Category Archives: personal blog

One of my regular magazines is Country Walking. Normally I really enjoy reading it, and make a point of reading cover to cover. For some reason I don’t appear to be enjoying this issue as much, and I can’t understand why. I will of course persist, especially as this is the first time I’ve encounteredContinue reading “739 – Magazines”

When did you buy your first MP3 player? I think it was probably around 2004-5. I bet yours was stuffed with music. Mine wasn’t. I had some music, but it has never been a great love, I know what I like and tend to stick with it. Podcasts were a revelation, “radio” shows about topicsContinue reading “738 – Audio Books”

Normally, I try to do two pieces of writing every day, during the week at least. One in the morning on FaceBook and the other here. They might both cover similar topics, but I try to give my self a bit more free reign on the artistic licence (that really is a euphemism for experimental,Continue reading “737 – Writing”

Joining North Cross Street, it was obvious that the golden time was imminent. The question in my mind was would it be gone by the time I reached the waterfront? It might be called the Golden Hour – but it doesn’t last that long. Plus the sky has to be right. The bright band lowContinue reading “736 – The Golden Hour”

I didn’t do a post last night. It was a decision that I made partly because the wifi was a bit flakey, and the mobile signal was very poor for data. We went on a Balloon ride, it was a Virgin balloon ride. Now normally I try not to talk about companies but I amContinue reading “735 – Hotels”

I can remember very easily, because it is only just over a year ago that we bought a Nissan Leaf, a fully electric vehicle. Now, without going back over previous posts, I am confident that II have written about my frustrations with EVs and it extends mainly to the infrastructure. We encountered a time whereContinue reading “734 – Placeholder”

The frustration stems from a conflict between wanting to do a regular vlog and the amount of effort needed to produce one. It all starts with the idea, lets say some historical matter in the town, perhaps Henry Cort? Who was he? What did he do? How did he do it? Where did he doContinue reading “733 – Frustration”

There’s nothing wrong in an aesthetic sense with the header photo, I’m not calling it out as a good picture, but it is one of those pictures that I would routinely take whilst out and about on my morning walk. That’s the thing about my morning walks, they are very “samey”. In fact, I thinkContinue reading “732 – Out and about”

This morning’s walk was quite delightful. There was the threat of rain, but not really much of a threat. Of course, if it did rain I was either not that far from home or shelter, and besides, having had so little recently it would have been quite nice to get naturally wet. As it happensContinue reading “731 – Walking”

I think a slightly surreal self portrait, admittedly taken accidentally is a reasonable offering for the book of the moment. I wonder how many of you (here I am imagining my millions of non-existent readers) ever used one of the earlier internet (well, I suppose almost pre-internet service offerings; Compuserve? The thing about Compuserve wasContinue reading “730 – Book of the moments”