Claudius met an untimely end; The whirlpool galaxy is discovered; The cornerstone of the “White House” is laid; The Greenwich meridian is set as 0 degrees; Paddington Bear makes his debut. The advent of the world wide web – and specifically wikipedia – enables us to get details of what happened “on this day” in history.
George McConnell
Unexpected Links
A “like” by one of my LInkedIn connections highlighted an “interesting” coming together of an assortment of things that (probably) is only “interesting” (or perhaps significant) to me. The reason that it has made its way into the blog is not so much because of the article itself but because it is such a good illustration of things “coming together” in a specific way, for a specific person.
Grey Areas Everywhere
In two posts last month around the time of the Olympic Games I wrote about the difficulties that are presented when it is necessary to impose some set of rules and regulations to prevent ‘cheating’ – specifically with regard to so-called “performance enhancement”.
Floral Cornucopia
Flowers make very good photo subjects – they don’t complain about the photos being unflattering and don’t mind posing for a long time!! As a result I have quite a few floral pictures – these are some of the ones I like best.
This album will pop to the top of the list each time new images are added.
Some Manipulated Images – Private
Some Manipulated Images
I am not a great fan of ‘photoshopping’ images however there is an unclear line between what is done to an image to ‘correct’ it and what is editing it to be something different. These images are very definitely changed – one way or another – so I guess this is my creative side coming out.
This album will pop to the top of the list each time new images are added.
Visit to Niagara – June 2016 – Private
A Bit Of Speculation
My eye was caught by an article on the BBC website – as much as by the fact that it seemed to be reporting “old news” as by the headline itself. However, having navigated to the page I discovered that it was, indeed, a good piece – if slightly spoiled by being rather one-sided.
A Little Bit of a Retrospective
A Lesson Learned (On Being Stuck)
I’ve started on my newest online creation – partially inspired by the making memories series of posts here – to create a bit of a “life history” – a treasure trove of memories (probably real and imagined if you have read some of my previous writing on the subject) – a pot-pourri of little highlights (and possibly some lowlights) of my life.