Nighttime Air on Rye Lane

 

Weeping...

 So sad to see what has happened to the terrific Chinese willows at the North end of the Rye.

Here is an older picture, from the Trees.

And sadly, here it is today...

Thirty Years Ago Today...

So it appears that Windows 95 was launched thirty years ago today.  We remember it well, a big change from Win 3.1 and its variants.  

One of us was shown an early version at a show a few months before.  The conversation went something like:

'Look, this is the new beta test of Windows 95.'

'Great! Looks exciting.  What does you mean by "beta test"?'

'Well, it works fine unless you press the wrong thing at the wrong time.  Then it falls over.'

(We've used this defense for everything we've written ever since...)

The last PC running Win95 left this house last year.  We rather regret that now....

The BBC ran an article about Win95 on the National lunchtime news.  It spent some time with the NW Computer Museum.

Why didn't we know about this?

Rover

 Rover appears to have shrunk quite considerably...

Trees on Tour: Around Trafalgar Square

A couple of months ago...

 

Salmon en Croute...

 

A Visitor (a Few Weeks Ago)

 

The Trees Still on Tour: A Bath in Boroughbridge....

 

The Garden Tomatoes Have Started!

 

The Trees on Tour Again: The Great Cluster in Hercules

 

The Trees on Tour Again: Brighton Beach

 

Letting off Steam

 Why is Steam so pushy?  Whenever I boot up, it pushes itself at me, as if the only thing I wanted to do was gaming.

Amazingly, I do have a life!

The Summer Beehive Cluster

 

Dear England

 

So, in the wake of the Lionesses' victory at the Euros, a brief reflection on Dear England at the National.
As you can perhaps see, the stage set was stark, and effective.  
The play was fine, with wit and humour. It was mostly about Gareth Southgate and his humanising of the role.  And it worked well, when talking about the old English fear and failure at penalties.

But, I can't help but think the large number of men in England shirts sitting in the row in fron to me were hoping for aa show about football.  And the glories of England...

Oh, well.

Reform and Vaccines

 According to the Guardian newspaper, "Half of Reform voters have 'little or no' confidence in the Covid vaccine'.  If that is true, it is somewhat astonishing.  (And to be fair, that was a few months ago, and the number of Reform voters has increased, recently.
Now, we at the Trees don't actually believe that nearly half of Reform voters are as thick as mince, tempting as that may be.
Rather, they have been gaslit by social media posts, often on X and FaceBook.  
But how did this happen?  Of course there are nefarious people building the popular Far Right who love to deploy these myths.  
But perhaps also, scientists have become over-complacent and stopped explaining things as well and as often as they should, the results proving efficacy have been somewhat inaccessible to the lay reader, and there has been a lack of Government investment combating the lies of the Far Right.
Where are the people organising a response on the conspiracy sites like X?
We need to respond to Farage, Putin, Trump and Tufton Street with the truth.
Every time.

The Trees on Tour Again: Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway

 The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, or The La'al Ratty, runs into the Esk valley, from Ravenglass to Dalegarth stations.  It has the same gauge as the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway (although it is somewhat shorter in length), and they occasionally share engines.

We also had a stroll down to the Esk and visited the Eskdale mill in Boot.

The Trees on Tour Again: Ravenglass

 The Estuaries of the Mite, Irt and Esk.  Three rivers that seem to be short of letters!
Some of these are views from my hotel room, others were taken while out and about.