The sun shines but its sooooooo cold
I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the computer
these last couple of days. After my ‘almost’ lost everything incident, I’m
taking my sisters advice and storing some stuff online. I didn’t realise how
much stuff I had stored on that external hard drive until it was almost too
late, its quite a bit, in fact its loads. It would take me forever to transfer
all those files somewhere else so; I decided … prioritise. I’ve made the photos
my major priority. Not all of the photos, just the ones I’ve taken of all
those lovely places I visited over the last few years. I have an old flickr
account that I used for every thing until a few years ago. Then I became busy,
and began storing stuff on the external hard drive, so I
stopped using it. Now I’ve gone back there and started sorting through the huge
backlog of photos I have and I’m saving them a few at a time on flickr. It
doesn’t help that while I stopped using flickr, it updated itself, it has changed and
completely and virtually reinvented itself. It never was the most user friendly
site but now every thing has changed, it’s even worse. I spent the first few
hours figuring how to use it again. Plus it seems pretty slow but, as it’s
already there, and as I have loads of storage space there, and as I’ve already
paid for it, I’m going to persevere and get as much stuff on there as possible.
This could take a while, I’m thinking I’m going to have to schedule in at least
a couple of computer evenings per week to keep up with every thing. All the
other stuff, documents of various types, I guess I’ll just back up with other
plug in storage devices. One thing’s for sure, being that close to losing
everything has made me sit up and take notice of how important backing up is.
I’ve also had my PC completely overhauled by my
brother-in-law and sister. It’s amazing what technology can do, I just download
a little programme, logged in, sat back and watched my computer magically fix
itself. Actually what really happened is that the programme I downloaded
allows my sister to sit in her house in France,
log into my computer in Scotland
and magically fix it……I love technology.
So today I spent catching up with every ones blogs
here. I was wondering why no one seemed to be posting anything and then I
realised you were, but all my notifications were ending up in my Spam
folder. Another thing I noticed was the spell checker has mysteriously
disappeared from the comments section, so if I have left a comment on your blog
and the spelling is a little ‘unusual’ that’s why.
Feeling kinda good today, the decorating is more or less up
to date, the computer is more or less up to date and I’ve have had a few great days out
even though it’s been very cold here. So thought I’d share a few of the photos
I’ve been sorting through.
First are a couple of photos from a little village
called Letham. We tend to go there when the weather is too bad for us to go too
far away, it has a fantastic craft shop that sells every thing you could ever possibly
need for any type of craft and then more stuff you would never dream of. It also has a little coffee shop that sells home made soup,
home made bread, a selection of home made cakes and….. Has Local craft work on
display and for sale. There’s another
shop there that’s a bit pricy but has wonderful, wonderful felted and fabric
craft work for sale. This is the view from outside the craft shop, the one
with snow on the hills was taken in December and the damp misty one was
taken a couple of weeks ago.The one at the top of the page was also taken in Letham on the misty day.
Next up are a couple of photos from the harbour taken
in January on a day that felt like the ice age but looked like the middle of
summer.
This is Glenesk taken on
another beautifully bright but totally freezing day in February.
On Saturday I had my first visit to the beach for the year
year. We walked along Elliot water until it reached the sea and then walked
back toward the harbour along the beach. It was a bit odd, the photos make
it look like the middle of summer but every one out that day wore many
layers of warm clothing toped off with hats scarves and gloves.
This last photo was taken from the nearby town of Forfar. My daughter lives
there and she actually called me over to take photos of the snow on the hills.
She can see those hills from her house and she wants a painting of them. This
is the photo I’ve decided to use for her painting. I’ve cropped it into a
longer shape because I have a long canvas I can use, also I think the shape
will enhance the look of the hills.
