Dear Steve, The first thing that I noticed about Letter XXIX was its date. May. Given that it is now October, there’s a bit of difference in the context. The beginning and the end of the summer (kind of). I don’t think that is too much of a problem. When I first started looking atContinue reading “2114 – Letter to Steve XXIX – Conkers & Beech nuts”
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2112 – Friday
As it was Friday, this afternoon I would be working in the Charity shop where I volunteer. It’s only the afternoon, 1300-1630, 3.5 hours so it’s not overly onerous, indeed, I really enjoy interacting with the customers. The problem today was there weren’t many of them. Strangely though, it didn’t seem like that. Perhaps nextContinue reading “2112 – Friday”
2081 – A photograph & a walk
These two watering cans have been moving around the garden. Over the weekend, they were on the love chairs, but Elayne painted those yesterday, so they had to be moved. They had caught my eye and I’ve just not managed to take the photo, until today. For some reason, the two cans (well, one isContinue reading “2081 – A photograph & a walk”
2080 Letter to Steve XXV
Dear Steve, Gilbert devotes the entirety of his Letter XXV to birds and reptiles, especially smelly snakes (snakes that generate a smell to defend themselves). The weather at the moment really prevents me from going anywhere unless I absolutely have to. I can’t match that. It’s been too hot for me to have been veryContinue reading “2080 Letter to Steve XXV”
2079 – Blog activity
Looking back, I’ve realised that it is not far short of a month and a half since I last posted a photo that deliberately includes the Spinnaker. In the past, I could take, even if I don’t post, several pictures at a time. I want to talk just briefly about a series of posts thatContinue reading “2079 – Blog activity”
2073 – Letter to Steve XXIV
I spent a bit of time about a week ago, dissecting a passion fruit seed pod. Gilbert dissects a bird and finds eggs forming and food in its crop. I don’t think I could dissect a bird. I can remember one Rural Studies lesson at school where the teacher was going to dissect a rabbit.Continue reading “2073 – Letter to Steve XXIV”
2072 – Put yourself out there
i’ve beeen going on a fair bit recently about vlogging, you might reasonably ask why? There is a youtuber, Rob the Maritimer, click his name to see his channel. Rob has set up a community, called Creators Cove, and issued a challenge to his 117,000 followers. Over a period of four weeks, issue three “longContinue reading “2072 – Put yourself out there”
2070 Messing around
Those passion fruits look almost good enough to eat, don’t they? I won’t of course, but I am keeping an eye on them, and if they start to swell or drop, I’ll have another one to disect. Next year, I want to watch the whole process from budding – I missed that bit this year.Continue reading “2070 Messing around”
2058 – In the shop
I volunteer, normally on a Friday afternoon, in a local charity shop. I got asked if I would do today, Saturday, as well. I said yes to help out (I don’t know how to say that without making me sound noble for doing that), but it’s not. I made it quite clear that my offeringContinue reading “2058 – In the shop”
2053 – The Retirement Plan
It’s 6 months and 11 days since I retired. Before retiring, I did what I like to do, and that is draft a retirement plan. I think at the 6-month point it’s reasonable to have a review, and do the usual thing of looking at what has and hasn’t gone well. I think what I’llContinue reading “2053 – The Retirement Plan”
