This past week hasn’t been especially exciting, we’ve been packing and avoiding the rather Cornish weather. This week is looking no better in terms of the weather. Last Sunday we went to Manitoulin Island and did the Adventure Trail part of the Cup and Saucer trail which we did last year. It was a lovely walk, the weather being cool was rather nice. We got a few pictures: Also, I took apart Hannah’s old laptop which we aren’t bring back with us, I wanted to keep the hard drive so as not to get lose the data, or get sensitive information stolen.. So in taking it apart I also took out this, the Central Processing Unit (CPU) and took some pictures of it: Those pins you see are indeed gold plated.
Tigger got chipped today, he’s faster, more economical.. “Oh, that’s not what getting chipped means?”. Your joking, oh well, he’s had it done now. We now own a scan-able cat. He was far from thrilled, hissed and bared his teeth when they stuck him with the needle. I’m glad they do retina recognition for humans, don’t see why Tigger couldn’t have gone that route. Today I flew the big heli in the kitchen with the camera on it, honestly, it’ not worth your time to watch this video. It’s just the view from the heli for almost 30 seconds, the video has been made worse by youtube trying to reduce the vibration..
Not a great deal has been happening with us. Last weekend we were pretty social, going to friends on Friday and Saturday night then having friends over on Sunday night. Last week was scorchio, since then we have had a few thunder storms which have given way to fairer weather, a lot less humidity, which was regularly reaching the 100% mark. This week we gave up the Versa, the lease expired. Not more car for us.. poor us.. just pulling your leg, you didn’t really think for a moment that Brendan would go car-less did you?? Te he. We have a rental now, a Mazda 3. Hannah has been super organised as normal, and is getting things organised for the big move. I think Tigger is convinced that we’ve gone crazy, he’s having to inspect all these new boxes and things which are coming out of hiding or simply moving […]
This weekend we did Dragon boating on Saturday, it was fun, needless to say we didn’t win. Golder put in a team every year, Hannah and I rowed on the team. It was a lovely sunny day, great fun, though other than rowing in the three races, we walked about Bell Park and sat about in the shade!! My heart sunk when I returned to the car to find a piece of paper under the windscreen wiper, this is what it was: Initially I wasn’t sure whether to pay it or not! But it later occurred to me that I did’t want the credit for inspiring someone to become a traffic warden/officer. On Sunday we headed for Killarney, arriving at about 1pm, we stopped briefly in the car park to unpack the bits we wanted on the beach, put on sun screen etc, as Hannah was doing my back, a […]
Thought I’d take a few pictures this afternoon, as I felt these following topics were important for you to know. Such as the fact that I had repaired both my helicopters, the large one had the broken blade grip (as per the entry) and the small one had a broken skid leg, so I repaired it with some plastic and superglue. Also the Genius now have a chipped tail rotor, so I shall be ordering another one, two, maybe three or four as I seem to get through them pretty quick. I also made a box for carrying and transporting them without the worry of damage, being an eco friendly type, I made it from the original packaging! The box was/is constructed from corrugated cardboard, I was able to fold it accurately by flattening the corrugations using the a ruler and the back edge of a pair of scissors. Today […]
We really enjoyed our visit home, much fun was had, wonderful to see everyone. We made it back, a pretty uneventful journey really, though many of the people on the plane did clap and cheer when plane landed, not sure why as it wasn’t particularly windy and it seemed like a pretty fair landing. We’ve not been up to very much since we got back, I installed the AC unit. We picked up Tigger and got him settled back into life at the flat. Hannah got a great video of him last week: You might have noticed that there was not a keyboard on the desk? Well that’s because Tigger has pushed it right under the upper desk shelf.. and that is why Hannah and I sometimes fail to do much typing on the computer, it’s all Tigger’s fault! The Weather here is warm and humid, today Google says it’s […]
I have been spending some of my free time modelling the Genius FP in Inventor, a cad software package that I have access to at work. This link is to the PDF of the model, now I believe that if you have a PDF reader, ideally the Adobe one, that ti should open this file and you should be able to view it in 3D.. GeniusFP
On Saturday there was a mud bogging event at Chelmsford, which is a community just outside of Sudbury, about a 15min drive away. Mud Bogging is a basically a drag race through a water/mud filled trench against both the clock and your opponent in the other lane. There were a number of classes, standard, which are just trucks, some with bigger wheels and more powerful engines, others looked like somebody’s mum was going to pretty cross that they’d had her car, because she has to drive it to work on Monday! Then the modified class, which meant that the truck was not road worthy and specifically built for the task at hand. also there were 4 wheelers (ATV, quad in English), but I didn’t see them go.. It rained, hard, so i left at about 3pm. I found this wasp, building her nest in Troy’s shed, I asked if I […]
This morning I went looking for somewhere big and open to fly the helicopters. Having been exploring south of Sudbury last summer I remembered a quarry I had seen down that way. It proved to be a great spot to fly, very quiet, devoid of tall objects to crash into and set in the bottom of a valley. Perfect. I was able to fly fast and high without too many worries. View Larger Map The first flight went well, with the Genius, then I flew the V120D02s, I flew some very fast lengths of the open area, did some turns and was able to bring the helicopter back fairly confidently. Until I eventually did a turn close to the ground and touched the ground, with the helicopter rolled over at 45deg, one of the rotor blades detached from the head and went somersaulting through the air, landing a few meters […]
Recent Comments