Category Archives: personal blog

Monday to Friday I usually get out for a walk. When I get home I like to do a facebook post. Whilst I’m on the walk I like to look at what is happening on the walk. When I went through the phase of note getting up, which lasted I reckon 15 months, I wasContinue reading “1598 – The morning walk”

I went out this morning with the intention of recording a number of video segments and then, sometime over the next few days, putting some effort into bringing them together into a single production of 5 – 6 minutes and putting it on YouTube. I’ve been reviewing what I recorded and I still sound aContinue reading “1597 – Stuff”

The blog that is. More and more more recently, I have found myself thinking about the content of my posts, and whether or not they bore any readers (I think there are about 70 of you the last time I checked). You don’t have to answer these questions but why do you follow me (don’tContinue reading “1596 – Who is it for?”

Tuesday night was camera club night we each had 3 images in competition number 8, the last full competition for the season. There’s one more thing to do and that is the exhibition, where photos go on public display in the discovery centre (the library). I really didn’t do well, my lowest score, a 6,Continue reading “1595 – The Camera Club”

I’ve taken a bit of a kind of imposed break in the reading of my history book, Rebellion, which covers the Stuarts from the time of Jame’s coronation of James VI of Scotland as James I of England in 1567. Through to the start of the English Civil War. We’ve been having some decorating done,Continue reading “1594 – Not reading my book”

It’s 2130, it’s dark and I’ve just realised that I don’t have a recent picture of the garden. The weather has been glorious, bright warm sunshine. We got out in the garden. Cut the grass, Elayne has been cutting back bushes. We filled the. Brown bin. It’ll annoy Elayne that the bin isn’t due toContinue reading “1593 – Out in the Garden”

I went to Dorset today. It was lobvely to see the family. We had fish and chips for the chippy on South Street, that used to be my favourite after having been to the Rex (the cinema).. I’d get a pastie and chips – I used to like their pasties. Lunch was very nice. ItContinue reading “1593 – Wareham”

As I type this, I’m trying not to fall asleep. I’ve done that usual Friday thing of leaving this too late. I didn’t go for a walk this morning. Other than feeling tired I didn’t have a good excuse. It had been raining though. After the washing machine broke down the repair man didn’t takeContinue reading “1592 – Friday”

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been walking around the cockle ponds and there has been an Egret feeding. They are very nervous birds and would normally fly away as soon as I got within about 40 yards. This morning, as the ponds were being emptied, this one was seriously focused onContinue reading “1591 – I say hello to an Egret, and I go to a council meeting”

The Camera Club held a Macro (close-up) session, so we took our cameras and macro lenses. The session was well attended and there were four table set up with different aspects that we could play with. The header picture is not really a macro picture,, but it is one of the best I’d taken. I’mContinue reading “1590 – The Camera Club”