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Why I usually try to book direct flights...
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Aurora from Gloucestershire
I have a camera on the front of my house looking just east of north. A few nights back there was a widespread auroral display over the British Isles. I didn't see it myself, but my meteor camera did. You can see some faint vertical rays on the left along the bottom of the images. The camera is very sensitive, and might well have recorded something ( Read more... ) -
It's been a while
Life goes on, here. Socially, there's much less happening than there was pre-pandemic. We catch at least a few of the online filk events that happen from time to time, sometimes just on a smart-phone, and sometimes on a big screen while sitting more comfortably in our recently expanded living room.
I do spend a little time on the radio, usually ( Read more... ) -
Day One Hundred and Three
There've been three days of tidying up. The front door has been sanded down and re-varnished. The outside of the extension has been cleaned. Even the driveway has received a bit of pressure washing. The only serious work remaining on the main extension is ours. I've yet to complete the windowsills, and we've got paintings to hang and the furniture ( Read more... ) -
Day One Hundred
The stove fitter returned to deal with the blistered paint. We'll need to repeat the four hour baking in process. As that needed good ventilation, we'll do thatt when we can have all the windows open. Hopefully, this time, the paint won't blister. -
Day Ninety Nine
Last Monday the front steps were completed. As expected they look a little patchy, but the local climate will probably see to that fairly soon.
On Wednesday the stove fitter returned to commission the stove. He lit it, and we kept it alight for the four hours supposedly necessary for the paint to bake on. On Thursday morning we spotted a poroblem ( Read more... ) -
Day Ninety Six
There's been a lot of tidying up outside. The top of the window frame was completed yesterday, and that's made a huge difference to the appearance of the house. Right at he beginning the short wall along one side of the front steps was partly removed to make space for the foundations, and then the rest of it was removed so that the rainwater ( Read more... ) -
Day Ninety Four
Day eighty-eight was just over a week ago, on Tuesday March 9th. A lot happened. The remaining soffits and fascias were fitted, and one rather ugly join was tidied up significantly. The huge hole in the front garden was mostly filled with gravel, covered, and then back-filled with soil. The wood-burner was installed. That which involved the ( Read more... ) -
Day Eighty Seven (Part 2)
The floor itself is now done, and looks great. The skirting and thresholds still need doing, but we are making progress.
I'm keeping an eye on the boiler pressure, just in case there was some damage done this morning, as the first hint of trouble would likely be a drop in pressure. Fingers crossed...