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Good Morning
Feb 24th 2018
Here comes the sun.
Admin1 is reading A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths. Admin2 is reading Things Can Only Get Worse? by John O’Farrell; a Labour Party activist gets it wrong every time.
Critter of the Day: Bullfinch
Feb 22nd 2018
Admin2 is reading A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey; three peculiar people go rally driving in Australia and have their lives changed in many ways.
Cloud of the Day: Iridescence
Feb 19th 2018
Actually this cloud was spotted in Manchester last week on a rare occasion when it wasn’t raining.
Admin2 is reading The Child by Sebastian Fitzek; a terminally ill boy believes he is the reincarnation of a serial killer.
Pancake Day
Feb 13th 2018
Yums!
Admin2 is reading Trophy by Steffan Jacobsen: a hardboiled mercenary and infuriated cop on the trail of ruthless human-hunters.
Critter of the Day: The Other Tit
Feb 11th 2018
Admin2 is reading A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths, fourth volume in a series about archaeology and criminology in Norfolk. Corpses and curses.
We scored 10 on the GWQ.
Critter of the Day: Tit
Feb 9th 2018
Admin2 is reading Fire Down Below by William Golding, the last volume of a thumping good trilogy about the physics and sociology of life aboard a clapped-out sailing ship during the Napoleonic wars.
Weather of the Day: light snow
Feb 6th 2018
A few snowflakes in some thin film iridescence.
Admin1 is reading Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. Admin2 is reading Close Quarters by William Golding.
We scored 9 on the GWQ.
Lichens
Feb 3rd 2018
Admin2 is reading Rites of Passage by William Golding. We watched The Limehouse Golem and Admin1 watched Alias.
Orange…
Feb 1st 2018
…Marmalade
Storms on Jupiter.
January’s weather was averagely cloudy, cold, wet and windy.
Admin2 is reading Exit West by Moshin Hamid; a fable/allegory/romance about teleporting refugees which makes no sense at all.
Super Blue (Blood) Moon
Jan 31st 2018
The second full moon this month, 10% bigger and 15% brighter, and eclipsed, though sadly not here.
Admin1 is watching series 4 of Peaky Blinders, which was terrific, with the usual amazing soundtrack including this version of A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall by Laura Marling:
Admin2 is reading A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel, an enormous boring blockbuster about the French Revolution.
Burning Sky
Jan 28th 2018
Sunset on the warmest night this year.
Admin2 is reading Winter by Ali Smith, an engaging story of the friendship between a young woman and a 101-year-old man, and their mutual interest in the life and works of Pauline Boty. We are watching Witnesses saison 2 (which started off well but got a bit loopy and implausible) and scored 9.5 on the GWQ.
Cloud of the Day: Crepuscular Rays
Jan 26th 2018
The left-hand one appears to be levitating some crazy clown riding a banana.
Admin2 is reading H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker; a story about a creative person who cannot settle down in a utopia, with lots of coloured words, a bit like The Gu(a)rdi(a)n in its current incarnation.
We watched The Tunnel series 3 which was somewhat preposterous.
Cloud of the Day: Altostratus
Jan 23rd 2018
Admin2 is reading The Twelfth Department by William Ryan.
Cloud of the Day: Pink Incus
Jan 19th 2018
This cloud passed over us earlier and turned a sunny day into a rainy night.
Admin1 is reading The Prefect by Alistair Reynolds. Admin2 is reading The Crow Girl by Eric Axl Sund.
Weather of the Day: Graupel
Jan 16th 2018
Tiny snowballs falling from the sky.
Admin1 is reading The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes. Admin2 is reading Be Awesome by Hadley Freeman; tips for girls who want to shine.
Trifling with the Cake
Jan 14th 2018
So tasty it was eaten before it could be photographed.
Admin2 is reading History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund; an isolated backwoods teenager, as in Elmet, becomes entwined with posh incomers of the Christian Science persuasion.
We scored 11 in the GWQ.
Happy Birthday Audrey
Jan 11th 2018
A rainbow unicorn cake for the star of the week.
Admin1 is rereading The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. Admin2 is reading Elmet by Fiona Mozley: a primal story of brutality and solidarity in the remote backwoods of modern West Yorkshire.
Spring in the Air
Jan 9th 2018
New blossoms outside old church. Today was so dull and cloudy the solar panels recorded no watts whatsoever.
Admin1 is reading Road Closed by Leigh Russell. Admin2 is reading Black Day at the Bosphorus Cafe by MH Baylis
Weather of the Day: Frost
Jan 7th 2018
Admin1 is reading The Vinyl Detective: The Run-out Groove by Andrew Cartmel, a jolly jape with added cats. Admin2 is reading The Tottenham Outrage by MH Baylis.
Critter of the Day: House Sparrow (?)
Jan 6th 2018
Admin1 is reading Black Day at the Bosphorus Cafe by MH Baylis, this one centred on the Kurdish, Greek and Turkish communities in Tottenham. Baylis’ three Tottenham-set detective novels were a great find, and really summoned up the area well … in particular the smells! Very big on odours, is Mr Baylis.
Admin2 is reading Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, a haunting ghost story voiced by ghosts.
We scored 10.5 on the GWQ.