Life & Times

The inevitable photo of a beer drinker’s first post-lockdown pint in a pub since Christmas Day. 📷🍺

empty beer glass photo

Summer Rose.

Another photo from last summer to remind us that it won't be long before we can feel the warmth on our skin again. 📷 🌱

colour graded photo of a rose

A picture is worth 1000 words.

Spotted on a hoarding in Bristol. 📷

boris the dunce

Early morning walk with the dog.

This is a quick iPhone snap from about 6:45 am today when I was out with the dog for a tramp around the fields. The light on the trees opposite where I took the photo was perfect. It's a shame the iPhone doesn't do it justice.

landscape photo

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷


Lunchtime!

I took this using my Sony a6300 and 16-70mm lens at 70mm. The camera was connected to my iPad via WiFi, and I used the Sony app to fire the shutter remotely. The short lens and the WiFi signal hampered the shot, which meant I had to position the camera further away from the feeder than was optimum. 📷

blue tits feeding photo

Monday Music Mix: Album of the Week

This week's new album is This is Really Going to Hurt from Flyte

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This is what I was presented with when my 90 year old father said that he’d forgotten his password for his 10 year old Dell laptop. I bought it for him so I’m expected to mend it. I’m a Mac user and haven’t used a PC for a decade. No backups, no disks, help!

dead win xp screen

Early morning in the garden.

It's not as warm as it looks! 📷🌱

garden photo

Thanks to everyone that responded to my earlier post when I mentioned that I was struggling with CSS styling for my Archive page, especially @jeannie and @mariovillalobos


Black & White Fishing Gear.

I took this photo a few years ago when on holiday in Florida.

Fishing gear photo

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Moved to Micro.blog

I’ve just completed the signup process for a Micro.blog subscription and will be moving some posts from my old WordPress site across to micro.blog over the coming days.

I’ve decided to use the Arabica theme for the web and have made a couple of small changes to the Archive page, to keep links looking the same across the site — I didn’t like the Nav bar looking and behaving different from the Categories on the Archive page. I just need to work out how to get the Categories to display horizontally now. I tried to use CSS to style them, but whilst I can change colours, etc., “display: inline” doesn’t work as you’ll see below.

Screenshot

Happy to take advice from anyone who has more experience using CSS than I do — which’ll be pretty much everyone.

My next challenge is to style the dates on the Archive page to look like the dates on the rest of the theme.

Still to do:

  1. Decide whether to keep my old domain name and transfer it to Micro.blog

Oh, by the way, this post was written in Ulysses and published direct to the blog.


Summer!

Here's an image to remind you of what summer looks like.

lavender

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Snow on the fields.

It snowed briefly yesterday evening and was -2 degrees earlier when I took "the boy" for his morning tramp across the fields.

Snow on the fields

iPhone 11, edited in Lightroom.

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Rockefeller Centre, NY.

Rockefeller Centre

This is a photo taken in March 2019 from the viewing platform of the Rockefeller Tower, NY.

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Spotted on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh

Owl

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