Category Archives: Environment

Collecting meteorites from rainwater

Posted on August 13, 2014 by james

Allegedly it is possible to collect tiny fragments of meteorites from rainwater.  The story goes that they can drift in the atmosphere until they get caught in the rain and end up falling to the ground.  By trapping the flow … Continue reading →

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Over (and under) the rainbow

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

It’s the first time I’ve seen one of these thought it appears they’re not that rare. A rainbow, photographed from our garden: But it’s a double — there’s a second rainbow above it, just visible in this photo (most easily … Continue reading →

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Interesting cloud formation

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

I’ve not noticed anything like this before. To me it looks like lots of little knots bunched up together. There was more of the same in thicker cloud nearby, but being lit from behind by the Sun makes the details … Continue reading →

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One Swallow does not a summer make…

Posted on June 23, 2013 by james

But lots of them is really quite impressive. Especially when you can get up close. Just went out to feed some scraps to the chickens with my daughter and saw a number of swallows tearing around the trees in the … Continue reading →

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Garden Visitors

Posted on March 12, 2013 by james

My daughter wanted to photograph some birds for her wildlife club at school and had been trying with a compact camera but not had a huge amount of luck. To make things a bit easier for her I set up … Continue reading →

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It’s Raining Again…

Posted on December 29, 2012 by james

It seems to have rained here for almost all of December and the Met Office says that it’s already been the wettest year in England since records began in 1910 and stands a good chance of being the wettest year … Continue reading →

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Our own little deluge

Posted on December 7, 2012 by james

I feel desperately sorry for those people in the south west and Wales caught in the recent flooding. The pictures from the news are shocking. We didn’t suffer quite so badly, merely having the road past the end of our … Continue reading →

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August 2012 FIT payment

Posted on October 3, 2012 by james

At the end of August our latest FIT payment arrived covering the late Spring/early Summer period. Obviously given the weather this wasn’t as high a figure as we’d been hoping for, but means that 8.6% of the installation cost is … Continue reading →

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Solar PV Generation Update October 2012

Posted on October 3, 2012 by james

And so the abnormal weather continues… Generation for September this year totalled 333kWh, up 7.5% from the previous September and a somewhat astounding 32% more than would normally be expected for September. That increase completely covers the failure to meet … Continue reading →

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Cloud Towers

Posted on September 28, 2012 by james

I looked out of the window this evening to see this unusual cloud formation above the northern end of the Quantock Hills. I don’t recall that I’ve seen anything like it before. I can’t imagine that the “pillars” are related … Continue reading →

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