I was sitting on my bed in the west wing watching football as night began to fall. When allow as quiet I noticed the sun glimpsed through the leaves on the trees across the road and was temped out to snap a picture or two.
Sunday evenings are quiet, no kids as homework keeps them locked indoors and only a dog walker or two passed by. So I took a few pictures of the sky, not much else worth taking and rushed home to see them.
The problem is that on this laptop I do not have 'Live.com' as Microsoft have ended this. The photo gallery was excellent and made playing with the pictures relatively easy. However on Win 10 they have replaced this with 'Photos' and it is not easy nor that good. I must look for something better so I can do things with the pics. Very frustrating and annoying also when you consider they have taken all my pics from everywhere they could find and added them to their 'Photos' whether I liked this or not. The power grab of these people knows no end.
Transferring them to add them to Blogger was not that easy, I suspect there is a way and I have not yet fund this but I did not enjoy the palaver swapping things over. Good job I'm not one to complain.
Tomorrow museum for meeting re new exhibition, fiddle with broken laptop, hoover and read books...
Having got fed up screaming at the laptop I laid it aside today only working out how to remove lots of stuff from its inner depths. This I managed and discovered lots of old photos some of which I quite liked.
Twice this week I have been out late. On Monday I met with the men at the Liberal Club staying out till nine at night! Gosh! I must say walking home the hundred yards I was impressed by the light sky at that time of night. I love Spring!
Last night I was forced to visit the museum again for a quiz night that almost never happened. Too few booked up and a scramble was made to force people to round up family and friends. We managed to obtain four teams and sat through several bottles of wine rounds of various questions. I managed OK on the history and Geography rounds but was somewhat lost on the Science one and as for the Eurovision round count me out! I switched that of forty years ago and feel better for it. A jolly good night out I thought and wandered home after nine thirty again impressed with the sky. I might have taken a picture if I had my camera but not having it I couldn't which was a shame. Spring skies are wonderful.
The number of questions varied and we failed the history round only managing 12 out of 15 there, we must answer for this on Tuesday as we ought to get them all right!
The day has been mostly spent in watching or listening to the football. I am almost beginning to look forward to the end of the season so I can have my Saturdays back. Within a week I will be wishing football was back again however. Once I am free from football I might get out and about as the weather might improve somewhat. While it rains lightly and annoys the farmers it is almost always cloudy and there is not enough sunshine for my liking.
I know this is an old picture but leaving the museum last night the sky was again like this but not so light. Twilight, when the streets are quiet, is a fascinating time of day. The weather is reasonable, the sky good, the occasional bird still chirps its warnings to possible opponents and the world is at its best. Our civilised world, with traffic on the roads and in the air passing by all too often makes us long for green grass and silence. A stream of rushing water at such a time can be a wonderful way to relax the mind after a day of noise and excitement. This does not mean we do not wish to return to said excitement soon enough but we need these moments to refresh the head as it gets cluttered with worries. Some like to pretend such moments are 'spiritual' but they fool themselves as this is merely the mind relaxing in the creation God has provided for us to refresh and recreate our minds, how we need this.
Nothing happened again today. The teeming rain forced the citizens indoors except for the poor souls who had to work outside. Judging by the buzzing noise for nearby someone was busy chopping trees somewhere in spite of the weather. The postmen had to work as well as lucky folks driving vans and buses but the majority stayed indoors. I know this as when the rain eased off around eleven I scuttled up to Sainsburys and found the locals arriving as I left. Thousands off them rushing out to fill their well stocked cupboards and complain they have nothing to eat or money to spend!
As the sun hid itself I wandered about trying to capture a red sky but was left with peely wally pink instead. When I sit here from the window I see glowing red skies yet when I venture out it is always a faded sky that greets me, Bah! I wandered round as the darkness began and attempted this pic of the back of the town hall and library next door. One man standing there made clear his thoughts that the round library was not in keeping with the surrounding buildings but it was built anyway! He was right of course. In fact as I looked I realised just how much wasted space there is in the building, vast acres of nothingness. A bit like this blog...
Instead of rebuilding the library in a more suitable form I took a picture of the museum shop in the darkening evening. It didn't quite work either. No doubt as I look at the camera I will find settings I should have used for such pictures. It's fun mind.
Not much else happened, I hope your day was better than mine.
I pass this often, it is attached to a very nice house indeed, it looks as if it has not been in use for decades, but I sometimes ponder on what it was used for? The first thought concerns gardening, gardeners usually are quite adept at making use of old spring mattresses, sheets of iron, bits of wood and the like on which to grow their vegetables. There are some wooden spars here, a sheet of corrugated metal, a sheet with a window cut out looking like it was pinched from one of the old 'tin gospel halls' that once abounded. It might even have been used by someone who ran racing pigeons, although I doubt that with this particular dwelling.
Whatever use that construction was put to someone from the electric board thought it funny to place an electric sub station next door, just what you want innit? At least it prevents bad folks clambering over and breaking in. That does not in itself look as if it would prevent a cat burglar attempting to enter the building. Of course this would be a waste of time, I know for sure that gentleman does not possess a cat.
As I was scribbling this one of the longest running programmes on TV began on BBC4, 'The Sky at Night!' This was, and remains, one of the few intelligent programmes left on TV today. Beginning in 1957 with Sir Patrick Moore as presenter it became the longest running programme with the same presenter as he remained in position, in spite of age and infirmity, until his death in December 2012. Famed for his knowledge as well as his character, once during an early live broadcast a bluebottle entered his mouth as he spoke, he swallowed it and continued! The programme has continued after his death, no doubt it will change as time passes, but at least it continues informing the many astronomers, young and old, amateur and professional throughout the land. The British have a strange attraction to the night sky, possibly because it is so attractive and more probably because it is so rarely seen!
Educational, informative and interesting, three words that usually kill programmes on telly today, yet long may this one continue.
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