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Storm due…
Jul 4th 2015
At 2:10am the lightning was approaching:
It reached us at 3:40am, when we woke and spent an hour enjoying the sights and sounds, and trying (and failing) to photograph the flashes.
Admin1 is reading A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin. We watched the film of Borkmann’s Point which was excellent but a bit different from the book we have both recently read.
Storms on the Way
Jul 3rd 2015
After a warm and sunny day, the clouds gather.
Admin1 is reading Borkmann’s Point by Håkan Nesser. Admin2 is reading Orfeo by Richard Powers.
Cloud of the Day: Asperitas (maybe)
Jul 1st 2015
An even hotter day (33.3°C) with lots of thunder but no rain. Admin1 was reading Red Wolf by Liza Marklund but abandoned it in irritation. An irritation compounded by a morning spent listening to 4 hours of drivel on “Resilience” at a training course.
Moonshine
Jun 29th 2015
Admin1 is reading Unspoken by Mari Jungstedt. We scored 9.5 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Clouds of the Night: Noctilucents
Jun 29th 2015
We have been watching out for these beautiful clouds every night and tonight at midnight they finally arrived!
Admin1 is reading Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds.
Night Sights
Jun 24th 2015
After sunset the moon, Venus and Jupiter are nicely grouped at the moment, and this is a first attempt at Jupiter.
At least the bands are visible…
It was taken with a Canon 7D attached to a Meade ETX125 telescope, and controlled by an Android tablet running the extremely useful DSLR Controller app. Ten shots, stacked and processed with RegiStax (a somewhat hair-raising program, but very powerful). Jupiter is low in the sky at the moment, hence the colour fringes, and it’s also on the opposite side of the Sun, and therefore small. We should be able to get a better result by taking a film and stacking many more images.
[Later] Second attempt, now I’ve skimmed the RegiStax manual and learned about RGB correction and a bit about wavelet processing:
Below is the moon, a much easier target.
Admin1 is taking a break from The Kills and reading The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdarsdottir.
Weather of the Day: Cloudy
Jun 19th 2015
Admin1 is reading the blockbusting 1033 small print pages of The Kills by Richard House.
2 Bees or Not 2 Bees
Jun 16th 2015
See you later pollinator.
Our solar panels have, over 3.5 years, now made over 5MWh. At day’s end the Sunny Beam data monitor read 5008.35kWh, while the output meter which measures current supplied to the grid (and therefore governs our FITS payments) read 5151.86kWh. So the monitor has underestimated our generation by 143.51kWh.
Admin1 is reading Big Bad Wolf by Nele Neuhaus, and watched The Butterfly Effect. We are both watching Prime Suspect, and tonight we watched the rather good Ex Machina.
Kaffi dagsins Ethiopian Cherry Red Natural Process: delicious sweet rich raisiny fruity flavours.
Thyme Flies
Jun 7th 2015
Another >13kWh day; our best day ever. Admin1 is reading Disgrace by Jussi Adler-Olson. Admin2 is reading Solo by William Boyd. We are watching Fortitude. We scored 6 on the Guardian Weekend quiz. Ho hum.
Rainbow Wheel
Jun 2nd 2015
A rainbow with supernumaries and spokes.
Admin1 is reading He Who Kills the Dragon by Leif GW Persson. Admin2 is reading Dissolution by CJ Sansom and has now read the entire series out of order. The first shall be last.
We are watching Intruders.
Halo sunshine
May 30th 2015
Admin1 is reading The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson.
We scored 9 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Red and Black
May 28th 2015
The elegant black lady and the spotty little man.
Admin1 is reading Reykjavík Nights by Arnaldur Indriðason. Admin2 is reading Disgrace by Jussi Adler-Olson.
BaBee Blue
May 23rd 2015
On the splendid bush up the road.
Admin1 is reading seveneves by Neal Stephenson (867pp) and Admin2 is reading Heartstone by CJ Sansom (729pp). We scored 8 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Hail on Earth
May 19th 2015
A spiky day with intermittent sun, rain, hail, wind and distant thunder.
Admin1 is reading Frozen Tracks by Ake Edwardson (well-written and creepy).
Critter of the Day: Frog again
May 17th 2015
Admin1 is reading The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. Admin2 is reading Crack Down by Val MacDermid (I agree with Admin1). We scored 5 on the Guardian Weekend quiz. Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh!
Halo Again
May 15th 2015
Another >11kWh day.
Admin1 is reading Crack Down by Val MacDermid (short and crisply written, but failed to make car sales fraud very interesting). Admin2 is reading The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson.