Her Again

So the lady I know has said I can post a picture or to of her over the next few weeks if I want to and that it’s my choice of pictures to post.

Blogging What Me

 Blogging

so you will no doubt have noticed that the blog entries dropped right off again this is mainly due to the fact that I just lost interest in do a blog, I did not run out of stuff to say just I somehow find something else to do ......ho hum.

So it goes.....

New Beer Tryout

 New Beer

so I have tried a local brewery beer that I have heard about but have never had the chance to try until now.

The ale, because it is a real ale is call Old Tongham Tasty or OTT this is a strong ale 6% and is a dark ale that has a very complex taste in fact I don’t think I can say what the taste is other than this is an ale that you sup, it’s not a session ale it’s an ale that you will want to savour the taste.

The ale is brewed by the Hogs Back Brewery in Tongham Surrey U.K. with a look if you can get hold of it as it tends to sell out quickly.

Cold cold cold

 so for the last week we have been in a very cold spell for us that is I know other parts of the world do have it much colder, but the problem is the U.K. houses are not designed for the cold, so when it gets cold the houses even with heating are cold.

So it’s been -8C here the heating in the hose just can’t cope with this so the result is that the house is just cold all the time, even with layers of clothing you just end up feeling cold all day.

I am told it’s due to warm up to +12C on Monday as I write this on the Saturday, we shall see.

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New Track

Till the next time

so a new tune has been posted to my youtube channel, go have a look tell me what you think.

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Long Break Tea Mix So at long last a track made in the last month (November 2022) made with an older set of samples enjoy.

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Break hands in the air remix

Laura Parkrun

Laura Finish Rushmoor Parkrun 19/11/2022 Laura Finish Rushmoor Parkrun 19/11/2022.

So this is me using a gopro to film Laura completing a Parkrun

New music

 Well not too sure what is going on, but I uploaded onto youtube 4 new music tracks yesterday 18/11/2022 and for some unknown reason only one has appeared here, which is a pity as I happen to think that all four tracks are all rather good, don't get me wrong none of them are no1 in the charts good, they are just good.

All of them have some nice musical ideas in them and some great samples which I like to think I have used well.

So if you happen upon this post and you want to hear the tracks you are going have to go to youtube and look for them there.

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Next Time Next Time

Long Run Delay

 I was planning to do a long run today, so a run over over 12k to me is a long run, but woke up 0530am ready to get out there and get it done, only to discover that the weather had other ideas.

We must be in the middle of a storm or something because the rain that is falling is just nuts, very heavy and it appears as I write this at 0830am it’s still raining beginning to wonder when it will stop.

So in light of all the rain might do my run on Monday.

Her Again

 I think this is a great picture of my friend, who I have put pictures on here before with her permission.

What I like about this picture is that, I happen to think the lipstick that she is wearing works really well.

Not too sure about the orange top, but in her defence I think this is a running top, and that she took the picture at a recent run that she did.

(Edit note she confirmed that it was at a recent parkrun, before the run, as she says that she did not look so nice at the end of the 5K run!)

New Beer I Tried

So I have just today tried a new beer that was on the shelves at the local Tesco.

Having tried it I think that it was not one of my better buying decisions, in that I just don't like the taste of this beer.

So what did I buy?

I brought Guinness Cold Brew Coffee Beer

I was looking forward to it, in that I don't mind Guinness, I also like Coffee so you would think that should not present a problem?

But for some reason the two ingredients together for me is a beer that just does not taste nice and it also has a very long after flavour 

why this should be, I just don't know?

I tried the beer correctly chilled as per what is says on the can, I made it the first beer of a session, but sadly its made no change, I even tried it after a strong IPA but the result for me was the same, a beer that has a taste that I can't describe what the taste is, that I just don't like.

Oh well on to the next beer

Rain

 So this is yet another note to me that its been raining it feels like it has not stopped raining for days, it probably did stop raining but nobody notice this event happening as its also been dark, I know that we have just had the clock shift but it just feels as if it has been darker than I remember.

It could just be me, but it just does feel like its darker.

Cold

 Just a note to me that it turned cold last night and we had to put the heating on...

Work seminar

 Doing a work seminar at 0600 in the morning is not much fun, I am not fully awake!

I haven’t even finished my first cup of coffee of the day, and I had not even had breakfast.

So I am now having my breakfast at nine in the morning which for a work day is late, in fact I think my whole schedule is upside down I don’t know if I am coming or going.

Rain

 Just a note to me that wow did it rain in the early hours of today,  so much so that it woke me up. 

Hello Sweden

 Just very quickly looked at the stats for my blog for October, as I expected them to be poor as I have not done much blogging.

I was surprised to see that there has been some visits from Sweden, so welcome to you hope what you found on this site was not too much of a disappointment.

Blogging

 So after my short break I have not blogged for a while so it may be a little while before I am back blogging about this and that and on the things that happened on the break.

Parkrun vids

 So I have done some parkrun tourism and I also managed to film them, the great things some how I have Managed to get the footage off the gopro and on to YouTube,  I have not edited the footage so what you see is what happened and at the time it happened,  mainly due to the fact that I don't have a PC that is capable of editing the footage. 

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Barnstable Parkrun 1st Lap only Barnstable Parkrun 1st Lap only

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Woolacombe Parkrun Woolacombe Parkrun

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Barnstable Parkrun 1st Lap only Barnstable Parkrun 1st Lap only

Been Away

 So I have been away in Middle Devon where there is very little internet, so expect some late blogs.

Raining

 So a note tome it’s just raining I don’t like the idea that I may have o run in the rain tonight but I will run what ever the weather does.

Thursday Run

 So as yesterday was a success in that I did a run and that it was okay, it means that I can go for a run with the group. Well hopefully as last week for one reason or another none of them could make the Thursday run, hopefully tonight we get a few running.

Ran Tonight

 So I ran tonight to see if the legs were okay  the answer is yes they are okay, but I decided that it was not wise to push them so I just did a steady or easy run.

Did 6K so I am happy with this.

Hello Indonesia

 As it my want I checked the website like you do to see where visitors from around the world are coming from, so I was Again surprised to see that some one from Indonesia landed on my site somehow.

So welcome enjoy the site,  assume that somehow you can make sense of what I have written here.

Out Running Again

So it’s been a little while since I did a full on non stop run. The plan is to do a 5K run tonight non stop and see how the legs feel while doing the run and also how they feel afterwards.

Thinking back to lat Saturday I think it should all be okay, one thing that has changed is that I have been stuck in the office all day and so have not been able to go out on site and walk around bit, which normally stretch’s the legs so maybe that’s one of the reasons that the legs are feeling a bit tight.

So a run tonight it is.

Fog

 Just a quick note to me to say that today isit was very foggy but now we have blue skies and its 17 centigrade 

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Down Drum

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Something Wrong

More Music Released

 So you should be able to see on this website that I have just released another 3 music track, each of which is in a different style.

So each track is different and in fact when I look back on the composing dates there is over a year or so between the tracks.

All the tracks use different samples and are in different keys and tempo’s I had fun making these tracks and I hope you can find the time to have a listen.

Liechtenstein

 Checking this sites stats I see that some how I have had a visitor from Liechtenstein, so welcome the reader or bot from Liechtenstein.

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Rushmoor Parkrun 15/10/2022 Rushmoor Parkrun 15/10/2022 This is only 1 of the 2 laps that make up this Parkrun I was supposed to be taking it easy by walking around the course, but I tried a little jog here and there, and it was okay. I was not dressed to run the course. It was also a test of the GoPro which is having trouble getting content off the camera and onto YouTube etc..

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This Blue

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Clock Red

Run or Not?

 So yesterday I did a run walk 5K and my legs felt okay, do I rest them some more or do I try going for a run?

These are difficult questions to answer.

I think I shall just have a few rest days so that whatever I did to my leg muscles has a chance to heal.

As someone told me there is always another day to run.

Real Ale Part 2

 So would you believe it I had the chance to try two more real ales, I know how lucky am I

The first real ale that I got to try is called Telemark Rev 5.0% which is a real ale from Norway!

This is a red session ale and I found it easy to drink, the sad thing is that this probability the only time in my life that I will get to drink this ale, as I am not likely to ever get to Norway to try this ale in its home land.

The second ale that I tried in this session was called Titanic Slipway IPA 5.5% so this was the strongest ale I tried today but the funny thing was that it did not taste that strong.

This was an Amber coloured ale and I found that it was easy to drink.

I must have liked it as I wanted to know what hopes were used in its brewing!

It turns out that it used the following hops Halequin jester and finally northdown

This was a very easy ale to drink and as u said above its very sad but this will be the only time in my life that I get the chance to enjoy and drink this ale.

France

 So welcome my readers from France  are you bots or real live people, does it matter what you are?

Thank you for looking at this little website 😊 

Real Ales

 So got the chance today to try some real ales, this is a rare event and is one that if given the opportunity I do not turn down.

So the two real ales that I have tried today are

Maxim Olicana 4.6% blond beer, I rather liked this and its sad to say that it did not last very long it was very easy to drink.

The second beer I tried was called Black Sheep Astronomer 4.2% and was a black porter this was nice to try but for me the previous drink tasted better.

New Music

 So it's time to unleash on the unsuspecting world some new music.

I think it could be as many as four tracks this time, is the world ready for this....

5K Walk Run

 As some of my muscles still hurt from the hill running that I did on Thursday I today decided that I would walk the parkrun.

Things did not end up staying like that as during walking I decided to see how the legs were, the answer is that they were okay so I did the rest of the parkrun in a run walk.

This was not ideal as I had drefor a walk and not a run.

Any way I had fun and completed the parkrun in some 34 odd minutes which us not bad as I walked more than I ran.

How big is blogger

 Just an lazy thought just how many active blog sites are there on blogger?

I think it's amazing that Google haven't shut it down as they seem to shut stuff after a few year on average.

Post 10K Run Part 2

 So last night I did my second post 10K run and it was really quite a hard run to do, the legs really were not up for the run so I did not do any of the planning speed work and just ran a steady pace.

I have a rest day today from running.

Park run on Saturday may end up being a park walk, and why not?

Opps missed a posting

 So missed doing a post yesterday due to the fact I was very busy and then just to tiered and also I had nothing I really wanted to say.

So note to me only post when you have got something you want to talk about, don’t do a post just because you feel you have to.

6K Run

 So my first run after the 10K at the weekend and it should be no surprise that it was a slow run, it does not to me matter how long it took but the main thing was to finish and that’s just what I did.

Quiz night

 So got invited last night to a quiz night at a local pub, due to work and other comments we also ended up having food with soft drinks, as we don’t drink alcohol during the week.

Lithe food was a reasonable price and the servings large such that I could not eat everything on the plate in front of me.

The quiz was with 25 others teams with between 2 and 8 people, I will say here some of the questions are hard. We did not finish in last place I think we where in the top ten with half and one points separating the different teams.

Anyway one of the questions that was asked was the following

What year did cupcakes appear

1768, 1864, 1896?

It’s a hard question you either know the answer or you don’t

We did not know so we guessed 

We got it wrong

It turns out that cupcakes first appeared in 1768

Who knew?

10K Run

 So just a note to me here that I did the 10K run and I finish 181st out of a field of 596 with a time of 54, which is my third fastest time, which I happen to think was a good effort as I had just had the covid jab, given blood and gust a cold from the wife.

As someone said before there is always another run.

Miss a post or two

 So as soon as you miss a post or two know one wants to look at the website, I suppose that’s what I should have expected.

But

This site has over 2000 entries so you think that some one one stubble on one of the earlier entries on here, but looking at the stats it does not look like that happens, oh well.

India

 So looking at this sites stats I have spotted a visitor from India, so if you are reading this welcome, did you hit this website by mistake?

Anyway welcome.

Slow Parkrun

 So Today  I did a slow parkrun as tomorrow I am running 10k race, unfortunately I am not feeling that great at this time as you will know if you have been following  this website I gave my 148 donation of  blood, this Thursday I also a coved jab, then to top it all off I caught the wives cold or whatever it is that she caught, it’s a bit suspicious as when she got her covid jab she was also given the flue jab as well.

Given how I am feeling I am just going to run at a pace that feels good for me so it will not be PB time this time, which is sad.

I plan to run the 2nd K if I faster than the first and as long as I am under the hour I will be happy.

Race Number part 2

 So I have collected my race number last night and the place I went to collect it was very busy.

I have race number 599 so gutted that it was not 600 that race has a limited number of places 700 and as my surname is towards the back of the alphabet I would expect to end up with a high number.

So all I have to do on Sunday is finish, it looks like I said before the ground is is going to be wet, the good news is that it is not going to be too wet, so that’s good.

I am wondering if having the Covid jab today will have any effect on me on Sunday, this is something that I will only find out on the day, hopefully it does not as I was hoping to try to better my time in this race but it doesn’t matter if I don’t get a PB just so long as I complete the race.

Hong Kong

 So just a quick note to me that some how or other this site has had some visitors from Kong Kong of all places, I would love to know just what search term they used that caused them to end up on my site of all the millions of websites on the internet.

Bet they bid not stay that long as most of the posts on this site are of no real substance and are not in any way going to change the world or some persons life. Add to that that I am in the U.K. so what I have to say can’t really be that relevant to someone on the other side of the planet.

Covid Jab

 So today I get my 3rd Covid jab, for which I am very happy to be getting as I did earlier this year catch Covid and it was not a very nice experience and one that I really don’t want to repeat. I believe the my symptoms would have been far more interesting than what I actually went through, I can’t imagine what it would have been like if I had not had the earlier jabs.

I the hear in the news that Covid is again on the increase so it makes sense to take whatever measures to try and stop or at least reduce the risk of catching it again, I know having the jab will not stop me catching it but hopefully it will help reduce the effects of it.

Wet Run?

 So beginning to worry that the 10k run on Sunday could be a wet one this is something that has happened before, it’s not present but if I have to run in the rain then that’s what I will have to do.

Race Number

 So tonight I shall go and collect my race number for the 20k race on Sunday. I am going to be running a 10K that is a mixture of trail and paths,  it looks like it will me wet underfoot so I have decided to run it in trail shoes just in case.

I wonder what number I will end up with?

The field is limited to 700 so it will be interesting to see what I get.

Dark

 Just a note to me that wow it’s getting very early now.

Blood Donation Time

 So its Blood donation time for only the second time this year, this first donation was in January this year I then missed a donation as I had caught coved which was not very nice.

So I am glad that tori was able to give, this being my last donation of this year.

So how many donations have I given?

I am proud to say that I have given 148.....

London Marathon

 So today is the London marathon so I am going to watch the elite races, I hope one day to run a marathon I already have run half marathons, and I am down to do one in Jan 2023.

Drop in Hits

 So as I said in a previous post on this website that the number of hits a day would drop, it looks like that is what has happened looking at yesterday stats, hey ho

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Blue and Green Flowers

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Kilo Page

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3 Times the Price

Tease from Her

 So the lady pictured below has decided that as a bit of a tease that she will give you the first letter of her first name.

I know excited aren’t you!

Her first name starts with D.

Anyway hirer is another picture of her for you to enjoy.

Amazon Music

 Why does amazon music always crash on my iPad when after start up the amazon music app then go and start the kindle app, the music app crashes 

I would like to say that it’s very annoying.

Maybe one day it will get fixed, sadly I am using the apps on an older iPad, that is full updated and the same with both apps I have installed all the updates that have been released but still they crash.

Viewers

 So a quick check on where my viewers came from yesterday and its USA France then UK why France? 

Why?

All I know is that each day that I post something France comes up as the country with the second most number of visits to this site which when you consider that the site is all in English is just a little strange.

Friday

 So it's Friday again and I am pleased that I have made it to the end of the week. Mainly because I have lots on this weekend which is nice, and it makes a bit of a change.

So Saturday I have the parkrun which is always a challenge.  The I  the evening doing something that I have not done for a long time and that is to go to a live show so that should be fun. I think we are going for a meal beforehand which is an even more rare event 

Cold

 Just a note to me to say I ma feeling good today 

Not working

 This software that I use to write the blog posts is playing up.

Late Post

 So this is a late post , I am writing this at 10pm when I normally do them much earlier in the day, but today we have suffered from the Internet being down in the house, it’s been reported to the cable company and they reckon that they are working on the fault which is external to the house, the many problem is that we loose the internet at random times for random amount of time, and it’s alway when you want to do something on the internet.

It will be interesting to see if they fix whatever the problem is.

Quiz

 So we went to a local pub quiz last night which was fun, and it was surprisingly very busy with 25 different teams play, it cost each member of the team 2 U.K. pounds.

The thing is that some of the questions where hard and example is what sped did usain Bolt run at?

Was it 27, 29 or 31mph?

Like I know it’s a hard stupid question you either know it or you don’t or like us you guess it, in this part of the quiz you have to answer the questions if you get it right you score 2 points but if you get it wrong you loose 2 points so it’s easy to loose lots of hard earned points right?

So we guessed 29  mph 

The answer turns out to be 27 mph

Who knew that?

Benin Part 2

 So after the last post earlier today I did fire up Google and look up where Benin is and it was a real surprise to me where it is in the world, I would never have guessed where it was, I can also safely say that until today I have never heard of it before, all the shows is just how bad my education is.

So where is it?

It turns out that it is in Africa near to Nigeria, and was a former French colony.

So that two things so far that this blog has in common with France.

They are still the third highest viewers of this blog site!

I know how come?

I don’t know the answer to that question, may be it’s just a flash in the pan, and next month I will have no viewers from France, so next month will be interesting to see what happens.

Sweet Chestnut Tree

 So I was out and about yesterday in local countryside when I came across something that I have never seen before and that is a sweet chestnut tree that had both the chestnuts on the branches and flowers at the same time  it was as if the tree thinks its autumn and spring at the same time  truly very bizarre. 

Benin

 I just looked at this website stats and it appears that I have some one visit from Benin, I just don’t know where that is, but the first question that came to my mind was do they speak English there?

Strange what goes through you mind, nothing about what di they look at on the site oh know do they speak English is the very first thought, strange indeed.

Dart Mission

 So the Dart Mission to hit an asteroid is a success, this is truly amazing the programming and planning that they must have had to do is probably something that may not have been possible years ago.

I can’t wait to see if the impact will make a measurable change in the asteroids orbit, and that fact that we will be able to see these changes is amazing. 

Farnborough Half Marathon

so its that time of year again when I have to decide if I want to run the Farnborough half marathon in the January, well this year the decision was taken out of my hangs as the wife decided for me and the first thing that I know about it was when I get an email confirming my place!

Apparently there are as I write this only 17 weeks to the event!

My New Tracks

 So I upload my new tracks onto YouTube the other day and as is normal the response has been zero interest which is what I tend to expect these days, as I don’t actively promote my YouTube channel, the reason being I don’t know how to do have the stuff and I don’t think I am really that interested in having a popular YouTube channel.

I did look up what you need to do to make money on your channel and I can say with absolutely no worries that I will never make it to make any money from the channel.

One interesting thing I also noticed was that there is a lot of copyright fraud out there as several of my track use copyright free samples but there are companies out there try to claim copyright on them!

As my most popular track is 5 years old on YouTube it’s funny how it suddenly has a copyright claim on it even though it only had 300 odd plays. So someone somewhere has got a bot running such that when a channel gets an item that has been watched so many times they try the fraud trick, the joke is on them as they will not make any money of of me...

I do have the means to prove that the samples that I have used are copyright free but unless the track saddle gets 1000s of plays why bother?

Biscuits

 Just want to record down on this blog that for the first time in years I had some chocolate malted milk biscuits, I had forgotten what they tasted like, I am almost sure that the last time that I had them they did not come with chocolate on them, I must say that adding the chocolate does make them very nice to eat, the chocolate probably makes they even more calorie reach but as you don’t eat biscuits every day a treat now and then can’t be a bad thing can it?

Parkrun

 So just for the record I do parkruns each week normally near to where I live.

So going to a different parkrun is always special, today I ran at a new to me parkrun it was great and because it was my first time there I got a PB!

New Music Tracks

 So as I said in an earlyier blog post on this website, I have managed to upload 3 brand new tracks on YouTube which you will find as blog posts before this one.

All three tracks that have been uploaded are a different musical style, which is normal for me as I don’t tend to stick to the same music style I just create music that matches what I am feeling at the time.

So it’s not unusual for one  track to be say drum and base and the next track a film score with the last track being trance.

I tend to go through periods were I don’t write any music to periods were I will write a lot of music and the sessions tend to last for days, the result is that I have a lot of music that I have written but have yet to release.

I just paused writing this blog entry to go and check just how many tracks I have yet to release, and at a very quick count it is around 100 tracks.

The unpublished tracks very in length from 2 minutes to over 20 minutes, these are not mixes just very long tracks all different musical styles, but I tend to produce trans, house and film sound tracks the most.

So it goes without saying that I shall be publishing more tracks to YouTube soon.

Have a listen if you are brVe enough.

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Tap Room

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Red sphere

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Blue Boxes

France

 Just checked the stats for today 22/09/2022 in the afternoon and this site has had more hits from the great folks in France than in the U.K., yes a shock but I am based in the south of the U.K. not far from a city called London, you may even have heard of it I dare say. Anyway getting back to the point and the reason for this blog post is that I appear to be more popular in a country that does not have English as its first language yet it is looking at this site.

How does that happen?

I don’t care just as they may have got something from this website, what they got from it I suspect I will never know.

Anyway I shall keep a look out to see if today was just a flash in the pan and that all the hits from France were just a mistake.

Bots Everywhere

 I am beginning to think that there maybe more bots than real life people on this blog site, is that possible?

What do these bots do and who are they doing the scanning of websites for?

Do the owners of the bots make money by scanning my blog site?

I don’t see how they can make much money form my blogs as the content is on the whole nothing that is out of the ordinary, in fact it’s safe to say that it’s eve day stuff, so what if any value in what I say can there possibly be?

The post I did before this has in 6 hours had two hits, both of which I think are bots and not human beings.

 Her Running Top

So another picture of the mystery lady in her running top that she sent me yesterday.

Bet you cant guess where she has run?

Content

 As this is my blog website I can post about anything I like as long as it’s not sexual or cringe.

One of the problems I have is what do I want to talk about.

Content is the problem and I suspect that a lot of creators in whatever media they work in will have the same problem of running out of content.

As this is a notebook of odd things I really shouldn’t run out of things to talk about, but you know what I do run out of stuff.

French Bots

 Are there 8 different French bots scanning this blog or are they real people who some how had the misfortune to end up on this website?

I don’t know the answer to this question, but it’s interesting to see that if I keep posting every day the poor old bots have to keep coming back.

I wonder what happens when I post more than one post a day, do they have to keep visiting or do they just wait 24 hours?

I am going to try an experiment where I do more than one post a day and see what happens 

Bots

 I am beginning to wonder if most of the hits on this blog site are not due to an actual human clicking on the site and more like different bots scanning the site for new content.

I am sure there must be a tool or app that will let me find out if this just a site that is never read by a human.

That being said, I wonder who the lone German and Danish visitors are.

New Music

 I shall be posting some new music to YouTube in the next few days.

It looks like there will be 3 new tracks.

Change

 So the weather has changed and its been noticeable in the last few days due to there being a nip in the air in the mornings.

Just thought I would record it here for when i look back at this blog.

Random

 Some thing I Learned today is that Arnold swichnegeer only said 58 words in the film terminator 

Her her

 

This look with a dark lipstick, I think that this is a great look for her.

Other posts of the Lady

 so do I do more posts of the Lady?

She does like me posting pictures of her, she chooses what gets posted, and she is interested to see which pictures get the most views. I did warn her that the blog is a small blog and gets very few views, she said that doesn’t matter to her, as she would rather have the casual viewer who is looking in the out of the way part of the web than people who are just following the crowd.

I can’t argue with her thinking, so there will be more pictures of her, you will notice lots of different hair colours and changes in style, because that’s just her, she likes to change her looks, almost all the time, we we meet up I never know what hair colour or makeup is going to be.

Cold

 cold

A bit of a surprise last night in that out of nowhere the overnight temperature dropped to just 2 centigrade, bit of a shock to the system,

A new country

 A note to me just spotted in the stats for this website that we have had someone from Finland look at the site, Ican only assume that they landed on the site by mistake, as why else would you come to a site that spends most of the time sat with no new posts for weeks at a time, and when I do post something it’s normally very boring.

A Lady

 A Lady

So the Lady has let me post another picture of her.

I must admit I do like this one, she looks nice with a darker lipstick, I have not asked her what her favourite lipstick colour is yesterday it will be one of those things to ask her when I get to talk to her again.

As you can se she is a runner, and has run the 10k and also does park run.

Bank Holiday

 So we get an extra Bank Holiday this Monday, I like the idea of the extra day off but not the reason for it.

It goes with out saying that I will watch the funeral like many other people this coming Monday.

10 Hits

 Ten Hits

One of my blog posts has had nine hits, which for this blog is a record, of course the post with the hits is of her in blue top.

Maybe people are right a pretty face sells.

London

 London 

I have just seen on the TV the queue to look at the Queen lieing in state if I believe what they are saying on the TV the queue is five miles long, and could take you 30 hours to get to see the Queen,  I don't think that is something that I could do. 

All I can say is bravo to them and hope That the weather is good for them. 

Where in the World

 So I looked at the stats for this blog and I was very surprised to find that I have quite a few visitors from France 🇫🇷 why?

I mean the blog is in English and is not a very busy blog with only one or two posts a day and nowhere near the maximum which is 100 posts aday!

Not sure how you can do 100 separate posts a day but I suppose that someone must have do it in the past  hence the limits. 

Anyway welcome to my readers in France 🇫🇷 

Popular

 Popular Posts

So the last few days I have actually used this blog and done some actual posts on it!

I know its mad, that I may have done several days blogs in a row, and I really don't remember the last time I did that, it was most probably years ago, when doing a blog was the cool thing,

In fact, I don't think they use the term blogging now preferring to use a term like content fulfilment or something like that.

Any way it should be no surprise that the last few days have had pictures of that woman that I am obsessed with they are getting the views, so perhaps a pretty face and smile go a long way

Obsessed with this Person

 Obsessed

I will admit, that I am obsessed with this person I think its her smile, when she does smile that I like, also she can also scrub up really well, when she wants to, which does not, seem to be all the time, not that that is not bad, its good that she does, what she wants and not what other people want.

I suppose that's why her still not wanting to say her name on social media is a running joke between us.

One day she might give permission, how knows, when that will be, not that I am in any rush.

I really should find something else to blog about and not this woman

How Old

 So how old is she?*

So just how is this lady, who still at this time doesn’t want her name on social media yet.

* Calling her she until she says I can use her name on the social media.

Alchhol Free Drink

 No Alcohol Drink

So I have found an alcohol free drink that is nice, but it is not a beer, real ale or a larger!

What that does not make sense?

 I am not talking about soft drinks or colas...

The drink that I have found is by Erdinger and is Alkoholfrei thats what it says on the bottle, it goes on to say that it is a refreshing isotonic drink and that it is 0.5% alcohol by volume.

All I can say is coming back from a half marathon, this served very cold was just what I needed, do not drink it warm as it is far far better cold, in fact I would say the colder the better.

I know that the general advice is not to drink any alcohol after any heavy exercise and that its especially true for long distance running of which running 21Km is a long run.

But this drink just for me, anyway, did help with the normal dehydration that running long distances does to me, you may have the same or different results from running a long distance.

So have a look out for it , you may or may not like it.

Last Picture today 10 September 2022

10th September 2022

So I post this picture of her that was taken today 10th September 2022 I really like her hair and makeup in this picture I think she looks great.

Not that I will get to say that to her and I doubt if she would like to hear it being said of her that she looks very nice.

I suppose I should tell you a little bit about her, I will do but in another post to come soon. 

As its early days in taking to her and she does not really like social media all that much, but I did say to her that it would not be on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram but on Blogger so she should not get too much S***T from people, 

If we are lucky she might even let me tell you her name, we will just have to see how it goes in getting her to allow me to give you some more information on her.

 

Times they Change

 Changing Times.

Taken just before it really started to rain. Least in this picture she has not real reason to be unhappy, she has makeup on and she remembered her coat, I don't think the hair liked the rain, she wont for some unknown reason let me post that picture, cant think why that is....

Her Sept 2022

 Nice to see you

Its nice to see her, but she does not 100% look that happy in this photo.

Maybe its just a bad day for her or she does not like have a camera shoved in her face first thing in the morning, who knows what the answer is, anyway this is a picture of her without full makeup on.

Maybe that's the reason....

Again

 So here she is again

I like her hair in this one, she does have a great smile.

Her Again

Red Hair Day

 Her Again but this time with different hair style, do you like this one?

Her In Blue

 Her Again in Blue

Her again but now in a blue top, love the hair in this one it looks great, I think that it does suit her.

 Her

So this is her again, with some different looks.

Not too sure about the top she is wearing in this one. 

I still wonder if she would even give me the time of day, would she have a coffee with me if I asked her?

Who knows, as she will never get asked these questions they really are of no real matter, but its fun to just have the odd thought or two about it.

I think, I might just do some other posts of her , just because I can and I can use this Blog to record what she looked like in back in Sept 2022.

I may even have a look back in time to see if she looks any different to her here in 2022, if I do post some more pics I will try and remember to make them with what year the pictures were taken of her were.

Her Sept 2022

Her 

I like her smile in this one, she does seem to be happy in it.

Yes I know she looks nice I wonder if she would even want to talk to me!

Site Overload

So the site must have got overloaded yesterday or the day before as I made an actual text entry and not a post telling you that I had uploaded another new track on YouTube.

Shock horror the site got a whole 6 hits!

I know it's mad to get this number of hits, I hope Google can cope with all the extra page hits to my site, I am surprised I did not get a email warning me that I was overloading them....

Actually what does amaze me, is that anybody or anything is following this site apart from me, and I don't go on this site that often.

SAD

 So its a sad time as the Queen has died, this is something that I thought would not happen for another few years going by how old the Queen Mother was when she died. 

No matter what you think of having a King or Queen you have to admit that she did her duty and worked very hard and kept her pledge that she made when she was Queen.

RIP QEII

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Stop Loook and fly

I do like this track yes there is a spelling mistake maybe I like extra ooo's

Still Live

 This site is still live, its just that I have not posed any blogs to it for a while mainly because I had trouble logging in. I also have not uploaded any new tracks to YouTube.

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Drums from 202

This is a great track that I had a lot of fun producing.

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Co right

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Sonar

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Strange Blue

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Blue May

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Red July

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Decending

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10 June 2022

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2 June 2022

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2 June 2022

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2 June 2022

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2 May 2022

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2 May 2022

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10 April 2022

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10 April 2022

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10 April 2022

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10 April 2022

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5 April 2022

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5 April 2022

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5 April 2022

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Tiles for the Film Lost Canyon This is the title track to the Film Lost Canyon, a film that never got made. The film was to be an underwater drone "flying over" the lost Canyons lost deep in the North Atlantic.

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A Lax Tune A tune that stated well but I have no idea what to do with it, so posed as it is.

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Title Track to the Film "The Passing of Time" This is the title theme to the film that if it ever gets made called "The Passing of Time" it is going to be a documentary on the several Clocks and watches that made an impact on the world in some shape or form, be it an improvement in time keeping or that the item was just so different from what went before it. One of the items would be John Harrison chronometer No 4, another would be the Big Ben or more correctly the clock tower of the UK Parliament.

|New Tracks

All being well there should be a load, eg more than one tracks being uploaded to youtube, not that many if any one will see this post other than me,

So David your about to release lots of tracks that have taken months to write, they are good okay? 

You got that?

Ten years from now someone will discover them and think that they are okay and that they were ahead of their time!!!!

Nothing New

 So nothing new to report as life and work have been in the way, and what can you say about life yeah not nice out there in the world.

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20 February 2022

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20 February 2022

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12 February 2022

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12 February 2022

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5 February 2022

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29 January 2022

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Book

 So do I keep with writing this book on the different citrus fruit that I know about?

I am having fun with the research, not so sure about the writing down of all the words.

The Book I am Working on

 So I started to write  book on Citrus fruit.

Below is the introduction to the book, in fact its the first bit that I have so far written. I am sure that it will change a lot as time goes by, enjoy.

Hey you lost reader !

If you found yourself reading this and want to make a comment then please do so.

Citrus Introduction

Citrus is the name of a group of trees and shrubs which belong to the Rue family of plants. 

The four original citrus species pomelo, citron, mandarin, and papeda), from which the rest of cultivated citrus hybridized. In particular, the common orange and the grapefruit are assumed to be natural occurring hybrids between the pomelo and the mandarin, with the pomelo providing the bigger size and greater firmness. Some of the more common citrus fruits are:

Oranges, Grapefruits, Lemons, Mandarins, Clementines, Satsumas, Tangelos, Tangerines, Tangors, kumquats, Bitter Orange, Limes, Citrons, Pomelos & Bergamots.

Citrus trees grow wild in parts of India and also south-eastern Asia.  The Chinese appear to have been the first to cultivate Citrus trees, more than 4,000 years ago.  These trees and shrubs have been grown in other parts of the world for their Citrus fruits for many years e.g. 1000 odd years or more. 

Citrus trees are thorny, but usually attractive.  They are evergreen, with long, shiny, pointed leaves.  The flowers are fragrant ripe citrus fruits may be green or yellow to orange-red in colour.  All Citrus fruits are a type of Berry that scientists call a Hesperidium (And no I don’t have a clue what this means); Actually I have now looked it up and most of the sources that I looked up say this sort of thing;

“Hesperidium, is a berry with a leathery rind. The exocarp (this is the peel) contains volatile oil glands (essential oils) in pits. The fleshy interior (or its more proper name the endocarp) is composed of separate sections (yep, there is a proper name for all these bits, and this is the name for these bits carpels) filled with fluid-filled sacs (this name has got to come from some Latin word vesicles) that are actually specialized hair cells.”

Citrus fruits all grow in rather warm climates.  They grow best where there is almost no frost or wind.  All grow in tropical regions, but produce better fruit in a slightly cooler climate.  Citrus fruits are valuable foods.  They contain large amounts of vitamins and minerals.  Citrus fruits are usually high in vitamin C, which humans need daily if they are to stay healthy. 

Citrus plants are members of the rue family of plants, Rutaceae. 

This plant family consists of six genera:

·        Fortunella

·        Eremocitrus

·        Poncirus

·        Clymenia

·        Microcitrus

·        Citrus

The Rue is a type of herb, which grows as a low shrub. Common Rue (Ruta graveolens, commonly known as rue, common rue or herb-of-grace, is a species of Ruta grown as an ornamental plant and as an herb. It is native to the Balkan Peninsula. It is now grown throughout the world in gardens, especially for its bluish leaves, and sometimes for its tolerance of hot and dry soil conditions. It is also cultivated as a medicinal herb, as a condiment, and to a lesser extent as an insect repellent) has deeply divided blue green leaves that have a very strong acrid or bitter smell.

The leaves are used sparingly to flavour meat dishes. The small yellowish flowers are borne on stiff upright flower stalks. About 40 species of Rue are native to Europe and Asia. Rues belong to the family Rutaceae. (Rutaceae, commonly known as the rue or citrus family, are a family of flowering plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales. Species of the family generally have flowers that divide into four or five parts, usually with strong scents. They range in form and size from herbs to shrubs and small trees) The Common rue is also called Ruta Graveolens.

The genus Citrus is native to Southeast Asia, occurring from northern India to China and south through Malaysia, the East Indies and the Philippines. There are about 16 species and they are all small evergreen trees and shrubs, usually with spines on trunks and branches.

The ecology of wild species is now hard to establish because of drastic habitat modifications in the region as well as extensive hybridisation between wild and domesticated plants. The history of domestication has also been hard to establish because archaeological evidence is lacking and it has been difficult to link names and descriptions in ancient accounts with the actual species we know today. Records of domestication go back to about 500 BC. 

Citrus fruits are high in vitamin C, Flavonoids, acids and volatile oils. They contain Coumarins (Coumarin is a fragrant organic chemical compound in the benzopyrone chemical class, which is a colourless crystalline substance in its standard state. It is a natural substance found in many plants.) such as Bergapten (Bergapten is a psoralen found in bergamot essential oil, in other citrus essential oils, and in grapefruit juice. It is the chemical in bergamot oil that causes phytotoxicity. Bergapten-free bergamot essential oil or synthetics are now used in perfumery.) which make the skin sensitive to sunlight.

Many Citrus species and varieties are not cultivated for producing fresh edible fruit but are sour and used for other purposes: oil is extracted from freshly open flowers (e.g. Neroli oil (Neroli oil is an essential oil produced from the blossom of the bitter orange tree. Its scent is sweet, honeyed and somewhat metallic with green and spicy facets. Orange blossom is also extracted from the same blossom and both extracts are extensively used in perfumery. Orange blossom can be described as smelling sweeter, warmer and more floral than neroli. The difference between how neroli and orange blossom smell and why they are referred to with different names, is a result of the process of extraction that is used to obtain the oil from the blooms. Neroli is extracted by steam distillation and orange blossom is extracted via a process of enfleurage.) which comes from Bergamot) and is used in perfumes. Leaves are used for flavouring foods and for medicinal infusions.

Essential oils are extracted from leaves and unripe or ripe fruit and used in flavourings and for scenting toiletry products. The skin of fruit is used for making marmalade.