Category Archives: personal blog

We both miss Rascal, our black cat. He left us on the 23rd of March 23. He’s never been far from our hearts. Today, we went to The Ark, a local animal sanctury to see a black kitten, he was one of three. A lovely little cat, just four months old, very lively. There wasContinue reading “1450 – Kittens & C4FM”

Dear Meg, This one is down to you. After the frustration of getting the wrong SD card, the replacement turned up today (thank you Amazon), and after a little bit of fiddling I was able to hear the repeater, GB3IW, on The Isle of Wight. Everybody that was on the Thursday Night Net, an eventContinue reading “1449 – Little moments of lovely success”

The new radio is installed, and has been turned on. And then turned off again. Nothing wrong, except with me! In order to get the best use I need to populate the memories with channels for various things. Mainly devices called repeaters. They pick up my signal and re-broadcast it over a much wider area.Continue reading “1448 – Little moments of frustration”

I have used this picture before, I took it several years ago when Io was on the Butser Hill Run with RAYNET. I used to love those events. I left the group at the end of the last membership season. I’d quite like to rejoin, because I used to do really enjoy these events. MoreContinue reading “1447 – Amateur Radio”

It’s going to be a short one tonight. We were watching season two of DI Ray on ITVX, and I hadn’t realised that I’d fallen asleep. I work up five minutes from the end of the episode that I’d leapfrogged and wondered what was going on. That’s when I realised that it was time toContinue reading “1446 – A Sleeping moment”

I took the photograph because we were trying to find out some information about whatever it is I’m holding. That’s the thing, I can’t remember what it is I’m holding. Yesterday, I wrote about having a weeks worth of posts planned out. I suggested that I could have some headings available. Well, I’ve done that,Continue reading “1445 – How I got on with the topic headings”

With a little bit of planning, I’m sure I could have an idea of what I will be writing a few days ahead, unless something in particular happens of course. At the very least, I should have a weeks worth (minimum) of posts available. That will require a bit of effort of course, and doingContinue reading “1444 – Blog Topics”

Very annoyingly, earlier on today, I thought of a topic for quite a reasonable blog entry for this evening. Frustratingly, I didn’t write the gist of it down, even though I was sat at my desk, and very easily have done so. Of course, I have forgotten what it was. Really annoying as at theContinue reading “1443 – I forgot!”

It looks like people are starting to move in on the bus station. I expect demolition will start soon. I think the offices on the first floor may have been occupied until recently so I don’t know if there is much clearing to do before they start pulling it down. Even now, I am havingContinue reading “1442 – Here goes the bus station”

I recall writing a piece a few posts ago, I haven’t checked to see how far back it was. It was mainly about a person not blaming his tools for his inability to produce good work. I’ve done that in the past; “oh my camera isn’t good enough”, “Oh my radio isn’t good enough”. InContinue reading “1441 – Not blaming the tools”