The first step towards obtaining an ARPS

Well I have started the process to obtain an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS) - I have completed the application form.   The date of the assessment will be 8th September which doesn't seem too fair away.  I have a lot of work to do between now and then but I have to say I find the challenge quite exciting as I have been working on the project on and off for almost three years.   Next task - obtain the interactive CD which should help me through the process.
 

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So exhausting photographing daffodils in the garden

You know what it is like, you're feeling a lot better in yourself and think you should be able to get and do things.  You then try and do something and end up in an exhausted heap.  Well that is me at the moment.  I am starting to recover really quite well, managed a bit of pottering around on the computer today so I thought I would do just a little bit more.   I know I'll just capture the dafs in the garden - nothing too strenuous there then ...so I thought.

An hour later and I realised that it was too strenuous after all.   The photos were pants as well so all in all not a good afternoon.
 

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Boy have I had the sh*ts

There is light at the end of the tunnel - I started to get over a real bad case of sickness & diarrhoea.   I am not sure whether having had  much milder version just a couple of weeks ago has made matters worse but this is the by the most virulent attack I have ever suffered.   Being told 'there is a lot about' doesn't really help.   One of the few positive things you can say spending a few days on very intimate terms with the toilet seat is that it is the best crash diet known to man - I've lost at least 4kg - but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone as I feel as weak as a new born baby.   It has taken me all my time to write this and I am getting a lot better.  Still tomorrow I should be better still - lets hope.

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Buying a car

My son has just passed his test so we have been looking for a car for him. He's just gone a test drive - so he might want the car - lets see what happens.

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Calke Abbey - like entering the world of Peter Rabbit

As you explore the old gardens of Calke Abbey you half expect to bump into Mr McGregor as he tries to fend off Peter Rabbit.  This feeling was doubly so when you explore the old potting sheds with their collection of pots and ancient gardening equipment.  It really is quite enchanting.
 

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Stepping into politics - American Health Care

Well the Obama health care bill appears to have got through Congress and no doubt will be signed into law.  So what?  Now I am not an American but I do love going to America and have a huge amount of sympathy for the country but for the life of me I cannot understand what all the fuss is about regarding health care.   

I know it is not I the constitution but surely a modern civilised nation should ensure that all its citizens have access to health care - yet 32 million Americans don't.  I have no idea whether the Obhama health reform is the best way forward or not but you can't get away from the facts - 32 million people.   When you add on the every increasing health care problems for people with chronic problems you have to ask why wasn't something done before.  Not being American I can't say.

This brings us to our own much loved/maligned NHS.   This is far from perfect and indeed is in need of major reform but the one thing you can say is that no one is left without health cover.  Not the poorest or least deserving - they all have health cover.  I just wonder if this isn't one of the defining features of a civilised country?  Maybe maybe not.

Here endth the rant.
 

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Submitted the RPS Print Exhibition Photographs

Well they are wrapped up and awaiting to be posted - it is a bit of a relief to get the prints from off my desk and into the parcel.  Now all I have to do is hope that one or more catches the eyes of the judges - not an easy thing but we always live in hope but expect the worst.   Rejection is part of the game.
 

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Messing about in the drizzle - starting to look for complementary colours

After singing the praise of the British weather I then became frustrated by it - typical.    This afternoon there were very few opportunities to get out and capture any photographs - the light was so dull and of course it kept raining.  Anyway I did managed about 10 minutes this afternoon and started to do some work with complimentary and harmonious colours.   

The Grape hyacinths is a case in point.  The blue of the flowers is in harmony with the green of the vegetation -  well that is what my colour wheel says.  To be honest I have never really given this too much attention - preferring to fly by the seat of pants when it comes to these matters.   Does it appear to be a good photograph? was the selection point in the past.  Now I am trying to improve my garden photography so I need to be more precise with my colours - these are a vital element to making a great plant photograph.  Well that's the theory anyway - lets see how it works out over the summer.
 

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Drizzle Drizzle - it's drizzling...

Well the fine weather of the last few days has now turned to a fine drizzle.   Whilst some people may be put off by this I find the weather invigorating - it's one of the reasons that Britain is a green and pleasant land.  Well that is what I keep telling myself when the drizzle is seeping through your coat or worst of all down you neck.   So I do moan about the weather like everyone else - I wouldn't be English unless I did - oh the bloody rain moan moan.
 

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Middling Folk - now I am one of them...

Oh it is happening - I am becoming a member of the 'middling folk'.   For those of you not sure what this means I take the meaning as that put forward in the middle ages - that is those in the middle comfortable with their life - not peasants but certainly not nobility.   I prefer this term to the more pejorative 'middle class' although I have some sympathy with the Marxist analysis.  Enough of this sociological analysis - why have I come to this conclusion?

Well it struck me this morning as I sat in the restaurant at Calke Abbey - a National Trust member enjoying the day with other like minded individuals.   I am a member of many of the 'middling folk' groups - the afore mentioned National Trust, one of England's finest institutions, RSPB, RHS, & RPS.  Perhaps I have lost the drive of youth to be different, although I am different in so many ways, or perhaps it is just that I have reached that time in my life where I enjoy walking through the countryside, enjoying the simple things.

Now we 'middling folks' have our own haunts - one of the best I know is the International Bird Fair in August.  Here we turn out and celibate all things middling.   (God I have just reread this and I sound a real old fart - perhaps the best definition of 'middling folk' going.)  It is amazing what a walk through the countryside can do to your perspective.  We middling folk also have real power as we tend to vote in elections and so have a great amount of influence on the political classes - also note that the groups I am a member of are some of the best financed lobby groups going - you mess with the middling folk at your peril.
 

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Spending time in the garden

Some of you might know that we had the garden revamped last year.  On of the problems of having a garden designer in is that the plants are all new and so tend to be on the small side.  They are also planted with the next five years in mind rather the next summer.  The result of this has been that the garden is somewhat sterile at the moment - gardens, like all living things, mature and, dare I say it, get a character of there own over time.  Ours is still very new so has none of the idiosyncratic touches of the mature garden.   We have started to address this.

Over the last month we have introduced spring colour to the garden.  We have also replaced plants that have died and new plants where there was space.  The result is that the garden is starting to look more lived in.  There is a lot more to come but we have made a start.  However, I think it is important to recognise that I am not the gardener in all this - that honour falls to my wife Mandy.  My input is more in the visualisation and where to plant - well that's I think.  The reality is that I say it should go in one place and then Mandy gives me that knowing look and I alter find that it has gone somewhere else - usually a place much more suited to the plant.  I know my place.
 

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Just about sorted the RPS Exhibition submission

Well I think I have done it - I have selected the four prints I am going to submit to the RPS International Print Exhibition. (well almost - I will sleep on it and see how I feel in the morning.) They are the strongest set I have ever submitted - however, this is no guarantee that they will be selected.  Once you have submitted the work it is down to the judges and their own peculiarities and prejudices. Such is life.
 

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Crocus overload - University of Leicester botanic garden

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Oh what a beautiful morning oh what a glorious day...And Google Spellcheck

With apologise to Rogers and Hammerstein it is a lovely morning.  I have finally shaken my bug off and feel in full fettle and raring to go - but go where?   well I was going to visit the Simon Roberts exhibition at Bradford with my friend David, but he seems to have been struck down with the same bug that I have been suffering with over the past week.   So I am going out to do some scouting, the session I had to put off last week.

One final thing.  I was listening to the ever informative Economist podcast the other day - this was about the problems with data overload - and the correspondent put the view forward that Google now has the best spell-check  in the world.  Now I use the afore mentioned service, I use Google chrome, and I have to say it is not very good.   I find myself referring back to my trusty old Word spell check because Google doesn't recognise or produce any suggestions.  An example of this is that the Google  spell check doesn't recognise the word Google instead it offers the words goggle and googly.  Still some work to be done then wouldn't you say?
 

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Benylin has just become my guilty little treat - well whilst my throat is so inflamed.

Day 6 of the stomach bug/virus/generally yuck feeling.   I have now got a sore throat and so have resorted to taking Benylin cough medicine.   I have to say I really didn't realise that these things were so appealing.   In truth I feel fine in myself but this throat is really annoying but it won't last and at least I can get on with other work whilst my body does battle with whatever it is.  At least it is an excuse to take some more Benylin - but I won't be sad to see the back of the medicine - spring is here and I have lots of things I want to get on with.

I have just wiki'd couch medicine and it would seem that there are serious doubts as to whether they have any really medicinal effects other than comforting the sufferer - well I don't mind that - it does help with the annoyance of a sore throat.
 

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Stock Doves - some of the prettiest birds in the garden at the moment

So all yesterday wasn't spent watching zombie movies - no I actually managed to do a little photography.  I caught these two stock doves in the garden.   Of the Columbidae that visit our garden these are the prettiest.  Now I now this is a hopeless anthropomorphic comment but they are.  One final thing - they are not known for visiting gardens but are becoming a regular in ours - which is a bonus.
 

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Does it get any better Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead - the way to recover

Well I am going to patent this as the therapy that works.   The way to get over a stomach bug Watch Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead.  Simply the best.

It doesn't matter that in virtually every point that matters they are the same movie - they are just brilliantly entertaining - although I suspect they appeal to men more than women.  Just outstanding - what a way to spend an afternoon.  The only worrying thing about the whole thing is what exactly does that say about me?  I suspect those who know can answer that for themselves.

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Using Flickr

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A day for printing and scouting locations

A damp a drizzly day outside so what to do with myself?   Well catch up on work that I have put on the back burner for the past few days since my virus/stomach/cold episode. 

So I have started to print out this years submission for the RPS International Print Exhibition - especially as I have sorted out the colour monitor issues.   I printed off one print and it seemed a lot better - however you need to give them 24 hours to really dry so I will not do any more today and review where I am tomorrow.

So I'm off out scouting the rest of the day.  I am looking for sites for a photo shoot around the theme of landscape gardens etc.  I have a few ideas but we'll see what I come up with.  At least the ran has stopped for now at least!!
 

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Root Canal work is a real pain - especially with a stomach bug

Well I had root canal work done yesterday on a touch and it appears to have gone very well.  The only problem was that I was still suffering from my stomach upset which has made me feel quite weak.  However, I seem to be on the mend from both.
 

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Drivers the babel fish of computing and why windows vista needs watching

To people of a certain age the babel fish is one of the many wonderful inventions of Douglas Adams to a younger generation it probably is the service that you use to translate different languages.  In computing the device driver is a the babel fish that allows all manner of hardware to work with one another.  It translates the signals coming from the device into a language that the computer understands and vice versa.   They usually work fine and you think nothing of them.  When they don't they become the bane of your life.

Most modern operating systems automatically search out the latest version of the driver on your system and install without you doing a thing.  Then you have Microsoft Vista which says one thing and does another.   The case in point was the eye one colour monitor that I use to calibrate my monitor.  This would not work with my 64 bit operating system.  I would install it, vista would say that the driver was installed then I would find it wouldn't work.   I was seriously thinking about buying a different colour calibration monitor, I even had to listen to the patronising sales man at Focus on Imaging telling me that, well, if I was such an idiot not to use Apple then what should I expect.  He didn't use those exact words but that was the general feeling I got.   He might be right but my computer is part of a wider system which would not easily transfer to an Apple environment.  

So I was stuck with a piece of equipment that wouldn't work.  There wasn't anything else to do but get my hands dirty but start to ferret around under the bonnet of Windows.  And guess what I found.  Whilst Vista was telling me that the driver had installed it actually hadn't.  I quickly sorted this problem out and the colour calibrator works.

And the morale of this story?   Well there isn't one other than the usual one of smug satisfaction of the Apple fan boys who told you so. At one level they are right of course but at another there is so many things wrong with Apple and its approach. 
 

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Struck down with a tummy bug

Yesterday was a wash out.   I picked up some sort of bug and spent most of the day feel pretty sorry for myself.  Fortunately I have the best nursing staff on hand to bring me back to full health.  I feel a bit better today - however have got an appointment with dentist this morning for root canal surgery - it never rains until it pours. 
 

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Feet starting to hurt!!!

Well we have just about finished at this years Focus on Imaging - and my feet hurt. What have I learnt? The truth is that it is too early to draw any firm conclusions other than this year is going to be all about printing. This means paper, calibration and monitors.

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Taking an early lunch at Focus

So what have I learnt? Well, monitors are lovely and each manufacturer is the best. They would say that wouldn't they. If I were to splash the cash on a new monitor I will need to do a lot more research.

On a more immeadiate point I have got a sampler pack for Hahnmuehle. I need to do some printing so now is the to try the paper out.

After lunch more stands and bull from sales men, they always are men the women are just eye candy.

Still its been a useful show so far.

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Planning the day over a coffee

Well we got in really quickly - it seemed to be quicker if you hadn't preregistered for some reason. The first stop is a coffee and bun whilst planning where to go. However like any plan things change as soon as you hit the floor. It looks really quite at moment - no doubt that will chsnge. Anyway - here goes.

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Focus on imagimg

The queue start. This is just to get in - it will be worse once inside

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South African Cap Teal

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Spiders Web

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Blackheaded gull - not sure whether I like this shot

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The first photograph from the Abbey Park shoot this morning

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memo to myself - don't go the park on Sunday

Well I should have known better, I really really should have known better.  But I didn't.   I forgot that most people have the weekend off and so on a nice bright early spring day what do they do?  They go to the park to feed the ducks.  Now I don't blame them for that I would do the same its just that I wanted to try and capture some shots.  The two tend to be mutually exclusive.  They were today.

The first problem is that anyone with a camera is treated with suspicion   Now if that camera has a huge telephoto lens on it then you get extra strange looks.  The next is the inane comments.  One person asked ' ...do you need all that equipment for just some gulls?...'  Well yes otherwise I wouldn't be lugging it around with me.   Then there are the dogs chasing all over the place and on and on it goes.( I've just reread this and I am starting to sound like Marcus Brigstocke. )

It is no else's fault;  they were after all enjoying themselves in the park - just as I was trying to.  I should have chosen a quieter weekday and I will in future.

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Chilly morning in abbey park

It is a beutiful cold and sunny morning down by the river. Just set up so lets see what comes by.

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Male Dunnock on my fence

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I enjoy dunking rich tea biscuits

I really don't what it is about dunking a rich tea biscuit in tea that I find the most rewarding.  Is it the taste of soggy biscuit?  or is it the achievement of managing to do this with out the biscuit breaking off and forming a slowly disintegrating mush on the top of your cup of tea?  Or maybe it is a flash back to when you are very young and the simple pleasure that food gave you when being feed by your mother?  Who knows but I like dunking my biscuits.  (To see more about the significance do a search of Google and you'll quickly see that I am not alone!)

When I was younger I felt a little self concious about this guilty pleasure but now I don't care.  I love dunking my biscuit.  Now of course you have to just the right biscuit - different biscuits suit different drinks.   For me rich tea rules for tea and digestive biscuits are for coffee along with chocolate bourbon biscuits.  There is also a significance between McVitie biscuits and store generic versions.  I always find that McVitie biscuits have the superior texture and so don't fail fowl to the aforementioned disintegrating biscuit problem.  Of course this doesn't cause a problem for the king of all biscuits - the Hobnob - although this is not the best for dunking and certainly will put extra inches on your waste without too much effort (DON'T I KNOW!)

There are all manner of variations along this theme, and many people have their own favourite biscuit with which to indulge this guilty little pleasure.

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Canadian Goose Displaying to female - another from the Abbey Park shoot

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Another photograph from the Coot series at abbey park.

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Its done - I've sent my entries in to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Phew that was painful.  I hate selecting the photographs for Wild Life Photography competition - I always think they are useless and have no chance.  With this competition, possibly one of the most prestigious in the field, I feel this doubly so.  This does have one advantage though - I have no expectations so should I be selected or even short-listed I will be really pleased.  Are well nothing ventured nothing gained.
 

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Canadian Goose Displaying

It is decision day tomorrow.  Which photographs will I submit for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition?   I am still not sure but the pressure of time will help the process - thats the plan anyway.  Lets see.
 

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Just finished editing - 1850 images down to 299 - phew!

This is hard work.  I am used to it but you still have to be very ruthless - this can be very hard and perhaps you never get it right all the time - if you don't you keep thousands, no tens of thousands of images you just will never use.  Oh the joys of 9 FPS!
 

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Black Headed Gulls on Weir - with a beer can!

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Tufted Duck Taking Off - the first shot from the Abbey Park Shoot - looking good

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The hard work begins - Sorting the morning shoot out!

This morning was fun - a strange kind of fun I know but fun nonetheless.  Now the reality check - just how good were the images I captured?   This was delayed by several hours this afternoon as we had a power cut - my god how we are slaves to electricity.  

I have just completed the first step - uploading 1800 plus images to the computer.  Now to import them into lightroom.  Perhaps after the evening meal I will be able to start working on them - my guess is that I will keep around 200.  Lets see.
 

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Watching the coots at Abbey Park

The more you watch an animal the better you understand them. I have spent more time with coots, moorhens and other 'common' birds this morning and it is facinating to learn their behavioural patterns.

The breeding season is starting and the birds are fighting over mates. To try and capture this takes time and effort however the more time you put in the better the photo at the end. Thats the plan anyway.

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Trouble Calibrating my monitor - old calibration device doesn't work with Vista!

Oh tish and poo I am trying to calibrate my monitor.   I should have done this an awful long time ago and well one thing lead to another and I didn't do it.   Over the past few weeks I have become aware that my photographs have started to appear very dark.  This is in part because they are dark - I seem to be going through a dark, super saturated phase at the moment which doesn't help.  However, I noticed on other people's monitor that they were looking excessively dark so I decided to do the deed that I should have done months ago.

I installed the software, fine.  I then went to install the calibration monitor and nothing.  I downloaded new drivers but to no avail - it just wouldn't work with Vista.   I had to calibrate the monitor manually, which is never an easy task, but I managed it anyway.

The results are impressive - guess what my photographs that were perfectly ok yesterday now look much darker than they should do.  I guess the morale of the story is keep on top of your chores and get hardware that is future proof.  This will no doubt bring a warm feeling to any Mac fanboys, you know who you are, who might be reading this - you don't have this sort of problem with Macs - old hardware still works with new machines.
 

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Moorhens Feeding

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Why Coots?

I suppose I need to explain why I have been talking some photographs of Coots this morning.  Well it is simple and a little complicated at the same time.   I have thing about the ordinary when it comes to wild life photography.  The page of magazines are full of exotic animals from around the world and we always seem to neglect the wild life at home when in fact they are fascinating.  There only problem is that, well, they're a bit common.

I like common - those who know me might think just as well - so I suspect that this is a blow for common animal.  Now for the more complicated bit.   I also want to use some of the photographs in forthcoming competitions  and so i need to make compelling and original photographs for them to have any chance of success.  Whether I have succeeded in this only time will tell.

So that is why I am taking coots.  I expect over the coming weeks and months I will be taking many more.
 

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Another Coot....

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Coot...

This is the first shot from the session this morning.  Lets hope the rest are as good.
 

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Test tweet

This is a test to see if Posterous  has set up the connection to my all new Twiiter account.  Here goes
 

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Bad knees and coots....

The sun is out, the air is cool and the sap is rising. This is a great time to capture Coots pairing up for the summer. The problem is the Coot is low to the ground and kneelling for too long is a killer for my knees.

I have had to stand up to give the ol' knees a break. Still it is much better than working for a living - no more offices for me. God I am lucky.

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Greenfinch Diptych

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Untitled

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Spring...

Well it is here. Yipee. Actually, I think I might be tempting fate by writing this and the winter could come back and bite me in the bum but what a wonderful day. The sun shone, the birds were singing their collective hearts out. Quite literally the sap was rising as most of the plants were showing signs of new growth.

As I sat in my garden this morning trying to capture some of the birds coming to the garden it was amazing what a bit of sunlight will do to your spirits. You don't have to be suffering from S.A.D.D. to feel better when you finally seem to have turned the corner and the days are getting longer and lighter. I was going write warmer but there was a frost last night - a product of the clear sky over night.

One final thought - spring is a noisier time than in the past. Nothing to do with the din of passing traffic nor bird song or even lawn mowers but rather expanding plastic. Most of the house where I live have plastic guttering and as soon as they get a bit of sun on them they start to expand. This leads to a continuous click and crack sound. The warmer it gets the more click and cracks. Just another sign that spring is one the way.

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Spring is coming

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Nice to see your thinking of me...

It was so nice of the President of Nigeria to think about me. Having just come out of hospital after serious heart problems he, nonetheless, had time to get one of his staff to write to me personally saying...

" ...I have been instructed by the President to release the sum of US$7.5 Million (Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) to you....".

Such a nice person and so generous with his country's money. Thank you Mr President. All I have to do is sending him all my details and the money is mine. What a generous offer!

It's a while since I received one of these ridicules scam emails. Do people still fall foul of these things? One can only assume that enough do for the criminals to keep sending them out in their millions.

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