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Egg incubation humidity

Posted on May 7, 2017 by james

A day in, the relative humidity in my Suro 20 incubator is being reported as about 60% and it really ought to be a bit lower than that — nearer 52%. If I’ve done my research properly I reckon on … Continue reading →

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And they’re off!

Posted on May 7, 2017 by james

My eggs arrived safely so this Saturday I unpacked them to go into the incubators. I have one dozen each of Cream Legbar: White Leghorn: and Copper Black Marans: This is too many to fit into a single one of … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 4th May 2017

Posted on May 5, 2017 by james

The force certainly wasn’t with me today. Whole pool to myself for most of the session — I could have swum diagonally had I wished to, but it was a real struggle. I attempted that same Swimfit session again: 12 … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 3rd May 2017

Posted on May 3, 2017 by james

Another rushed swim, so again just 2,500m front crawl in the time available. I felt very sluggish today and a bit sniffly. Hopefully I’m not getting a cold. I want to keep things moving though. It’s all too easy to … Continue reading →

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OSX compile problem understood

Posted on April 28, 2017 by james

Understood, but no solution is in sight unfortunately. It turns out that configure doesn’t play nicely with -Werror and whilst my code still compiles and works on Linux when compiled that way it’s mostly luck. OSX does not (in my … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 28th April 2017

Posted on April 28, 2017 by james

My last swim of this month unless something unexpected happens at the weekend. And a hideous fight it was, too. After 1km of front crawl I was pretty much running on empty. I even started to get the shakes because … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 27th April 2017

Posted on April 28, 2017 by james

One more go at the Swimfit session for this week, made up to 2.6km with front crawl. It was a bit of a struggle to be honest. I just didn’t seem to have the energy any more. Total distance for … Continue reading →

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Further frustrations with OSX…

Posted on April 27, 2017 by james

Recent versions of the command line tools for Xcode appear to have changed the way the -pthread argument to the compiler is handled such that it generates a warning if used in a call to the compiler that actually only … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 26th April 2017

Posted on April 26, 2017 by james

Yes, that session again 🙂 This time made up to 2.7km with front crawl. It was very tough today and my legs felt like jelly by halfway through the session, but it does feel as though my breaststroke (particularly) and … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 25th April 2017

Posted on April 25, 2017 by james

Being something of a glutton for punishment (or as some might put it, “unbelievably pig-headed” 🙂 I repeated my current Swimfit session for the umpteenth time, with much the same result as yesterday. For some reason despite feeling rather tired … Continue reading →

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