November 30th, 2014
Yesterday I was out exploring near Marlborough and stumbled across this ancient burial chamber just as it was getting dark. With the moon out already it was super creepy.
Apparently this is the “Devil’s Den” and if I had been foolish enough to pour water into the hollows in the capstone and demon would have appeared and drunk it! :-o
I’ve been experimenting with OSM Tracker to make maps for me. The results are quite good! It wakes up every 30s and stashes your GPS coordinates, which you can then export as a GPX file. I normally have my phone in flight mode while adventuring to save battery but running this in the background didn’t seem to drain it too badly. Not that I’d use it for navigation of course: OS Explorer 1:25000 FTW.
Some more photos below. Horny sheep was friendly!
November 15th, 2014
Everyone knows squirrels are stupid but this one seems extra doof: he has climbed up to the top of this tree (I’m on the third floor) and is swaying around in the wind!
November 15th, 2014
Last weekend I was having a rather uneventful day out exploring the western end of Berkshire when I was caught in a sudden and unexpected downpour. Afterwards there was this totally awesome rainbow! It looked like the end was about 100m away in neighbouring field. Unfortunately as I chased after it it retreated further away so no gold for me. :-(
There must be some special technique for photographing rainbows as all the photos turned out mediocre while the real thing looked amazing.
Here’s where I went: in a sort of fish shape from Cholsey back to the train at Goring.
November 4th, 2014
I was pleasantly surprised today when I did a dist-upgrade on Debian Jessie today and it upgraded xcowsay to version 1.3 which was released a mere four years ago.
Alarmingly, there appear to be bug reports! :-o Methinks I should be working on a 1.4 release…