We are coping

Social distancing and self isolating started a week or so ago and was enforced by the government just a few days ago, on 23rd March. It's going to be hard but so far so good.

Pack horse bridges

AKA, Roman Bridges that cross Hockenhull Platts near Tarvin.

I visited there to take photos with my SLR because it was a sunny day but by the time I got there the sky was grey. I had to wait for an hour before the sun came out again.

Prior to this visit I last visited the bridges with Hilary in 1990,  when she was pregnant with Emma.

That wasn't the first time I'd been there though. When I was at Christleton Secondary Modern, the route over the bridges was a quick way of getting home on my bike, via Waverton & Tarvin at each end of Platts Lane.

150220 Laptop's dislike of coffee confirmed

Mains Water Burst

Just what we needed between Christmas and New Year!

See how the drive along the side of hedge is lumpy, that's where the main water flow from the burst just beyond th end of our drive was. The damage was much worse than this photo shows. First we knew about it was when the United Utilities insurance assessoer woke us p at 8 in the morning to tell us how hey were going to put everything right.

Some water flowed into the garage causing a little bit of damage but the real bad thing was that it soaked the wing roots of my Sportster RC model aeroplane. The effect of this was to render the whole aircraft useless - they don't fly well without wings!

Just a note about this blog

Now that I've retired again this blog will be more about leisure activities than anything else. I will not be dwelling on my health issues, even though at present I'm having a lot of problems. There's days when I don't get out or am restricted in what I can do, these days come and go with frustrating  regularity and to write about them all the time would be too depressing. A casual observer would not see these and that's okay, I want this blog to be upbeat and full of positives.

RC Hotel

Enjoying a visit to the RC Hotel at Corfu. Everyone here very friendly and lots of models to fly.

Ophelia Colours Our Sky

Hurricane Ophelia picked up dust from forest fires in Portugal and spain, together with dust from the Sahara Desert and headed for the United Kingdom as a storm. Here in Middlewich there were a few drops of rain from time to time leaving dirty dusty deposits on our cars; the effect in the sky though was quite spectacular.

Photos For Sale

At last I have started to prepare a portfolio of photographs to sell. I originally intended to to this via my own website but in the end decided concentrate on producing usable photos.

At the time of writing I've some initial photos uploaded, however having become accustomed to the Photo4me website I am now in a position to prepare and upload more. Of course to be a success I have to sell some photos, here's hoping!