Vermilion Sands
An occasional journal
Cloud of the Day: Cirrus
Jul 1st 2018
There was a lot of this stuff around today, most of it probably condensation trails from planes taking people on holiday to warm and sunny places. It ended our 7-day streak of >12kWh from the solar panels with a drop to 11.942kWh.
We scored 10.5 on the GWQ.
Three Lilies in the Pond
Jun 30th 2018
After our driest, warmest and sunniest May, our driest (6.9mm), warmest (25.2°C average daily high) and sunniest (264.764kWh) June.
Admin2 is reading Sympathy for the Devil by William Shaw.
Expanded Contrail
Jun 28th 2018
Stuff like that is the closest we get to clouds in these days of constant sunshine: 5 >12kWh days in a row and more for the foreseeable. Admin1 is reading The Outsider by Stephen King. Admin2 is reading Black Water Lilies by Michel Bussi which was right on the Monet. Genius!
Sweet Seventeen
Jun 27th 2018
Admin 1+2′s wedding anniversary: our furniture wedding, hence the allen keys and spirit level in the foreground and the room divider under construction in the background, and the trifle recycled from Admin1′s birthday cake. Seventeen years of food and books and weather and love.
White Light White Heat
Jun 25th 2018
The hottest day so far this year: 34.3 °C and another over 13kWh solar panel day. Will it ever end? Yes.
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.
Out of the Door
Jun 3rd 2018
The cats went outside for the first time today.
Admin1 is reading The Vanishing Box by Elly Griffiths. Admin2 is reading A House of Knives by Willam Shaw.
Coffee of the day: Colombia Finca las Mercedes la Isla; rich and dark like the Sultan of Brunei.
We scored 11 on the GWQ, mostly through wild guesses.
Waiting at the Window
Jun 2nd 2018
The cats still have not been let outside. Tomorrow maybe.
Admin1 is reading Dead Silent by Mark Roberts. Admin2 is reading The Vanishing Box 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.
Woods Fire
May 30th 2018
A small fire in a pub called The Woods.
Admin1 was reading Twisted Prey by John Sandford (reliably entertaining) and is now reading something else so we have to keep posting to keep up. Admin2 is reading A Song from Dead Lips by William Shaw.