I lost interest in reading for a good few years but I have, in the last 2 years, rediscovered my love of books. My choice of books has generally been fantasy or chick lit, but my other obsession with a certain aircraft has led me to books about aviation. My brother and a few others […]
Category: Personal
My Concorde bucket list
So far I have managed to tick 4 Concordes off the list, Reg. No. Location First Flight Last Flight Supersonic Flights Seen by me F-WTSS 001 Museum of Air and Space, Le Bourget, France 02/03/1969 19/10/1973 249 G-BSST 002 Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, England 09/04/1969 04/03/1976 196 G-AXDN 101 British Airliner Collection, […]
Daily prompt: what activities do I lose myself in?
What activities do you lose yourself in? For me it’s reading, family history research and jigsaws. In a weird way, they are all linked. I have to read to do the family history research, and what I find is like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle as I try to piece together the lives of […]
Concorde: a special aircraft
Ever since I found out at some point in the past that Concorde flew for the first time on my 5th birthday, she (for planes are always ‘she’) has always had a special place in my heart. However, as a distraction for stuff that’s currently going on in real life that is causing stress, Concorde […]
Daily Writing Prompt: what have I been working on?
A lot of ‘stuff’ is distracting me, apart from the obvious one of having to work to earn a living and keep a roof over my head. Selling my Mum’s house to pay for her care home fees is really causing me a lot of stress currently. We accepted an offer last April but the […]
23 Things for Digital Knowledge 2016
Thanks to this 23 Things course, I have just been awarded my very first open badge. Chuffed!
Thing 13: Video
YouTube has been around for so long now that life wouldn’t be the same without it. I have used it extensively to search for videos of my favourite musicians. Playlists can be really useful in bringing together a whole set of videos. I do wonder about the copyright issues involved with such videos, though, especially […]