Very hot day, but luckily there was a a stiff breeze to take the edge off it.

Reassuring feeling of finding myself back in the pasta aisle at Tescos where it all began on Mar 12 - when I photographed the empty shelves - and seeing them once more full of pasta.

Text from S. She is in the new Northern Contagion Zone.

<1 Sun
Breezy
VERY HOT

Sun
Occasionally thick Ci
HOT

It's the first night of the holidays - but it feels very different, this year, because I'm already at home. The plague has really saved me work-wise, because I wasn't in a good place Jan-Feb, and it took me till May to get my mojo back. But now I'm once again confident of my abilities.

Some sun

Some sun

8 Sc
RAIN at times
Windy
2000 Sun

Mowed lawns in the afternoon - there was a light shower just as I finished, which is the best timing, because you feel virtuous for having done the mowing, but can stop work immediately with a clear conscience.

0600 0 Sun
0700 1 Ci
->4-8 Cu, Sc
->large Cu
1320 LIGHT SHOWER
1440 HEAVY SQUALLY SHOWER

Realised I had the face covering on upside down yesterday. It was certainly easier today with it the right way up.
Lot of people in town getting much too close, I think they assume a covering makes them invulnerable.

RAIN overnight
SPELLS OF RAIN
SUNNY SPELLS
Breezy

Duly put on face covering and went shopping. I felt like a complete plum at first, but soon I began to enjoy it, it was like live SF role-playing. Was irked to see 1 or 2 customers in both the Tesco Express and the Co-op not following my example.

It was a relief though to take it off when I came out of the Co-op and turned towards home, like taking one's bra off.

RAIN overnight
≤8 Sc
SUNNY SPELLS

The face-covering ordinance begins at midnight. It is going to be very strange. Fortunately I took a lesson from whoever that Vietnam war strategist was I watched that prog about that time and didn't allow my ego to strand me in an illogical position, because I could see a month or so ago that it was coming.

Much sun
HOT

Notice the Radio 4 start has gone back to 0520, and News Briefing is back at 0530. During the plague it was replaced by staying with the World Service till after the 5.30 news.

At the daily zoom meeting B was talking about the back-to-work plan and saying he didn't want us to go back to the office because it had become obvious that we could perfectly well work remotely.

0600 7 m-Ack
Gradually more sun
->HOT

2-8 Cu, Sc
Sun

Co-op had signs up warning people that the face covering ordination takes effect on Friday.

Encouraging news about COVID vaccines and therapies. Latter probly more important as it'd be at least a year before the latter is widely in use, even if it turns out to be a winner.

About noon was looking at the sunlight, which had just come round to that side of the house, gilding the edge of the gold curtains, with the green and yellow euonymous visible through the white net curtain, and blue sky and white clouds in the upper half of the window. It was a good, peaceful feeling, the sort of way I hoped I'd feel all the time living here, but which the parking situation prevented.

6 small Cu
Cooler

(11.30pm). Spotted the comet 'Neouise' - pretty faint. At 11pm could just find it with the naked eye once I'd located it with binoculars. So that's better than Halley, which was very dim if I saw it at all in 1986, and worse than Hale-Bopp, which looked like a proper picture-book comet to the naked eye in 1997. This one was in the NW rather like H-B.

Have stayed up 1-1½ hours past my bedtime for this. For science!

Saw a shooting star during the observations too.

8 Sc
BRIGHT at times

If I'd stuck to my plan of moving elsewhere in town, my dreams would be in bits. As it is, the corona disaster has been a good thing for my plans.
That's assuming I don't get the plague and die, of course. Though if I do, I won't care, as I'll be dead.

Much sun
HOT

Doing the Weather Diaries in the morning found that Jul 17 1989 ended in 3 dots which looked suspiciously out-of-band, and they were - I'd got distracted and left 3 or 4 paras untranscribed. Duly did them, and was rewarded with two incidents I'd forgotten about.

0700 <8 Sc-allop Sun
1100 6 Cu
1700 0 HOT

Rather gloomy day.

8 Sc
Dark at times

ST SWITHIN'S DAY. Woke up to a beautiful sunny morning, but it soon clouded over, and in the afternoon it was quite dark and cold.

Some sun
Quickly ->8 Sc
PM DARK COLDER
1730 SHOWER

All in all I think I've coped quite well with the plague - perhaps thanks to Survivors.

RAIN overnight
≤8 Sc
Some sun

Some sun
HOT
Calm
->Breezy

0700 Sun 1 Cu
->
1400 ≤8 Sc

4-8 large Cu
Sun
Breezy

RAIN at times
PM SHORT SHARP SHOWER

(9pm). It was raining on and off during the day, but since about 6.30-7 it's been raining determinedly. The near back lawn is visibly greener.

RAIN overnight
8 Sc
RAIN at times
1900 STEADY RAIN

8 Sc
1600 LIGHT RAIN

0700 0 Sun
0900 1 Cu
->
4-8 Cu, Sc
Breezy

Woke up at 4, couldn't get back to sleep, so got up at 6 and did admin. It was grey and windy, and when I got back into bed at 6.45 it was raining, But much to my surprise I fell asleep till 8, by when it was a bright breezy day.

0600 8 Sc
0700 RAIN
0800 Sun
Typically 6 Cu
(all) WINDY

8 Sc
LIGHT RAIN at times
Breezy

Some sun
Breezy
1600 SPITS OF RAIN
2000 RAIN

Sun and HEAVY SHOWERS

≤8 Sc, large Cu
Breezy
Occasional sun
1630 LIGHT SHOWER