continued frustrations

A couple of weekends ago, I had access to a computer for a couple of hours - but the mouse developed major behavioural problems I couldn't circumvent... At least I managed to get this draft post begun with some images, although I've lost all the immediacy that the process of snapping and blogging is intended to capture.

At home (unusually) for the weekend - after the rain that waterlogged fields and gardens and the snow that hit Winchcombe and the Malverns - I went for a stroll locally. Somehow, it became a three-hour hike - maybe I'm becoming slightly compulsive about this walking thing... There were lots of cracking photo opportunities, though.

On the Sunday, we "picnicked" in the Malverns (OK, it was more of a fuel stop in a sheltered gully - see below).

The following weekend, it was on to the coast and the Seaton-Lyme stretch - in the opposite direction from my usual. Which meant we caught the sunset from the Cobb (above); a glorious end to a fantastic walk and a beautiful day walking. Positively summery - until the sun went down, and then I was glad of my thermals!

Pix of Weston seafront & the marathon challenge in the Black Mountains to come (one day...) To finish this post, a last pic; pretty in pink - although photographing people isn't really my thing, some pix are irresisible. Besides which, Wilf asked me to post this one up!

News of the Dreamweavers project still to come...

a parking lot in paradise?

Joni sings so sweetly about not appreciating what you've got til it's gone...
Right now, for me it's the luxury of unpressured computer time (OK, unpressured time generally).
Over the last few years, I have seldom been without unlimited computer and internet access.
I'm now facing my fourth month with no home computer or internet access, and now that the novelty of living in a totally different place, working in a new job, has become more of a commonplace, the upheaval of Christmas is over (yes, OK, I did sidestep that - but in a hugely exhiliarating way - thank you Crysse!) and the hangover from New Year has at last subsided (though my liver function tests might never be the same again), the inconvenience of being sans technology is beginning to bite - hard.
I have pix from weekend walks right through January to load... and have begun the process several times; no less than three image CDs await computer access. Last weekend, I was sure I would be able to at least begin updating the blog - but even access to a borrowed computer failed; after my tax return was complete (thank goodness for that blessed relief at least!) my friend's computer decided work was over for the day...
It's enough to drive anyone to drink...
Normal service will probably never be resumed, so I'm making no such rash promises... Some kind of service should be available if I ever get another computer...
Being shackled to the office five days a week between the hours of 8.30am and 7pm isn't very conducive to writing anyway - I have an hour available between supper and bed...
However, keeping the walking commitment (albeit weekend only) is equally important, for maximising health and liver function - and for the Dreamweavers project. More of that later...