Friends are Rocks In the face of a turbulent or strong flowing current, a good friend is like a rock, standing against the dark forces in the river of life that would envelop, that would suck under, drag away or overwhelm. This photograph was taken in October 2011 at the Water of Leith, Edinburgh using…
Aircraft Carrier HMS Invincible These photos feature the Light Aircraft Carrier HMS Invincible during a visit to the Greenock Container Terminal in the year 2000 AD. They were taken with an early point-and-shoot (PAS) digital camera the Sony S70, one of the first 3MP cameras on the market at the time. The colour, tones, contrast…
Climate Change Jellyfish This photo is of a jellyfish floating (swimming?) in the water inside a harbour in a coastal village in the East Neuk of Fife. It is probably the first time I’ve seen a jellyfish in a situation that is image worthy. Over the years I’ve seen many on shores but they didn’t…
Ways to Stay Motivated When You Work at Home Almost every office worker who has to trudge out of bed and scoot along in rush hour traffic every day wishes they could work from home. Generally speaking, at-home workers have a more flexible schedule, so we can sleep in if we want. We can stay…
The tradesman’s charter As a truly professional tradesman: 1. I will use your garden flower beds and driveway as an ashtray. 2. I will cut and mix materials like plaster and cement on your expensive mono-block driveway with little or no precautions against spills and splashes. 3. I won’t clean up these spills or splashes,…
Streetwalkers cost us all People walk the streets and push bits of paper through our letterboxes. Most of those bits of paper are usually put straight into a container which we place outside regularly. Other people walk the streets to remove the bits of paper from these containers and take them away. Both these sets…
Ban Bank Holidays We all love a holiday but there is no pleasure in the modern “Bank Holiday”. Bank Holiday Mondays are now associated with slow traffic, lengthy queues, heaving shops, leisure facilities full of screaming youngsters and overcrowded tourist attractions. In this 24/7/52 generation there is no need for everyone to take a holiday…
The internet cost of “free” The internet is an amazing resource for news, information, data, friendly forums, social networking, inspirational images and best of all it is all FREE! It isn’t really though. It all costs money to someone, sometime, somewhere. Adverts are the price we pay for have free access to it all. We…
