It was a late breakfast probably more like lunch.
A bacon sandwich should be made with white bread – but this is my own homemade wholemeal bread so I will make an exception. Smoked bacon. Ketchup but brown sauce sauce if you insist. Tea not coffee.
As I had the day off because of the American Football, I made bread and went for a walk, took some photos in what may be the last of the summer sunshine and made some coffee. I grabbed my Finnish haversack and some lightweight gear and headed out before the rain came. (Some of this blog was written whilst I was walking and some when I got home.)
Coffee
I found a log down by the river to sit on to make some coffee.
I have a small twig stove from Bushcraft Essentials, in my cook set but I use gel fuel in it, and use a Burt’s Bees tin as a burner. I carry the fuel in a re-purposed hand sanitise bottle. It makes a truly lightweight brew stove when out walking – when the tin/burner is brim of fuel it can heat about 250ml of water hot enough for coffee, noodles or soup.
Rather than use the ground coffee and tea strainer from the cook set I chose to use a coffee bag – this brand from Taylors makes a good strong brew in the amount of water I had.
Weir and lock
Well there was a lock, weir and associated machinery here in the past.
I used the Camera+2 app for the long shutter speed motion effect.
More Walking
Gear in the Haversack
For lightweight trips the Finnish Haversack can hold enough gear and I use it rather than one of my small rucksacks in the summer when I do not extra clothes and gear.
Contents today:
The little pouch is well packed for a trip like this but when I am on longer trips or away the lanyard and whistle are in use so making the rest of the items more accessible.
All images made with my iPhone 12 Pro Max which I carry in a belt case for lightweight trips like this.
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Today’s photos are for use in a blog on the Octagon website and 365R, later this week.
Here is the article – Cool stuff about Microsoft 365 for Business
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Alyssa and I cooked our lunch outside on the camp stove – bacon sandwiches – one with peanut butter the other with tomato ketchup – I had tea and she had chocolate milkshake.
Another morning walk over towards Potterhanworth – with Chai tea and croissants for breakfast.
I was planning to go walking early today and photograph the sunrise but the weather had other ideas – it was raining really hard.
So I built some new shelves in the office and sorted out the tea and coffee…
What a difference a week makes – last week I was neck deep in the dissertation.
I did have this published on the Octagon website:
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I have moved into my new space today – there is still some work to be done to finish it but is is perfectly useable. Michael has done an excellent job.
I now have somewhere to retreat to to complete my dissertation now that the University Library remains closed to me here in Lincoln. (Photos here and here of the views from Lincoln University library.)
For security only the seat, kettle, offices odds and ends and heaters remain in the shed overnight – the rest of the hi-tech stuff is my portable office so that goes.
Future plans for the “shed” include:
• Finish the decorating and hang the curtains.
• At the moment I am using the house Wi-fi. I want to get Octagon Technology to install a secure Wi-fi router/access point and VPN. As part of the build I had the electrician run a network cable at the same time he installed the power.
• We are going to install some off-grid 12v solar power.
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