Saturday 12 March 2011

Playing Catch up again…

It’s been a while again since I posted here so I’m going to try and relate what has been happening and what I have been and not being doing.

Last time I was here I was without a car, since then I have finally got one. Its blue, yep that's about the sum total of my motoring knowledge. It’s a KA so just a small car but just what I need to get to work and back, seems in reasonable nick well I like it anyway.IMG_0134

As shown in the pic I got the Kinder egg, sorry car, just in time for the bad weather and apart from once stranding me at work as it needed a new battery, its done me proud.

Around the time I got my car unfortunately my Dad was taken into hospital so it was extra good to be mobile and to be able to visit him and help out at home. Although he improved and came home for a while he got a chest infection and ended up back in hospital where he died just before Christmas. At least he wasn’t ill for long which was as blessing.

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A photo of my Dad with Mum taken in the Summer. A kindly funny man who I greatly miss.

As now my Sister and I are the main carers for my Mum we have found ourselves very restricted as to what can do and where were can go. So not been able go far I lost the inclination to take photo’s but have spent some time scanning old photo’s from my Mum and Dad’s Albums, some of which I may post after I finished restoring. I have also spent sometime organizing and editing photo’s I have had hanging around for ages. 

 

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At the end of January the RSPB had a bird watch thingy happening. For an hour on one of two days the idea was to note what birds were seen in your garden. There is a bird table in Mum’s back garden and I know my Dad used to put out food for them and was a keen bird watcher. So I decided to take part. Although I know less about birds than I do about cars,i.e.. my entire knowledge can be written on a pin head in capital letters. The hardest part I decided would be identifying them. So decided to use the camera to record then I could look up in a book later. I was surprised with the results having never done this type of photograph before, although not brilliant spurred me on to have another go a few days later.

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and I know not really a bird but was in garden too.

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This brings me up to February and in the mean time I have a few ideas for Photoshop projects which may or may not work. I still have a part made comic and plenty of other half finished projects perhaps I may have got some completed before next time !!!!!