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Hey, again… up for a spin

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20°C, showers with rumbles

Hey again, up for s pin?…pretty rain makes you smile…this is something, why don’t you come in?…this is some swell trash….Jesus, he’s easy, the safest way to go home….Hell, nothing’s boring, never could panic alone…Hey again, my only friend, pretty rain makes you smile, don’t pretty rain make you smile?…You are something, why don’t you come in?…You are some swell trash… Hyper-martyr, never would panic alone…Find her, my safest way to go home
K.Hersh.

This storm is getting further away…

one elephant..two elephant..three elephant…nine elephant
about 1½ miles away now.

Even the kids are tired at work; they feel like us. I caught two fast asleep in the computer room; they woke lost and surprised, staggering with pins & needles.I feel for them.

Heracleum mantegazzianum

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20°C, clearing, breeze.

In a break with tradition, we didn’t go to Flying Legends: Duxford. Shame really, it would have been good- They have a FW190 taking part in the show.
5 Signets, gone- to join the bigger flocks I expect.
Heracleum mantegazzianum: "Giant Hogweed" found at the edge of a drainage ditch near Market Bosworth.

It stands about twice my height, and is furiously poisonous I am told. It has this strange property where the sap, if it gets onto skin is toxic in the presence of daylight- phototoxicity. The scarring can be permanent or even lethal.

Bone tired

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19°C, some epic rainstorms today

Deep: deep down to-the-bone tiredness. I know I have talked of this before, but the feeling stirs memories of previous end-of-term feelings. My whole being seems to know there is only a few weeks to go.
With all that, writing up a risk-assessment is the worst thing to do – at the best of times it saps all of your verve. We all have to do these, but consider the numbers, the hours spent and multiply by the payrate. It’s a privilege to live in a country with such overflowing wealth.
A recession; there can’t be?

Crane fly- what are you doing here two months early?

Dactylorhiza Fuschii

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25°C, mostly sun, rain figured, wind barely so.

Wild Orchids: Looks whiter in the photo than on the ground. A good find Mum.

Last few days have been plagued by punctures, on the bike this time. What do you know… you have none for nearly a year then several in one week. It’s so
r a n d o m ! Note the use of the teenagers’ "random".
If it wasn’t, the puncture rate may be more evenly spread over time. Reminds be of the doodlebug paradox (which isn’t one).

Pig flu

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Sun32°C, less humidity, more sun. I like it this way.Sun

Swine flu has arrived at work. 4 kids diagnosed, more are absent through illness and contagious-hypochondria. Now, if I could just contract man-flu, then I stand a chance of some time off.
This weather is a good arrangement, keep at it weather-spirits.
This car tax disc (on the desk) should be in my car- right?

…ok.


Passiflora: Look what I managed to grow.

Listen to the quietness

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26°C, clouding over.

Beech in full bloom and humming. Ideal is this weather to hear the throngs working at these flowers. The still air only carries the soft buzzing of thousands of insects, mainly bees. An evening to listen to the quietness in its minuteness.

Bad tempered

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27°C, Sun & some rain. Close.

How the weather changes the way people drive- I got annoyed crossing lights (on green) to be startled by a car shooting out from the right driven by a woman who jumped a red light. I shouted out as two cars blasted their horns too. After another incident caused by driver arrogance (the car blocked the traffic while turning onto the main road) it was then fairly conclusive that the heat is making folks feel rather bad tempered. Me included- these kinds of thoughtless driving incidents happen a lot in Walsall.
I suspect that habits spread in towns so that drivers copy each others’ bad habits. In Walsall it’s jumping red lights; in Cannock, Signalling right to go straight-on at a roundabout; Lichfield, crossing the opposing carriageway on corners. Bad habits appear to be infectious rather like apostrophe abuse.
[/end of rant]

Three years

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28°C, Very humid and now thunderstorms

Hottest day for three years.Moved to write prestentious phrases on Twitter, they’re moving furniture up there;
…all that sort of thing.

The secret- food

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24°C, milky grey, then bright C64 miles.

Compared to last week, today’s ride was fine. The difference- food.

No camera on the ride today- I thought there would be heavy rain, so a picture of some sunny furniture instead.