… Is very contrived.
Author: neil.baldwin
A winters walk
Went for a walk with Helen up around St Leonards and The Lee. Saw a mixed flock with Yellowhammer, Bullfinch and a Common Buzzard. It was very cold, but well worth the effort to see the winter spectacle. There were no muddy paths just uneven ground because the mud was like concrete.
PS Saw a Green Woodpecker from the window at work on Friday (4 YTD 51).
6 months to take a picture
Justin Quinnell has a site dedicated to pinhole photography.
Base jumping with ski’s and a squirrel suit
Check this out.
wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
Coke to clean your loo
Coke Can Clean Your Toilet in a Pinch
from Lifehacker by Gina Trapani
When your toilet’s got rings and lime scale stains and you’ve got no cleaning gear on hand, grab a can of Coke out of the fridge.
According to wikiHow, you can pour Coke into a dirty toilet and the carbonic, citric, and phosphoric acids in it will break down stains, especially if you can leave it overnight to do the work. (Soda water will work too, without all the sugary residue.) Be warned though: this technique won’t save you from the dreaded brushing of the bowl itself.
Snipe
Bonus bird today from the office window. Snipe (1 YTD 47)
It’s snowing
First day back at work and it is snowing. Car tracks running up the curb all over the estate.
One car on the bypass had mounted the central barrier and was balanced on top. Two people at work put thier cars in the ditch.
A great day to start back to work.
Three new birds for the 2009 list
Went out early this morning (10am!), to Ivinghoe. it was really cold -3 C. Spotted a Stonechat. Soon got fed up with temperature and went to Hillside for coffee and biscuits, where we got Greenfinch and Greater Spotted Woodpecker. (3 YTD 46)
My First Post!
This is my first post. I took advantage of the 95% discount with DreamHost, which was a real bargain. I have two years of hosting with MySQL, shell access and “unlimited” bandwidth and storage!
Wilstone to pick up a few ticks
Late afternoon and getting cold. Gulls flyinging by the 10’s to roost.
Tufted Duck, Common Cormorant, Common Coot, Great Crested Grebe, Common Gull, Common Teal, Wigeon, Shoveler, Mute Swan, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Grey Wagtail (13 YTD 43)