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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26.10.2025 Mostly indoors.

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  Sunday 26th 44F/6.7C. Wet and windy again. 

 Up at 7.00  6.00 after a quiet night. 

 8.25 Back from my walk. Damp in the air and blowing a gale again. I saw two pairs of birds of prey. Foraging out on the prairie. They took off and flew away the moment they saw me. Despite there being hundreds of meters between us.

 I spent the morning on YouTube. 

 The afternoon I was busy working on my modified, solar, H-a telescope.

 There were a few brief flashes of sunshine after 15.00. None long enough to do any solar observations or imaging.

 I dragged the recycling bin along the drive in the pitch dark. 

 Did half an hour of washing up. It had got away from me. 

 Dinner was beans on toast and tomato soup. Helped down with a bread roll. I had some half tins in the fridge to catch up on. Both four days old. 

 Only 63F/17C in the room. I ought to light the stove.

  

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25.10.2025 Wet and windy.

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  Saturday 25th 46F/7.8C. Another wet day is forecast. Lots more unsettled days in a row. Wind gusting to 15m/s or 30mph all day. Even stronger tomorrow.  64F/17.8C in the room.

 Up at 6.45 after a quiet night. I was drifting and checking the clock. Until I became bored enough to get up. 

 8.45. I have been waiting for it to get light enough for a walk. It has been blowing a gale. Now it has started raining. 

 9.20 Back from a 20 minute, brisk walk. It was raining steadily and blowing hard. So I put my hood up and kept going. I was getting modest chest pains for most of the way. They stopped when I returned home and sat down.

 11.50 Back from village shopping for essentials. Raining hard, so went in the car. 

 62F/16.7C in the room. I had better light the stove.

 Dinner was fish fingers, peas, pasta and tinned tomatoes. 

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