Keeping warm

So it's -150 degrees outside and it's spitting that really cold rain that "soaks you through".

The perfect day to start the garden project.
I got a couple of mates round and we attacked the big shrubs and forged a path along the old knackered fence in order to rip it all out.

10 cups of coffee, a load of sandwiches and 6 hours later we had the new panels up.
We were warmer by now!

This is "Ceefor" (C for cat), my garden cat thinking "what the hell's going on in my territory".

Next stage is to get the tree muncher round and turn all this crap into wood chippings, then start getting some plants and rocks together for the spring.
I need some tall stuff for the bottom of the garden, maybe some bamboo, and rocks and pebbles planted with alpines, and maples etc along the stream and the pond.
Any suggestions gratefully accepted as I'm not a garden designer.

Evolution

Dr Who regenerates from time to time.
He is a Time Lord for those who didn't grow up here in the sixties and seventies. Fought the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Yeti, the Zarbies (they go back a bit, but I hope Dive remembers them. Or did I dream them) and many other cheap "special effects" alien monsters.

It's been up-dated over the last couple of years and is worth a watch, if only for Billie Piper in the first two series.

Anyway, as a Deity, I also have the ability to re-generate at will, so as I have my new Mac, I thought it might be fun to have a change.

This is the new me working hard using my psychic powers to make pretty patterns on the screen.


It's tough to use the keyboard with no fingers.

So what do you think, is the new look o.k. or should I change back?

Roo

I've just popped back from Rich's site and Lin's recipe page.
MMMMMmmmm food.

This reminds me, I cooked the kangaroo steaks a couple of weeks ago.

Dive was over here to help set up my new mac so it was a good enough reason to try something new.
It was quite simple fare in the end, a quick mushroom & onion sauce with chilli, wine, garlic and lots of black pepper. New potatoes, lightly crushed and mixed with spring onions (scallions for Rich), butter and wholegrain mustard, petit pois for a bit of colour and the roo whacked onto a hot griddle pan and cooked until medium rare.

It was bloody fantastic. For me it tasted like pork with a hint of liver and the consistency of fillet steak.

I will get some more.

Zebra or wildebeest is next.

Leafy things

As we have all been waiting for the trees to get with the program and realise it's autumn, I thought I would wait until the sun was out on Thursday and snap the road outside the factory.

I had to rely on my friend Karen to let me know the sun was shining because I don't have any windows in my office. She rang around mid afternoon and by the time I got out it was dull again but I took the picture anyway.

I had a wander around Kett Hall after I had my breakfast coffee with Big Bro this morning.
The gardeners cut small trees from time to time and lay them down to be reclaimed by nature. There are lots of trunks and log piles around the place all becoming interesting with mosses, fungi and all things dark and mysterious.

This is the old path from the side of the Hall which leads down to a small wooden bridge over the top end of the lake. I don't think too many people ever come down here but they should. It's very peaceful and there are all manner of birds and furry creatures wandering around without paying too much attention to me.

This is for Lynn's "who has the best leaves" competition. I tried to count them but all I can say is there are more than 7.

This only makes me want to get a decent camera and not have to use my phone.
The light coming through these leaves would really benefit from some spot exposure and filters. Looked nice at the time though.

This is the old willow which we climb to spot big carp cruising in the summer. Shame the fucking otter killed and ate them all. Looks like we need to shift some more weed.

This would look better with a flash but the moss was nice. Maybe I could nail some of Dive's pigeons to it.

Light

There was a really weird look about the sky the other day.
I took this around 06:45 as I arrived at work.
Either it was one of those strange Norfolk autumnal dawns or something had just gone very wrong in the test cells behind the stores building.