Looking forward to the weekend. Nothing special going on, it’s just not work 😝
Sometimes I wonder if I have any talent for photography at all. After yesterday’s walk around the marathon that was taking place in the town, going in with a plan (“a documentary look at a marathon”) and coming back with two SD cards of crap images, I can’t help wondering if photography is for me…
I took a picture.
I wrote a thing
So much for exporting Instagram data in JSON format. It just doesn’t work. Now I’m left with this 600mb archive full of WEBP files that are about as useful for what I want to do as a chocolate fireguard. Why can’t things just work as it’s supposed to {shakes fists at clouds} …
Just discovered Pixelfed. Let’s see if that’s a decent alternative to Instagram. Anyone on here use it? I see you can link micro.blog up to Pixelfed.
An extraordinarily boring day. My wife is sick with the flue and in bed, and the kids are home but stuck in their rooms. Alone in a full house. Might go for a walk and listen to the football on the wireless.
Watching the Netflix documentary about the Yorkshire Ripper. Mid-70’s Britain looked so miserable (or they only filmed stock footage in the rain in January) but for anyone who lived through that time, and that place, was it really that miserable? Was there no colour, or was everything just brown?
I know Joni Mitchell is a legend and all that, but ‘Woodstock’ is a hard listen.
With everyone out, or at work, or asleep I went out for a short walk around the polder behind the house. I didn’t bother taking the camera, instead relying on the mobile phone. Listening to The Photowalk, a brilliant podcast about, well, photography…
Bloody hell, Aberdeen⚽️lose again, this time to Dundee United. After a bright start we’ve not won a game since the start of november. We’re slipping down the table. Celtic first, Rangers second. Natural order has been restored in Scottish football.
That’s the last of the food shopping done. I say last, but I’m already doubting if the 10kg’s of potatoes are enough. Ach, I’ll send the kids out for more later. I managed to clear out a load of gone-off vegetables (possibly from last Xmas) to make room for the turkey. Time to make the stuffing.
Bought Medieval Horizons by Ian Mortimer today with a gift voucher from two years ago that I found in the drawers when I was cleaning out the office before my holidays. 📚
Having completed Yellowstone - that ending was rubbish, by the way - we’re started on Killing Eve. So far so good (we’re on Season 1, Episode 4) and it’s entertaining enough but not quite sure how they’re going to pull four seasons out of this. 📺
Today, I have mostly been listening 🎵 to **Slowdive ** and The House of Love. Yeah, it’s been one of those days
Having said that, there seems to be some sort of mystical synergy between Man U and Aberdeen. Generally, when we lose, United lose. When we win, United win. Aberdeen lost 3-1 at home to Hibs yesteday. I should have known… ⚽️
Ye gods, that was a shocking performance from Manchester United⚽️Not saying Bournemouth are an easy team to beat, but losing 3-0 at home is just embarrasing.
Still trying out this micro blog thing, and photos in particular. Any good photography-themed people to follow out there? I’m on Insta and have my own blog (check out the ‘About’ page for details. Or not, also possible 😉).
This was in Galway a few years back. Likes the blue, so .. {snap}
Up early this morning. I don’t do lie ins - any longer than about six hours in bed and my back is destroyed. So, up early with the birds. Coffee on, radio on, heating on, time for breakfast. While I wait I’m continuing my trawl through Lightroom in an effort to put some order into it all.
I’m getting pelters of my family for my Xmas Playlist (which I’ve been working on since July) because it features Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmastime about six times throughout. They just cannot accept that it’s the greatest Christmas tune of all time. Period.
Hi, me again. I’ve been trying to figure out why there’s a full stop appearing in front of a sentence in the about page. I’m checking, double checking the post to see what the problem is, only to find out it’s a spec of dirt on the screen.
The wheels are coming off the Jimmy Thelin wagon at Aberdeen. A bad 3-1 loss to Hibs at Pittodrie sees us drop back to third place, behind Rangers. For anyone not familiar with Scottish football, the natural order of things has been restored …
Ignore this, I’m just experimenting with photo uploads. This one was taken at Downpatrick Head in Co. Mayo, Ireland.
