8 As
Sun-through
Brighter around 1100
1400 HALO

Typically 6 Cu Sun

Got tons of work done in the morning. The hotel room environment is so unstimulating that work seems fascinating by comparison.

Some sun
SPOTS OF RAIN

0600 8 Sc
SPELLS OF FINE RAIN
1500 <8 Sun

First morning working as a digital nomad. Kept swinging between thinking it's the worst mistake I ever made (on a par with educating Marmalade), and thinking it's the best idea I ever had and being astonished by my audacity in choosing to improve my life in such a bold way.

Walked 2 miles into Grainley and back for a keyboard. Interesting that wireless is now the default, and to find a wired one I had to go to a place with a bigger selection.

Got rained on on way back, caught in a shower, but the sun came out again and dried me off to some degree.

Later had first nomadic Zoom meeting. I thought the Premier Inn free wi-fi wasn't up to the job but colleagues said it was better than my previous home connection.

Have been thinking - 'Now I'm only responsible for my bags, the car, the stuff in the units and a few boxes at M's house. I am free!' No more side passage or roof or damp to worry about.

RAIN overnight
Sun and SHOWERS
2-8 Cu
some huge
1200 THUNDER SHOWERS
1830 CuNian seen

As you can see, not only did I neglect to supply myself with cartridges, but with a working biro too. It must be many a long year since I had to do a diary entry in pencil.

Lovely morning; set myself to serious work fixing the batch files I use for my past diaries so they'd work on the laptop. It was good 'digital nomad' practice. Getting an entry typed up and weather-checked gave me a feeling of stability.

About 2.15 dark clouds came over and there was a shower, rain on the windows. I felt very cosy, as if I was on holiday, but I never have to go home, because I don't have a home now.

0600 0 Sun
1000 4 Cu
1200 8 Sc
SHOWER
1415 SHOWER
[usual ink changes to pencil] 2030 RAIN

Noticed that now I don't have a home as such, I've started to attach homely sentiments to my storage units.

8 Sc
OCCASIONAL RAIN

Had to park up the road at the house. Got call to say completion had occurred. Slowly went round saying goodbye. I could by then have moved the car to right outside the house, but I thought no, it's a piece of Earl's Court I mustn't take to Maidenhead.

Perhaps fittingly, the space was empty when I left, as it was when I arrived. I walked down the path, I laid my hand on the pillar, I looked back once, and then I got in the car and drove away.

Windy
<8 9p Sc
Few sun-breaks
1200 on, SPELLS OF RAIN

After the last half load came back for my bags and cases - how empty the house looked without a load waiting!
I thought of 'This house is empty now' at the end of Vieux Carré. But it felt exciting too, like going off to university in 1988.

As I drove I could feel the stress of the parking thing, and the move, just dropping off me.

Stopped at the Turnpike for hotel supplies. My nomadic existence has begun.

0000 Moon
0400 0 ->Sun
->8 Sc
1100->->Windy

This is my last night staying at this house. It was the parking that spoiled everything, because I couldn't feel secure when I was away, and I couldn't have anyone come to do improvement work because of the need to preserve the parking space.

I don't rule out owning a house again, but it's been such a relief to hear the rain at the hotel and know I'm not on the hook for fixing the roof, or to see the dilapidation here and know it's no longer my problem.

I will miss having the garden, and the big windows and high ceilings.

SPELLS OF RAIN
Also sun
Huge Cu
1550 HEAVY SHOWER

Text first thing in the morning inviting me for second coronavirus vaccination.

0500 0 Sun
0800 4 Ci, small Cu, S
->huge Cu
1330 SHOWER
1515 SHOWER
1715 THUNDER SHOWER

Excellent shower on the dual carriageway on the way home - saw black 'rain-brooms' ahead, temp dropped from 16°C to 10°C, lots of standing water on the road. Then a wonderful period of sun and dazzling spray like a good dream, and rainbows in the spray when seen in the mirrors behind me.

RAIN overnight
0500 8
Some sun later
1500 Huge Cu 16°C
1510 VERY HEAVY SHOWER 12°C
1530 10°C
1600 SPELL OF RAIN

4-8 huge Cu Sun
SHOWERS
1915 RAIN

0600 8 RAIN
->
SPELLS OF RAIN
1430 Brightening
1700 7 large Cu Sun
1930 SHOWER
2045 RAIN

8
SPELLS OF RAIN a.m.

Got the news that we'd exchanged. Unpleasant rainy drive back, but thought 'I'll never have to worry about that damp course again.'

0600 8
0900 RAIN FLURRIES
to
1400 RAIN
1600 cont

Trimmed the euonymuses so they don't overhang the gate/pavement. I think it will be good karma if I leave the place in good order for my successors.

Put the rubbish out - for the last time?

2-6 Cu, Ci Sun
Warm

0750 SHOWER
Sun 2-6 Cu
More Ci later

Did my washing at 5am as suggested by mum - their washing machine is very quiet. Hung it out in the garden at 6.

RAIN overnight
3-6 Cu Sun
Warm
Windy

NB for next weekend that I can't expect to get optimal parking, especially if the weather's bad.

Leaves on the trees waving in the breeze on the way home, reminding me of Survivors series 2.

Typically 6 Cu, Ci Sun
Warm

Horrible weather driving to Dulchester. Was lucky to find a parking space at the house at 9am, because of course people weren't keen to go out.

0500 8 Ns RAIN
Breezy
~1100 stops

Had tea on garden bench with mum.

0-4 Cu Sun
Cold air

These last couple of evenings I've noticed that placid Apr/May evening light I love so much. Something unhurried about it.

0-8 Cu Sun
1300 SHOWER

Sun 3->≤8 Cu
Cold
1700 SHOWER

0700 Sun huge Cu
->typically 6 huge shower Cu
SHOWERS
(some HAIL)
Windy

MAY DAY BANK HOLIDAY. Just took a look out of the guestroom window, my very old bedroom 1975-1982. Surprised how many memories were stirred by the view of the garden and the trees across Galen Lane.

≤8 Sun
becoming WINDY
->
1800 VERY WINDY
RAIN

Very localised shower after lunch - raining at the house, but the Avenue was all dry when I drove out of Dulchester ¼ hour later.

0900 6 fair-weather Cu Sun
->
larger Cu
1445 SHOWER

Had very pleasant Saturday evening dinner with parents; we sat a long time afterwards over our Chablis, talking.

0600 0 Sun
0800 1
-->
≤7 vertically developed Cu