1st August 2025 A 70 minute cloudburst!

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  Friday 1st 64F/17.8C [10.20] Overcast with a thunder/cloudburst warning.

 Up at 2.30. Wide awake. Got up and watched YT videos until 6.30. Back to bed for an hour. I don't feel too bad considering.

 12.15 Quite sunny. No rain yet. Returned from the village with a new batch of tablets. A chap stopped in the car park to chat about the Morris. His first car back in the 70s. 

 13.30 That's another 20 minutes of cloudburst and counting. Even a loud clap of thunder. It was a dry, balmy morning with warm sunshine. I had plans for a ride after lunch. Pontoons not included. 

 13.50 59F/15C. Still peeing down. Lots more claps of thunder. It looks as if we are at the epicenter of the storm on the radar. The gravel is flooding despite the gutter now working. The forecast shows it moving away in an hour or two.

 14.20 Still raining hard! I am struggling to stay awake. The cloudburst lasted 70 minutes!

 I had a 30 minute nap and then settled into yet more YouTube videos. 

 Dinner was a mound of salad. The boiled eggs let me down. I gave them 8 minutes and a soak in cold water. They were impossible to shell and remained stubbornly runny. I can't remember how long they should have had.    

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