Category Archives: personal blog

I almost definitely won’t be posting tomorrow night. I don’t think I should enumerate tonights post. Things should get back to some semblance of normality soon. The reason for the break will become clear. Everything is fine; don’t worry – this is NOT a medical issue.

I had to do a couple of trips out to various shops, and we went to the Garden Centre to meet up with other members of the Camera Club. I did take a look at the passion flower seed pods, not much development. I’m inclined to think that the pods I’m watching aren’t going toContinue reading “2097 – I haven’t been out much today.”

It seems that I have accumulated rather a lot of emails in gmail. Google has been sending me a lot of remiinders that I am running out of space, and suggesting that I buy more. To be honest, I think I will just delete unnecessary emails, I seem to have a fairly efficient method ofContinue reading “2096 – Managing email”

I haven’t seen a starling for quite a while. I’ve heard them on occasion, and not very many. We were sitting at the bottom of the garden, enjoying a cup of tea and a couple of biscuits, when I heard what sounded like quite a few Starlings. I looked around, and there were literally hundredsContinue reading “2095 – The Starlings return & the Butterflys are twitchy”

I’m at a stage of planning the Portsmouth video where I can almost think about drafting the prompt cards. I pretty much have the locations sorted; all that remains is time. Not yet, though. In the meantime, I need to come up with something that can fill the space between those moments, and yet notContinue reading “2092 – Vlogging”

Elayne likes to keep a lovely garden. I am really pleased that she does, because it is a project to be proud of, and I do like to see it. For as long as I can remember, I’ve appreciated nature, but retirement has changed the nature of that appreciation. One example of this is theContinue reading “2091 – Things of Interest”

A few posts ago, Actually, it was 2072 I talked about going to the library and researching an aspect of Portsmouths invovlement in the Civil War. It’s worth giving a little bit of a back story of the Portsmouth Papers. Started in the 1960’s as an attempt to revive interests in the history of theContinue reading “2090 – Portsmouth Papers”

First time I’ve done this, and I think it’s appropriate. This is a “Recruitment poster” for the group. We had our second session today, and I think i can say that it went resonably well. The thing though, is planning. I’ve never done this before. What I want to do is keep the members ofContinue reading “2089 – Creative Writing”