After a foggy day the big storm hit and the garden looked like this at 10pm. (15sec, f7.1, ISO 200)
Status:
Sleepless night after yesterday’s oh-so excessive exercise and dozed through the afternoon today, but not too grumpy and I managed to pick up my socks without wincing, so something worked! Not a massive surprise as I do need to do basic physical maintenance. It’s just finding the balance of what helps and what harms. And now I have a data point.
Snow hit Birmingham this evening with some force. It’s odd to have extreme weather in the middle of the country. Usually when the headlines scream about inches of snow hitting the UK they mean the far north of Scotland which yeah, it’s the UK but stop getting my hopes up, eh? Today the weather map is mostly clear with a big smear of precipitation across the Midlands.
It always feels like we in the middle get the leftover weather once it’s burned out on the coasts. What was a storm in Norfolk or Wales becomes drizzle when it reaches Birmingham. So it’s nice to share a bit of the excitement for a change.
Couldn’t get a decent photo of the snow after dark with my phone so loaded the Nikon onto the tripod for the above. Felt good.
Overnight listening:
Music:
Reading:
- Pavement parking options for change: government response - The proof will be in the execution (and I obviously haven’t read it all) but at least the problem has been acknowledge and is on the agenda. I was really surprised when I tried to report a car entirely blocking a pavement that it wasn’t a problem unless it was also on double yellows. Pavements are for people, not storing your portable lounge.
- Singer-songwriter Bill Callahan: ‘I’m not a craftsman – I’m more of a drunk professor who likes coincidence and mistakes’ - Callahan’s music has been an important soundtrack to my life for twenty years now, since I heard a housemate listening to him and went “who is that?” But I know surprisingly little about him as a person. I identify with the stuff on not being a craftsman. “I think I receive things that are already built, and make sure the reception is accurate."