Showing posts with label windmill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windmill. Show all posts

23 Mar 2024

'Our’ windmill next door - NOT amateur radio

This was ‘our’ windmill next door this afternoon in the spring sunshine.


28 Feb 2024

Wicken windmill


One of our favourite walks is to Wicken Fen, where we have a bite to eat. Wicken also has a village windmill (shown in the photo).

15 Feb 2024

Very near? - NOT amateur radio

As mentioned before, we live right next door to a fully restored 200 year old windmill. 

Just occasionally the sails turn, but they do not bother us ever.

20 Jan 2024

Windmill next door - NOT amateur radio


As many may remember, we live next door to a fully restored and working 200 year old windmill which is part of Burwell Museum. 


Just occasionally, they turn the sails on but they never disturb us. It is just over the garden wall. The attached photo was taken from the lounge window. The sky was blue, but it was very cold!

See https://burwellmuseum.org.uk/ .

1 Jan 2024

Going home - NOT amateur radio

Our younger son and his children have been here for a few days and went home this morning. 

This photo in our garden was just before they left.

9 Nov 2023

A better day (Thursday) - NOT amateur radio

It has been mainly dry today. There are clouds in the sky, but it has not (yet) rained today. "Our" windmill next door looks splendid with a mainly blue sky and a cloud behind. The windmill is next door and this photo was from the lounge window

3 Nov 2023

“Our “ windmill next door - NOT amateur radio

Several times I have mentioned that we live next door to a 200 year old, fully restored, windmill.

In the photo, ours is the house on the right.

31 Jul 2023

By the windmill - NOT amateur radio

 

The photo shows me with one of my sons and grandsons near the windmill next door.  It was taken this weekend.

21 Jun 2023

"Our" windmill this morning - NOT amateur radio

This was the windmill next door this morning in the sunshine. 

13 May 2023

Mills on the air weekend

This weekend expect quite a few special stations operating from windmills and watermills. Our local club (CDARC) is operating from Fulbourn windmill near Cambridge as GB2FM. 

See https://fulbournwindmill.org.uk/

Our own windmill next door has free entry all weekend.

See https://burwellmuseum.org.uk/ .

10 Apr 2023

Museum open again - NOT amateur radio


Yesterday, after what has seemed a long winter, our local museum and windmill next door reopened. The weather was sunny and pleasant. Parking near our house is not usually an issue. It was yesterday!!

8 Apr 2023

Next door - NOT amateur radio



This fully restored windmill is right next door. Our hedge in front!

2 Apr 2023

"Our" windmill - NOT amateur radio



This photo was taken in 2016 and shows our windmill next door.  The windmill is part of the very impressive Burwell Museum that opens next weekend after the winter.  It is open Thursdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays Easter until late October. The views from the fully restored 200 year old windmill are impressive.

30 Jan 2023

'Our windmill' - NOT amateur radio

This was the windmill next door at 4.50pm today. This is the view from the lounge window. 

8 Jan 2023

"Our" windmill - NOT amateur radio

We see the windmill right next to us at breakfast and from the lounge. 

This photo was taken yesterday when we had showers and sunshine. Well worth a visit as it is fully restored. The museum is excellent. 

Few people have a fully restored windmill right next door!

See https://burwellmuseum.org.uk/.

14 Dec 2022

Staging post - NOT amateur radio

It appears the windmill next door is a staging post for starlings off to roost. It is not uncommon to see 100 on the sails (and a few squabbling on our bird table!) before flying off to their roost. In some parts of the UK,starlings are getting rarer. Not here!

If you look carefully at the photo, you may be able to see them starting to gather.

As you can see, still cold here - minus 4 degrees Celsius mid morning.

13 Dec 2022

Windmill next door in the snow - NOT amateur radio

This is the lane leading to the windmill next door. Yesterday, we had snow. 

19 Oct 2022

"Our" windmill next door - NOT amateur radio

As mentioned before, we live next door to a fully restored windmill that is 200 years old.  Every Tuesday, volunteers come to help make sure it is in top condition.

The photo shows Andrew up on one of the sails. Rather him than me!

11 Jun 2022

Out of the kitchen window - NOT amateur radio

We get a good view at breakfast. This is what we see.  

The view from the lounge is similar.

31 May 2022

Bunting - NOT amateur radio

Even the windmill next door is being strewn with bunting for the queen's jubilee celebrations. 

My wife ordered some union jack cupcakes on May 3rd. They were due May 30th, but had not been dispatched yet! So, the order was cancelled today.