
Admin1 is reading After the Crash by Michel Bussi (compulsively readable, and full of Frenchness). Admin2 is reading The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths.
Flower of the Day: Peony
May 31st 2018
This May has been our sunniest month of all time (and not only for us). The solar panels did 286.060kWh, over 23kWh more than our previous best month of July 2014 and the first time we’ve averaged over 9kWh/day. It was also the driest and warmest May since our records began: there was only 18.9mm of rain, and the average daily high temperature was 23.1°C.
Admin1 is reading Blood Mist by Mark Roberts, which was a bit weird — more horror than crime.
Sunshine
May 27th 2018
Another >12kWh day; probably the last this month which has already outshone all previous Mays. Admin2 is reading the unseasonal Snow by Adam Roberts.
Admin1 is reading A Book of Scars by William Shaw, the third in a really excellent crime series set in London in the late sixties. Beautifully characterised and plotted, and superbly written; there are cameos from various 60s luminaries, including art dealer Robert Fraser, the Apple Scruffs, John Lennon and George Harrison, and visits to such 60s landmarks as the Roundhouse and Middle Earth, and the Albert Hall during the ‘Alchemical Wedding‘ event, famed for Lennon/Ono bagism. The legacy of African colonialism also plays a large part. Terrific books.
Raindrops on Rhododendrons
May 25th 2018
A rainy day for a change. Admin1 is reading A House of Knives by William Shaw.
Cloud of the Day: Manspreading
May 23rd 2018
Admin1 is reading The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdadottir. Admin2 is reading The Killing Connection by TF Muir.
Evening Sundog
May 15th 2018
Yesterday was one of our sunniest days ever, and the best for nearly three years: 12.985kWh. Today was not much worse: 12.288kWh.
Admin1 is reading The Darkness by Ragnar Jonassen — disappointing, with a rather incompetent wet hen of a heroine, despite being constantly told what a great detective she is.
We are watching The City & The City.
Say Halo to Heaven
May 13th 2018
Best solar panel day this year: 11.83kWh.
Admin2 got fed up with 4321 and is now reading Fall from Grace by Tim Weaver.
We scored a pathetic 5 on the GWQ.
I Hate Rain
Apr 28th 2018
Written on the road and strangely not washed away.
Admin1 is reading Smoke and Mirrors by Elly Griffiths. Admin2 is reading The Rift by Nina Allan: a different missing girl story.
We scored 11.5 on the GWQ.
Lovely Weather for Ducks
Apr 27th 2018
Admin2 is reading District VIII by Adam Lebor; a Roma policeman with an estranged wife investigating a possible murder of a Syrian refugee in Budapest. Too boring and sexist to finish.
Meet the New Cat (2 of 2)
Apr 26th 2018
Here’s the shy brother cat which has a slightly lighter coat and a less stripy tail. And here’s a rainbow.
Admin1 is reading The Dead Tracks by Tim Weaver. Admin2 is reading The Mechanical Devil by Kate Ellis.