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The sounds of the city

17 March 2023 by Himself

The micro.blog March photo challenge provides a word as a prompt to inspire the images for that day. Today’s prompt was Early. So as I was awake anyway I recorded the chorus of birds:

Those more able to identify the birds than I may care to compare with this recording from April 2018:

At least we are no longer disturbed by the May 2021 woodpecker hammering away at 5am:

Summer in the city: 1

14 November 202110 June 2021 by Himself

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

High and fast

1 September 2020 by Himself

The River Mersey swollen with the recent rains.

River Mersey

Further FLooping

27 May 2020 by Himself

Another sunny afternoon tempted me out again. This time I found the Secret Lake which is neither a lake nor particularly secret.

But it is good to see a natural oasis amidst the suburban sprawl. Then upwards and, since Martine pointed it out, it is definitely upward, to the reservoir again which had noticeably more waterfowl this time.

Too many distractions

16 May 2020 by Himself

On TV quiz shows one frequently see old people explaining that now they are retired there is so much to do they wonder how they ever found time to go to work. Despite my best intentions to spend my retirement catching up with all the stuff I have never really got to grips with – half understood software, half learnt programming languages, books that were purchased but never read etc. – the torrent of new stuff continues to overwhelm. I should draw a line and say no more… but

The update to Logic looks exciting and Arturia’s extended free licence for Pigments and Analog Lab shouldnâ€™t be wasted. And I am already way behind on the Tidal training sessions. Not to mention the endless opportunities to explore the musical backwaters available to stream.

And then I am about to throw out the sourdough starter I started a few days ago when the weather was warm but abandoned when the weather turned colder – my home is not warm enough ordinarily to sustain the beast, but, I think, ‘it does smell like a good starter’, so I gave it a feed and a drink and it has been bubbling away all day; so the weekend will be spent cultivating some bread.

Not to mention being on fox cub watch…

There is no time for this 100 day nonsense…

Yadit #100DaysToOffload

About the size of it.

24 April 2020 by Himself

This is very big:

and this is very small:

Vital Signs of the Planet

23 April 2020 by Himself

As if there is not enough to worry about these days NASA’s Climate website provides data from satellites that are monitoring the current status of the Earth’s climatic conditions.