6.06.2025 Unfit for purpose?

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  Friday 6th 55F/12.8C. Overcast with lots of rain promised for this morning. Lighter rain after lunch but very windy later. With SW gusts to 20m/s.[45mph] I had better weigh down my carport roof!  

 Up at 5.15. I had another of those strange episodes of extreme dizziness last night. An hour [?] sitting on the toilet while my vision rotated. Not vomiting but definite nausea. Which makes me question whether this is food poisoning. I was incapable of walking but eventually wobbled to bed, collapsed and slept through. I had left all the lights on. So the goldfish were probably quite cross. Or partying!

 I believe I am being bullied for giving my parcel carrier/driver a bad review after their last fiasco. Delivery to a pickup point. When I had paid handsomely for home delivery. And, I stayed in all day of course. I bet their deluded driver thinks his employer actually pays his wages. 

 He may well have been passed on from Norway Post after they went bust. No longer sustainable costs after letter mail numbers collapsed. They were absorbed by a private parcel company. They brag that their prices are the lowest. Yet they are far higher than the two main competitors. GLS and PostNord. The latter has given up letter delivery.

 My parcel was still showing as "out for delivery" on their tracking website after dark. It only changed after I chose delivery at a pickup point on their website. I had paid 79 Kroner [£9 equivalent] for a parcel weighing 2.4kg with delivery within Denmark. 

 No doubt I will get an auto-generated email asking for another of my glowing reviews after a suitable cooling off period. I'll wait until I have the parcel in my hands before responding. BTW: What is "unfit for purpose" in Danish? 

 11.00 Returned from the village with groceries and my parcel. It had arrived at 10.15 at the pickup point.  

 13.30 Brief sunshine. Fiercely gusty wind reducing slowly. Lunch over. I have been experimenting with my new security camera. 

 I need two. One for the long approach drive and the other for the parking area. The latest camera is a PoE Reolink CX810 4K with night colour vision. The latter has yet to be confirmed. Opinions vary widely on low light, colour quality depending on ambient light levels. It is not meant to be Night Vision.

At first I struggled to find a suitably long network cable in my vast collection of very mixed knitting going back decades. This is a 10 meter Cat6. What luck! I have it plugged into a Reolink PoE Switch and thence to my router. It really was plug and play. Unlike my Tapo camera which I have yet to see in action on my 4K PC screen. I must rely on my phone screen for that one.

 The image was captured from a live video and resized for blog consumption. With the camera merely resting on a chair outside. Which explains why the picture is a couple of degrees out of level and from a rather low viewpoint.

 I have the camera installed on the wall now.  The image with the cat is resized from 4K to 1000 pixels. 

  Dinner was sardines on toast with halved tomatoes. No picture.

     

 

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