Scamp was going out to lunch today. I was going out into the wilds.
The clouds were rolling in when Scamp set out on the trek to Brodens in Condorrat. I stayed at home to see if the rain was going to come to anything or if the clouds would clear. In the meantime I got a needle and thread and sewed a necklace of my red chillies. I’d watch part of a Gardeners World program where a woman was stitching a chain of chillies. I didn’t see exactly what she was doing, but I got the gist of it and now I have two strings of chillies drying in the back room.
By the time I’d finished the weather looked a lot more settled to sunshine. I drove up to the back of Fannyside Moor and watched the light scud across the landscape as the clouds were broken up and blown about by a strong westerly wind. When I was sure that the light was getting better, I took my camera bag and walked along the road that leads to a farm. I didn’t actually go as far as the farm, because it was the walk back to the car, into the wind, but also in to the more photogenic landscape. It’s just a few hundred metres of straight road, but in that time the light on the hills and woods was changing all the time. PoD turned out to be a view down the road I’d driven up with the light coming from the right, through the trees. Of course the image has been ‘fiddled with’ just a bit, but it is certainly improved by my digital interventions.
On the way home I stopped at the shops to get tonight’s dinner which was a ‘bake at home’ deep pan pizza. Not the healthiest of meals, but fairly tasty and very filling. I was only home for about five minutes when Scamp arrived from her lunch. I think we may wander along the road to Brodens this week for a Pensioner’s Lunch. It sounds just the job.
Scamp was determined to plant up her pansies today when she came home. They are now sitting on the back step settling in to their new home. Tomorrow they get the airlift to their true place on the fence. The snowdrops have already been planted in a trough by the back step.
While the pizza was in the oven I was trying to get the new OS backed up on a spare section of another SSD, without success. The OS copied perfectly, but it wasn’t bootable. I was on my third try and it was just after dinner, that the work “Legacy” popped into my head. You don’t need to know what it is or how it works, but if I’m ever looking for a way to make a bootable OS copy, remind me the key word it “Legacy”. When this revelation appeared, I had just started making a sort of OS copy from the original ‘spinning rust’ hard disk. When I stopped it and put it out of its misery it was telling me is still had five hours to go. The Legacy OS took 25 minutes to do the same thing … and it worked.
The prompt today was ‘Camping’.
We used to do a fair bit of camping when we were younger, but the world was a different place then. I’m not sure I’d want to go camping in the wilderness in 2022. Having said that, we still have a tent somewhere in the house, just in case we get that sudden urge to spend a night or two in the great outdoors … in the rain.
Tomorrow it looks like the dance class is ready to go ahead and we’ve had a bit of a practise tonight to make sure we know the rudiments at least. Other than that, we have no plans. It looks wet again.