Category Archives: personal blog

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”

We went to the Camera club this evening, we had an excellent session on Macro photography. Now, I did take some pictures, but I haven’t transferred them off the camera onto the computer. So tomorrows post will be about tonights activity, sorry about that. Today’s header picture comes from an encounter on my morning walk.Continue reading “1589 – Camera Club Part 1”

Thumbnails are the small pictures that accompany typically a YouTube video, they are the advert for the video, and therefore the producer should attempt to make them as attractive as possible to entice you in to watch the video. The default if a thumbnail isn’t deliberately produced is to grab a random still from theContinue reading “1588 – Thumbnails”

It’s private in the sense that if you have a llink, you can view it and share it, but people won’t find it. It’s really not very exciting, but I did promise a video, and so here it is. The fact that I’ve added something to YouTube is, for me amazing. I do want toContinue reading “1587 – In which I publish a video”

It’s the weekend. Before i could do anything, I needed to sort out. Luckily, everything went smoothly. It took me a bit of time to work out what i was going to do, and visiting the Apple Dumpling Bridge became a goal. One I didn’t achieve. I did shoot a video, about two minutes worth.Continue reading “1586 – Getting out – kind of”