Saturday 5 October 2024

Our Leafcutter Bee Larvae

The summer is now behind us

so its time to empty our solitary bee box

and save the larvae in a safe place.

Sunday 29 September 2024

AllSky: new box, dark frames & other tweaks

When conditions allow, I've been having fun with Allsky.

What started because of a meteor shower, has become a wider interest in things in the night sky.

And I've been tidying & tweaking my system.

Tuesday 17 September 2024

Hot-Bin Composting

We are now proud owners of a hot-bin composter.

I didn't know anything about this a few weeks ago.

But I'm now a bit of a hot-compost fundi.

Friday 2 August 2024

Thursday 25 July 2024

My Smart TV has a problem with JPEGs

It will load & display some, but not all images.

Which is not great when we are trying to show-off our holiday snaps!

Wednesday 10 July 2024

Pi-Hole; network ad blocker

Adverts can bog you down.

 

They slow down the loading of web pages, especially on modest machines.

So its high time I setup a network ad-blocker!

Thursday 6 June 2024

Monday 27 May 2024

BirdNet-Pi: upgrading the drive

Time to replace the uSD drive for a larger USB drive.

 

This is not rocket science...

...but once again, due to my poor memory, I need to record the procedure.