I owe my existence today to the Anzacs. In early October 1917 my grandfather was trapped in a shell hole at the 3rd Battle of Passchendaele, (Poekapelle) Ypres. He had been there under fire from machine guns on the Bellvue Spur for 3 days and had developed severe trench foot. He was relieved by the II Anzac Corps and was able to crawl the 4 miles back to an Aid Station where he received aid and was repatriated to the UK. Without the Anzacs, he's probably still be there 🙏
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Since Dec 2022 we have been running our own Mastodon & GoToSocial servers. What a breath of fresh air the Fediverse has been. We have made many hundreds of new friends from around the world, mostly related to our mountain, tech and nature interests.
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"Acequias" flowing freely this morning. Don't think it will be long before they start to dry up though. Love the way the light has created small rainbows to the left of the falls.
The drought this year in Spain will be bad, I mean very bad. Water will be like liquid gold and as scarce as rocking horse crap. So, we decided to turn our swimming pool into a greenhouse instead. We are not particularly water babies, so thankfully don't use our pool. It's a small area, easily maintained, safe from winds and easy to water. 1/2
I've never got into "Reddit". For some reason it never appealed and I left well alone. But, once I saw that there was an alternative called Lemmy, I dived right in. Got to say, I'm enjoying the experience and finding it interesting.
So now I am on , , & . What other ActivityPub software would anybody recommend I have a look at?
Cat - wonder what she's thinking?
A section of the GR142 long distance path through the Alpujarras this morning. And what a morning it is. Have a great weekend everybody.
Back to Motril to pick up some new mountain sunglasses I had ordered as I sat on the last ones! Still, it's not a chore when you pass such lovely city scenes
Been on a city trip today. I like Motril. Laid back, friendly, great tapas bars and some beautiful walks and sights, such as Las Palmeras, Santuario Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza and Parque de los Pueblos de América
Scenes from the Good Friday dog walk
Ermita del Tajo de la Cruz, Lanjarón
"The Hole in the Wall Gang", bandidas inglesas a Piedra de los Pajaros hoy 😀
And it's so nice to see the irrigation channels running full blast this morning. The dogs loved it!
The cooler air made for stunningly clear views this morning from the dog walk
No mountains for me this weekend, sadly. I'm putting my amateur developer head on & rebuilding my local walking club website. Originally was a Ghost site, I converted it to MD files & imported to @eleventy & used simplecss.org for easy styling. No Javascript. The usual post build production (html-min etc) gave me this result on Lighthouse. More than pleased with the day's work! Clean & functional, no frills, as you'd expect from this combination.
I have to admit that I am fascinated by snow tunnels. One glance inside opens up another world, almost other worldly. A world that has laid dormant and asleep for months. Strange colours and textures line the walls, insects stir, green shoots appear and the air is filled with the sound of running water. Life is returning. I did tell you I like them. Didn't I? 😂
Good morning Tooters! The head belongs to our cat, "Sweep". She is the most "cat-like" of our cats. Here, seen snuggled up to her sister. Difficult to tell which body belongs to which 😂
Today, with no great expectations, we went in search of a thin ribbon of snow that would lead to the summit of Caballo 3009m. Sad to say, that did not exist. After 20 years of enjoying superb winters here, this winter is definitely the worst. In earlier years I have skied this slope in mid-May, but today end of March 2023, it's like June. Anyway, any day out on the hills is good & this area of the Sierra Nevada is so wild & unspoiled.
Just made my first major change to Open Street Map when, a few days ago, I came across a marked hiking path in the Sierra Nevada that was in fact a shallow dry watercourse with no sign of passage that led to some steep and difficult terrain to descend. Hope I've put it through OK on the edits.
The eastern Sierra Nevada west of Puerta de la Ragua provides high, rolling mountain country. Morron del Hornillo (2377m) and Morron Sanjuanero (2609m) are moderate objectives for a day hike but we made it a little more interesting by coming down SE of the summit to join the Trans Sierra Nevada cycle track.
@breitensteinart The GIF on the following link is very interesting. It does indeed show that whilst Spain does receive some heavy amounts of dust it can miss out by prevailing winds that head west of Spain, and then north to eventually arrive in Northern Europe. Some photos from our clean up operation
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-accurately-forecasts-first-saharan-dust-transports-2022
