I'm just this guy... y'know? :)
At the local Shell garage is a car wash. Now as is well known I’m really not the most energetic of people and some things are just too much effort. This being so, and the car being so big, I tend to take it to the car wash in preference to doing it myself. I’m … More Jinxed? Moi?
It’s quite dry today. The sun is shining and all’s well with the world. Temperatures aren’t too high either so perhaps while I have time I ought to get out and mow the grass before the rain comes again… as the weather forecast tells us it will, and soon!! So much work, so little time….. … More And so back to work.
I looked up ‘Giant Moths’ and found a picture of a moth that looked very similar to the one we found! As far as I can tell, this *is* the same species of moth we found outside the railway station. It’s name is ‘Endoxyla Magnifica’, a giant ‘wood moth’ who’s larvae spend their lives boring … More More on the Giant Moth.
Yesterday as usual we went off to the train station to send the wife off to work. Sitting around doing nothing unusual, discussing the news and stuff, the time passed and eventually the train pulled into the station and she got out of the car. As she did she jumped backwards and shouted what the … More Giant Moths
These two pictures are of the garden orb spider that has taken up residence outside the front door and nicknamed by us ‘The Fat Lady’ because of her bulk. As always, photos really don’t do her justice… even so I think they give some idea why we found her impressive. By the way, she’s making … More More on the 'fat lady'.
Yet again the US server hosting the blog failed… and this time the Data Centre took *two days* to repair/replace it which is ridiculous in anyone’s terms!!! All these high end servers are constructed with a RAID array, i.e. multiple hard discs, to provide multiple ‘fail-safe’ redundancy so that if one should fail, or if … More We're back: Server Outage!!
The garden is usually full of flowers… or it is when I’d be able to work on it and give the plants the right conditions to flower. Even so there is one flower than appeals to me more than the others, and this is it… my two year old Begonia hybrid! 🙂 As you see, … More Favourite flowers: Begonia hybrid
I made a few posts last week about the wildlife in the garden. The amphibians were just one of the species I neglected to mention. They forcefully reminded me they were there when I was outside this morning! I heard quiet splashing splashing and found a frog in the dogs bowl! No doubt it had … More Frog in a manger!
The first decent camera I had was bought from Dixon’s in the UK some 20+ years ago. I forget the make, but it was a pretty good SLR that came with a great little lens. The pictures I took are still clear and bright… and obviously it used 35 mm film. It got damaged a … More A lens on the world.
Thinking of the problems the neighbour has started me wondering what would happen if someone wanted open a business in our street. I eventually got round to wondering what if *we* opened a business… and the only one I could see someone as idle as me coping with would be running a small ‘hostel’ type … More A nice little earner!
