Author: nealpp

  • London June 2012

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    We’ve just got back from a wonderful stay in London. The main reason for the trip was to listen to Anna Netrebko, the wonderful Russian soprano. She was leading a Gala at The Royal Albert Hall with her partner baritone Erwin Schrott and tenor Ramon Vargas. We travelled down from Leeds via East Coast. Even…

  • Emma’s new friend

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    Just had to share this quality photo!! Emma with Blackey!

  • Tingleywatch chick update

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    Even though our camera box is not in use anymore, that’s not to say there isn’t any new life in the garden! The front bird box on the Copper Beech (pictured) is the home of a Great Tit family, and though obviously we’ve not seen them, the chicks are very vocal! The blue tit who…

  • Blue tit moves, chaffinches and crèches

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    It seems confirmed that the blue tit that was once resident in our camera nestbox has moved. She has been spotted twice over the weekend going into the middle of the three sparrowboxes (pictured) and I assume has made her nest in there, we’ll have to watch out for little chicks. Anne has a theory…

  • Fortress Hillsborough!!

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    A gorgeous picture taken from the Wycombe fans area in the north-west corner. The four sides of Hillsborough filled with 38000 fans. Up the Owls!!

  • Never feel more like singin’ the blues

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    A short video from before the match started today,really shows the size of crowd, and the amazing atmosphere!

  • We are Going Up!!!

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    After a heck of a fight against arch-rivals Sheffield United (from henceforth to be know by their proper title of ‘the piggies’). We needed to win at Hillsborough to guarantee automatic promotion, this was after the piggies being 5 points ahead of us with 2 games in hand only a few weeks ago. Gary Megson…

  • A Piece of Pi!!

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    After a long wait, my Raspberry Pi turned up today. So, just before Anne came home and wanted the TV, I booted it up to see what it can do. The Raspberry Pi is a bare board PC running an ARM chip, and is designed to get programming and computer science back into the interest…

  • Linux for my netbook

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    Warning, serious geekyness of a post! Our little Acer netbook has seen little use over the last few months. It was running Win 7, rather slowly so I thought I’d put on the consumer preview of Win 8. Even though I think Microsoft’s model of hitting every user with a touch interface even though virtually…

  • Is she there or not?

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    Since Saturday evening, we’ve not seen our blue tit in the box, and the contents look unchanged. We assumed that the nest was now finished and we were awaiting the eggs to appear. Oddly enough though this evening when I came home from work I spent a little time overlooking the garden to see if…