Stratocumulus

Streets and streets of stratocumulus in my sky today. These are lines of ordinary sheep IE cumulus clouds parading close together in lines.

It’s said they don’t, but sometimes do, produce rain. They graze the skies between 2000 and 6500 feet high.

Two thousand feet? That’s only 609.6 metres!

They’re a low cloud. These are the ones that you bump through while in a plane on the way down.

Stratocumulus has seven variations which we’ll come to as they are seen. The most famous, howver, is a stratocumulus that presents as a ‘roll cloud’ a long tube, that appears in Northern Australia in September and October.

This phenomenon is called the Morning Glory. Seen it anyone? I know there are some Australians among you. I’ve never seen it despite spending a few months in the area in the 1980s.

‘I don’t speak binary…’

One of my favorite lines in The Mandalorian, which I’ve been watching one last time before I cancel my subscrition with Disney+. Cross my fingers that I can achieve that this time.

That punch line only seems paradoxical. In a scene with the maximum amount of technology being used, Din Djindarin tells his droid don’t complain to me I don’t speak binary.

Binary? A language made up of noughts and ones? On and off? Speaking it would be quite a feat. I think it’s hilarious, that idea. Always laugh when I hear it.

Originally, I signed up to rewatch the Star Wars timeline right through. That was last year sometime. Tried to cancel my subscription then, but Disney is one of those ‘sticky’ businesses. It’s hard to get loose once you signed up.

So, OK, I’ve gotten involved in a few other shows. The Bear was good. I rewatched Avatar, then tried to get into part two.

The minute one of the baddies said that they had to leave Earth because it had died, I was over it. I switched it off.

Turns out I can watch any amount of pretend fisticuffs and sword play but keep your so-called fictional future-telling off my Earth. The present day real life predatorial delays are bad enough.

A vague shot of the mythosaur .. he’s an archetype of course. I’d love to see a bit more of him if Disney+ ever does a third series.

At the weekender

Lego: Stairs

Trish modelling the new stairs to her rooftop vege patch

Stairs became an ongoing experiment the minute Bosley discovered how ridiculously out of scale the ‘proper’ one is.

He had Drew illustrate the problem with the regular one …

Drew, trialling a regular tread height stair mock-up with treads three plates high. Since he couldn’t get his leg up far enough to reach the next step …
… the crew decided on treads two plates high rather than three