Picture(s) of the day....

[CitroJim]

Maybe canoeing would be a viable alternative Jim?

A trip in a canoe would have been entirely possible Steve A bog snorkelling event has also been suggested

[Armidillo]

I'm normally very stress-free - essential to my health not to get too stressed but today it ran close...

I had to cancel Bury Field parkrun after finding the course almost entirely submerged when I check-ran it this morning

The river had burst its banks and this was what greeted me in Castle Meadow just across from my house this morning...

This is a floodplain and rarely this 'full'..



And from the Iron Bridge...



The stress came from the pile of admin I had to do in connection with cancelling a parkrun because of a flooded course!

Then I found I have a load of work to do in my TT racing organisation role!

All nicely relieved by enjoying a most excellent lunch with Mick at our favourite pub!

Wow Jim - just wow! Starting to look like the Darling River in flood!

[myglaren]

Fresh out of the trail cam tin, nothing added nothing taken away

The familiar common blackbird takes a nice close up pose for the camera.



Neil

[myglaren]

On my perambulations today. I must have passed this dozens of times and not seen it, about a mile from my home.

Water/steam powered?

[CitroJim]

Is it in working order Steve?

[myglaren]

No, it was about three hours fast there. Probably stopped, I'll have another look next time I pass but that could be weeks away.

[NewcastleFalcon]

That trail cam is doing a great job Neil Keep 'em coming

Thanks Jim enjoying playing around. The birds are photogenic in their own right but the falcon does enjoy a bit of abstract manipulation to create some interesting (to me anyway) patterns and colours.

Trail cam flying pigeon 4 different ways

Neil

[CitroJim]

the falcon does enjoy a bit of abstract manipulation to create some interesting (to me anyway) patterns and colours.



Neil

Good I'm glad he does, they're great!

[CitroJim]

No, it was about three hours fast there. Probably stopped, I'll have another look next time I pass but that could be weeks away.

Clocks showing the wrong time or not working seriously aggravate my OCD Steve... I'd be needing to do something about it

Meanwhile, I was Run Director at our Junior parkrun today. This was my favourite picture from the event

Note that all Junior parkrun pictures are in the public domain and published with the parent/guardian's implied approval.

[myglaren]

Clocks showing the wrong time or not working seriously aggravate my OCD Steve... I'd be needing to do something about it

That was my first thought when I saw it Jim, knew it wouldn't do for you.
On that note, I had to pick my daughter up from work on Thursday. When we stopped I took my phone out to check the time against the car clock, which seems to me to have been 80' out but my son had a theory that it would start at one of two times each time the car was started after being idle for about 12 hours.
I have never been able to set it, the button on the steering wheel does nothing. The handbook and YouTube are hopeless.
She reached out and poked something and after a few seconds the time was right.
The clock setting buttons were obscured by the phone cradle that I had stuck in the vent (and never used).
Would have driven you wild.

[CitroJim]

Would have driven you wild.

I had much the same problem adjusting Polly's clock. Had to get the handbook out

I have quite an old Sony radio here in my collection that automatically sets its clock from the RDS data carried on FM radio broadcasts...

I'm shocked that modern cars like ours don't do the same.

My watch dos the same via GPS transmissions and both my dashcam and bike video cameras set their internal clocks every time they connect to either a laptop or a linked 'phone.

My two grandfather clocks keep excellent time and I rarely need to adjust them.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Water/steam powered?

Very similar,

Steampunk battery operated Wall Clock £28.99 on Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clocks-Single- ... 1YVD&psc=1

Neil

[myglaren]

Interestingly, I looked at the record of the walk involving the steampunk clock.

Amazing how wrong it was. Missed out at least three quarters of the hike but thought that it had taken 67 hours and 41 minutes to walk half a mile.

[Rp0thejester]

No, it was about three hours fast there. Probably stopped, I'll have another look next time I pass but that could be weeks away.

Clocks showing the wrong time or not working seriously aggravate my OCD Steve... I'd be needing to do something about it

Meanwhile, I was Run Director at our Junior parkrun today. This was my favourite picture from the event



Note that all Junior parkrun pictures are in the public domain and published with the parent/guardian's implied approval.

I'm not surprised that kid in the Arsenal top is smiling, we hammered the hammers

[Hell Razor5543]

I was in Windsor early this morning (sorting out a printer for a client), so I took a couple of Windsor Castle in the early sunrise.