Very validating
Two creative endeavours have matured, one giving me great personal satisfaction, and the other actually producing a cheque which I have just banked. The first creative endeavour is the rag rug of...
View ArticleA cheque arrives
As well as this blog, I am active on Flickr, the well-known photo-hosting site. My Blogger and Flickr accounts were both set up in February 2009 - seven years ago - and although both got off to a slow...
View ArticleNew phone decisions!
It's that time again, when the upgrade date is approaching and one had better work out the best options. I'm with Vodafone, and I have a white Samsung Galaxy S5 purchased on a monthly contract with...
View ArticleTry not to do this
The dangers of pilates! Clearly the various exercises performed in Friday morning's pilates session left my hands with a weakened grip! Sharing an après-pilates lunch with Sue at a cycling/coffee shop...
View ArticleBrexit: bleak thinking
For goodness sake, the EU referendum and the question of whether Britain should stay in or exit, is only seven weeks away. Where is the serious campaigning? Why is no reliable and unbiased printed...
View ArticleNow it's a new laptop!
It might have seemed as if I was getting very obsessed with my next mobile phone! But there was in fact a more pressing matter to address:Â upgrading my home computing equipment. This was something I...
View ArticleA good home at last for a posh watch
Back in January 2009 I bought a TAG Heuer watch for myself, spending an outrageous £950. But at the time I genuinely wanted a good watch, I certainly had the money, and I urgently needed to boost my...
View ArticleTransparency
I should think David Cameron, our Prime Minister, must be pulling a rueful face just now and wishing that he'd ignored the advice he was given, or his own personal impulse, to apply the following...
View ArticleBuying online from the Microsoft Store
It's amazing how you can suddenly discover something new and useful, that you've never before looked into before. I was reading yet another Dell XPS 15 laptop review, and happened to look at the...
View ArticleSmiling Sidmouth
I spent nearly three hours in Sidmouth yesterday, most of it in sunshine. It struck me yet again that this is a place with great appeal, combining Regency buildings, mostly whimsical but some of them...
View ArticleDistracted from my holiday
This has not been a great holiday for blogging! It's the usual trouble...whether I make it a morning or evening activity, putting a decent post together has to take second place to photo-editing, and...
View ArticleNo point in being afraid
My brother Wayne, who died twenty-one years ago in a road accident, would have been sixty today. There would have been some kind of family gathering in celebration of 'the senior man of the family'...
View ArticleNew laptop bought
Well, it's done. I got home from North Devon late afternoon yesterday, and by mid-evening I had the old Dell PC fired up and was looking critically at those laptop reviews that seemed the least...
View ArticleThe Microsoft Surface Book. Hello, Verity!
And now, here is my 'first impressions' report on my new Microsoft Surface Book laptop. And yes, she has a name: Verity. The machines that I physically interact with, that help me get out into the...
View ArticleTwo near-disasters while on holiday
I very nearly suffered serious injury while on holiday, on two successive Sundays. The first was a road accident that didn't quite happen. It was in south-east Devon, at a crossroads north-east of...
View ArticleFilms
I'd better say at once that I'm not a great watcher of films. If there's a film on TV that seems intriguing, or I've seen it before and liked it, or someone has said it's wonderful, and I really must...
View ArticleTomorrow's Sussex Police Commissioner election
The Poll Card for the election of a local Police Commissioner has been pinned up on my hall noticeboard for weeks, but I've hardly given it a thought, and the day for casting my vote - if I wish to -...
View ArticleSleep-walking towards the Brexit Referendum
The campaigning for the forthcoming Referendum is still not at fever pitch, nor anywhere near it. How very odd. I mean, it's so important. The outcome will commit the government to a course of action...
View ArticleA bad experience at Park Cameras
Earlier this afternoon I had an unsettling experience at Park Cameras in Burgess Hill. It wasn't anything the staff did. It was the behaviour of an impatient customer. Here's the scenario. I was...
View ArticleTime again for squashed boobs
Don't you love that three-year ritual? When you are summoned to a mobile unit in a leisure centre or supermarket car park, to get draped by a nurse over this machine, naked from the waist up, your...
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