Nestcam

A couple of years ago I built a wee birdhouse with some spare wood in the garage. It was something I'd always wanted to put up, and that summer a family of Blue Tits lived in it. They returned last year, and so this year I decided I'd like to install a little nestcam in there to see the brood from start to finish.

It arrived in the post today, and it's a nifty wee thing that should work perfectly (after a quick trip to Asda to get an AV to Scart conversion lead). The red lights are infrared LEDs so it can see inside the nestbox.

Nice snowy ride to work again today, the roads starting to ice up when coming home from the office. The trip to Asda was by car, and it's definitely getting more and more slippery, which should make the morning interesting. The bike still feels more stable.

Right, answer to yesterday's conundrum which no-one even had a stab at! The sentence with 8 'had's in a row refers to the answers which two boys had given to a grammatical question in an English class and goes, "John where Jim had had had had had had had had been the correct answer."

Oh, so you want the punctuation as well? Okay. "John where Jim had 'had', had 'had had'. 'Had had' had been the correct answer."

For example, John had had a really good day after getting that one right.

Or something.

And finally a little request. People in sandwich shops. You do not have to remain in the same position along the counter in which you were standing when first asked what you would like to eat. As people who were ahead of you in the queue get served and exit it actually is permitted to move further along the counter, meaning those behind you, when asked what they would like to eat don't have to undertake an elaborate guessing game of what is on offer. I'll bet you get on a bus and then get your purse out to find the correct change as well.

Photos from a lunchtime wander in the snow down by the Water of Leith were disappointingly not up to scratch:

Snowsphinx
Dean Village Cormorant
Upside Down Squirrel