25.03.2026 All change!

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  Wednesday 25th 43F/6C [8.00] A cloudy day with the possibility of rain and some sunshine. Rather windy from the SW going westerly. Gusting to 20m/s or over 52mph at 10am before easing slowly to 16m/s by lunchtime. Then increasing again. Not a good day for cycling. 63F/17C in the room. 49F/9C in the greenhouse.

 Up at 7am after a typical night. Where I saw every hour from 1-6am on the big, red digital clock.

 Some tidying to do before the heat pump surveyor calls on Friday. My recent purchase of a [recycled] white shelving unit. To fit under the wall mounted TV. Needs to find a new home. I plan to place the floor mounted heat pump unit under the TV. 

 I'll measure the shelving again. To see if it will replace the present [and very untidy] supports for the printer, router, assorted multi-sockets and a big rubber plant. Which is currently a hideous mess of cables. 

 The white shelving unit, very helpfully, has holes in the vertical partitions. Between the six large, pigeon holes. So cables can be readily fed through as needed. Most of the cables are white. So they won't stand out so badly as they do now. I may have to drill some holes at the sides to let the cables enter neatly.

 8.00 Flashes of early sunshine are finding blue holes as the trees rock in the wind. 

 8.45 Time for a walk.  

 9.15 Back again. It stayed dry but grey. I wore my fluffy fleece jacket under the Ventile. The wind was indeed strong. Fortunately I had the shelter of the roadside hedges for most of the time. Another bird of prey identification problem. A rather plain bird of buff and brown. Nowhere near the size of a Red kite. Only a slight V-tail. Not the usual deep V. None of the strong coloration of the Red kite. 

 Soaring just above me for quite some time. Before the wind relented and it could gain forward momentum. I'm going with a Black kite. Though I was convinced it was much smaller. The females are slightly larger but coloration similar.

 9.30 Pouring with rain. I was lucky to have missed it!

 12.00 Almost finished unraveling the knitting. The white shelving unit fitted perfectly under the eastern window.  Moreover it brought a lot of light into the room. I am still struggling with the Reolink POE security switch. Solved. I hadn't connected a missing cable. All back to normal. I haven't had to drill any holes. I'll get rid of the junk on the shelves elsewhere. Then drop all the cables behind the shelving. Out of sight. Then I can reinstate some ornaments on the shelves.

 The IKEA bamboo shelving which was previously holding the computer accessories. Proved to be almost exactly the same size as the Panasonic indoor heat pump unit. Quite a bit bigger than it looked online. I really ought to invest in some cable conduit. I still have to solve the cosmetic problem of the bare plasterboard. 

 

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