24.08.2025 The gap seen from the table.

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  Sunday 24th 46F/7.8C [6.5] Clear. Waiting for sunrise. The forecast is a cloudy morning. Clearing to sunshine. Peaking at 18C/64F at 16.00. Rather windy with 12m/s [27mph] gusts. Building from early morning and then plateauing. 

 Up at 5.30. Wide awake. Because I had an afternoon nap yesterday? I had been deliberately staying awake all week while my sister was visiting. We were usually our on a trip in the car. Which made my napping habit easy to break. 

 Any plans for a longer bike ride are on hold given the likely wind speeds. 

 Seen from the dining table window the gap I made in the trees is full of light. With the gentle curve of the distant stubble field punctuated by the row of trees. These are seen end-on in the middle of the gap and are situated on the border between two very large fields. The mixed trees have been there for many years. Long before the change of ownership of the roadside fields.

 The view though the window from the dining table is surprisingly enhanced. Which was really quite unexpected. Giving me a good reason to sit there now. Instead of watching Netflix with my dinner on my lap. 

 The Morris will be over to the right in the carport. If the latter ever gets finished. The dark, central tree on my own border could be usefully removed. The one sticking out of the roof of the Morris in the image. The houses on the old drive are safely obscured by my own trees. Which gives the impression that I enjoy only a rural view. I see no point in widening the gap. It just needs to be tidied up. 

 8.30 Back from my walk. With pictures on my Lumix G9 of the view back towards the house through the gap. I have spent the last two hours trying to update the camera firmware. This involves using an SD card with the updating firmware. I formatted a fresh card to save the pictures on the original card. 

 The Replay button just says no valid picture. I have reformatted the card several times in the camera. Copied the update to the card and reinserted it. No joy. The pictures on the original SD card are unavailable unless I can get Lumix Tether to work. What a palaver! Why can't the camera be updated using the USB cable?

 Back to work. I felled the left hand tree in the gap. Which cleared and really opened up the view. The horizontal branches were sagging into the intended view. The central tree now looks much more prominent. The trunk is at least 25cm [10"] in diameter. Almost perfectly upright. So no guarantee of it falling safely into the field. Not from a simple notch and back cut. The 16" [40cm] DeWalt is far too near its maximum capacity. I still have to clean the branches of twigs. Then throw the bigger logs back into the garden for firewood. 

 

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