5.10.2022 A few snaps.

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 Wednesday 5th 56F/13C. Up at 4.30. No stove last night but it is still 67F/19C upstairs.

Wednesday is farm museum day. I must have a walk first. My hips are aching. That might be due to all that gravel shovelling yesterday.

 8.25 57F. I limited my brisk walk to half an hour. Grey skies and windy but not cold. 

 The image is of the main building at the museum where I work as a volunteer on Wednesdays. This is taken from within the large, enclosed yard. Four sided farm buildings surrounding a cobbled yard were very popular in the past.  Though many farmhouses have lost their outbuildings. These old buildings are quite hopeless for modern farming. Which often utilises huge machines. So many of these old, farm buildings have been sold off without much land.

 Am I alone in thinking that the world's governments seem bent on setting up their nation's skittles to be knocked down? The internet cables, gas pipelines, overhead grid cabling and pylons. Offshore oil and gas platforms. Power stations. Railway stations. Airports and airfields. Now centralised energy islands? 

 Each and every one of these systems is extremely vulnerable to a single drone missile. Or even more likely, a single bomb. Billions down the drain through the actions of one mad dictator or terrorist. None of these systems can be easily protected. 

 The kitchen entrance to the farmhouse. With hand operated, water pump.

 Democratising energy by fitting solar panels to homes and factories would work. But then they can't charge the poor a crippling, quarterly bill to pay dividends to the billionaire, offshore investors. Local power stations, with energy storage, would outnumber the wildest ambitions of lunatic, bad actors. Without the need for a vulnerable power grid.

 15.30 59F, dark overcast. Strong wind on the way later. Safely home from the museum after a busy day. Followed by shopping. I started by wheelbarrowing soil onto an excavated path. Shovelling the soil out in layers and then stamping it before raking it smooth. The path no longer went anywhere. So had become superfluous. I shovelled soil from a hopper on the back of a tractor. 

 Later I helped on the machine shed extension. I took about 200 pictures today. So will have enough for a new blog specialising in the museum. The lighting conditions were very even. So no deep shadows or blinding highlights. Though it could have been a little brighter.

 After a grocery shopping trip I came home and painted the beam above the bathroom door. Better, but it still needs a wedge to fill the back of the space.

 Dinner was fried mushrooms, the second half of the diced chicken and a whipped omelette mix poured over the top. It made an awful looking mess but it tasted fine. I finished off with the second half of the tomato soup and bread roll.

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