Friday 13th June 2025 What can possibly go wrong?

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 Friday 13th 59F/15C [7.45] Bright but windy. The garden trees and hedges are rocking. All day sunshine is promised. 

 Up at 7am after a very quiet night. I got up only once at 3.30. Probably tired from the longer bike ride. I am aching in my back and shoulders, hands and wrists. 

 Sandholt Slot. With a huge farm to the left. Just out of the picture.

 The doctor has advised me to stop taking two of my tablets as no longer necessary. I should go for a walk to loosen up. Though I should get enough exercise from tidying up today.

 I am expecting a parcel. Though I have opted for a pickup point delivery in the village. To avoid clashes with bolshy drivers. 

 My visitor is arriving tomorrow. Where to start? The whole place is a tip! At least it isn't raining. So I can finally tidy the garden after the observatory demolition and gravel work. Where do I put it all?  The lawn has got away from me again!  

 Arreskov Slot. Another stately home with huge farm buildings.

 Three of the neighbour's hedges are leaning over the drive. Two are absent neighbours. A third is absent but doesn't have any hedges on their boundary. A fourth [present] is attacking another absent neighbour's hedge. Just to keep the main drive navigable. 

 The same absent neighbour is completing blocking the view down the road. At the dangerous exit from the drive on a sharp corner. By not trimming their roadside hedge.  

 The council hedge trimming tractor doesn't trim roadside hedges on private property. Presumably to avoid conflicts of interest with property owner's shrubs and trees. So must somebody innocent die, for private profit, on property investment? I hope you are taking notes. Because I shall be asking questions at the end. 

 Snap of screen showing CX810 video in sunshine. The image has been resized from the original 4k. [3840x2160] The blog format does not support huge images. So I routinely resize all my images to 1000 pixels.

 I drove into the village to shop and to pick up my parcel. The shopping is put away and I have installed my new CX810 Reolink security camera on the system.  

 12.30 I have been replacing the TP-Link camera at the front of the house. Connecting up the newly arrived Reolink camera with a 10m Cat7 cable. The quality improvement of the Reolink CX810 over the TP-Link Tapo CX325WB is night and day. The 4K picture on the CX810 is crisp and colourful. Without being washed out like the Tapo. A closer view makes person identification immediate at any reasonable distance. The CX810 does suffer from considerable field curvature. Not quite barrel distortion but very noticeable. Probably a result of the very fast, f/1.0 lens.

 The Tapo is so wide angle that everything in view is tiny. Which has its uses but not for my main security cameras. Which I can now view both, side by side on my PC. I never managed to make the Tapo work on the PC. I'll point the Tapo over the western lawn for even more coverage. Though visible only on my phone. 

My nice neighbours' ponies have arrived. They have plenty to eat. Unfortunately they have wandered over to the far side of their paddock. So can't pose for a first portrait. The 3rd image is the new Reolink CX810 which was triggered by the cat retreating down the drive. The ponies have moved nearer at centre right.

I have some hedge clipping to do if I want to see the junction with the main drive. Duly done.

 Dinner was fried chicken, mushrooms and chips.

 

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