Dark, gloomy day mostly.

8 S
RAIN at times
1930 Sun-break

Typically 8
Some sun
Windy

Lawns and weeding beds in the garden.

4-8 Sun
Windy
DROPS OF RAIN at times
2100 RAINBOW

Was thinking that the plague came at just the right time for me. I was despairing at the thought of being stuck in the parking routine for another year, and at the thought of the work noise going on for ever, and the plague has solved both problems. It distracted me from the first, and took me away from the second.

To town in the morning; odd to see so many of the shops open. Noticed I'm very definitely only browsing for stuff I actually need - shopping has become such a pain that I don't want to do any more of it than necessary.

LIGHT SHOWERS with sun
Sunny spells
Windy

Some really fuckwitted behaviour down at Bournemouth yesterday. It's the same attitude that led to Brexit.

89°F in the bedroom now, and that's with the curtains closed since 11am. Don't recall an evening temperature over 84°F before.

0700 THUNDERY SHOWER
≤4 Ci Sun HOT
Breezy

Very hot today. Went for a walk round the block in the afternoon, like in the early days of the plague. I did feel better for getting out of the house.

≤1 Sun
VERY HOT
Breezy

Took the car to Pellimer and back just like the long-ago days, probably never to return, when I last did that at the end of February, 4 months ago. It was my regular Monday-morning routine for years, and then pfft!

I want to be ready to move out of this house as soon as things approach normality again, which won't be for a while judging from the way people are behaving on the street at the moment. 'They think it's all over.' They'll all be crowding into pubs Saturday week, and crowding the ICUs 3 weeks later.

~0 Sun VERY HOT

Very hot weather, and hotter to come, apparently.

≤2 Ci Sun HOT

Interesting that 'Monday morning' is still the same even if I'm not going into work; it's a state of mind I assume as I sit at the computer.

Reading The Lion in the North again, was reminded that this isn't the first time English people have fled to Scotland: 950 years ago people were doing the same thing after the Norman invasion, inc Edgar Atheling, the true successor to Harold.

0700 0 Sun HOT
->1400 4 Cu

0800 8
1100 <8 mAck Sun
Continuing to be less cloudy

To town in the morning; all the inessential shops were open, so I was able to get Bob's new album Rough and Rowdy Ways in HMV, and browse around Debenhams for the first time in at least 3½ months - bought a t-shirt. Haven't been so pleased with shopping since c. May 1995, when I got a debit card again after being unemployed.
At the M&S checkouts got talking to a staff member. They were saying how crowded the store suddenly was, and made a joke about the president of the Ukraine (who, I recall, was formerly a TV comedian) and Johnson, who is just an amateur.

The extended daylight saw me closing the curtains at 10.32pm - as late as it's going to get under normal circumstances.

0800 0 Sun
0900 2 small Cu
1300 LIGHT SHOWER
->~6-8 large Cu

|Bob|

Since the plague started it's been common to find the aisles of smaller shops closed while they re-stock that particular area. But if you ask politely, they will reach you the item you desire. Woman in the Co-op not only obliged my organic skimmed milk request today, but chose one with a longer date, unbidden.

Made bread. Since I've stopped needing work packed lunches, I've not made bread every Saturday like I used to; instead I make it whenever I get fed up with the shop stuff, which is about every 2 weeks.

Typically 6 large Cu
Sun
Warm

RAIN overnight
4-8 large Cu
Sun
HOT

Realised recently that this stage of the shutdown reminds me of A-level revision - the hot weather, the house to myself, the bursts of work, the nicking gin from my parents...

0700 0 Sun
1000 2 small Cu, Ci
1200 6 ambitious Cu
1700 8 thick Cs, Sun-through
HOT

Hot day.

0800 0 Sun
HOT
->
1200 6 Ci, Cu

Beautiful fine June weather.

0800 0 Sun
->HOT
1000 1 Ci, Cu cells
1500 5 Ci, hard-edged medium Cu

Harvested a lot more strawberries, a full handful this time.

Typically ~5 Ci and Cu
Breezy

In town found kidney beans (dry) - the first I've seen for 3 months. So of the three most obstinate things I couldn't get from March 12 onwards - yeast, bread flour and dry kidney beans - they were all back in the shops after 13 weeks.

Got out in the garden in the afternoon, cut back all the vegetation overhanging the path. Hot work. Pleased with myself afterwards though.

0900 5 Ci
->~2 Sun
1800 WINDY

≤8 Sc
MUGGY
Wind SE
Occasional sun
LIGHT SHOWERS

AM. SHOWER
8 Sc
Sun-breaks PM
->Windy

Took the car for a spin to Steeple Sinderby again. Got petrol on the way back - Tescos petrol station very quiet, and petrol £1.02! It was £1.30 last time I bought any. And not walking to work every day I've not been passing the petrol station sign that keeps me apprised of the price.

Parents came to visit later, the rain slackened off enough for us to go for a distanced walk round the park.

Latest coronavirus test negative. '"Reject" yourself!'

8
Much RAIN

Cloudy to start
c.1700 clearing ~2 Sun

COVID test collected about 11.30.

Harvested more strawberries later.

≤8 Sc
Some sun

Tidied up and swept the bins area outside the back door, before the rain started, luckily.

≤8 Sc
Some sun
Cold
SHOWERS and SPELLS OF RAIN

Cold and blowy in the morning, wore my coat into town, had the heating on when I got back.

COVID test kit arrived by courier at 6.45pm. I hope the neighbours were impressed and thought it some kind of crucial work document delivery.

Walking into town in the morning and thinking about how things are at the moment, I thought 'It's a strange new world - but full of opportunity.' I was pleased to realise that's how I felt. I'm thinking like a survivor.

0800 ≤8
Cold
Windy
Some sun
SPELLS OF RAIN
1500 Warmer

Have been allocated another COVID test because of the symptoms I reported yesterday, even though once again I'd said they were part of a migraine.

5-8 large Cu
Some sun
Breezy
Cold
SHOWERS

Developed a migraine about 11.30. Fell asleep about 2 and woke up convalescent. Slow, healing shower of rain at 6.30, very therapeutic.

5-8 Sc
some sun a.m.
1800 SLOW SHOWER

Rather cloudier than lately, but still hot. Had to work really hard again.

What's most astonishing about the events in the US is the kind of people who've come out against Trump, particularly since he had those people tear-gassed at that church so he could blasphemously pose with a bible. Dubya said Trump 'didn't understand America'.

Some sun
HOT

When I woke up in the morning I couldn't work out what day it was - Friday? Sunday?

Gave the car an idle in the afternoon. A lot of the parking spaces were empty, for the first time since the plague began.

Much sun
HOT

Sun ~3 Ci
HOT