Colourful Walkies

After sharing a meal of lamb chops, peas, boiled spuds, green beans and carrots we took advantage of the eased rules for exercising outdoors. First time in what feels like years we went for an after tea walk down the lane. To finish off a welcome, though definitely chilly, walkabout there was a beautiful rainbow.



Lovely scene to end the day.

Whitebells

My bluebells are finally in full flower.
But what is that I see?



Yes - whitebells:



Must have been the shock of seeing me actually cutting the grass.
These are the cultivated variety which also have some of the pink ones amongst them.

Monday Mystery

I only expected a general identification of last week's close up



which was correctly identified as



an egg shell by Rob, Adrian, Kris, Ellen D and Ragged Robin. Well done.
To the best of my knowledge it was a Wood Pigeon's egg.

On to the next cropped view



of what?

Think you know? Please leave any guesses in the comments.
They will be revealed, along with the answer, next Monday.

Tinkering Again

As the power supply for my transmitters resides under the desk I have a separate volt meter so I can check that all is working as it should.  My old LED one had some failed LEDs so I bought a cheap LCD one to replace it. The bare unit needed something to hold it in place so after 30 mins in TinkerCad I came up with:



The instruction were copied to Ultimaker Cura to produce a file for the 3D printer.
Unit rotated to print face down. No supports needed that way round.



2hr 34 minutes later it was ready to fit the meter:



Had to do a bit of minor filing as the hole was about 0.5mm too small but soon it was mounted, wired up and connected:



All done.

More Ham (of the amateur radio variety)

Towards the end of last month I invested in a new transmitter.



This one works on three different amateur radio bands and has more power that the ones I had been using. Last Sunday I spent the day re-erecting most of the yagi beam aerials I used to have on the mast.



The radio and the aerials allow me to work on the 2m, 73cm and 23cm bands. The latter is one of the microwave bands. The 55 element aerial for that is at the very top of the mast. Using 23cm depends very much on atmospheric conditions. They were nearly right for me to work a Danish station last night but alas conditions changed before we could make a full exchange of information.

Footpath to Churchyard

On the way back after dropping the car off for its MOT and service this morning I cut through the churchyard. I retraced part of the journey along a footpath we often take on our walkabouts.



Taken, hand held, with my iPod running the free app Hyperlapse.
It did its best to smooth out the video but still somewhat jerky in places.
Partly as it looks as though it was trying to re-focus.
Partly as I had to keep a looking down for tangled roots on the earth footpath.

Monday Mystery

I hoped there would be enough of the contents in last week's close view to identify it.



Adrian and Dave saw it was

 

 a bird (peanut) feeder and Ellen D was spot on with saying it was acorn shaped.

Let's see whether there is enough of the new mystery close up



to identify it as what?

If you would like to make a guess please leave it in the comments.
Any will be revealed, along with the answer, next Monday.