The solitary nut on our hazel tree (the squirrels stole the other one but they probably planted the tree in the first place so fair enough). Admin2 tried to polish it a bit and then there were none.
Admin1 is reading Trick of the Dark by Val McDermid. Admin2 is reading Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter which is strangely old-fashioned and shamefully sexist. We have a huge box set so later volumes better improve.
Author: admin2
Critter of the Day: Araneus diadematus
European garden spider enjoying an unidentified fly. Look at its hairy legs!
Admin1 is reading The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid. Admin2 is reading Deadly Code by Lin Anderson which is meh.
Critter of the Day: Red Admiral
Vanessa atalanta visting our buddleia
Admin2 is reading The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, a murder mystery in which a mathematician and a physicist lock horns over whether an insoluble problem is easier to create or to solve.
The Prisoner
Spider catches bee. We had 10kWh worth of sunshine today, our sunniest August ever recorded on the solar panels, except it wasn’t sunny for Unity Day, Carnival and all the days when we had guests
Admin1 is reading Future Perfect by Chris Evans and Roy Kettle. Admin2 is reading Shadow by Karin Alvtegen. Nearly all the characters in the latter are writers and they all make life hell for themselves and everyone else in the book.
Crowd of the Day: Chapel Allerton Festival
Critter of the Day: Secret Squirrel
Cloud of the Day: Lenticularis
Critter of the Day: Yorkshire cat
Smiling in the trees, probably because it had just eaten a bird.
We have now had 1000 days of solar panels and 4 megawatts of power.
Admin1 is reading World of Trouble by Ben H Winters.
The Fountains of Bradford
A bit of city centre excitement instead of endless bloody shops.
Crowd of the Day: Carnival
Dog Days
Cloud of the Day: expanding cumulus
Critter of the Day: Aeshna juncea
A common hawker hanging around the neighbours’ garden.
Admin2 is reading The Immaculate Deception by Ian Pears.
Cloud of the Day: Cumulus mediocris
Cloud of the Day: Cumulonimbus
Cloud of the Day: Cumulus
Lashed by the tail of Hurricane Bertha
Critter of the Day: Fox
A non-paying guest at the AGS Garden Party.
Admin2 is reading Kill City Blues by Richard Kadrey.
Critter of the Day: Gatekeeper
Pyronia tithonus, also known as the Hedge Brown. Admin1 is reading Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes. Admin2 is reading Capital by John Lanchester. We are watching True Detective.
Busy Beans
Busy Bees
Inside the tent; pissing out
Unity Day: rainy but great.
Admin1 is reading The Eidolon by Libby McGuggan. Admin2 is reading Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson.
Cloud of the Day: Fumulus
Ferrybrige power station in the far distance, generating its own little cloud. Today it caught fire but we didn’t see anything, just smelt a burning smell. Admin1 is reading The Lonely Dead by Michael Marshall. Admin2 is reading The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh. Despite the miserable weather of the past few days, July was the sunniest month since solar panels began. Our ones, anyway… 262.866kWh.