Shadow and visions of the Pink Panther

[whole diary]

[grahame]

Let me introduce my new helper "Cato" - a MacBook Air so small it can open on my lap even between the rows of seats on a bus or train.    Unplanned (at least until midweek), Cato has taken over from JelliaJamb, who has been pensioned off.

Cato Fong is Clouseau's manservant, trained to attack him regularly to keep him alert and skilled in martial arts. Cato and Clouseau have a love-hate relationship ...

Yesterday - Thurday - I was killing time between Bath Spa and Westbury (the Windrose launch) and took a few (!)  pictures along the way and today I have been busy configuring and testing.  My first uploads - I THINK the Coffee Shop software can handle pictures without trains in them, but I am testing.







Much more work to do and to try to recover - but it was wonderful to be out yesterday.   Looking for many happy trips with Cato

[chuffed]

Is this a record? 3 photos from our founder without a train in the frame. I discount the first as he was actually ON the train that he was taking the photo from! The 2nd and 3rd would win a competition anywhere in my book....beautifully composed,lit and captured.

[grahame]

Oh dear - looks like I have turned on 2 step authentication for Facebook and the second step had a single point of failure  ...

A unforced by overdue opportunity to tidy up with a fresh start.    Find me on Facebook now via:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0hjH3iyFozCfoPn6Mvy6xbZeZRUrVfP4q1HfLimCrQMjyer3zqJzqRiJapcqQJh5el&id=61562671259829

and once you are 110% sure it's genuine (and if you want to be my friend!) please send me an invite.

A new beginning, and yet also the "same old". It's less that three days since my then-current laptop met an untimely end. Whilst I was less than thrilled at the time, every cloud has a silver lining and this silver lining has had me take a deep breath, think, and take a fresh look ahead.  My brain always works quicker than my fingers on the keyboard, and indeed sometimes faster than my voice and that csn get me in to trouble and be a bit "marmite" to others.  So please excuse this starting, at 07;30 on a bright Saturday morning, as a bit of a jumble.

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[grahame]

Oh dear - looks like I have turned on 2 step authentication for Facebook and the second step had a single point of failure  ...

A unforced by overdue opportunity to tidy up with a fresh start.    Find me on Facebook now via:

[hideous long link ....]

Now a properly named account -  https://www.facebook.com/graham.ellis.melksham/

And the rest of the quote still holds:

and once you are 110% sure it's genuine (and if you want to be my friend!) please send me an invite.

A new beginning, and yet also the "same old". It's less that three days since my then-current laptop met an untimely end. Whilst I was less than thrilled at the time, every cloud has a silver lining and this silver lining has had me take a deep breath, think, and take a fresh look ahead.  My brain always works quicker than my fingers on the keyboard, and indeed sometimes faster than my voice and that csn get me in to trouble and be a bit "marmite" to others.  So please excuse this starting, at 07;30 on a bright Saturday morning, as a bit of a jumble.

etc

Over 50 wonderful friends re-connected within a week - and the new page now active (perhaps over-active but I am doing that intentionally for a while) and I'm feeling a little bit like I might after a spring clean - sad at a few things lost or put into cupboards to clean, restore and start using again in the autumn but an overwhelming bright new start.    More news of that to follow.

Writing here with the help of Cato.   And, oh dear, I proved myself a little bit the clumsy oaf of Inspector Clouseau yesterday as I went around the open gardens of Melksham and dropped my key - twice - and had to struggle single handed with bike lock, helmet, cream tea through gardens which are absolutely fantastic,  put together with time, patience, green fingers and design skills I don't have and with pathways sized by ad for the owners who are typically much smaller than I am physically as they cram in as many flower and shrubs as they can.