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Posts tagged admin2 reading
Cloud of the Day: Cumulus humilis + birds
Aug 25th 2015
The black cloud above soon expanded to fill the entire sky.
Admin2 is reading Bright Young Things by Scarlett Thomas.
Bee for Buddleia
Aug 21st 2015
Last night was our hottest night ever recorded; a balmy 18.6 degrees.
Admin1 is reading The Blind Goddess (which got rather bogged down in legal manoeuvring) and Admin2 is reading The Lion’s Mouth, both by Anne Holt.
We are watching Jordskott.
Flower of the Day: Courgette
Aug 19th 2015
Admin1 is reading Winter Prey by John Sandford (impressive; dark and chilling). Admin2 is reading The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott (expressive, light and thrilling). We watched To the Top of the Mountain which was not at all like the book.
Flash
Aug 13th 2015
A faint but amazingly green Perseid meteor whizzes across the night sky. Admin1 is reading Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson (though Philip Pullman’s intro gets a bigger cover credit). Hardly great, despite Pullman’s endorsement, but very readable and interesting … but where was the proofreader? Admin2 is reading To the Top of the Mountain by Arne Dahl.
Cloud of the Day: Undulatus
Aug 6th 2015
Admin1 is reading To the Top of the Mountain and Admin2 is reading The Blinded Man, both by Arne Dahl.
Flower of the Day: Bindweed
Aug 1st 2015
Augusttumn is here. And the light was fading dimly, and the sky was crying.
Admin2 is reading His Illegal Self by Peter Carey which was so-so.
Kawa dnia: Co-op Fairtrade coffee: so-so.
We scored 7 on the Guardian Weekend Quiz: so so-so.
Cloud of the Day: Cumulonimbus
Jul 28th 2015
Another dull rainy day.
Admin1 is reading The Blinded Man by Arne Dahl. Admin2 is reading Y: The Descent of Men by Steve Jones, an entertaining book about bollocks.
We watched Men in Black, entertaining bollocks.
Corblimey
Jul 26th 2015
One of the sights at Unity Day was the Labour Party stall that invited passing punters to put balls in buckets to show support for the leadership candidates. Jeremy Corbyn’s got a lot more balls than any of the others. Admin2 was inspired to do this promotional poster with added amateurish scuzz.
Admin1 is reading Where Evil Lies by Jørgen Brekke, but gave it up after 100 pages — it would have been earlier, but the awfulness was oddly mesmerising. Admin2 is reading Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer.
Cloud of the Day: Altostratus
Jul 24th 2015
Admin1 is reading Bad Things by Michael Marshall (creepy and unsettling, at least for the first two-thirds). Admin2 is reading The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid which was confusing and implausible.
Critter of the Day: Bee
Jul 19th 2015
On some flowers on the banks of the canal
Admin2 is reading Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester. Hong Kong phooey.
Spiders on Mars
Jul 17th 2015
A small spider casts a menacing shadow on a peeling painted door
Which reminded Admin1 of this:
…which is a HiRISE picture of Martian sand dunes.
Admin2 thinks it looks more like this:
…but the whole of Mars looks like it was painted by incompetent decorators and the paint has wrinkled, blistered, streaked, cracked or dripped.
Admin2 is reading All That Follows by Jim Crace, which like Amnesia and Orfeo was slipstreamy, set in the near future and concerned authoritarian responses to acts perceived as terrorism plus a lot of recapitulation of past events.
Flowers in the Rain
Jul 13th 2015
Admin1 is reading Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. Admin2 is reading Amnesia by Peter Carey.
Cloud of the Day: Cirrocumulus
Jul 10th 2015
Cotton wool balls.
Admin1 is reading Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 
by David Shafer. Admin2 is reading Unspoken by Mari Jungstedt. Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent.
Storming On
Jul 7th 2015
Another day of thunder, lightning and heavy rain. We have had more rain this week than in the whole of June.
Also a nice day for a time-lapse. Here’s 6 hours in 3 minutes:
Admin2 is reading The Weeping Girl by Håkan Nesser. We are watching Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell. And it’s a bit late in the day to announce it, but we scored 7.5 in the Guardian Weekend quiz (and we also each scored 8/10, but with different wrong answers, in the aliens quiz).
Storms on the Way
Jul 3rd 2015
After a warm and sunny day, the clouds gather.
Admin1 is reading Borkmann’s Point by Håkan Nesser. Admin2 is reading Orfeo by Richard Powers.
Flaming June
Jun 30th 2015
Today has been the hottest day of the year so far, in the sunniest June since our records began. Admin2 got fed up with Alan Hollinghurst and his boring world of social aspiration and sexual deviance and is now reading A Darker Domain by Val McDermid.
Cloud of the Day: Vapour
Jun 27th 2015
Admins1&2 celebrated 14 years of joint administration by going to a very poorly publicised and signposted ecig expo in Harrogate, involving an inordinately long walk from the nearest bus stop, but we did blag some pens, a box mod and a lift back to the main road.
Admin2 is reading The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst.
Critter of the Day: Chrysolina americana
Jun 22nd 2015
Rosemary beetle. Foreign insects in their fancy clothes coming over here infesting our herbs.
Admin1 is watching The Lord of the Rings. Admin2 is reading Exposed by Liza Marklund.
Spider v Bee
Jun 20th 2015
Slugging it out on a window web on a sunnier than expected afternoon. Admin2 extracted the bee but it took a lot of unsticking.
Admin2 is reading Borkmann’s Point by Håkan Nesser.
We scored ELEVEN on the Guardian Weekend quiz. Woot!