Swallow

I think I saw my first swallow of the year.

Dandelion

1st sighting of a dandelion in Hampshire today. Spring equinox as well.

Spring Cold

Just in time for spring I catch a cold, bum.

Daisy

So it goes on spring is I think on it's way finally this year and so I like to report my first daisy of the year spotted in Hampshire

Butterfly Alert

So my very first and I hope of many butterfly's today at Ropley Hants

Watercress Line

 

My very first visit to the Watercress Line and what a great day the weather was great and I got to see lots of trains.

AE35 Podcast

It looks like the site that I host my ae35 pod cast's on has gone bust. Which is a bit of a bummer, luckily I have kept a copy of all the pod casts and honest I was going to do another cast real soon.

So I now have the problem of finding another site to host my pod casts that will do all the hard stuff for me at no cost, and I suspect that in this day and age with the way things are that is something that I will not find.

There are lots of sites who will charge you and I do have a hosting company that does give me the bandwidth and storage but does not give you any of the other stuff that you need to run a pod cast.

Not that the pod cast got lots of listeners, its just it was another part of my website, may be what I should do is keep recording them and archive them until such time as I have somewhere to put them and then put them all up when I get somewhere.

Steam Gala

Well the weather is looking and so today could be a great day in that I am going to a steam gala.

Now I have never been to one so I am not to sure what goes on at a steam gala, the other thing is that it is being held at or on the Watercress line, which is the nearest steam heritage railway, and I have never been on it!

Looking at there site it look like they will have lots of different types of steam trains, so it will be nice to see all these old machines doing what they are best at and that is moving under there own power.

It appears that these events can get very busy so it should be fun.

I shall take the D80 and hope I get some pictures that are worth putting up on here.

Spag Bowl

Why is spag bowl called spag bowl

Not Word

I used to have word 2000 installed on my old machine, since the failure of it I am slowly reinstalling all the old software that I had on it on the new machine.

As I have written here before some of the software I use is old, I mean really old, so it has come as not real surprise to me that I have lost the installation discs for Word 2000.

So I have looked for a free ware alternative to word and I think I may have found it in Free Office version 3.0.

Its a bit download, so I will report back when I have downloaded it, installed it and finally used it.

Fleet Pond 2

 

More of Fleet Pond from this mornings walk, note the sky and that blue stuff, I could do with more of that.

Fleet Pond

 

So this is Fleet Pond overlooking the reed beds which are a feature of the fresh water pound in Southern England, I have read somewhere that it is the largest natural fresh water pond in the south.

The reed beds are also rare these days.

2.75 Miles

Yes folks that's the distance walked today with wife and daughter, and all in blue sky and no rain, cos that came later when we were at home.

So a good result, and just to add to it I took my camera and actually took some pictures for once.

Phobia

Just been looking back at some of my earlier Blogs posts and I notice that I have for some very good reasons been going on and on about indexes.

I wonder if there is a named phobia for the fear of indexes?

Return

I think it has something to do with the extra daylight or something, but I keep wanting to get back to my different projects and get something done with them.

I noticed that this appears to happen every year at about the same time, it just that I have never in the past bothered to note down and record the fact, so here am I recording the fact that I feel an itch or even a compulsion to do something to each of my projects that have sat now, some of them for months.

The big and burning question is which project should I have a go at first?

At this time I do not know which one would be great to start with first.

I must admit that one problem that I have not yet solved for some of the projects is that I am now on a new computer which runs a new operating system, which is called Vista, now to me XP was better and you knew where things where and how it worked.

For some reason stuff has either been renamed or even moved and for what I can see I can't fathom why some of the changes have been made. It also appears that I am not the only person who also thinks this, but this is all a side note to the fact that some of the software that I used on my old machine was already old on that so you can imagine just how old it is and so when I tried to install it the end result was, well no result in that it did not install. As you can probably tell this did not make me happy, to add to the fun? some of the software I use has suffered in that the company that used to make it have been taken over and the new company does not offer any patches to allow their software to run on the new operating system, in fact I think they want you to buy the latest software at their very latest price.

Now some of the software I used was brought cheap, I mean Knock down prices, because at that time it was old and near end of line and there was a new version of the software out which had the latest bell and whistles and all that sort of stuff.

So as I can't affored to spend 600 uk pounds on software that I only use perhaps once a month or so I shall have to spend some time on Google and find out how other folk out there got there old software running on new hardware and operating systems, I mean I can't be the only one with this problem surely!

Anyway I think I have ranted enough, I am also sure that I have said all of this before in an earlier Blog, but as this is my space my words I can repaet myselft as much as I want.

Mind you if I keep doing this I will not get on with the projects will I?

Snow

Yes,

there was snow this morning which was just a bit of a surprise.

Bumble Bee

Just want to record here that at 15.21 on 4th March 2009 I saw my 1st bumble Bee.

I just hope the weather forecast for him goes his way.

Ipod Touch

Just an update to myself that the touch is working well, as I got it mainly for podcast's it works very well.

Lost

 

Just found this picture from last year on the hard disc. The flowers were in our garden and I don't know what the name of the flowers are, I do know that they are pansys of some type.

Green

 

Winkworth again, just like all the green's that are in this picture, this is straight from the D80, it's a great camera and with how little I use it I am glad that it can still produce great images like this, at least this is what I saw through the viewfinder at the time. I don't think the D80 came with the sunshine and optional blue sky button if it did I would have surly used them.

Day off

1st day off this year, and yes the weather is not playing fair a tall. But needed the lie in and the chance to catch up on music and radio play's that have some how passed me by.

Spring Delayed

Just seen the weather forecast for the rest of this week and I am beginning to think that spring is going to be a bit late and that all this mild weather that we have been enjoying is all a bit of a fluke.

I suppose only time will tell if spring arrives when it is supposed to.

Which is a bit of a pity as I was just getting used to the idea of it being warm and bright out there.

Sunshine in a flower

Sunshine in a flower, originally uploaded by davew1.

Same as before but I have corrected the colour

March 2009

 

 

 

Well it's the 1st of March 2009 and this is what we saw at Winkworth