It appears that, in spite of what I said in my last post on the matter, my Pimoroni NVMe Base Duo for Raspberry Pi 5 is not going to just sit on the shelf for a couple of months.
lspci and the Pimoroni NVMe Base Duo for Raspberry Pi 5
Mastodon
I am – for the time being at least – now on the mastodon.social Mastodon instance as ‘@chrisrc‘.
Pimoroni’s Raspberry Pi 5 NVME x2 Kit
Having done absolutely nothing with the Pimoroni Raspberry Pi 5 NVME Kit I bought at Christmas, it seemed eminently sensible to buy it’s bigger brother – the NVMe Base Duo for Raspberry Pi 5! And I’m certain this kit will also enjoy spending the next three months on a shelf!
The Yorkshire Wildlife Park Expansion – An Early 2024 Update
Introduction
It’s been two years since my last update from the Wildlife Park and the big news is the addition of a new set of cheetah enclosures and a soon to be displayed family of lions*!
*Which I shall cover when they’re actually out and about.
Map
The park’s public map as it stands today. It’s very similar to the previous map with one notable exception – the addition of the new Cheetah Territory at the bottom of the right hand panel!
Continue reading “The Yorkshire Wildlife Park Expansion – An Early 2024 Update”Maps – The Early April 2024 Update
It’s been a little while since I’ve done one of these but… here are 511 additional map images of Northumberland (using the old Meridian) from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series.
Interesting places covered this update include:
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Brewery Horses Making Hay / BBC Nationwide (1974)
Another interesting spot of archive footage – Brewers drays trotting around Sunderland!
Seals at Donna Nook, December 2023
A spot of footage from another visit to Donna Nook in December, 2023.
Brew York’s Empress Tonkoko
Douglas Adams’ Desk and Office in 1996?
This appears to be Douglas Adams’ nicely messy office and his cable spaghetti’d computer setup – complete with what appears to be a fantastic stack of external SCSI drives. Taken from this clip of October 1996’s ‘Break The Science Barrier with Richard Dawkins‘, this footage was likely filmed in the summer of that year.
Gamera vs. Zigra, 1971
The rather lovely (and incredibly kitschy!) poster for 1971’s Gamera vs. Zigra.