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Nessus posted:Given your description, Dan, I think that a vernier caliper would make a lot of sense. Perhaps it was damaged and discarded, or lost from a car or something? What did the site get used for in the not-too-distant past? It's been used as farmland/grazing for a very long time- I wouldn't think a car had ever gotten to that point but a tractor perhaps I haven't gotten much further with testing but the metal detector lights up blue on that piece which apparently means the metal contains silver- tonight I'm going to cut a fragment of it away and see how it reacts to a blowtorch before maybe looking up how to test things properly zero degrees celebratory BBQ    It was just a little below freezing yesterday  I brought in some useful stuff, and had hoped to put three trees in the ground  But the water table didn't want to let me- a test dig became an instant mini-pond  Unusual rations today, fairly sure this isn't regulation   https://i.imgur.com/aNN9zrw.mp4 It needed a better heat source than the butane stove could manage in this temperature  It struggled to boil a kettle even after I warmed the gas bottle down my trousers, and a robin came along and took a poo poo on it for good measure. I need a tiny rocket stove just big enough for boiling a kettle/pan- will be a nice project for next year.  A* ration for a cold day. While I was sat eating, I got my full blood test results and they came back excellent- the symptoms continue but it's nice to know things are otherwise healthy and efforts can move more towards treating my symptoms rather than make sure I'm not going to keel over  By almost setting fire to my arm to pull this out, I produced a little charcoal too- kept somewhere dry it will make for excellent fire starting materials    I had a sit for awhile watching the sun barely scrape above the treeline- solstice can't come soon enough. More soon!
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Making charcoal is one of the skills I feel I should learn, just because. Congrats on the bloodwork! I have almost of full year of lab results coming back with inflammation markers in the normal range; one more round and I can drop one of the immune suppressants, whoo!
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xcheopis posted:Making charcoal is one of the skills I feel I should learn, just because. Charcoal is useful for lots of stuff, and I hope to have lots more wood soon so I can further my skills in setting things on fire then making them be not quite so on fire as before Congrats to you too  two fairly large steps for man, one giant leap for general fatigue   https://i.imgur.com/sZwFJ9y.mp4 Nice day for it  Travelling fairly light, but with the brusque confidence only carrying a honed axe can bring  Wet in places though https://i.imgur.com/QF2qmL2.mp4 No, really  The pond relishes such conditions https://i.imgur.com/nu86dGT.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/geq3Vza.mp4 Fed and watered the birbs   Been meaning to sort this bit of entrance path right at the border for a long time- it's hard to show properly but its quite a steep drop, gets very muddy and has nearly sent me on a short flight to shitsville way too many times   The previous steps were installed in 1998 while I was too busy fancying natalie imbruglia or wearing kangol hats to be saving the planet, there would have been a few less roots to contend with then, but one follows ones heart (natalie never wrote back, gentle reader)   It needs another one or two further up and another set at the other side of the copse- but the worst part is now going to be a lot more manageable. The concrete will look a lot less obvious after a few rainfalls   https://i.imgur.com/d7BFPaQ.mp4 Five acres quartermaster department said this particular ration had excellent scores on the feedback questionnaires  Made for a drat fine sandwich imo  I stuck around for awhile watching things but once the sun goes past the thick part of the treeline the light level drops dramatically (it also gets cold but I layer up real well)  A nice trip, saw too many trees though, so I'm gonna have to work on that and I'm not sure if the trees will like it- more soon
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holiday shorts  I'm not actually allowed to wear shorts. Court order. Happy holidays goons  The road down is very much more like a rocky stream/series of ponds right now, and I'm strangely proud of how little crap got thrown onto the car which conflicts with my desires to have it messy- that and the guy who owns the road will figuratively/literally murder me if he catches me going all rally driver, sideways round the corners on it again  Essential bird supplies brought in, as well as a few other sundries  The crows and magpies follow me in, but at a distance and largely hidden in the trees- heard far more often than seen. The robins wait around the caravan to engage in constant, loud and insistent peeps until I serve up the food. It's rude, and I love it.  I at least make them wait till I'm done unpacking though, can't let them walk all over me   Sunflower hearts, meal worms and suet jammed into a coconut shell for a seasonal treat, as well as the normal provisions- I also left out some extra cat food for the foxes/cats/magpies/rats/pigeons/robins/holyfuck everything will eat cat food     In a blatant breach of union rules I didn't even get time to sit down, let alone have a coffee- it was just feeder filling and the camera munition refills and a brief check around the place, but that was better than no visit, and the birds agreed heartily More, soon.
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Maugrim posted:Happy Christmas, you mighty hero to birbs  thanks palchop chop     A little frost this morning then  Brought a few trusty friends in with me  https://i.imgur.com/mLPqN9j.mp4 My friends that live here are getting very bold  Trailcams are probably going to need some kind of shroud to help keep the rain off in some positions       I wasn't very organised with the picture taking but I went along my pathway in and cut back branches that were/would eventually block my path, then cut back some poplar to let more light onto the southern field  I turned fresh batteries into sawdust. Doing a bunch more of this over the next month or three will pay off a lot in spring/summer, and I processed more firewood today than I have probably burnt in the last year   Nice to get some stuff done, and to sit and plot my next moves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMwrgIG5lGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZvskaCyyTE Been steadily getting through trailcam footage too- More, soon.
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chop chop part 2: the choppening Hard to spot in this image was a constant wind from the northwest  Hidden inside my bag was the real essential supplies of some more coffee bag things  https://i.imgur.com/73kBSxs.mp4 Everybody say "hello Peeps" https://i.imgur.com/cyHZkce.mp4 Their buddies all had a good time too  After birdfeeding, the rounds and a coffee break it was time to cut back some tree  This poorly placed before picture shows the area before I cut  I drop all the big bits to the ground  So I can go around and chop out the good firewood for drying and pile it up. All the twiggy bits and attached have been strategically put into piles at the edge of the woodland- bramble and dogrose etc will use it as a climbing frame and create new hedgerow, and I can harvest air dried twigs for kindling as required    Lunch was whatever I could scrounge from the supply depot- turned out nice but made me wish for some curry powder    After that settled and I had a brief nature walk I did the same as before lunch- chop em down, trim em up, stack the brush and take the best logs/branches.  I then combined my logpiles into a larger, faster, stronger logpile https://i.imgur.com/QLyAoe2.mp4 And then I set about draining some motherfuckin' batteries    Brap brap brap, as the kids say  They looked a bit shifty, so I put them in a cage. I need to get a roof over this whack rear end log prison though  These logs got a temporary reprieve because the batteries ran out about the same time the sunlight did  I'm currently experimenting with putting the sawdust down in the mud on the ground by the caravan door    I went and had a look at the trail cams IR lights using the phone camera and used that to have a look at how well it picks things up at range. No visible light from either one, though I really need to check when its properly dark   I really had run out the daylight and I had just about enough light to get packed up and back to the car without having to use a torch. I miss the gently caress out of being there at night, and if I hadn't been so tired out I would have gone back for a nightcrew walk around once I was packed but instead there will just have to be more soon! DesperateDan fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Jan 3, 2021 |
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Thanks for the updates and Happy New Year To you and this small piece of tranquility.
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spookygonk posted:Thanks for the updates and Happy New Year To you and this small piece of tranquility. Happy New Year to you too I bring you more of it! I wish things could have been a bit more varied/productive over the last year but pandemic and all chop chop 3: chopchopchop   A bright day for the most part, but I started late and needed to chop wood while I could, so I mainly just got on with it   https://i.imgur.com/PqbfgXo.mp4 Peeps was very happy to see me regardless https://i.imgur.com/MMiLxcl.mp4 And the feeders were quickly busy  This treeline needs to be trimmed back to allow more light to this end of the field, and some more hedgerow would be nice I guess   So I waded in and cut a bunch of smaller branches down then took a few larger limbs   Off to the west slightly I had a pre-existing brushpile which I dumped a bunch of top branches on- some will be harvested a little for kindling over time but the vast bulk will have a hedgerow grow into it and make for some great habitat for many things until it all slowly decomposes.   Then I did the reciprocating chop action some more for some firewood- I do want to get into the habit of taking some timbers for building with, but much of today's wood wasn't too suitable  And the aftershot- Behind the immediate treeline to the left there is a circular clearing of sorts (bramble but no trees) that will be great for a sheltered area for a bit of wild camping once it's cleared out  Several buzzards out today, saw some pass overhead quite close but never when I had the camera to hand   And a nice size barrow of wood goes into prison for crimes. Awaiting a nice bit of tarp to cover the cage up  It really was quite nice- cold, especially when the wind from the north bit, but fresh. More, soon.
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spookygonk posted:Long-tailed tits on the fat balls. and then I put the footage on the internet oh the depravity Chop Chop IV: A  Yo goons  https://i.imgur.com/glUERdh.mp4 Supplies, feeding of the peeps, move along pal theres nothing to see here etc there's something in the bags I'm keeping secret for now  The pond is now back to immense again https://i.imgur.com/Ej8t0Q8.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/R6L5gvT.mp4 Which isn't surprising given the water table is high enough I have a few small streams around the place now  Todays main target is that mass of poplar to the centre right that I have been putting off for ages https://i.imgur.com/UBpUhoy.mp4 While I was chopping away the birbs were happily eating a few feet away at the feeders  A lot of these branches were tangled in with each other and were a pain to cut   I didn't even try with the butane stove today. Decided to https://i.imgur.com/uoj8w0V.mp4  I'm not gonna lie those slices of bread were meant to be thrown out for the birds but it was a sossig emergency and they weren't that stale  This next bit was probably the bulk of the work and certainly the least fun- sorting and cutting my way through all the downed limbs/branches and stacking the brush for a 3-4 metre length of new hedgerow.    The best parts went to longer cut bits of firewood  So now we can get to the after picture which looks like a mess but once we get some dogrose and bramble going it will look just like all the other hedgerow   I also took a few whacks at the part right next to the feeders, but the batteries ran low so this has been deferred to mission 5   I either need to be more sensible about packing up on time or make sure my torches are in good working order because getting out in the dark, through muddy woods and quite literally a stream while carrying tools was a cool adventure  Night mode on the camera allowed for a nice shot looking back on the entrance  I regret not filming the drive out too, parts of that were also a stream and made me very thankful for AWD and wide tyres https://i.imgur.com/2Ivo3nn.mp4 Is this sneak peek of the latest footage an early sign that the squirrels are rebelling, and will soon be trying to strip the cameras from the trees? Only time will tell, dear reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk6jye5MkZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd0QCF9IDs And that's about it for now, but I imagine there will be more, soon
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xcheopis posted:Beautiful night shot! Thanks, with any luck there will be many more this year Chop Chop V - The Felling  Well hello there   Nice and crisp weather  https://i.imgur.com/GjQMiD8.gifv https://i.imgur.com/275LeMF.gifv bring in the things and say hi to whichever robin is playing peeps today and observe union rules on hot drinks   I guess these are the before pictures, today we are making a start on the treeline blocking sun from the pond- a job that I have been putting off for, oh, I dunno, a decade or so   I do yell out "timber" sometimes, for my own amusement. Probably the biggest I have taken yet with the sippy saw   Made a big old mess of everything and then realised the best of the light was pretty much gone and I was hungry, so I started tidying and stacking so I could get near the BBQ, which quite luckily is fairly resistant to some trees falling on it, as tested empirically   If someone says there's no smoke without fire, then friend, they are lying to your goddamn face. You can have lots of smoke and absolutely no fire, as about 15 minutes of not quite dry enough tinder starting showed https://i.imgur.com/oRxXqne.gifv Got there in the end though   The buzzards were very active again today   Three for me, one for whatever turns up and eats it first- the trailcam will know by now  More charwood/coal production, efficiency is up through advanced use of a metal pole to drag out burning timbers  Ran out of battery before finishing and forgot or accidentally deleted the other afterwards shot- I think it's gonna be a few missions on this treeline before we can see much progress anyway  The bench and table of the office area are going to have to move to allow trees to be felled (I don't think they are as sturdy as the BBQ), and when they go back something will have to be done about the mud- I'm thinking a few slabs around the foot areas or maybe a whole raised area for it with drainage   And that was it for another day, which means there will be more soon
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Chop Chop VI: I think this is how roman numerals work anyway  oh aye so its a bit cold   https://i.imgur.com/pZG8xbm.gifv definitely at least a little cold but not that cold https://i.imgur.com/k7lhIYa.gifv If I had time, I would set up a chair so I could sit with some seed in a hand and just wait, but I need to be busy and also it's a bit cold   https://i.imgur.com/2wlRniP.gifv So the trick with butane canisters in sub-zero temps isn't to trouser them to keep them warm, but instead to tuck them right next to your chest for better surface contact- then you might even get to boil a kettle in something under half an hour! Try not to explode!  So this is what we start with  After a bit of cutting and some brush pile making, we have a larger pile of logs and a bit less tree   Played a bit of mouse or vole while collecting wood- I think these are voles  https://i.imgur.com/ASgQPrs.gifv   Really pushed the boat out today on lunch, not only is there a freshly warmed bread allowance, there's also sauce!     Sorted the logs into suitable and unsuitable, and four barrows worth of bad things happened to the unsuitable pile  The suitable pile has been sorted into long and short lengths. Some unsuitable elements may remain, hidden and scared by what they saw done to their brethren. They will be found. The suitable pile will grow strong, but only if purity of suitability is maintained.  So by the end of a days work, we end up with batteries and efforts entirely spent with an after picture that again looks very much like the before picture  So I guess I had better go do more soon DesperateDan fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Jan 26, 2021 |
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 https://i.imgur.com/YzUb9uJ.gifv In a probably quite welcome interruption to your irregularly scheduled episode of "some beardy looking fucker cuts down yet more loving trees and grills yet more loving meat" I bring to you a tawny owl! I still need to properly look at/edit the footage but I have a shot of it trying to hunt rats too, but on average each cam is capturing ~150-200 clips a week and I have a bit of a backlog building organburner posted:Excellent cinematography utilized to sort of make it look like you shat yourself and it ran out your trousers on the muddy ice gif Ah. Yeah! Aye... Um… Cinematography!
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Bad news this morning I'm afraid- there's been a diplomatic incident and the owner of the farm track is using it as a pretext to deny access by car to anyone not him for the immediate future. This really fucks me over, carrying in anything is now going to involve hiking it in over a much larger distance which means a lot of the poo poo I had planned for this year is now on hold indefinitely- It's going to be a physical and logistical challenge just to keep the bird feeders stocked. gently caress.
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DesperateDan posted:Bad news this morning I'm afraid- there's been a diplomatic incident and the owner of the farm track is using it as a pretext to deny access by car to anyone not him for the immediate future. Oh poo poo, I'm sorry.
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Oh no. Crowdfund getting a basic access track of your own put in - I don't know how much it would cost but if it's only a few k I would not be surprised if you could raise it (and the person employing you to work on the land may also be willing to put something extra towards it?)
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I need to wait and let some stupidly complex politics play out and then see what options are available. It's intensely lovely especially as I have essentially no control over it (for the better at least)- for now all I can do is figure out how to do what I can with what I have to hand. I can't even really explain it properly other than it involves a longstanding series of grudges among some older folk and I'm getting hosed down by crossfire- hopefully in a few years I can stun you all with how petty some of this stuff is but for now I got to put up and shut up. But more, soon.
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DesperateDan posted:I need to wait and let some stupidly complex politics play out and then see what options are available. It's intensely lovely especially as I have essentially no control over it (for the better at least)- for now all I can do is figure out how to do what I can with what I have to hand. Maybe I don't understand the layout properly here, is it legal to block a road in this way? I want to say that over here, if there's a road going across your property to someone elses property you are obligated to let them use the road but I'm not 100% certain.
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Sorry to see that happening to you. Post about it in the legal questions thread, maybe? It won't help but it might be informative. Wish I could say I don't have much experience with access and easement stuff, but as a lawyer I used to practice in the area (still kinda do I guess) and well... Let's just say my cabin has a state title registry registered right of vehicle and road access from two sides, snow mobile right of access (and a state license) as well as my registered co-ownership in both mountain access roads. Because gently caress that poo poo.
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organburner posted:Maybe I don't understand the layout properly here, is it legal to block a road in this way? I want to say that over here, if there's a road going across your property to someone elses property you are obligated to let them use the road but I'm not 100% certain. No, it's 100% possible to own land you can't access other than by trebuchet or helicopter. Just because you've been using a road to access it doesn't mean you have a right to it. Hope it calms down soon Dan, stay well.
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cakesmith handyman posted:No, it's 100% possible to own land you can't access other than by trebuchet or helicopter. Just because you've been using a road to access it doesn't mean you have a right to it. I think this is one of those things that's gonna be different from country to country. EDIT: did a little amount of reading about how it works here and there's a lot of stuff about it, but here you can have a road you have a right to use that leads to your property over someone else's property. organburner fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Feb 7, 2021 |
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Yes, but there's a big difference between a road you have a right to use and a road someone's let you use for a while.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Yes, but there's a big difference between a road you have a right to use and a road someone's let you use for a while. Yeah, you're right, I was just wondering if there was some legalese things in this specific instance I wasn't understanding. Road rights can be a god drat nightmare here it seems, I'm glad I don't need to worry about it myself.
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organburner posted:Yeah, you're right, I was just wondering if there was some legalese things in this specific instance I wasn't understanding. Just to throw it out there and completely dependent on jurisdiction, if I own a road and I let you access your land on foot, this doesn't necessarily mean I've let you use it with a bike. Or a horse. Or a car. If you are allowed access use with a car, it doesn't automatically mean you have a right to use the road to move a heavy vehicle over, or increase the amount of traffic beyond reasonable. Even if a piece of land has a right of access attached to it, if you want to develop the land in a way that increases daily traffic this may not be within the limits of that right. One of the most common issues with right of way/right of access etc. is that the right may be based on everything from tradition to oral agreement to old easements and beyond and it's an expensive clusterfuck to try and figure out what the actual right is and the right is almost never "assumed" to exist because the default state is that you have no right to another's property unless you can show something that says you do. There's always the often claimed possibility that the ability to access was merely tolerated by the property owner (in a way that does not create a permanent right of access).
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Nice piece of fish posted:Just to throw it out there and completely dependent on jurisdiction, if I own a road and I let you access your land on foot, this doesn't necessarily mean I've let you use it with a bike. Or a horse. Or a car. If you are allowed access use with a car, it doesn't automatically mean you have a right to use the road to move a heavy vehicle over, or increase the amount of traffic beyond reasonable. Even if a piece of land has a right of access attached to it, if you want to develop the land in a way that increases daily traffic this may not be within the limits of that right. And then if you do have rights to a road, who else has rights to that road? Who maintains it? How much space is it allowed to take up on the land owners property? How wide can it be? Do ditches along the road count for the width of the road? All kinds of poo poo.
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UK roadlaw: My father's driveway is an "easement" (I believe) which is a road that travels across a farmer's field- he owns the land but we have a legal right to the road. (I believe) If it is just an informal arrangement over a private road, it is like parking on someone else's driveway, it doesn't matter if they let you use it previously. Edit- Glad to have found another UK mud-liver dreamer. Hope I can help in future. kicks forts fucked around with this message at 09:39 on Feb 8, 2021 |
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I have access to the acres that is provided for in a written contract. If I somehow didn't anymore, I can gain access from other routes but that's not preferable right now for reasons. The road/track is very much privately built and owned and didn't exist at the time rights of access were drawn up. I can't give much more detail than that other than things are in discussion but progress is likely to be incredibly slow. This poo poo is how it is for now. It could be worse. It will get better. Also while I would be fine with setting up some kind of donation thing so people can fund trees for me to plant etc I think I would have some issues about taking cash to fund a private access road that would almost entirely be for my use- as cool as that would be for me, there are better uses for people's money Been working on the contingency plans and a mission should happen before the week is out more soon
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the cat came back, the very next  It's all ice. The road. The ice. The car. The snow. All ice. I could spin all 4 tyres with a blip of the throttle. And the tyres and the throttle. They were ice. Also the blip. Ice.    Been awhile since I walked this way in, but even under the snow I remember it well- clearing it out enough for a tractor to get in and mow was one of the first tasks I took on down here   I mean look at my logs, even prettier than normal.  This rucksack hasn't seen the outdoors in a long drat time. Got it back when I was an air cadet. Feels like it weighs more when empty than the normal bag does when full, but it can carry a fuckload more, and spreads it pretty well.    Peeps had no loving patience today whatsoever goddamn peeps, drat   Had to clear up Ops. I guess that's what I'm calling the office now. You can't stop me either.  The pond is frozen again. Maybe it never really stopped being frozen. I dunno. I'm not some kind of pond expert.  Snowtime mocha. Not fire today. Soon tho.   There's tracks all over the place, can't wait to see the trailcams   Which I dutifully reloaded, because other than the supplies I brought in, that was kind of the bulk of the mission.   Aye, the supplies. Hot drink sundries and firelighters. It was on the list.  See?    So then it was time to bail because today was more about showing the flag (metaphorical and not literal but there is a literal flag too, we stole it from the 18th hole on a golf course) doing a practice run and getting the birds fed- more soon
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popping in   I'm taking a kicking but the birds need feeding so it's time to chew some nails and spit some rust  Some old granola, so we can see what eats it this time round, and a frying pan.   Hot drinks and getting a table up out of the mud was followed by an extended rounds and some tree climbing.  Have had this cam a little over a year now and I really need to put together the review video, and also bring it home for a quick service and spruce up- but for now it's getting more footage. If I remembered to turn it on.   Next time I'm bringing a saw and maybe something to test out that shiny frying pan with so I can get some more tree chopped before the sap starts to rise. More soon.
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DesperateDan posted:popping in
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpnAGjobeYMspookygonk posted:Pond's looking good. I live in hope that one day it will develop aphotic zones and grow up into a big old lake like it's neighbour over in the occupied territories but for now we can content ourselves with making it a year round pond
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called off  For a change today my symptoms decided to wait until I pretty much got there to kick my arse but I was unwilling to come all that way and not at least do the rounds and have a peek round    It was annoying to put it mildly but at least I realised before I hiked a bunch of tools down there- they stayed nice and warm back at the car and I just brought/did the essentials and sat with a coffee   On the hike out I disturbed a bunch of deer, but they all scattered (apart from one in the distance... there…) before I got a picture. Guess I go rest up and roll the dice again in a few days- more soon.
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