Category Archives: personal blog

Last night I finished Queen Elizabeths bedfellows. Naturally, the final moments of the book were around her death in 1603, and what happened. The description of the events were a tad off-putting, but are a matter of record, very detailed record. I should now be moving on to King James (VI of Scotland, I ofContinue reading “1550 – Books”

This is a photo that I wanted to put into the next competition as a print. Looking at the photo, I think it’s quite a good portrait, but my eyes are immediately drawn to the person in the red coat to the left of the Samba Leader. What I spent an hour trying to doContinue reading “1549 – Photoshop Frustration”

It’s not very often I mention work in my blogs, but I’m going to today, but only in the context that I do work. My job is mostly a 9-5 thing, with extensions beyond that when needed, and extensions into the weekend on very extreme cases. Why am I telliing you this? Well, it’s partlyContinue reading “1548 – Visiting Historic Spots”

I’m only a few pages away from finishing the Queen Elizabeth I book that I’m reading. I’m about to encounter the Stewarts, and am wondering which would be the best book to read.. There’s one that sounds quite interesting, All His Spies: The secret world of Robert Cecil – perhaps the 16th Century ‘M’ TheContinue reading “1547 – Book Dilemmas”

I should have gone for a walk this morning. There’s no particular reason as to why I didn’t, just being lazy I guess. The previous four mornings were fine, almost fun in some respects. I had done face book posts as well. The facebook posts can be a bit more personal than here. I’ve beenContinue reading “1546 – The Week”

If the book is correct, the last time I sat as controller on the net was 30 Nov 25, well I did it again tonight. Dave wasn’t able to do the net, and I couldn’t stop myself from offering. My thought was that if Dave couldn’t do it and nobody else offered (and I’m sureContinue reading “1545 – Thursday Night Net”

I have been chomping at the bit to go to a full council meeting since the last one. I must admit that after tea it was later than I wanted so I had to rush to the council offices, which luckily are only about 12 minutes away. I did a little bit of preparation, downloadingContinue reading “1544 – The Council”

Tonights Camera Club competition was “Open” for our group, which mean that we could choose any picture we wanted. Mine was the header picture, which I had called “Reflect or photoshop”? Under normal circumstances, the judge would look at it and say It’s a perfectly good reflection and that would be it. But because I’dContinue reading “1543 – 9 and a Third”

I was out for my morning walk. I pretty much followed my normal route. I was quite surprissed at how few people were out and about. Even at the ferry, I did a little bit of videoing but apart from that and the Gosport Ferry there was absolutely nothing going on, no ships moving notContinue reading “1542 – Facebook”

As you read tonights post, you will very quickly realise that the picture bears absolutely no link to any of the content of the retest of the post, except perhaps the picture shows the underneath of something, but that link is so tenuous as to be ridiculous. We paid a visit to our Dorset familyContinue reading “1541 – Sunday”