pretty complex

It didn't snow again last night, but it did freeze.  Some rather pretty ice crystals formed on the (outside, fortunately) of our conservatory window.

 

on a technicality...

Today is Twelfth Night, or the twelfth day of Christmas, so it's still (just) Christmas season.  So does this mean it's technically a white Christmas?

8:08 GMT, looking north

9:29 GMT, looking west

Despite it now being clear sky and full (if low) sun, we have very little solar PV generation.  It has to get through an inch of snow covering the panels first!

Happy New Year

 Presumably, there are lots of delighted shepherds celebrating this New Year's sunset.

16:10 GMT, looking west

phone, meet bug

Apparently, it's good for your phone battery to charge it only up to about 80%.  There's a setting for it.  It worked, for a while.

Then it stopped working.  Then it started working again.  Then it stopped working.

Personally, I suspect some code looks like if charge == 0.8... when it should instead look like if charge >= 0.8 ...

sequestering carbon, one Christmas at a time XIII

His'n'hers Christmas presents (including a DVD, for a change)

looks more like ginger

After our previous successes with our potato harvest, we planted some to have home-grown new potatoes at Christmas.  I don't think we are going to have home-grown new potatoes at Christmas.

Fortunately, when Christmas was delivered earlier today by Tesco's (a so-called "small" turkey now taking up a surprising amount of space in the fridge), it included sufficient non-home-grown potatoes to cover us over the festive period.

Next year, we will try planting a little earlier...

tree time

Christmas has officially begun.