This is like the 'press button to exit' on my last visit to hospital, when I spent so long photographing the sign to capture the moment, that there wasn't a moment.

All kinds of factors seem to have united to bless this project. The weather, the parking, work. I'm hoping that's a good omen.

0 Sun

Last night about 2.30 saw a strange light on the bedclothes - realised that the friendly Moon, low in the West, was shining through a crack in the curtains onto the bed. Heartening.

0600 FROST?
->Sun
typically 4 Cu

Took a few more boxes in the van, also the diary chair and table. I'm writing this in a deckchair in the bedroom.

0600 8 high
Cold
--->
1500 6 fair-weather Cu Sun

0500 0
->Sun
->0/8 high haze
Warm

0500 MIST
--->
1000 c.3 flat Cu Sun
Warm

Sun 2-6 Ci

0600 0
->Sun
0930 3 Ci
->Ci & Cu
Air cold

Remember the other week when I found myself appreciating the garden and house now that I'm leaving them? While typing up my 15-years-ago diary early in the morning found myself at the old flat appreciating that just the same one sunny Sunday. The next day I was coming to view this place...

Now I find myself coolly excited. It's a fine sunny evening with bright blue sky, and I have now a feeling of potential and adventure and things opening up, as if I'm sailing out into bright blue seas.

0600 0 FROST
->Sun
1400 ~5 Cu

0700 0 Sun FROST
->->
0900 8 SHOWER
then sunny intervals

~4 Cu Sun

-1°C overnight
0600 FROST
->
Sun 6 large Cu

Traffic back to normal, also fumes. 'The air would soon be reeking of petrol.'

Odd granular frost in the morning. I'd've thought it was a frozen sprinkling of snow, except it was only on places where frost would be (cars, roofs, fence rails, grass...)

Last night btw, for the first time this year, noticed when getting into bed at 8pm that there was enough light coming through the curtains to make it abnormally early to be going to bed.
Also, very early in the morning, about 4 am, with the streetlights still off had fine view of Arcturus high in the SW and Scorpius to the south. Seeing Arcturus in the west in the small hours in April like seeing Orion and Gemini marching before the dawn in the east in July.

-0°C overnight
0600 0
GRANULAR FROST
Typically 5 large Cu
Sun

Up at 4.15, beautiful morning.

0800 0 Sun
->1000 5 Cu

4/8 dirty Cu/As, S Sun-through
Breezy
More sun in the evening

Some sun

A couple of times now I've looked out of the back bedroom window at the tidy lawns and the garden path, and the brightly-painted shed and the bright green fir tree, and the apple tree, and wondered if I really want to leave it all. But 'location'. I can't be happy here, and I told the house I would try to sell it to someone who could appreciate it, and I think that's what I've managed. 'Life is a casting off.'

Some sun

Typically 5 Cu Sun
Cold

Sorting out Private Eyes at the storage place. Among the 2013 ones I found an April Fool cover with evil Boris Johnson, caption 'I'm going to be Prime Minister'. Chilling. An example of what Orwell said about Louis-Napoleon and Hitler, that for an adventurer it's good not to be taken too seriously early on.

-0°C overnight
Typically 4 large low Cu Sun
Fresh breeze N

EASTER MONDAY. I like Easter Monday because it's more special than a normal bank holiday, but you don't have to do anything special - no buns to buy, or turkey to cook.

0400 9°C
0700 8 low dark Sc, wind cold strong N
0945 Brighter but SNOW 6°C
1030--->
1430 5 Cu Sun

0700 8
--->
1100 ~1 Sun
Warm in sun

I've mentioned the unusual self-checkouts at Wilkinsons which are actually just ordinary ones which you operate while a staff member looks on benevolently. Particularly enjoyed using them today, I quietly whistled the Superstore theme as I trained the scanner gun on the goods.

≤8 with sun-breaks
Cold

GOOD FRIDAY. Colder today.

≤8
Some sun-breaks
Cold

0500 Moon-through
->Hazy sun
Breezy