Friday 28 August 2009

Two Round Tuits in One Day

Yesterday - a leisurely morning followed by a reasonable carvery at a local hostelry with a friend. On the way home I decided to pop in to the town to get a replacement electric car aerial for the greenhouse. I didn't know about the road works at the major junction in town so that was a seven minute wait to move a hundred yards. At the car parts shop my luck was in. They had one aerial left.

On the way back home I called in the garden centre to see whether they had a large Niger seed feeder and against expectations they did so I bought one and stocked up with bird food. There - two items off the Round Tuit list in the space of an hour - whatever next?

By the time I got back home it was time for Bobby to take me for my afternoon constitutional so we nipped down the lane to the cricket field. There were quite a few Southern Hawker Dragonflies flitting around the hedges. Every now and then one would rest. The only camera I had with me was the one in my mobile phone so I tried for a couple of shots. The phone has a wide angle lens so to get a reasonable picture of something like a dragon it needs to be very close. One dragon was obliging and let me get the camera within a few inches.

Dragonfly

After a quick cuppa I set about modifying, testing and fitting the car aerial to the greenhouse door.

automated greenhouse door

Top to bottom - door closed, on its way opening, fully open, some uPVC to keep the worst of the rain away from the cables.

While I was in the garden centre I spotted a small ceramic bowl that looked just the job for putting hedgehog food in. I wondered how long it would take for a hog to use it. Not long at all!



When I think of it - that makes three Round Tuits in one day as I have been meaning to buy a bowl for the hedgehogs for ages. No wonder I slept like a baby last night - exhausted!!

17 comments:

  1. All this is commendable, but poses two questions what are doing today and what am I to do now you've made me guilty? Laundry and seal the shower tray, that should do.

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  2. Great post John...and I bet you did sleep well. Have a wonderful day.

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  3. Utterly ingenious, your use of the electric car aerial for the greenhouse.

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  4. Lovely dragonfly with the mobile too!

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  5. Wow! I know I've said this before but that mobile takes some cracking good photos John! The dragon was very obliging too.

    You had a very productive day one way and another especially concerning Round Tuits, :) I still think you could market the greenhouse door thingy!

    Lovely hog video!

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  6. Don't know why the small jobs usually take so long to get done! The new aerial looks well-placed. Hope it works well for a long time to come!

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  7. Busy day John.
    That's a very ingenious 'door opener'. How I wish I had a few handyman skills like that. lol
    That is a cracking shot of the dragon from a mobile phone. Think I'll ditch my camera stuff and get a phone instead ;)

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  8. Hi Adrian. Today? As little as possible. Would recommend that to anybody :)

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  9. Thank you Crista. Had a relaxing day anyway.

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  10. Thank you Emma. I bought that particular phone for its camera though it is difficult to see what it is actually looking at so it ends up as a guess and hope.

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  11. Hi Jan. The phone occasionally takes a good shot if I can get close enough. Yes, the dragon was very obliging. I didn't expect it to let me get so close.

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  12. Thank you Keith. 3 M pixels doesn't exactly match up to 15 M pixels but it can give surprising results sometimes. Don't bin the DSLR yet! Imagine having to get within a few inches of everything you want to capture :)

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  13. I agree Mick. Most half hour jobs seem to take at least half a day. If I don't get a job finished the day I start then it can be weeks before I get Round Tuit.

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  14. Gosh John - you have been busy! That's a mighty impressive mobile phone picture!

    Sounds like a productive and, mostly, enjoyable day - lunch, a meeting with a friend, a traffic jam, shopping, filming, photography, walking and three Round Tuits - you're putting me to shame. No wonder you slept the sleep of the Gods:D

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  15. Hi Tricia. The mobile does occasionally surprise me with a good photo. The main problem is that in bright light I cannot see the LCD screen so I have to guess what it is pointing at.

    I even slept part of the afternoon and evening yesterday - old age creeping up and giving time for the Round Tuit pile to build up again :)

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  16. you managed to do a lot, John.

    I could do with just a small % of your energy.

    And great mobile photo of the Dragon. Living in a very quiet mobile blackspot, I have no idea about mobile capabilities. But this impressed me a lot!

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  17. An exceptional day Yoke. It's not always like that.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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