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Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
28 Apr 2016
Weather - NOT amateur radio
17 Apr 2016
Late spring? - NOT amateur radio
A few months ago everything seemed to be early. We have seen daffodils
in flower right through from late November. Some places have loads of
daffodils in flower and even some snowdrops still. Yet, if anything,
spring is late here. It is now way in to April but I have yet to see a
swallow in this area. My laurel hedge is hardly growing. The grass has
only been cut a few times. Odd. Yes there buds coming out, but spring is
definitely not early here.
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25 Mar 2016
Spring? - NOT amateur radio
There are probably another 6 weeks before we see the trees coated in fresh green, the blossom well out, and fields of yellow rape. Already the first sand martins are returning to Devon and there has even been a report of a returning swallow in Devon. It will probably be into April before I spot swallows up here in East Anglia. Usually I see my first swallows here April 7-14th. Swifts are not usually seen (by me at least!) until the end of April.
These returning migrants bring joy to my heart: long after I am gone they will still be doing this journey as their ancestors have done for thousands of years. I admit there have been times when I never thought I'd see this spring.
These returning migrants bring joy to my heart: long after I am gone they will still be doing this journey as their ancestors have done for thousands of years. I admit there have been times when I never thought I'd see this spring.
22 Mar 2016
Our rear garden - NOT amateur radio
This was our rear garden taken this morning. In a few weeks time all the
blossom will be out. In the distance, in our neighbour's garden, is an
apple and plum orchard.
13 Mar 2016
Spring at last
Rear lawn after first grass cut |
It was a day of b's: bench, beer (on the garden bench after doing the lawn), buzzard (overhead), bees, butterflies, blooms and blossom. Today really felt like a spring day. We have had a mild, wet winter but it has seemed endless. Today, the garden was calling.
Oh to be in England now that spring is here. Honestly, there were times when I thought I would not see it.
This is another view of the rear garden in which you can see the V2000 (6m, 2m and 70m vertical) and the big-wheel (2m horizontal omni) antennas. If you click on the image you may be able to make out the 2m halo and maybe my wire for 10m, 20m and 40m. Not visible is the earth-electrode "antenna" in the ground which I use on 472kHz TX and RX. With 5mW ERP using the earth-electrode "antenna" on 472kHz WSPR I was received in Norway again last night. Next autumn I must get a long wire for LF/MF strung up!
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14 Feb 2011
Signs of springtime
My wife Lis with the snowdrops and aconites |
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