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Contrails
Dec 5th 2015
Pendular contrails outside Jimmy’s.
Admin1 is reading A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton (a silly plot involving silly women). Admin2 is reading Frozen Moment by Camila Ceder.
we scored 7 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
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Nov 28th 2015
Happy birthday Gemma.
Admin1 is reading The Intruders by Michael Marshall. Admin2 is reading The Flicker Men by Ted Kosmatka. We are watching Homeland series 1, and scored 8.5 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Cloud of the Day: Cirrocumulus lacunosus
Nov 25th 2015
A lovely opening to a lovely day. Hello Julia.
Admin1 is reading Deep State by Walter Jon Williams (enjoyable hokum, with added interest supplied by the Turkish locations) and watching Harry Potter.
Sunday Morning
Nov 22nd 2015
Happy birthday Oliver.
Admin1 is reading Phantom Prey by John Sandford (who knew Minnesota was so full of Goths?). Admin2 is reading The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow, in which the Principia Mathematica locks horns with the Malleus Maleficarum.
We are watching Beck.
Smile Though Your Heart Is Breaking
Nov 21st 2015
It snowed in the night but had melted by morning.
Admin1 is reading He Who Fears the Wolf by Karin Fossum.
We scored 7 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
It’s Another Rainbow
Nov 19th 2015
Admin1 is reading The Flicker Men by Ted Kosmatka (quantum weirdness, a cross between Gregs Egan and Bear, with a touch of Dick (er…so to speak). Engrossing and worthy of some award nominations (Clarke?), but rather let down by a tediously over-extended fight scene towards the end). Admin2 is reading Number 11 by Jonathan Coe which was tremendous fun, with a terrible warning about reality TV.
We are watching Unforgotten.
It’s a Rainbow
Nov 18th 2015
It comes in colours everywhere
Admin1 is reading Blue Blood by Sara Blaedel (meh. Another idiot plot, with an incompetent detective).
Pour Your Misery Down on Me
Nov 17th 2015
It’s raining rain when it should be raining meteors [update: at midnight the sky was completely clear; Admin2 went outside and saw a couple of Leonids; ten minutes later it was overcast and raining again].
Admin1 is reading The Buried Life by Carrie Patel (amateurish and rather Mills & Booney; reads like self-published YA). Admin2 is reading Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds.
We watched Syriana.
Blowing in the Wind
Nov 16th 2015
A bright and breezy day.
Admin1 is reading Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson (a terrific read, enjoyably convoluted and great fun; loved the cronenberg gun!). Admin2 is reading New Model Army by Adam Roberts which was strangely pertinent with the UK government threatening Isis with cyber attacks today.
No sun – no moon! No morn – no noon!
Nov 15th 2015
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member-
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds-
November!
The weather has been dull, drizzly and blustery for days. Admin1 is reading The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson (another detective with a baby). Admin2 is reading Never End by Ake Edwardson.
We scored 11 in the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Sunshine Came Softly Through My Window Today…
Nov 12th 2015
…but Abigail is going to give us a right hammering tomorrow.
Admin1 is reading Never End by Ake Edwardson (well-written and melancholy, but a bit implausible).
Cloud of the Day: Altostratus undulatus
Nov 10th 2015
Today was the warmest November day we have recorded so far, 21.2 °C; following the warmest ditto night, 15.8 °C, which was warmer than all nights this year except June, July and August.
Admin1 is reading The Reapers by John Connolly (eerie, violent and grim with a soupçon of humour). Admin2 is reading Red Moon Rising by Matthew Brzezinski.
All the Leaves Are Brown and the Sky Is Grey
Nov 8th 2015
Admin1 is reading Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith, which was most enjoyable — rather more violent and sweary than JK Rowling’s previous criminal outings. Admin2 is reading Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson, but lost the plot a bit, which is probably inevitable when reading convoluted spy stories set in parallel universes. Brilliant, though, and well deserving of another read to find out exactly who did what where when how and why.
Bonfire Night
Nov 5th 2015
Ooooh! Aaaah! Happy Birthday Guida.
Admin1 is reading Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin. Admin2 is reading The Three by Sarah Lotz.
Yet More Fog
Nov 3rd 2015
Admin1 is reading The Three by Sarah Lotz (a compulsively readable novel about routes to insanity. Lotz’s ambition rather outstrips her skill, however — the multiple voices aren’t always convincingly differentiated). Admin2 is reading Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (which was like a box of chocolates with a few dark and bitter ones).
Fly in the Sky
Oct 30th 2015
A faint sundog that looks a bit like a fly, surrounded by swirly clouds, and the sunshine meant that today the solar panels’ annual output exceeded 1500kWh for the first time.
Admin1 is reading Slade House by David Mitchell. Admin2 is reading Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux.
Clouds of the Afternoon: Iridescence
Oct 26th 2015
Admin1 is reading The Preacher by Sander Jakobsen (about as “electrifying” as a static-charged balloon. Overlong, increasingly implausible and full of character inconsistencies). Admin2 is reading The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene. We watched Rebus and saw an Iridium flare.
Cloud of the Rings
Oct 25th 2015
Admin1 is reading Fear Nothing by Lisa Gardner (a nasty book, which enjoyed its nastiness far too much). Admin2 is reading Woman with a Birthmark by Håkan Nesser.
Top Dog
Oct 24th 2015
Looks like a sundog but it’s another upper tangent arc.
Admin1 is reading Sun and Shadow by Ake Edwardson. We watched An American Werewolf in London and scored 9.5 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Berry Nice
Oct 22nd 2015
More autumn colours.
Admin1 is reading Woman with a Birthmark by Håkan Nesser, and watched the Hollywood remake of State of Play (not wholly bad, but suffers grievously from comparison with the superb original BBC series). Admin2 is reading Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds.