Ciaran’s Random Writings

Finally sunshine is upon us. This means gardening, and during the week the ability to work in the garden, at least when it’s possible to angle the laptop away from the sun so the screen is still visible. The orchard is a mass of blossom at the moment. The apple tree pictured right is probably the best apple tree in the world. When they’re ready, which will be around mid-September, they’re enormous, deep red, and pink in the middle. The picture below is a close-up of the blossom from the same tree, hacked about with using qtpfsgui to make it look arty farty. For once I’m quite pleased with the results.

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It turns out I was wrong about the annual day of snow, as we had some proper snow today complete with snowballs and a snowman. Only the chickens failed to get into the spirit of things, refusing to come out of their house.

If the image looks odd, it’s a result of me inexpertly playing with multiple exposures to create an HDR image using qtpfsgui.

Wind is probably my least favourite kind of weather, and moreso when we’ve had what seems to be weeks of it. What’s normally an easy journey up and down the A1 on Friday was made a lot less pleasant by various obstacles in the way, ranging from lorries lying on their sides to bits of signage that had become detached and blown into the road.

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We had what seems to have become our annual day of snow last week. Sadly I spent all of it working, so here’s a picture of it from my office window to commemorate the non-event. As it turns out, I didn’t miss much as there wasn’t even enough to build a snowman.

Also in the picture you can see that my anti-chicken/turkey fence which I cleverly made out of untreated wood hasn’t rotted away yet, and perhaps even more miraculously the hastily constructed shed hasn’t blown away in the perpetual gales.

It occurred to me that I haven’t posted anything here for a while, and strangely I haven’t received any complaints. If it wasn’t obvious, I posted this purely for the sake of it.