What with one thing and another, it was a busy weekend on the River Itchen this last weekend.Sunday they had a rowing regatta on, so the river was littered with all kinds of crews battling it out between them.I could not really tell who was winning or …
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Finally, LED practically dead
This is, most likely, the last post I’ll make on the LED’s progress.The LED has been reduced to a tiny pinprick of light, even after bypassing the resistor.So that’s the end of that particular experiment.Who would have thought that that light would hav…
Gulls
Coming back down the River Itchen the other evening, suddenly there were gulls everywhere.There was nobody else around, and no reason that I could see that brought the gulls down.Could be there was a school of fish, or something else interesting in the…
Fire
There is always something interesting going on around me.Here you see a huge fire in the yard near me.As best as I can tell, without going there for a visit, I believe the yard is some kind of topsoil recycling place.They seem to feed soil through a la…
Surfing
I’ve seen this guy ‘surfing’ down the River Itchen a couple of times now.I’ll bet it’s not as easy to do as he makes it look.I suspect I’d end up in the drink the first boat that goes past me.This does look fun though.
Spitfire
Saturday brought more aircraft related diversions, in the form of a Spitfire this time.This flight was in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the first Spitfire flight. Southampton was where it all originally started.There were a good crown of peopl…
Coastguard helicopter
Friday night’s peace and quiet was somewhat disrupted with this Coastguard helicopter overhead, up and down the river, while it was searching.From time to time people end up in the river at night, for whatever reason, and search and rescue, including t…
Barge
Here’s a picture of the barge which is moored just in front of me.You can see the wood cut from my deck neatly stacked down below there, serving as ballast for the thing.If you look at the end furthest away, you can see a notch cut into the deck. This …
Christoph M again
A little bit more on the Christoph M.Often when these boats tie up and the tide goes out, they end up listing somewhat as they come to rest on the bottom.This is certainly the case with the Christoph M, but she also appears to have slid out sideways to…
