AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY 31st AUGUST 2015 06:30 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (31st August 1945)
Germany...
Field Marshal Walter Von Brauchitsch is taken into Allied custody

Washington DC...
The USA restores diplomatic relations with Finland

Marcus Island...
The Japanese garrison formally surrenders aboard USN destroyer Bagley

Sumatra...
The Japanese garrison formally surrenders aboard RN cruiser London

Japan...
Carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38 conduct patrols and reconaissance flights

Korea...
25th Army of Soviet 1st Far Eastern Front establishes holding positions along the 38th parallel

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Family Finances
Me Time
Meditation
Missus Time

Twitter Followers = 1,997 (up 1)
Non-followed eliminated = 0
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Unfollowers eliminated = 1
@Notsalmon
New Followers followed back = 1
@LorraineAlliset, 
Spammers not followed back = 1
@popejohnpau

3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION

This character likes to pride itself on the fact that it's open and honest about mistakes, and there are two I'm currently suffering the consequences of. The first was not wearing plasters when breaking in new footwear - I now have blisters so severe that I can't wear footwear so I've been quietly at home barefoot to allow healing to begin. The second was thinking I could do without the de-humidifier for Summer!

I had supposed that I would be having the windows open for Summer, allowing air to circulate freely, but I reckoned without El-Nino. El-Nino is a roughly ten-yearly phenomenon centred in the Southern Pacific where due to a build-up of heat in that part of the ocean, the currents all start flowing the wrong way. This affects the jet-stream, driving it much further south of Europe than normal for Summer. The result? It's around ten degrees colder than average!

Consequently I've had the windows shut and the humidity has built up to the point where I can feel the damp! Defeated, I have restored the de-humidifier to its usual home, and hopefully within a week, house humidity will be back down to acceptable levels. 

Of course, in the overall scheme of things, these errors have resulted only in temporary discomforts. On the Grand Scale, with some gifts and blessings from the wider universe, this character enjoys a life of bliss. Of this I'm always aware and profoundly grateful. If anything, the flaws in this character, and the journey of discovery to address them, have led to getting life priorities right and the happiness I enjoy today.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
What steps are you taking to manage the flaws in your own character?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Damp drizzly start
Dry, cool and cloudy thereafter with a moderate northerly wind
Max Temp = 13 degC at noon
Min Temp = 12 degC at midnight
Sunrise at 06:13
Sunset at 20:01
Moon: 

Weathertrack: Britain is in a run of cool, damp northerly air between an anticyclone in the Atlantic and a depression over western Europe

Air Pressure: 1015 millibars and static

6. TODAY'S ONELINER

Want to surprise your girlfriend? Introduce her to your wife :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY

Bill Burr on his marriage

8. TRIVIA

Tanks were initially called “landships.” However, in an attempt to disguise them as water storage tanks rather than as weapons, the British decided to code name them “tanks.”

9. ZEN WISDOM

People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who don’t compare themselves to others, who confidently advance along their chosen path—such people are happy, such people are truly great.