I have watched the ground staff at Lincoln City Football Club, yesterday and today, get the field ready for todays game following the weekend’s snow.
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Working at the Football Ground Today
The main room at the BANC was in use today so I ended up working in one of the boxes.
Sunday’s Photo
The snow is melting away.
Saturday Morning
As it is forecast to be poor weather tomorrow I went for a walk this morning. The temperature was showing -6c, sunny with no wind and dry powder snow it was a great photo opportunity.
I found a suitable tree stump and made made some hot chocolate. Following my experience in the Lake District a couple of weeks ago, when the meths were too cold to light, I had carried the fuel bottle in an inside jacket pocket – this fixed the problem.
I am trying out another wind shield for my light weight stove – this one is made of thick aluminium foil and wraps closely around the mug and stove. In some very windy conditions I have found that the rigid wind shield, I usually use, lets too much wind through and I am concerned that when I head off to the Lake District in a couple months to wild camp that it will not provide enough protection. However there was no breeze today so it was no test for new wind shield – but I am sure it will be windy on my next walk!
Yet More Snow
A Bit of Colour
I found a little bit of colour today.
Snow
Server Repairs
Today I was working in a cupboard, (that is where the client keeps their server), repairing a disk array. Normally this is a couple of hours work, if you include the necessary backups, of course when you are working in a cupboard things never work out well. We eventually came up with a solution but it took nearly all day. So I have used my camera dozens of times today but for photographing screen shots, backs of servers, fronts of server, serial numbers, SATA drives etc etc.
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Super Bowl XLVI
It is a late night tonight as I am staying up to watch the American Football Super Bowl.
The game came complete with Madonna’s extravagant halftime show.
“Clik Clak” Stove
I have been using the meths burner from my Vargo Triad stove with my Crusader stove. They work well in this combination and it allows me to use cleaner meths fuel with the Crusader unit. I’d like to have a meths burner permanently stored in the Crusader case and was planning to make a drink can stove – but whilst walking last week I had an idea for an alternative meths burner.
A while back we had been given a small tin of mints as a business freebie and I thought it might make a good burner.
The lid design gives holes for the meths vapour to get out of the tin.
Time to experiment.
I filled the Clik Clak tin to just under the rolled lip – the tin is not as big as the Triad burner so I wanted to maximise the burn time – and then carefully clicked the lid on.
I put the tin and the primer meths (about 3mm deep) into the Crusader Stove fuel bowl, lit it, and put 250ml of water on to heat in the Crusader Mug with my metal lid.
It did work, the water just reached the rolling boil before the fuel ran out. The next test is to try it outdoors, rather than in the still air conditions indoors.