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For a few days the Diary is going to be…

For a few days the Diary is going to be very short as I am trying to get the Internet connection working properly from the telescope observatory back to the farmhouse. At the moment it is very intermittent and is not allowing me to control the telescope remotely. As the farm house is at least 150m from the observatory I wont be running back and forth to get it aligned. The problem I should think started after gale force winds last winter, it caused the wires from the observatory to the farm house to sway and eventually sag very low, Branston must have run into them pulling them to the ground. Both Branston and my self were very lucky not to have got electrocuted. All the wires to the observatory are run overhead. There are four wires that are needed to control the telescope webcams, two coaxial wires for transmitting the camera signals, a networking cable to control the computer, that allows me to remotely control the telescope and a mains electricity wire. The mains electricity had not fused when it fell to the ground. I had not noticed the wire was down for over a week when I could not get a connection. In all that time that the wire was down Branston could have trod on it, for sure that would have been to end of Branston. I had rolled the wire up ready for it to be put in position. I had obviously believed that with it being on the ground that it would have blown its fuse.

I managed to get a camera on the nesting Dove last evening. I had so many choices as there are at least six Dove nesting in the area. One had nested by the side of a roll of wire that I use for the camera. To get the camera working I needed more wire and had to move the reel. When moving the reel my hand was within an inch of the Dove who never flinched, just watched every thing that I was doing.

Karen asked the name of the big Horse in the field. It is Arnie for obvious reasons, being that he is 17.3hh. One soppy lovable gentle giant.

Doesn’t look like we will be making hay for a while with the forecasts that I have seen. The forecast for our area today was showers this morning, It poured down none stop for over two hours. I am going to write down what the forecast is each day, so that I make no mistake and see how often they get it wrong. Actually it will be less work if I keep a record of when they get it right.

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