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.
16 September, 2022
A Lady (Debbie Anne)
A Lady (Debbie Anne)
So the Lady has let me post another picture of Debbie Anne
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.
14 September, 2022
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.
13 September, 2022
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 🇫🇷
12 September, 2022
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 (Debbie Anne)
Debbie Anne 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
11 September, 2022
How Old is Debbie Anne ?
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.
Update Apr 2025
She has asked me to add her name to all the pictures on this Blog.
10 September, 2022
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 of Debbie Anne
10th September 2022
Debbie Anne
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 says Debbie Anne
Changing Times.
Debbie Anne
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....
Debbie Anne in Sept 2022
Nice to see you
Debbie Anne
Its nice to see Debbie Anne, 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....
Debbie Anne Again
Debbie Anne here she is again
I like her hair in this one, she does have a great smile.
09 September, 2022
Her Again (Debbie Anne)
Red Hair Day
Debbie Anne
Debbie Anne
Again but this time with different hair style, do you like this one?Debbie Anne In Blue
Debbie Anne 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 (Debbie Anne)
Her
Debbie Anne
So this is Debbie Anne 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.
Update 2025
Debbie Anne has asked me to go through the site and add her name to all her pictures, so there are just a few blog posts to go through
Debbie Anne in Sept 2022
Debbie Anne
I like her smile in this one, she does seem to be happy in it.
Yes I know she looks nice !
Update Apr 2025
Debbie Anne does talk to me!, she has also asked me to put her name on all the blog posts and pictures of her, which is a few, but glad that she wants her name finally on all her pictures.
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
07 September, 2022
06 September, 2022
03 September, 2022
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.
24 July, 2022
22 July, 2022
10 June, 2022
02 June, 2022
10 April, 2022
05 April, 2022
04 April, 2022
videos that I like
Debbie Anne
A Lax Tune A tune that stated well but I have no idea what to do with it, so posed as it is.Update Apr 2025
Yes, that is a picture of Debbie Anne if you were wondering, there are other blog posts of her.
videos that I like
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.
videos that I like
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.
03 April, 2022
|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.
20 February, 2022
12 February, 2022
05 February, 2022
29 January, 2022
22 January, 2022
21 January, 2022
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.
15 January, 2022
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.
New Post
So this is my first written post to this Blog , so keeping it a live for another year!
I don't know how 2022 is going to be for Blog posts, but lets hope its more than this one post!
11 January, 2022
09 January, 2022
07 January, 2022
31 December, 2021
29 December, 2021
21 December, 2021
Worried
I was worried that this Blog was going to get a lot of hits but glad to say that the view hits have dropped down to the usual 5 or so.
18 December, 2021
Looking at Stats
I was looking at the stats for this blog and what countries had accessed this Blog.
Number 1 was USA which I suppose is not a surprise as there are over 300 million people in the USA (I think, no I have not checked!) so there is always a good chance that someone in the USA could hit this Blog by mistake.
Second country was the real surprise for me in that it was France!
Well the blog is in a very poor English and I suspect that what I tend to write about really is no interest to the average French person, on top of that I have no idea how many people there are in France but it must be more than in the UK,
I am thinking that they hit the site by mistake......
How to Blog Better
Apparently the list below are things that you should do to make your blog great and get lots of readers. so I thought it would be a great idea to list them and to say what I do or don't do.
Find a niche
This I think I have done, not very well but I have done it.
Write about what you love
Write about something you love I have done this, trouble appears to be that others don't like much what I tend to write about, go figure....
Offer value
Not got a clue what this means, so I have not done this.
Focus on marketing
I dont do this, which will be the main reason why I don't get any views.
Encourage interaction
This is set up, but as no one reads the Blog it has not happened.
Make commenting easy
As above I think this is set up and when I do get a comment I do answer it.
Don't worry about negativity
Occasionally you may get the odd negative comment on your blog I have not had this and if it did happen I would not worry about it.
Don't get stage fright and believe in yourself
Gosh Blogs can get that many views, who knew?
Images, images and more images
People love images. I have tried this but its not something I have tried really hard to do, so perhaps its time to try this again, especially as storage is not an issue.
Provide easy reading
I think I do this, as most of my Blog posts tend to be very simple and short.
Give your posts punchy titles
I think I do this, not sure if they are click bait standard.
Keep it regular
This one I fail at badly in that it can be weeks between postes, perhaps something to try and improve on and see if it makes no difference.
Avoid clutter
I do this my site is very simple.
Get social
I don't do this one very well.
Keep an eye on analytics
You know I do look at the stats I am waiting for the day I can proudly say I have had 10 views of one of my posts.
Allow easy following
I don't know in Blogger how to do this.
Get personal
This is something that I have not done.
Spell checking and proof-reading
This is something that I have done mainly because I cant spell.
It's a very long list and as you can see most of the items I don't do. So I shall try in the new year which as I write this is going to be 2022 and see if it make any change to the Blog.
12 December, 2021
6 Views
OMG
this site last week dec 2021 got 6 whole views, I know... its a lot
I don't know how Google was able to handle all those visits......
11 December, 2021
07 December, 2021
New Track
So later tonight 7/12/2021 I will release a new track and post it on youtube, so it will appear here also.
Enjoy
Blog Stats
For some reason that I cant fathom I decided to look at the stats for this Blog, which as you know is a waste of time as noone looks at that Blog.
One of the recent Blog posts got 6 views which surely must be some sort of record for this blog.
One other stat that I saw was that the send most popular country to visit my Blog is Portugal!!!
I don't understand why this is as the Blog to my knowledge has until now had any mention of Portugal, and this Blog is in English not Portuguese.
So why is it so popular, popular just being a turn of phase as this Blog is not popular.
I don't know the answer.
Anyway if you are from Portugal and you find yourself reading this Blog Welcome.
05 December, 2021
Album Deep
Just a note to me that I have finished the Album Deep and that I have somehow also manged to post all the tracks from the album on to YouTube.
If I am lucky maybe they will get a pay by one person or two....
I don't care if there are no plays or lots of plays as Youtube is a great place to hold my music so that I can listen to it wherever I am in the world and on any device that I happen to have with me at the time.
I also happen to like listening to my own music!
Does that make me weird or what?
You never hear of other artists confirming that they like to listen to their own music do you?
Why is that?
Is making music just a job?
I dont know the answer to these questions but it would be great to find out some answers.
Music
Why is it the all humans like music?
What is it about music that appeals to humans?
These are two questions that have been going around in my head over the last day or two
Parkrun
Don't know if I written it here before, but I now do a parkrun every Saturday that there is one running, have been doing this now since 2017, so maybe I have said something about it before?
Anyway I run each saturday 5K in the fastest time that I can, I am pleased to say that I have got a bit faster as time has gone by.
The big question is
Is it fun?
The answer is yes
The run does me good which is good it gets me out of the house, and somehow I have even manged to make some friends which is something I still find amazing as I am not an outwards going person, so to make friends is great, what is even more amazing is that most of my friends are women who I have found hard to talk to.... go figure
Perhaps because its a non threating place and time I don't feel unsafe and that I don't have to make small talk as most of the things we talk about most of the time are about running but often as not it does go into other things which so far I have not found uncomfortable in talking about.
At the time of writing this Blog I have managed to get my time to 24.22 for 5K I would love to get under 24 perhaps with some training this is something I will be able to do
Who knows?
Anyway onwards and upwards
04 December, 2021
Blog post
Looking at the Blog dashboard for this very underused blog site I noticed that somehow one of my posts was looked by 10 people, bots ect
How is that possible?
I am sure that as I don't post very often on this Blog that the bots and any humans out there wrote this Blog off years ago as a dead Blog not worth following.
I suppose by posting this Blog entry they will think that the Blog is alive again!
Who knows? maybe it might get 11 views......!!!!
Learning
Do you find it easy to learn new stuff from books?
I find that I have to break the learning down into 15 minute chunks, otherwise I find that I loose concentration and start to loose what I am reading. This must also be something that must get harder if you have not done a lot of book learning for some time.
I wonder if the brain needs to get itself back up to speed in doing book learning, so I suppose that if you are doing book learning often its easier, not Shure if age has anything to do with it either, just an idle thought.
Now test are I thin another thing that also needs practice, that I am sure of, one so you can pull the information out of your head and the second thing is getting control of your nerves while doing the test.
I have a test soon where you have to answer 60 multiple questions in 90 minutes with the added joy that some of the questions have more than one answer needed!
Or the questions ask for the correct no answer!
Real Ale
So a note to me.
Today I am drink a ale called "Old Speckled Hen" its 5% and a nice easy drink to have while blogging or just listening to music.
28 November, 2021
videos that I like
28 November 2021
So I have finally found out how to upload my tunes to YouTube again, so prepare for your ears to hurt.
videos that I like
28 November 2021
So I have finally found out how to upload my tunes to YouTube again, so prepare for your ears to hurt.
27 November, 2021
videos that I like
27 November 2021
So I have finally found out how to upload my tunes to YouTube again, so prepare for your ears to hurt.
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