At last! I received a very welcome email from my builder yesterday asking whether I now have water on my land, which I do, of course. I’m hoping that this means that I’ll soon be receiving news, maybe this coming week, of when they’ll be starting building work. Initially they said that it might be possible to get cracking in September but changed that to October when we signed the contract and it’ll be great news if they do now confirm that that’s when they will actually be getting going.
I’ve also got good news on my Fimi quadcopter front. I’ve had a chance to do some longer test flights today and as far as I can see from screen grabs of videos that I shot just before it ended up in the oak tree and today, nothing seems to have changed. It therefore seems to have been unharmed by its experiences, which is a great relief given that it’s worth some way north of 300€!
By way of comparison, here are four shots, from before and after for comparison. Today is slightly duller than the day before the Fimi took its excursion into the tree and the times of day are different so the white balance has changed somewhat, but more importantly, the picture definition appears to be unchanged, which is a big relief.
BEFORE
AFTER
BEFORE
AFTER
In other news, the postie drove down my land to my caravan this morning to hand me my new bow and arrow set. It’s actually quite impressive even though it is just a starter kit and I’m tempted to have a go of it. I don’t think I will though, because if I am going to sell it on, it would obviously be better if it remained ‘new still in its packaging’. But anyway, here are a few shots of it.
At the time of writing, there are no signs of the thunderstorms that were forecast for this afternoon and maybe they fizzled out to become the showers we received this morning. They’re still being forecast for 7.00 pm on XC Weather though, so we’ll have to wait and see if they do actually materialise.
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