Sunday 17th December 2023
Season's greetings to all.
I am sure Einstein missed part of his time equations. I get the impression that there is an exponential function causing time to pass more quickly each year one becomes older and here I am wondering how Christmas has returned when It only seems a few weeks since the last one.
This is not for us a time to celebrate with abandon. My wife Ann died on Boxing Day 1997, and her father also died on a Boxing Day. My mother died on Christmas Eve 1971 just missing the birth of what would have been her first grandchild (daughter Jill -18th January.) However we battle on and the four of us, that is son, daughter and granddaughter Katie will be doing Christmas at my house as usual. A planning meeting is scheduled for later today, however I have already sorted The Tree...
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| A more sophisticated tree features in the watercolour above purchased from a more than competent local amateur artist - it has given me much pleasure over the years. |
...walking has been in abeyance. I am attending the nurse at my GP's surgery on a weekly basis for a wound on the back of my ankle that became ulcerated. Walking boots, sand trainers rub so no go.
My modelling fall back continues with a 1/24 scale Citroen 2CV. This one is from about 1987 I think. Looking on Autottrader there are only two for sale and one similar to my model but 1990 is advertised at £7000. No comments please about the now cliché basket of eggs across a ploughed field.
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| Shadows removed very crudely in Photoshop. This is the engine seen centre in the photo above. It is about 2cm across in real size |
"Special relativity" may answer your speculations. If not "general relativity".
ReplyDeleteWe hope you all have a lovely Christmas Conrad. Hopefully the heel will heal soon.
ReplyDeleteRR - I think I'll let the mystery remain.
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Anonymous - - Not sure of your identity and I'm not going to guess but I enjoyed your pun. You'll be writing haikus next. Thanks for your good wishes.
Correct.
DeleteA heel in pain,
DeleteAnd within every stepping,
A walk of struggle.
Still smiling at that Christmas Tree.
ReplyDeleteJust remembered we used to take the back seat out of the Deux Chevaux to use on picnics - it was basically a deck chair in any case. Mine was 1975 when they were imported back into the UK. The roof rolled back, literally, to give open top motoring around the country lanes. It looked ungainly cornering fast but stuck to the road for a smooth ride.
Hope you didn't draw the short straw at the family planning meeting.
Have a good one.
BC - Mine is obviously a later model with more luxurious seating but I guess less practical.
ReplyDeleteAlan R - That is an excellent haiku. Well done.
ReplyDeleteNice tree Conrad. We hope your ankle etc gets better soon, but in the meantime, enjoy the modelling.
ReplyDeleteWishing you a very happy Christmas and New Year, from Martin and Sue
Hi, Conrad, Mo and Leo here from Kendal (been a while since I've posted here and have forgotten the routine to publish as "my account name" rather than "anonymous" - something to do with pop-ups). Just to wish you all the best for next year, and I hope you are soon able to don those boots again.
ReplyDeleteHi Mo and Leo - good to hear from you and all the best for the coming year. I am not sure about how one comments with a name. When I comment it tells me I am commenting from my "Google Account" The other two options are "Anonymous" or "Name/URL"
ReplyDeleteThe number of comments on my blog have dwindled to almost none with just two or three regulars commenting from time to time. I do wonder if others are having difficulty and just give it up as a bad job?
I think I have to disable pop-ups on my phone, so I can get the system to recognise my Google account name, but it's been so long since I last commented, I've forgotten how to do it. It may be that others have the same issue, I couldn't say, but I think in future I'll just try to sign off, as if it were an email.
ReplyDeleteI confess to not having kept up with your blog until recently - changing phone didn't help, and various other factors, but I hope to remedy that now. As for dwindling numbers of comments, you need to take into account the quality of the debate as well, and your circle certainly delivers that in spades. All our best, Mo
I think that the apparent paucity of comments is quite possibly due to the fact that most of your readers/followers (or whatever we/they are called) are persons (I nearly said men) of the mountains, well known for volubility and controversy on hills and routes after a few pints, but less loquacious on the abstract details of airframes and con shafts - or the arcana of X-ray image analysis and examinations.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, if it is global recognition you hunger for, I think the answer lies in the somewhat erratic ministrations of your medical 'advisors' and their apparent indecisiveness and inability to get you 'high' - physically, not physiologically !
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gimmer - I don't think I am hungering for "global recognition" rather continued contributions from those who have contributed on and off over the years, and whose rates of contribution have so much dwindled, perhaps for the reasons you suggest. I think the popularity of social media, in particular the hateful Facebook, has put a dent in the business of blogging. I have not much option to continue with the medical consultations. I have another looming on the 9th of next month having to travel to the hospital at Barrow-in-Furness. That only qualifies for going "far" rather than "going high."
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