This was the view leaving the house to take my wife to work
Then I gathered my gear and set off for my favourite nature reserve to test out my new hammock set-up.
It was very frosty when I arrived.
A shot of the fence
Someone had put a new post up. I met Lord Raglan a few years ago, popping into the local Spar shop in Usk, buying cigarettes. Nice chap. I hadn't heard he had died.
One more gratuitous frosty shot
Found a tree down across the fence line that I will have to report. In fact, I checked the fence line in full, and found four places where this had happened, although this one was the worst.
This is what I really came out to do. The Big Lebowski sold me some whoopie slings for less than he really should have charged me (thanks, big guy
) and I was itching to try it out now that my wife has finished sewing midge netting under the original mosquito mesh. With a foam mat cut to shape, and my thick swedish army winter coat on, I was snug in here for about an hour, listening to blackbirds, drumming woodpeckers, buzzards and ravens. Bliss.
A bit more of a wander located the magnolia that I had seen in flower last week. It is actually starting to go over now.
On the way home, in the car, saw a spectacular sun-bow (rainbow light caused by refraction in ice crystals in a cloud) but it had faded and all but gone by the time I got home and took this shot. Pity.
I had been looking forward to today, as a scheduled day off, for over a week, and it was worth waiting for.
I feel properly mellowed now.
Then I gathered my gear and set off for my favourite nature reserve to test out my new hammock set-up.
It was very frosty when I arrived.
A shot of the fence
Someone had put a new post up. I met Lord Raglan a few years ago, popping into the local Spar shop in Usk, buying cigarettes. Nice chap. I hadn't heard he had died.
One more gratuitous frosty shot
Found a tree down across the fence line that I will have to report. In fact, I checked the fence line in full, and found four places where this had happened, although this one was the worst.
This is what I really came out to do. The Big Lebowski sold me some whoopie slings for less than he really should have charged me (thanks, big guy
) and I was itching to try it out now that my wife has finished sewing midge netting under the original mosquito mesh. With a foam mat cut to shape, and my thick swedish army winter coat on, I was snug in here for about an hour, listening to blackbirds, drumming woodpeckers, buzzards and ravens. Bliss.
A bit more of a wander located the magnolia that I had seen in flower last week. It is actually starting to go over now.
On the way home, in the car, saw a spectacular sun-bow (rainbow light caused by refraction in ice crystals in a cloud) but it had faded and all but gone by the time I got home and took this shot. Pity.
I had been looking forward to today, as a scheduled day off, for over a week, and it was worth waiting for.
I feel properly mellowed now.
