Excess power ⚡️
There are at least 21 mains power sockets in our (fairly standard double bed sized) hotel room.
- 3 above the desk/dressing table
- 5 below the desk/dressing table
- 2 by the door to the room
- 2 by each bedside table
- 2 just above a chest of drawers
- 1 in a corner of the room
- 2 behind the wall mounted television
plus at least 2 I cannot see supplying the mini-fridge and coffee machine.
Only 5 of these are being used by appliances in the room. This all seems a little excessive!
Experiencing Storm Claudia in Stratford. It’s wet outside. Spending the whole afternoon in The White Swan bar - Fuller’s beer, wine, chips and some reading 📚☔️😊
Location check in — At the RSC Swan Theatre to see Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, starring Adrian Lester 🎭
🗺 Map of area
🔎 Zoom in
Complimentary Shakespeare Distillery Stratford Dry gin in our hotel room 😀
Tudor Garden inspired British Gin
Location check in — White Swan Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon
🗺 Map of area
🔎 Zoom in
Follow the Storm 🍺
Watched: Now You See Me 2, 2016 - ★★★ 🎥
Tree cutting
Had to have some emergency tree surgery this week!
There was an tall conifer growing on our property boundary, about 20 feet from our house.
This tree had always grown leaning towards the house, but over the past few weeks there was evidence of the roots starting to move in the soil. It had to go before any windy winter storms!
It took four men a day and a half to deal with it - nearly 3 hours anchoring it, then stripping off all the branches and next cutting it in guided falls from the top downwards in roughly 8 foot trunk sections. These came down with a crash, shaking crockery and glasses in our kitchen (the nearest room to the base of the tree). I couldn’t guess what each section weighed.
Plus all the clear-up work, chipping the smaller branches and loading the logs in batches onto a trailer.
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Watched: Now You See Me, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥
Watched: The Running Man, 1987 - ★★★ 🎥
