Weather & Wildlife

Storm Dennis? Well, it’s very windy and feels cold in the wind, and yesterday it poured all day. But today it’s been sunny and dry all day, and we went for a walk along the Esplanade. High tops in the distance shining with snow, the nearer hills and coasts looking green and summery!
Several cormorants, each solo, very definitely On Business, Going Somewhere, fast and low over the water; four oystercatchers pottering about on the rocks, not catching any oysters as far as I could see; just two pairs of eider ducks where we often see a whole gaggle of them, diving for food synchronously to minimize the depredations of the lone attendant thieving herring gull. Crows on the railings, nodding how-do-you-do to passers by like us.
Then, on the front lawn as we returned home, a couple of magpies – departing in a hurry as soon as they saw us arriving.
No photos; didn’t have my camera with me today.
(Greenock)

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Had a longish power cut around noon, and it keeps dropping out for a few seconds-minute every now and then. Makes using the computer somewhat difficult. :-)

So I’m in bed with my phone to watch Netflix. That’ll work as long as there is power, just a shame that when the Livebox reboots, it takes several minutes.

The sky is extremely grey, but no rain as yet. Which is good as the forecast is for a weeks worth of rain to fall in an hour or two. As if it isn’t already more than wet enough!

No power problems here, touch wood.

Had a longish power cut around noon, and it keeps dropping out for a few seconds-minute every now and then. Makes using the computer somewhat difficult. :-)

There was a UPS (about 420VA as I recall) left in an abandoned rack.
Quick tidy up and put in place next to the router and most connection interruptions went away.

PS. I should explain – it’s in the garage and I don’t want to ferret around and lift it to read the ‘plate’

A UPS on freecycle in Cambridge a couple of days ago, but we’re in Greenock at the moment and I expect it’ll be gone before we’re back in Ely.

Walked the boys to school in the crisp sun this morning, a bit of a contrast to having to scrape 2 inches of snow off the roof of the car and drive through a blizzard yesterday, and the day before we had an hour of hailstones which then melted and made their way through the leaky roof.

Didn’t the young whipper snappers want to go out in the snow like Scott and Amundsen :-))

They drive them to the gates next door.

They drive them to the Weight Watchers sessions in the evening too.
Now that bit seems somehow to be dreadfully perverse.