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Lives of great men will remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And,departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Longfellow
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I saw a jolly hunter
With a jolly gun
Walking in the country
In the jolly sun.
In the jolly meadow
Sat a jolly hare.
Saw the jolly hunter.
Took jolly care.
Hunter jolly eager-
Sight of jolly prey.
Forgot gun pointing
Wrong jolly way.
Jolly hunter jolly head
Over heels gone.
Jolly old safety catch
Not jolly on.
Bang went the jolly gun.
Hunter jolly dead.
Jolly hare got clean away.
Jolly good, I said.
Charles Causey - (24 August 1917 – 4 November 2003) was a Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer. His work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore, especially when linked to his native Cornwall.
EIGHT BOOKS are available; Each one has a day to day journal and many colour photos.
Conrad Walks Land’s End to John o’Groats (77 days - 106 pages)
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Conrad Walks The Broads to The Lakes (28 days - 92 pages)
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Conrad Walks The GR10 Pyrenean traverse, Atlantic to Mediterranean - (52 days - 107 pages)
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Conrad Walks The French Gorges - (35 days through Provence, the Ardeche, and the Cevennes - 99 pages)
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That made my morning. Laughed out load.
ReplyDeleteThe camera doesn't take photo's in burst mode. It only does what you tell it to. (although i know how easy it is to do). deleting the burst photo's is easy as you will now know.
I can understand you not wanting to use a tripod because neither do i, but, some folk walk just to take photo's of certain places and will spend plenty of time getting the image just right and so a tripod is not an issue. For these folks HDR is the way to go with the iphone.
I have done the KEYS episode so many times that Sheila now carries a spare set with her. I usually do it getting back to the car after a walk. Unlock the boot, throw in the gear with the keys, change shoes shut the boot and then think where are the keys.
I see your 'bloggers gift' arose without difficulty!
ReplyDeleteI've started to leave my 'proper' camera at home when on short walks as the Samsung phone seems to take good pictures with rich colours. Not that I'm a photographer, and I still put the images through the same process as you do using Picasa or 'elements'. Unless I'm doing mobile postings (as last week), when I simply crop the phone images, if necessary, and load them at 10% resolution.
I still haven't worked out how to insert text between the images though! Duh!
Your walk brought to mind the lyrics from Talking Heads --
ReplyDeleteWell we know where we're going
But we don't know where we've been
And we know what we're knowing
But we can't say what we've seen
And we're not little children
And we know what we want
And the future is certain
Give us time to work it out
We're on a road to nowhere
I've been there so many times with car keys as you know. Fortunate you didn't throw in the house keys as well.
Alan R - I am reasonably computer and tech. literate, but sometimes you just get a fixation about something and I seem to have a head-in-the-sand attitude to the iPhone camera. I have a Mac desktop computer, and an iPhone and an iPad mini, but I am by no means one of those who worships at the Apple Orchard. My Mac is just as prone to crashing as the previous pc, and Apple's help and assistance is woeful. Pages is in the Dark Ages compared with Microsoft Word, but there are also many slick things about the Mac that like. I would add that I also have a virtual PC partitioned on the Mac running Windows 7 with Parallels software, so I have the best (or worst) of both systems.
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased to hear I made somebody laugh.
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Phreerunner - Each to his own. I also reduce the file size of my blog photos using "Image/resize" on the Mac to something like 1000 x 750 pixels, so if you ever want to obtain any of my photos let me know and I will let you have copies at full size.
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BC - Good lyrics - all those bands I missed in the 60s and 70s when I was more fixated on jazz. There is much good stuff out there which I stupidly spurned back then.
I was also into jazz but living in London in the 'swinging sixties' there was so much going on. Ronnie Scott's, folk clubs and then the university hops playing all the modern stuff. Don't know how I did any studying. When were you last at a hop?
ReplyDeleteAlthough I understand the meaning of "hop" it was not a word we used. We had "parties", usually in friend's houses when the parents had gone away. They usually started after closing time at the pub and would go on all night playing jazz records, spilling beer all over the place, and talking of our reading matter, (we were pretty well read) and generally being a nuisance to the neighbours. In Bradford we also had The Student's Club, a vaulted cellar in the centre of town with live jazz groups, no bar, and dancing or jiving or bopping or whatever you want to call it. At that time all the major American jazz performers visited and played in St. George's Hall and individual jazz musicians would come to the club and jam with our local guys. We had a trombonist called Derek Wadsworth who went on to become musical director of Hair and carved out a well respected career in the music world. Happy days wearing my smart three button Italian suit, a shirt with rounded detachable celluloid collar, and pointed black shoes - we thought we were so sophisticated - Elvis was rubbish!
ReplyDeleteYour determination not to repeat a route with Pete is admirable.
ReplyDeleteI walk straight from the front door when we're home and I fear that you'd be horrified at how much repetition that creates in my walking life (although I do have quite a collection of different routes; the repetition is a function of how often I go out).
Incidentally, one benefit of currently having a low-spec car is that we don't have remote central locking, nor even a keyhole on the boot. The only way we can open the boot is to use the key in the door lock, then open the boot. The only way we can lock it is via the key in the door lock.
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