Life & Times

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.

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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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Monday Music Mix: Album of the Week

This week's new album is New Long Leg from Dry Cleaning

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Easter Sunday afternoon ride

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Black and White Wreck 📷

old wrecked boat

Which path to take?

photo of a path in a field leading to sutton benger, a large village in wiltshire, uk

View of Sutton Benger, Wiltshire. 📷


Currently reading: The First Time Lauren Pailing Died by Rudd, Alyson 📚


“landscape”/

View from Barbury Castle, Wiltshire. 📷


Finished reading: Cathedral by Ben Hopkins 📚

cathedral book cover

Three Tulips.

Three tulips

Here's a photo of a group of tulips, processed in Lightroom to desaturate the background to make the flowers the heroes. 📷 🌱


An attempt at making a high-key photo in Lightroom. 📷 🌱

High Key flower photo

Post work, pre-dinner ride

Interesting, that was about the same time for this route as in April 2020, but 10 mins off my best effort last July. Things can only get better.

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