Hot house... well maybe not

 I've got a couple of those indoor outdoor temperature gadgets, and on checking the temperature today I find it's around 16C  indoors and 35C outdoors... now call me silly but in the UK in February (in Wales) thats not right, in fact my fucking house would need to be on fire to reach the lofty high of 35C on the outside this time of year.  On checking it's not on fire (always a plus) so I checked the other weather station thingy and thats showing the outside at a scorching 9C, about right I suspect.
 Now to be fair the offending weather station gadget is years old and the wire has been shut in the window and more or less worn through, which probably isn't helping. So when I get time I'll try checking the wire properly and maybe a repair if needed. That said the things are only a few pounds new, so it's not the end of the world.

Expedition bigfoot series one last episode... what have we learned?

Well with the last of 8 episodes over we've learned a few things, I'll sum them up..
 A team of experts consists of an ex army guy, the animal expert who knows very little about animals except apes, and hasn't even bother to look up what species are local to the area shes working.
 We've learned the team leader like to hide out 30 miles away in a cabin.
 We've learned this elite team of experts clearly haven't done any research on the area of operation.
 We've learned that in the middle of a so called isolated area theres several cabins, lots of logging roads and a surprisingly modern looking cemetery.
 We've discovered this team have about the worst thermal imaging cameras I've ever seen, the newest versions are amazingly good quality and have excelent detail, as does the latest night vision kit. Sadly the team have neither, but then good kit means we'd see the crew member playing bigfoot.

  In the last episode they find a mine, just as they are about to enter bigfoots hide-out... panic, stop dont go it!!! Its too dangerous.. it's a cinnabar mine, the most dangerous in the world....  Well except A we dont know if it is actually a cinnabar mine, B it's got a well worn path into both entrances of the mine showing a lot of use.
 Now to be fair cinnabar is actually dangerous (mostly because it leaks mercury) but the miners worked there for years before suffering any effects, and theres loads of youtube videos of people exploring cinnabar mines and living.
 So as they cant go in they send in a drone, with predictable results, blurred rubbish video, a possible bigfoot nest, drone shaking as if something is shaking it (I wonder who) then they loose contact with the drone. The company supplying they drone dont seem terrible worried though. Anyway long story shot they regain contact and get the drone out.

 They end the show on a distant blured figure walking through the trees, yes it could be a person says the "leader" but we've been here three weeks and seen nobody.  Which all sounds fair.... until you remember the reason they chose this area in the first place we because it was a sighting hotspot at this exact time of year, a three week window in fact. So if no bugger goes there, who the fuck made all the bigfoot sighting reports????

Waynes rating, good entertainment value, 5/10 dont expect to ever see a bigfoot though, this bunch of clowns couldn't find a brick in a bucket

Common sense?

 There was a program on yesterday about a person who went missing after visiting the famed "valley of death"... Who'd have seen that coming. 
 Me, I'm off visiting the valley of fluffy cushions, and free whisky.  Now thats how common sense works.

More weird stuff happening?

 Ok I've mentioned my poltergeist in the past, and the odd things that seem to happen in my house. This morning yet another weird thing happened.
 This time a shampoo bottle moved on it's own. Now I'm not talking finding it in the wrong place, I'm talking actually seeing it move by itself. Yes! It moved on it's own.
 I just happened to be looking at it and it moved about 2 inch's (50mm) all by itself. It just slid sideways across the window ledge.
 Now I'm not bonkers... well ok maybe just a bit, but not that bonkers that I'm seeing things, it clearly moved as I was looking at it. Now I know earthquakes move stuff, I've felt 2 over the years, but not today. The window ledge it was on wsy dry and theres the usual crap you get on a bathroom window ledge, shampoo, toothbrushes etc, only the one shampoo bottle moved and it wasn't one that had been used recently anyway.
 So whats going on, is it my poltergeist playing silly buggers again? I can't think of anything else that could really cause this to happen they way it did.
 Now I'm not too bothered, whatever it is isn't harming anyone. I'm not loosing sleep worrying about whether my house is haunted or not either. I don't even mind it moving stuff a few inchs. It's when it hides stuff it's a bloody royal pain in the arse.
 Maybe I should buy a ghost hunting camera and see if I can pick anything up?

Limpits close up shot on the 50mm

Reflections of a wet dog

 Another evening pic, this time a very wet dog.

Evening surfers

These surfers were enjoying the evening waves, so I popped the long lens on and shot away.

Vienna blood tv series update.

Ok I've now watched all three episodes and I definitely hope theres a series two. Thoroughly enjoyed all three episodes of series one.

A selection of pictures

 A selection of pictures I took today testing out a new lens.

The steaming tree

 Not everyday you see a steaming tree. The sun was on one side and drying it out.

Bleeping madness... Noise

 I've talked before about how annoying things bleeping are these days. If anything it's getting worse not better.
 My car bleeps to tell me... well just about everything, from reverse gear to low screen wash. God help if you dont fasten your seat belt or actually put a bag of shopping on a seat, it goes into meltdown, if you really want to stress it drive with a beg of shopping on the seat and a door open, it has to decide which bleep is more important.
 Computers bleep again for just about everything, plug-in a pendrive/zipdrive and it chime to tell me, why? do thing connect to usb without you knowing? I've yet to find a usb attachment that plugs itself in. 
 Lately a new insidious BLEEP is happening, vehicles reversing. Yes it's not a new thing I know, but now just about every bloody van has it, add in the fact I live on a one way street and twats like to reverse down it to save going around the block and it's a fucking pain in the arse.
 Another new safety idea is to fit ride on lawn mowers with a constant bleep to let you know it there and working.   Frankly if you can't hear a socking big petrol lawn mower working  I have no idea how you'll hear the bleep, it's hard to hear over the racket the mower makes, so totally pointless.
 Another thing I'm seeing is more and more people using their mobile phones on speaker, obviously they think their conversations are so important we all need to hear it.  No it just makes you look a twat

Waves... big waves

 I went out to play with a new lens and ended up shooting with my old one, I didn't want to change lens and miss a wave.

Expedition bigfoot EP4 it gets worse

 Ok I said at the beginning I didn't have high hopes, these series always end up crap and fake with little or no real science attempt to locate bigfoot. This one is going that way.
 In this episode we see them examine a bigfoot nest.. Lots of excitment and sample taking, the problem is if you watch the video very carefully you can see some of the branches of the shelter are cut cleanly with a saw. Obviously bigfoot is more advanced than we thought.
 Later we see then get close-ish to a claimed bigfoot, you see a faint heat blob on the thermal camera (the ones I've seen are way better quality) so they switch on red lights to see it. WTF!
 Oh they explain most animals cant see red, courious then that hunters dont wear red clothes but camo. Also in earlier episode they were quite happy using high power white torches to search for bigfoot, but not when theres a risk of us actually seeing it properly.  I wonder why, I'm guessing it's a cheap bigfoot suit.