Abigail and I went to West Bay on Saturday in the Land Rover and climbed the top of the cliff on the eastern side for this view: We took the Land Rover as Hannah had her car and has gone to Northampton this weekend, did you spot the Land Rover in the car park? Na, thought not, as it’s only about 5px across..
We’re having a new kitchen, we’ve chosen to do the rip out ourselves and have it prepped and ready for installation of the new one. I failed to get decent “before” photo, so this one will have to do and you’ll have to use your imagination to fill in the tall cupboard and wall units for me. Thanks! Spend an evening ripping out.. Ripped the units out and pulled the tiles off the walls. Set up the sink outside so that we could wash up, thought this has proved far less useful than I imagined. We had Johnny in to do the plastering. Gave it few days to dry and put on the mist coat. Then a second coat.. Tonight or tomorrow night I might get the first top coat on. Acrylic white emulsion, apparently that’s the business when it comes to hard wearing paint.
We have given away the bike trailer that we were given for Abigail, but of cause having made a bracket for my bike it wouldn’t fit anyone else’s bike, so I have made a bracket for new recipients bike: I have made a better job of this than I did for my own bike. This one is steel and shouldn’t suffer with the bending and fatigue issues that I had with my previous bracket. I hope that by giving this away that we will get Abigail on a tag along type bike in an effort to get her riding.
I went for a bike ride on Tuesday to see what the flooding looked like. The top left photo: I chose not to ride through this was it’s probably about 0.3 meters deep. I rode around via Maiden Newton to see the extent of the flooding down stream. Unknown to me the water levels were still rising, so when I returned to the far side of this flood it was probably a few centimetres deeper. Either way I wanted to get home so rode through it. I got very wet feet.
It’s been a sad week or two. First off Tigger probably had conjunctivitis in his right eye, so kept it closed for a couple of days with brown sludge coming from it, then the left eye went the same, so we went tried to clean it etc, but on the Monday 31th October we called the vets, they saw him on the Wednesday and it turned out to be an ulcer. He went on some meds, pain relief, drops in the eye etc. Then Monday 7th he had clear liquid coming from the eye. We called the vets again and they saw him. This time they kept him in and planned on operating on Tuesday. So I left him there over night. They sedated him and got a better look, but found that the internal structures of the eye were damaged so opted to remove the eye. He’s in again […]
We went to visit friends who live very close to London, so much so that they tell people they live in London, when in fact they live just the other side of the line. We took the opportunity to go into London and visit the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. It was really cool to go again and to get to see the diplodocus skeleton.
We lit the stove for the first time last night. I was pleased with how easy it was to light. I thought it made the room pretty warm. This morning we both felt the house was still warm, the chimney breast on the stairs side upstairs was still definitely warm this morning, which I had not noticed last night, so I imagine that heat has been trickling out into the house all night long.
I had always wondered why they had a grit spreading trailer up there, now I know. The gritter was being used a feeder to feed the apples onto a riddle, where the rubbish drops out, then they go up a washing belt and lastly drop into a mulcher/liquidiser thing. Once they’re done they were shovelled into the press by hand. They made up 10 layers on the press and squeezed the juice out. It was lovely, tasted good, as good a free apple juice does, very good.
I have created a new revision of the code that runs on the Land Rover Arduino. This extra bit of code will run a bit of program that just loops, flashing the front head lights. Here it is in the simulator in action.
We visited Cogden beach on Sunday, it’s a National Trust Beach so free parking for us. Very nice thought it comes with no amenities, which I imagine keeps the masses away. We had a lovely time, it was not as warm as Abigail made it look.
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