Walking today
Another morning walk over towards Potterhanworth – with Chai tea and croissants for breakfast.
tea
New tea and coffee station
I was planning to go walking early today and photograph the sunrise but the weather had other ideas – it was raining really hard.
So I built some new shelves in the office and sorted out the tea and coffee…
What a difference a week makes – last week I was neck deep in the dissertation.
I did have this published on the Octagon website:
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Work from anywhere
I have moved into my new space today – there is still some work to be done to finish it but is is perfectly useable. Michael has done an excellent job.
I now have somewhere to retreat to to complete my dissertation now that the University Library remains closed to me here in Lincoln. (Photos here and here of the views from Lincoln University library.)
For security only the seat, kettle, offices odds and ends and heaters remain in the shed overnight – the rest of the hi-tech stuff is my portable office so that goes.
Future plans for the “shed” include:
• Finish the decorating and hang the curtains.
• At the moment I am using the house Wi-fi. I want to get Octagon Technology to install a secure Wi-fi router/access point and VPN. As part of the build I had the electrician run a network cable at the same time he installed the power.
• We are going to install some off-grid 12v solar power.
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Walk and a coffee
The meeting this afternoon was cancelled so I took the opportunity to at last walk further than just round the village.
I bought this stove back in January but have not had an opportunity to use it. I keep it in a pack in the boot of the car, with the Sierra cup, some water and coffee, for days like today when I had not planned for a brew stop.
It worked OK but there were a lot of flames and it left more residue in the stove than I expected. But it was compact, easy to carry with three pots of fuel and a wind shield packed inside it and it boiled about 300ml of water on one fuel portion (in windy conditions). As a stand-by stove with well packed fuel for long term storage it is just what I was looking for.
Craigellachie National Nature Reserve
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Craigellachie National Nature Reserve is one of my favourite places to walk, in Aviemore, and it is very near to Scandinavian Village.
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