Got a few useful things done today. First off, as Victor wasn’t able to before leaving on holiday for two weeks, I took my ride-on over to Malbec and mowed the runway and parking areas. It took just under two hours and the temperature was up at 34\u00b0 Celsius by the time the job was done, so although I’d taken a flask of cold drink with me, I was glad to get finished. But it looked superb at the end of it.<\/p>\n
Only one disconcerting little incident. I thought that I’d move 56NE to mow the whole area that it’s parked on rather than leave long grass under the wings and fuselage. When I removed the two hollow concrete tie-down blocks under the right wing I saw something moving and at first I thought it was mice, which were the bane of my life at Galinat.<\/p>\n
However, when I looked more closely I could see that it was a little nest containing three baby Blue Tits. The parents had used the hole in the top of the block through which I’d passed the tie-down rope as an access to the inside and from the timing, I think that these must have been their second clutch.<\/p>\n
I had seen no sign of the adult birds but I was mortified that I’d disturbed them and as none of the babies appeared to have been injured when I moved the block, I took great care to replace it straight away without doing any more mowing and ensuring that none of the three little ones were squashed. I hope that the parents returned when I went away – I’ll not know for sure until I can check in several days time when the babies should all have flown.<\/p>\n
I forgot to take my mobile phone with me today and as I didn’t have my camera with me either, I couldn’t take any pictures of the lovely little brood.<\/p>\n
After I got home I had a quick light lunch and got cracking on cutting my own grass while I had the mower handy. By the time I’d finished, I think the temperature had probably soared to over 35\u00b0 Celsius – it felt like it anyway!<\/p>\n
But my day still wasn’t over. I gave Sophie a hand to upgrade her PC to Windows 10 yesterday and although we couldn’t do it for now, I found meanwhile that the ‘Free Upgrade’ offer expires on 29th July. I’m still using Windows 7 64 Bit Pro, which I’m quite happy with, but all the information now suggests that so long as you switch off all of the ‘Spybot’ features in Windows 10, it’s the best and fastest MS PC operating system so far.<\/p>\n
So I thought that I’d bite the bullet and upgrade, which I started late this afternoon and finished a short time ago. It took a while because the internet is so slow down here, but so far, so good and everything looks and runs just as it did before. Except it does appear to be faster.<\/p>\n
So as I said in the heading, taken all round, a pretty useful day \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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