Holly

Some of the holly at the bottom of the garden has come into flower and is looking well.

I take the opportunity to report on progress with dancing water, at which I had two goes yesterday. During which I got around to noticing that the bowl was not level, presumably because the back patio drains downhill toward the house, but that I could make it level by adjusting the position of the platform in the (woodwork) vice below. See reference 1.

Once level, it was quite easy to get action in three of the four chevrons or corners - that is to say southwest, northwest, northeast and southeast - one of which is visible at reference 1, if you click to enlarge - and I got some action at the fourth, usually northwest. Some of the dancing droplets were quite big, more than a millimetre in diameter, and quite a lot of them were jumping right out of the bowl.

All seemingly helped along by the water being warm rather than tepid.

Rewarded later, at around 2130, by a fine sighting of the new moon in the western sky. Dark side of the moon and all.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/04/dancing-water-or-fluid-dynamics.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/04/series-1-episode-vi.html. More dancing water action.