Alien Invaders

A couple of months ago I was woken up in the middle of the night by this very loud "crack" coming from somewhere in the house. It sounded to me like something quite important to the structure somewhere had snapped. Anyway. I went around the place but couldn't see any signs of damage anywhere, so gave up and went back to bed.

This weekend I noticed that one of the main supports for the deck on the outside of the house had split, revealing a large and well-fed family of termites living in it! I think I have finally figured out what the noise was - it was the sound of $2,500 vaporising in an instant, because that's what it will cost to replace this chunk of wood. Bugger. And that's working on the - as yet untested - assumption that the family hasn't moved out from its original home to colonise other bits of wood like, oh I don't know, shall we say the house frame?

Commute #4: Energy stop

Only after I looked at this on a PC did I see a much better shot that would have focused on the manhole covers over the underground tanks. The contrasts there, especially with the light and dark from the wet forecourt, would have been more interesting I think. Oh well. Next time.

Close to the end of another week. Travelling again next week so apologies in advance for more shots of aeroplanes, departure terminals and random foreign stuff.

Eye-Pod

Speaking of impressive bits of engineering, last time around I also had the opportunity to ride the London Eye. As you can see, I was fortunate to get the sun coming through some dark, heavy clouds and decided to over-process this one to make it all seem slightly unreal and pre-apocalyptic.