For the first time since July we haven’t been away. August: Scotland; September: Cotswolds; October: Provence. It’s been good to settle back into a routine.
I have spent a couple of weekends down in Northamptonshire with Helène helping with her daughters’ old cottage. Plenty of jobs to be done before the place becomes habitable but that’s another story and not for this blog.
I’ve struggled to take any exciting photos for the u3a Photography Group. This one was on the theme of “mono” and is a National Air Traffic radar centre which sits on top of the Wolds.
It was a rather boring photo taken on a dull day so I made it a little more extraordinary by removing all the colour and then making it negative. The group liked it.
I also had my Covid/Flu jabs. The nurse injecting me seemed to make a bit of a mess of the flu jab and managed to make it bleed a little where a bruise developed over the coming days. Other than a bruised arm I didn’t have any other repercussions.
November was my final month as Interim Chair of West Wolds u3a. The last committee meeting was business as usual and the AGM went to plan. I will continue to support the web site however the design of the site has been taken over. One less thing to worry about.
I had my annual eye test. My cataracts are the same as last year and my epiretinal membrane hasn’t worsened. The optician said it can be slightly improved by adjusting the spherical prism of the lens. I need a new prescription so I’m hoping to get completely round glasses like these.
And finally, I decided to change the hosting company I use for the website and email. I’ve used UK2 since 2001 but their service has slowed and the support has been less than satisfactory. I set up Market Rasen beekeepers site using NetNerd as a host so I’ve now moved www.pigyard to NetNerd. The website moved across without a problem and no loss of up time however my email has been a little more problematic. It’s virtually back to normal apart from copying all my old emails from UK2 to NetNerd.
