Agulhas Moon

Today’s post is a bit of a test of the new WordPress 7.0 which I downloaded and installed this morning. If you’re reading this, it worked.

Except that there is a problem that only I can see: the backend really isn’t very pretty.

I suppose you could say that for a number of things (and people), but for an app that has been probably overly indulgent on appearance above function on the last few updates, this is a real let down.

Unless I’ve just missed a setting I need to tweak?

My font is tiny, my kerning is all wrong, and it’s actually rather difficult to read. Thankfully, I’ve checked, and none of these issues seem to be occurring on the front end of the blog (the bit you’re reading at the moment).

All you’ve got to contend with is the quality of the stuff I’m writing.
And yes, I recognise that that’s not great either.

But.

Let’s pop in a quick image of an Agulhas moonrise, meaning that you don’t have to look at so much writing.

Taken last time we were down there – handheld, nogal – and a good reason why there really wasn’t much beach left to walk along at high tide.

Anyway. I need to go and search (but with what terms?) for what’s gone wrong here, because it really isn’t conducive to producing decent content.

More tomorrow.

EDIT: Hmm. It has made a difference to the font on the front end as well.
That’s great. Exactly what an update shouldn’t do.

Quick Skink

After a visit to UCT this morning for an informative wander around their open day, with United playing at 4, and a dinner out at 7, I’m quickly putting something here.

And the thing is (probably) my favourite local lizard, a Cape Skink (Trachylepis capensis). They’re just such gentle, friendly, inquisitive creatures.

This one was at Kirstenbosch, not one of our back garden family. But equally friendly.

Anyway, footie calls.

More tomorrow.

Quota SRBH

Not feeling 100% this evening, and a Sheffield United match to look forward to (?) very shortly, so I’m chucking a quick quota photo up here.

It’s a Southern Red-Billed Hornbill (Tockus rufirostris) on a Mopani tree, taken from the infamous Kruger National Park visit back in August 2023.

I’ve had reason to go through a few of the images from that trip (and others) recently, and so something from one of those folders was an easy choice when it came to picking a pic for a quick blog post this evening.

Onward and upward to tonight and tomorrow. Hold thumbs, cross fingers.

Barn

The weekend away was superb. Thanks for asking.

Lots of fresh air, lots of football, lots of friendship, lots of amazing food and drink.

A lot of fun.

The views… Wow.

Like something off a movie set.

And I even managed a couple of morning runs, including one past this barn, which I couldn’t resist stopping and shooting.

OK. Nothing hugely special.

Just full of character, and surely with many, many stories to tell…

Back to it tomorrow

Still reeling a bit from a week away, and all the admin and work that greets you on your return home. A lot of clothes washing, a lot of removing the Breede River Valley from my car. Just an all around catch up.
But I think we’re just about there now. Although, I’m just about to go away for another 4 days, so maybe I’ll have to do it all again next week.

On the plus side, I will have a safer car to get there in, having had some nice wheel alignment done this morning. Always equal parts reassuring and concerning when you can very much tell the difference.

So let me leave you with a nice quota photo of the Breede River at sunset.

Almost makes you want to go back.

Which you can’t, because we were the last public group on this camp. And Felix Unite on the Breede is very much no more. Sad.