Archery

Now that I’m a man of leisure, I’ve got back into some hobbies with a renewed wave of enthusiam.

Archery is a bit like golf in that technique has a lot to do with accuracy. You need to do everything exactly the same to get consistent results

A good quality bow is essential for accuracy, because cheap ones keep flexing in all the wrong places.

This rather cheap bow is rather wonky where the limb (springy bit) joins onto the riser (the purple bit).
More expensive bows like the one above are far sturdier and a lot more accurate.

Next up is the arrow rest / plunger button arrangement. these are rather fickle to setup, but once done, they are brilliant.

The plunger has an adjustable spring in it, for fine tuning the bow (left / right axis)

The rest is practice, practice, practice.

Our new ‘hen’  isn’t..

We got ‘Aria’ as an egg from a neighbour, which we put under a broody chicken hoping to get another hen to add to our flock.
It turns out that ‘Aria’ is actually ‘Adrian’. We don’t need a rooster, or the accompanying early morning wake up call.

Sadly,  it looks like Adrian is not destined to live a long life, but perhaps we can have dinner in his honour.

The delicate part is how to inform my wife and kids of Adrians impending departure to another world.

Fortunately, my wifes attitude is ‘I dont want to know’, and so Adrian has become an unperson unchicken, much like those unfortunate characters in George Orwells book,  1984.