Hi I’m trying new editor

Posted on December 9, 2018December 9, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Craft fair, Editor, Learning, Photo, ShoesLeave a comment

Right, well, I’m just trying to see how this looks. Normally I use a format which I like. I know how it will turn out. But as it looks like we will have to use the new editor I thought I would have a go.

So I’m pressing buttons and hoping. I’ve already changed the format into bold large text and back again……

So the shoes were at a vintage craft fair I went to today. Trouble was, they were about a size 4 (UK) and I’m a 5…plus I don’t do heels, but they were beautiful and only £15. Sadly I decided I didn’t need them.

Well now I’ve found a colour block, but what I need is categories to add tabs…..

Photo, new editor, learning, well that was me trying to add tabs. I previewed this and it looks a bit scrappy…..

2012 jotting

Posted on December 9, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blog, Blogging, Internet, Learning, Life, Memory, Science, Space, Street lights, Sunrise 2012, WorkLeave a comment

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I was just reading through my Facebook page and came across this:

Morning world. this is the last time I get my partner up for work early on Sunday as his firm have decided from next week to make it a noon shift (Too many people not turning in after a night on the town?) anyway I watched the sky lighten in the East over the last half hour, first the sky between the clouds turned deep blue then lightened, the cloud tops yellowing then the dark grey of the clouds gradually became a mid grey shade. I watched to see if the street lights would go out but most are still on, just looking dimmer against the brightening sky. Then I remembered the world is turning not the sun rising…. I imagine the movement, thousands of miles an hour as this house and town and city, with me standing looking out of the window at the top of the stairs all moves rapidly and the suns light creeps over the horizon, with the bright morning stars ( if I could see past the houses and shops and clouds) heralding the first bright glimpse of the sun…..

New editor?

Posted on November 14, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bewildered, Blogging, Humour, Internet, Learning, Life, New options, Reflections, WordPress16 Comments

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I keep getting a message to try a new editor and “level-up your layout”?

I’m happy with what I’m using, I understand what I’m doing. I had a little look and there are options that bewilder me. I have not accepted it yet. Is anyone else using it? I like the simplicity of WordPress and chose a simple option. I know other people who have struggled to start a page here.

I wish social media platforms would not try and impose change. Perhaps they should put tutorials on line to explain.

Like the use of self checkouts in super markets , we have to face changes in life, but I would like some explanation as to why. We are WordPress customers after all, they should be serving our needs?

Time and space

Posted on October 18, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apple, Clocks, Learning, Science instruments, Space, TimeLeave a comment

We decided to visit the time and space exhibition at the world museum, Liverpool, while we went to see the exhibition of the terracotta army from China.

Time and space is on the top floor. Along with a planetarium (which we didn’t know you had to book). There were some stunning clocks and watches and scientific instruments. It’s not as interactive as Jodrell Bank, but it feels authentic, like an old fashioned museum, there were spectroscopic instruments from Liverpool University, and part of an old cyclotron. There was also a feed from the international Space Station which was on http://www.nasatv you could even log in to the signal your self.

After watching the new Dr Who series on TV it was good to see the reality.

Archery ?

Posted on October 2, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Archery, Arrow, Blogging, Fun, Games, Learning, Life, Play7 Comments

I’ve been going to Archery now for about 6 months off and on. I thought I would be getting better but struggle with the whole thing somehow.

While my partner shoots bare bow (without sights) and has gradually improved, I feel I’m actually becoming less accurate. He got eight golds last week where I just got 2, and this week I kept missing the boss (the support the paper target is pinned to).

It looks easy, lift up your bow, pull back on the bowstring, look through the sight and let your arrow fly. Watch it wobble in its flight towards, then over, under, to the side of the target…missed again! I try and place myself in the same position each time, holding the bow not too tightly, trying not to pinch my fingers around the knock end of the arrow so it releases from the string smoothly. Place my hand holding the string under my chin with my nose and mouth touching the string. Sight along the arrow using a sight that has a hole with a little dot in it so that it is sighted over the gold. But a tiny deviation where you are is large when you have a target 20 yards away and worse as you get futher away from it.

I’m going to keep trying, I hope I can do it, I will persevere.

Playing

Posted on September 22, 2018September 22, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Learn, Learning, Meditate, Poem, Poetry, Reflections, WritingLeave a comment

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Playing is learning

and learning if finding out-

How something works,

How far is infinite?

Do stars have names?

The stellar ones, not people.

Learning to live, love and be loved.

Playing is life before we know why.

Reflecting on what if, what is, why?

Give praise for play, and theatre, music

Give praise to be learners of law,

Have fun while you play,

While away the time

But

Stand firm when you have played and learnt.

Don’t lose your wish to learn more.

Keep in mind what went before,

And learn from what’s in store…

Sketching on new phone

Posted on September 21, 2018September 21, 2018 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Learning, New phone, SketchingLeave a comment

I found a sketching app on the new phone. The result is a lot smoother and neater than my tablet computer. I think it’s because I have a protective layer on the screen so my fingers don’t drag and judder. I may try and get the same for the tablet. Also the touch sensitive screen seems more sensitive. It’s easy to be seduced by new technology. The more helpful it is to you the more you want to use it? No doubt I will end up with a neck that is permanently bent downwards towards a screen….

I am lost! Note, the picture I’ve added is not the sketch because I can’t find it on the phone…. Nothing changes, technology eh.

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Ah… Found it! Learning…!

Sticks and string

Posted on September 9, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Archery, Blogging, Bow, Exercise, Fun, Hobbies, Learning, Life2 Comments

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We went to Archery today and I had a go with a longbow for the first time.

I didn’t take any photos (I wasn’t that good ) but it felt completely different to the bows we have been using .

Let me explain. We have been using recurve bows. They have a central riser with a cut out in one side so that the arrow flies straight. Then you have two limbs that attach top and bottom which curve back away from the riser. You have to use a stringer to pull the limbs back so you can attach the string. The bows are made of metal and carbon fiber, the arrows are metal or carbon fibre.

I have been using junior bows with either 14 or 16 pounds of pressure on them, that means it only takes a light pressure to pull the sting back sufficiently to shoot the arrows. I’ve hit a few golds but its hard to work out your aim and I have been using sites to try and aim.

So today one if the other archery members had brought along his longbow “a couple I sticks and a string” and that’s basically what it is. No sights, a rubber band round the shaft of the bow if you want to help you aim. The bow is one long peice of wood, usually English Yew which is naturally laminated and springy. No “window” or bend in the wood, so your arrows have to go round the bow, you have to aim off to get them on target. You also have to make sure that the arrow is the right way round, with the cock feather towards you so the other two don’t catch on the bow. The arrows are wooden with metal tips, and feathers cut down to shape for flights. You have to wear a glove so the arrow which rests on the top of your hand does not leave splinters in you as the arrow is shot. The other change was that the bow was 35 pounds of pressure, more than twice what I have been pulling! It was hard work, my shots were all around the target and I didn’t hit a gold no matter how I tried. I couldn’t hit the middle of the boss (target). But I really took to it and want to have another try.

Mallaband-Brown

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