27.10.2025 Mostly outdoors.

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  Monday 27th 43F/6C [7.30] A mixed day of light showers is promised. With the risk of some sunshine this afternoon. Peaking at 11C/52F after lunch. 

 Up at 7am after an unusually quiet night. I woke at 5am and drifted. 

 8.15 The sun is shining already. Time for a walk. 

 8.40 Back again. Only one, dark brown bird of prey today. It flew off on sighting me through a hedge. The neighbours' tiny guard dog was barking furiously. So I was denied my usual loop. A pretty, feathery sky. Like vast, vapour trails.   

 The share of sunshine locally is very unfair. Every house in the neighbourhood gets full sunshine. Except mine. The row of trees along the field to my east blocks the sun. More tall trees are trapped between the two nearest houses. 

 Yet more absent neighbours. Though I doubt they would care about the trees anyway. I have to wait until much later. When the sun goes around to the south. Before it finally clears their trees.

 That said, I managed to find a slot between the trees. Where the sun shone for most of the morning. On the far edge of the yard. So that I could test my latest telescope construction. 

 After lunch I continued but the sky was increasingly cloudy. 

 Dinner was a salmon pasty, peas and chips. 

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