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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ Thank you card

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Two lovely ladies from the Centre’s Pop-up Art Weekend (PUAW) sent me a lovely thank you card for all my help before, during and after the weekend.

So thank you Lori and Nikki.

Do your know the link between the postcard and Pop-up Art Weekend ?.

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ Hand Warmers

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I recently mentioned to a friend that my hands were cold, he then told me about a brilliant pair of hand warmers. They are re-chargeable, magnetic so the stick together when they are not in use, they have three heat settings and can charge your mobile phone all for £19.99 from Amazon !.

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ Flowers

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Saturday morning found me wandering around the local garden centre with my wife looking for some flowers to add abit of colour to our garden.

Sunday’s blog will no doubt feature the flowers planted in the garden.

A couple of stepping stones for the cat……..

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ PUAW cont.

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This afternoon I travelled back to work with my wife to help return the Centre back to normal after the Pop-up Art Week had finished. Whilst we were waiting for the exhibition to finish we brought a picture. The picture is titled “Bird of Paradise”, the picture is of a bird of paradise flower. The picture was painted by a lovely local artist called Lori North.

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ Banksy

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When you view my daily Blog, just above my name is a picture of a rat. Today Blog is a little bit about the picture.

Walking around the Fitzrovia area of London a few years ago. I unexpectedly found a Banksy artwork on a wall.

The is my original picture that I took. The artwork has been covered in a Perspex sheet to protect it.

I then cropped the rat which I have used in my WordPress picture.

Below is a link to the Fitzrovia News with a little bit more information on Banksy’s artwork.

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ Raspberry Pi cont.

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Yesterday’s picture showed my old Raspberry Pi set-up with the 7 inch monitor and all the cables. Today my 10 inch monitor arrived. I brought the new monitor because it allows you to mount the Raspberry Pi onto the back of the monitor complete with all the interconnecting cables, which are now hidden. The new monitor makes whole thing is a much neater set-up just needing a power cable.

New set-up

Old set-up

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ Raspberry Pi

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Today at work I have to connect a Raspberry Pi to a TV/Monitor, it occurred to me that during “Lockdown” that I had brought a Raspberry Pi to learn about them. I dug out of my Raspberry Pi out of my desk draw, connected it together, it was then that realised why I have stop using it. It is just messy needing a monitor and keyboard, it was easier to use a laptop. So tonight I have ordered a larger screen that the Raspberry Pi can be mounted on the back, which will hopefully do away with all the wires and make it a bit neater.

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ QSL Cards continued

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Yesterday Blog picture featured my own QSL card. Today’s picture is a small selection of QSL cards that I have received over the years. Once sent, cards are often used to confirm details for amateur radio awards. The cards can also be very decorative and are collected by some as a record of their amateur radio contacts, mine are just kept in a box in the loft. QSL cards often feature a photograph detailing something of radio, social or geographical interest about the Radio Amateur’s life and interests.

Below is a list of Q-Codes used by Radio Amateurs.

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ Shrove Tuesday

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Today is Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter.

I prefer my pancakes with lemon juice and sugar, but orange juice and sugar is another nice alternative.

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ 2 x Lego BMW R1200GS

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On Saturday evening I finally decided that I did want to buy a LEGO BMW R1200GS kit. I went on to that well known auction site and bid for a LEGO BMW R1200GS. Low and behold I now have two of the models!

2 x LEGO BMW R1200GS’s
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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ Lego BMW R1200GS

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Last Saturday I was visiting my local BMW Motorrad Dealer in Welwyn Garden City with my wife. In one of the display cabinets I noticed a LEGO BMW R1200GS very similar to my bike. The kit has been discontinue and I was trying to decided if I should buy it. Unbeknown to me my wife noticed that I was looking at the LEGO kit. She returned to the dealership a day later and brought the LOGO kit for me as a Valentines day present. Thank you very much Gaynor.

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ Cactus

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I have been trying to photograph a flowering cactus at home today with my Olympus 12-40 f 1:2.8 PRO lens. I must admit I’m struggling to get the bits of the cactus that I want to photograph if focus. I think the purchase of a Macro lens is on the horizon !.

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ Brick Lane cont.

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As I mentioned in yesterday Blog, I visited London to listen to a talk by a chap called “The Gentle Author” on the “Spitalfields Nippers”.

In about 1900 a photographer called Horace Warner took a number of pictures of some of poorest children in London. Basically The Gentle Author managed to gain access to Horace Warner pictures and over the space of 10 years the managed to research the pictures and produce the book below.

Below is a link to The Gentle Author’s website.

https://spitalfieldslife.com/

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ Brick Lane

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Today I made a short trip into London on the Metropolitan Line from Rickmansworth Station to Liverpool Street station for a talk in Hanbury Hall. I killed some time taking some photographs of the graffiti along Brick Lane. In tomorrow’s Blog I’ll tell you about the talk in Henbury Hall

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023 ~ Ezra Jurmann

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Imperial War Museum (IWM) – The Holocaust Galleries. During my visit to IWM a couple of weekends ago, I spent a long time sitting a listing to a video interview with Ezra Jurmann a Holocaust survivor. I appogise for the picture it was just snapped to remind me of his name. I urge you to Google him or watch the video on YouTube. The way he tells his story is so spell bounding, so matter of fact. I still find it very difficult to understand how human beings could be so cruel to other human beings.

I’m hoping re-visit the IWM again in the near future because there is so much else to see there.

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023

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During my visit to Battersea power station one of the attractions as I mentioned in a previous Blog is a lift has been built into the centre of one of the chimneys. Personally I think that the view from on top of the chimney is much better than from the London Eye.

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A new photo every day for a year in 2023

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One of the attractions at old Battersea Power Station is that you can ride in a lift in the centre of the chimney to the top of it. When to get to the top you are approximately 100M above ground level and the view of London is amazing. The Picture for today’s Blog is the view from the lift traveling up the inside of the chimney.

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