Wednesday 6th May was a glorious day of Spring weather with an equally lovely evening. Having spent the majority of the day indoors working from home, I decided to spend the evening outdoors and to camp in the garden - another "micro micro-adventure". Having sat by a fire-pit until quite late in the evening I was preparing to get into the tent when I noticed a pink glow in the eastern sky.
Above the Aberdeenshire farmland a brilliant full moon rose through a pink and purple glow....there was an absolutely gorgeous quality of light.
I slept with both inner and outer tent doors open and was woken at 0430 by a full dawn chorus of birdsong with a Cuckoo leading the way well before daylight. I was slightly surprised to note more frost than forecast, but it lifted as soon as the sun rose. The advantage of being so close (20 metres!) to home was that it took very little time to get up, shower and be at my desk working, refreshed by a night in the outdoors.
Amazing tent Ian, I'm guessing it goes up in no time at all
ReplyDeleteThe dawn chorus sounds a better alarm clock than the cow drinking at 0300!
Hi Steve, that's a Swedish tent,a Hilleberg Akto. Costs an arm and another limb, but definitely a case of "you get what you pay for" :o)
ReplyDeleteThat's A$900 in these parts... looks worth ever penny looking at the reviews
DeleteOh, and when you've lived next to Engineers on ships, a drinking cow seems quite restrained! ;o)
ReplyDelete... when you put it like that, give me the cow any evening!
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