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posted by Neil, 8 February 2010, 11:25am [more]
Is the man behind your gran really really REALLY tall, or is it an optical illusion?!!!
Perhaps I should do that - mine still isn't getting any interest!
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Lovely pictures Sara - glad it went well. Dennis looks so much like you in some of those pictures!
Glad all is going well. Perhaps he could be a pegan - a part-time vegan! Good to hear you're feeding him well - the way to a man's stomach and all that! :)
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Christening went very well. uploading photos now
I don't watch a lot of TV and dont bother with the soaps. I do like to watch strictly come dancing, the ice skating, Time team and the grand prix if I can.
Well I prefer it to iceskating!
I have seen it CC, a fab film I love Wallace and Gromit, we watched the wrong trousers over Christmas.
I have some bigger mirror carp CC but they are a dark colour so you only get to see the flash of the large mirror scales when they want you to see them. They will get tamer when the warmer weather comes.
Nobody gets nightmares watching Wallace & Gromit!! Hilarious film that Curse of the Wererabbit...just about my level! :D
A man was walking through a cemetery one dark and stormy night. As he got well into the cemetery, he heard a voice say, "Mark! Mark!". Pretending not to let it bother him, he pulled his coat a little tighter and kept walking. Again the voice said, "Mark! Mark!". That did it. He took off full speed and didn't stop till he was well outside the gates. As he stopped to catch his breath, the moon broke through the clouds enough so he could see what had been following him. It was a dog with a hare lip.
Blimey, they're huuuuge!
How can you tell if a chicken likes you? It gives you a peck on the cheek.
That would be so cool you could have a fab game of hide and seek.
No, I wouldn't live in a castle - couldn't be bothered to clean it! I often wonder why a couple with no brats (like these footballers, frinstance)would want a seven- or eight-bedroomed house...
And more fibre...:)
Some of the fish were on top earlier so I managed to get a couple of photos
I moved my birdfeeder spike on Sunday as the birds didn't seem to be using it as much. Four blackbirds were checking it out before I had even got in. I think they are all filling up on the hens food so I will have to start putting a bit of it on the spike tray.
How are the eggs and chrysalis doing B%W ?
We have snow here now It started about four thirty. The wind is bitterly cold out there. My hens went to bed early which I was pleased about as I didnt want them to get too cold and damp.
love it. excellent.
since I am always miles behind everyone else, I just catch up as and when I can. :-)
My Ma weighs 6 1/2 stones so there is no way I'm ever going to get down to that weight. I maintain I am eating for her. :-)
They are so cute Stuart!!! William has obviously found the "purfect" home with you, with his smiles and all. I want puppies now. Bella is adorable :)
best thing: had another good day today; Lyle's parents came and brought Wart and Boggles and took us out for lunch. Came back and phoned my parents, cleaned the fish out and went for a good long walk. Returned, had some tea, then got a few hours' nap and now just chilling. Lovely Sunday!
CC, my mum's allergic to the animal's dander and not their actual moulted fur...means hairless cats, labradoodles etc still won't be any good. Saddest thing ever, always wanted a dog
Uni is going well thanks. Been a bit ill recently so missed a day and spent it sleeping :P Nah Lyle is a 'normal' meat eater, haha. Although we have started cooking together more in the evening, so have certified him a 'teagan' - a vegan for tea! He says he eats the healthiest he's ever eaten now, and he hasn't had a vegan meal he hasn't enjoyed yet. Think it helps that his dad works and he worked at a veggie restaurant ;)
OH yes imagine that the big toe nail!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe a little redirection would do the trick to get more light on the ground. I liked the idea of solar lights but they are so unreliable especially with all this fog we are having.
Yeah, it would be good to just sit on New Posts and have all the posts come in together.
That's great Stuart - from your description I'd say that my sis-in-law's dog is a show dog then - tall and stocky. I'd never say it to her (she dotes on her badly behaved boy!) but I prefer the working springers. And what a fanstastic thing you'll both be doing - I hope you'll give us updates on how the training is going.
Now you didn't say she won! Though I am British and it's the "taking part" that is the important thing....
Well worth a try Ollie thanks
For recurring dreams you have to work out a solution (however inprobable) and use that to get out of them. It worked for me.
Posted By: ollie in UKWe'll need a little more light on the muck if we are to see Mel emerge from her winter snoozes. Pls. Sorry, I'm really not going to buy another light and wire it up - the shed will start to look ridiculous! The light is really just to provide a bit of illumination so you can still see what's happening in winter when it gets dark before I get home from work...
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Hopefully you can see Milly, Tilly and Penny going about their chicken life in the coop! (Milly is the big fat white hen, Penny is the cowardly chicken and Tilly is the ruler of the roost!)
history:I first had the idea for a live streaming online webcam in our chicken coop sometime around the summer of 2005. I did a bit of research and after some failed attempts with a USB webcam (too many wires in the chicken pen!) I saved up and bought an indoor wireless IP cam from ebay for around £100. It was cheap and quite basic, but it did more or less what I wanted, and formed the basis of the early days of the webcam. Unfortunately, as it was an indoor camera, it started playing up after a few weeks outside - I couldn't really complain as it had been out in wind rain and snow! With the help of my wonderful new henpals I was able to purchase a whole new cam system - a proper outdoor CCD camera which was even submersible in water! The upgrade was originally suggested by the Vasalini (of Vasalini's chickens fame) and took place on 12/03/06
The new camera provides a much clearer picture, and the new images are extremely high quality. The system is also running much faster and is a lot closer to the true streaming that I originally envisaged. Of course if you want faster streaming, you have to sacrifice picture size and quality, but hopefully I have struck a happy medium.
The original hencam was an IP cam which connected wirelessly to my wifi network which gave it access via ftp to the webserver serving these pages via my adsl connection. Thankfully the new camera is much more stable and gives a much nicer view.
My bandwidth limit and PC use can slow the hens upload speed sometimes but hopefully this should get better as I upgrade various components of the system. Hencam is very thankful for the help and support of Exa Networks - thanks to them you can see these pages, and their technology has enabled our fastest, smoothest and best high-quality webcam images yet - I hope you notice the improvement! The streaming technology used is cutting-edge, and made possible by those great people at www.camstreams.com - if you need to stream anything, they are the guys to talk to!
The first upgrade I was able to carry out was a large IR lamp in the coop, so you can still see the hens even in pitch blackness! You can watch them sleep, it's amazing how they seem to grab the odd forty winks in little naps through the night.
If you have any technical questions regarding the setup, please feel free to email me and I'll provide you with as much info as possible. I've already helped several would-be webcam users get started which has been great fun!
Thank you to earthcam who made hencam one of their top ten webcams of the week, they are (in their own words) "chosen by EarthCam based on quality of image, uniqueness of content and overall technical achievements in webcam technology" - whoo many thanks for the award! We were listed just below the Olympics!!! :)
