life – Bills Posts

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”

2068 – Just one of those walks

I had just dropped Elayne off at the shops, and was on my way home, when I had this thought that things just looked really nice and I very much wanted to go for a walk. Not a particularly special walk, just my normal route past the Cockle Ponds, along the waterfront and back alongContinue reading “2068 – Just one of those walks”

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”

2052 – Letter to Steve XXI – Perhaps some introspection?

Dear Steve The mistake that I have made with tonight’s Letter to Steve is that I have not done very much with it, after a rather intense period of conversing with my assistant on Monday. We had quite a wide-ranging discussion, starting mostly with how I discovered Gilbert White. Summarised: driving north on theContinue reading “2052 – Letter to Steve XXI – Perhaps some introspection?”

2049 – Vlogging

I don’t know how many years I’ve been saying that I want to vlog, but I never quite knew what to vlog about. Over the last few weeks, though, I’ve come to a bit of a realisation. It might sound a bit odd, but I think it accurately represents things. Now, the one thing thatContinue reading “2049 – Vlogging”

2040 – Facebook’s Baleful Glare

We had a bit of excitement today. A colony of bees decided it would quite like to live in our silver birch tree. More on that story in the next Letter to Steve. Every so often, I get big pangs of guilt about Facebook. Mainly, that I haven’t been posting there. The rot set inContinue reading “2040 – Facebook’s Baleful Glare”

2012 – Camera Club & Vlogging

I’ve now got access to a railway layout that not only has an extensive track system, but also appears to be an active community as well. My Insta360 GO 3S with a close-up lens allows me to get right down into the action. I’m sure I can find some stories here. I’m ignoring the factContinue reading “2012 – Camera Club & Vlogging”

2008 – An unusual Day

On Monday, I suggested to Elayne that I was thinking that it might be interesting to volunteer to work in a charity shop. I was thinking that I would later in the year, say around late September. Time to give us both a chance to get used to the idea. Elayne went and did herContinue reading “2008 – An unusual Day”

1989 – Taking it easy

I have to confess that I don’t like talking about any ailments that I might have. The one exception to this is if it affects something like going for a walk. Which is what happened to me on Thursday. I’d been for a walk along my usual route, past the Cockle Ponds, along the seaContinue reading “1989 – Taking it easy”