2008 — 25 April: Friday

Busy, busy. It's 09:21 and I've already installed a new build of Network Magic on the iMac. (You know, I thought something was awry after I'd upgraded Leopard... Perhaps it was the way I could no longer get to any iMac folders from anywhere else on the network. Software!) In this case, it was the 10.5.2 OSX upgrade that broke the application. All now seems to be playing nicely together again.

Multi-tasking the brekkie input, as I need to be over in Winchester in 40 minutes or so, booted and jacketed ready for an assault on Bluebell Hill. Last night's early night turned, probably inevitably, into an early morning as I lay there listening to the dawn chorus. But I feel rested and the present sunshine helps.

Sunshine would have helped

Back home at 16:50, once again adroitly avoiding a chokka-block motorway between here and Winchester. The walk in West Sussex was most enjoyable, but the sun decided to hide just when we needed it to liven up the bluebells in the wood. Pity. The pint at the Royal Oak in Hooksway went down very smoothly. We got there from a subtly different direction this time. My word, there are many contour lines bunched closely together at the particular Beacon Hill we surmounted today. But I got me another skylark, literally in mid-chirp:

It was suggested, a long time ago, that pictures should include humans (if possible) to help clarify the scale involved. So I invite you to inspect the specks at the bottom left, and right up on the skyline towards the top right... They are only about 250 feet apart vertically.

Trivia again

Another month has — in some ways — whizzed by, and it's time for the Ferret Fanciers to see if they can answer any Trivia questions. Well, as long as they don't have to rely on me, there's a chance. It will make a change from reading the comments of Torygraph readers on the news that "Blake's 7" is to be revived.