tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38636162024-03-24T16:32:51.542-07:00Nuda VeritasDiary and erratic writings about anything I fancyFeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.comBlogger254125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-78085417918629391852023-07-28T02:47:00.002-07:002023-07-28T02:58:52.420-07:00Unidentified flying objects disclosure I haven't posted for a long time on this blog, but I have found myself posting a LOT on twitter and Reddit, and that's a bit disatisfying, because it's difficult to draw together all I am thinking without posting enormously long threads. So I am returning to this blog instead.
I've been interested in UFOs since I was a child. I've read a lot about the subect over the last 50 years or so, Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-20134340167236531112022-11-24T17:17:00.002-08:002022-11-24T17:17:29.833-08:00Home for Christmas (Netflix) and other thingsI realised today that one of the reasons I haven't been writing so much, is that I have been using twitter and facebook and exhausting my opinions and frustrations in those places. I have about 1700 followers on twitter, which seems like a lot of people, but is just a handful compared with others and of course a grain of sand compared with celebrities with millions of followers.I've been watchingFeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-36792310498659248392022-11-10T02:25:00.000-08:002022-11-10T02:25:59.102-08:00Twitter is dyingOne of the reasons I haven't blogged for a while, is that I had increased the amount of time and effort I put into twitter. I've found from experience that the worth of twitter is all about who you follow. I haven't ever automatically followed everyone who was following me - that is to let go of the control over what appears in your feed.To be honest, I've always preferred the short-lived subjot Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-38074375742521142302020-05-26T06:12:00.002-07:002020-05-26T06:12:59.211-07:00Weekend Rage
I didn't expect to spend the pleasant bank holiday weekend raging on twitter, but I did. On Saturday twitter told me that Dominic Cummings, special government advisor, had not self-isolated when his wife was ill, but had instead first, gone to work, and second, driven 250+ miles with his wife and son to Durham to stay with his parents. And had potentially gone on other trips too.
His Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-28762015574370795882020-05-22T04:32:00.002-07:002020-05-22T04:32:44.747-07:00Curriculum Vitae
I am actively looking for work I can do from home, like the rest of the UK population. So I thought I would put a CV on my blog, just in case.
I have long experience as a writer, blogger and editor. I worked for ten years for Lloyd's Register of Shipping (LR), the classification society, not the insurance market, working on both in-house and external publications. I wrote Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-21552186246932063102020-05-20T01:51:00.003-07:002020-05-20T01:51:25.847-07:00Melons growing, courgettes not
My melon seeds have burst into life, while my courgette seeds are stubbornly refusing to burst into life at the moment. I was given some raspberry canes which I planted immediately and seem to be doing well.
Yesterday my son Tom took down the larger part of a bush that had become a tree and was threatening to push over the wall between my neighbour and myself. I hadn't realized Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-37911285091902057422020-05-03T00:02:00.002-07:002020-05-03T00:02:29.899-07:00Pottering about
I've been concentrating on my garden for a bit, planting seeds and repotting things. I took the overgrown aloe vera which was becoming very overcrowded in the kitchen and found that I actually had nine aloe vera plants! I repotted these and have spread them around the house, although I plan to give some of them away. My daughter has already swapped one with someone locally whoFeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-91387149859229091722020-04-24T02:41:00.001-07:002020-04-24T02:41:18.353-07:00Offering service to others
I have a website about family history, which I set up with the encouragement of others who said that I should make the services I have given to people freely in the past into a business. The trouble is that I love family history research so much that I feel wrong selling it. I haven't kept up the blogging there either, so it looks out of date... and I realise that the wall of text I have on theFeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-2471242007455623042020-04-24T02:32:00.003-07:002020-04-24T02:32:32.170-07:00Another beautiful day
The weather is just as I like it at the moment, sunny but cool with a breeze, although the tall walls in my garden make it less breezy than elsewhere. Yesterday I put in my strawberry plants when they arrived. I have now received my liquorice seeds, and the ancient seeds I have ordered for old breeds of edible plants. I'm looking for perennial plants which will have a long growing season.Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-47048144049550615702020-04-23T04:33:00.001-07:002020-04-23T08:15:41.889-07:00Sewing scrubs and scrubs bagsI've sewed three scrubs bags for the local maternity hospital (although I have yet to iron them). I don't think my sewing skills are good enough to make scrubs, although I have sent off for a pattern.
Meanwhile, both scrubs and scrub bags need cord, and this video shows how to make a bias or straight cord without ironing or using a plastic guide.
I will collect any useful information for Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-19417947473048559682020-04-23T04:26:00.001-07:002020-04-23T04:26:36.994-07:00Gardening in my pyjamas
As the UK is experiencing California-like weather, with long sunny days every day at the moment, I have been out in the garden trying to get it under control. I left my garden for about six months in 2018 when I looked after first my ex and then my mother for several months, then spent a lot of time helping to sort out my mother's house. Then six months after I lost my mother, my Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-30394653459317616772020-04-12T04:53:00.001-07:002020-04-12T04:53:32.376-07:00Easter Sunday Thoughts
The theme of Easter Sunday ought to be resurrection, new life, spring and a coming abundance. These are all symbolized in the egg, adopted from Tammuz worship from Mesopotamia millenia ago. At the moment that's hard to reflect upon, with thousands ill and dying in the hospitals, and all of us locked inside.
I've spent the first part of my morning ranting on twitter, unsure if anything I Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-36185745306475151802020-04-10T01:21:00.000-07:002020-04-10T01:21:31.153-07:00Good Friday thoughts
The things I will be thinking about this Good Friday are man's inhumanity to man, and sacrifice.
People spend a lot of time arguing about whether Jesus was a real historical figure, and whether he was divine or human. Much more important to me are the lessons that are contained in the gospels about how it is right to live. We are all connected, all part of the same spirit, and how we treat Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-24309802882302694332020-03-27T02:51:00.000-07:002020-03-27T02:53:10.492-07:00Wrong science and 3D masksI've notice a constant downplaying of the crisis in the reported information coming in all directions, and Chris Martenson says that he has too. He debunks the Oxford report which indicates that most people in the UK have already had Covid-19 and you need to watch his video if you don't already follow him.
Meanwhile, although millions of gloves and face masks etc have been sent out to Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-30930121620085554582020-03-26T08:34:00.002-07:002020-03-26T08:34:22.061-07:00Do-it-yourself masks for NHS workers and your family
In the US there is a concerted effort to make masks for health workers, social workers and other people who are at risk and don't have access to proper surgical masks.
There isn't a similar campaign in the UK - yet. But if Italy, which was rated the number 2 best health service in the world could have run out of protective face masks for staff, it is very possible for it to happen here.&Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-88465842556891541792020-03-20T04:33:00.000-07:002020-05-29T05:34:42.809-07:00Things to do while quarantined or self-isolating
Many people have been posting ideas of things to do while quarantined or self-isolating.
My first suggestion is with my family history hat on. Remember how annoying it was when you found a picture of unknown ancestors in a box of photographs and didn't know who was who, because no one had labelled the photograph? Yeah, well that's about to happen on a massive scale, because hardly Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-15517712562579775712020-03-20T04:23:00.000-07:002020-03-20T04:23:00.055-07:00Information sources
It's clear that there are good, bad and really terrible information sources in this current crisis affecting a large part of Europe and the rest of the world. I'm going to try to keep this page updated with any I find that seem useful.
The public health England heat map of infections is here. You can therefore see where the hot spots are, and the figures for infection in your Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-29685680723876788092020-03-20T03:39:00.002-07:002020-03-20T05:56:26.801-07:00Home-made masks
OK, I've done my whingeing. We are where we are. So I am going to use my blog to try to share information and tips for us all. No use in saying "people affected by the Covid-19 crisis" because we all are.
This is a link to an article showing what materials make the best home made masks and giving information about how good they are at stopping infection. Don't believe Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-31422320018290473632020-03-20T00:53:00.000-07:002020-03-20T00:53:00.359-07:00Protect yourself
It is been surreal this week, watching horror unfold in Italy and Spain, and seeing life continue more or less as normal in Market Rasen. For weeks I've been shouting into the wind on Twitter, trying to get people in my country to realize how serious the situation is in Italy, and to understand that we are headed for exactly the same meltdown of our services if we don't react and act nowFeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-31318071651684635572020-03-16T17:45:00.003-07:002020-03-16T17:45:40.563-07:00Like watching a slow-motion train crash
It has been obvious to me for some time that the Covid-19 crisis unfolding in Italy was likely to unfold in the same way here if we did not take the measures of social distancing that other countries have been taking. Today the government announced that they are advising people to self isolate if anyone in their family has a high temperature or persistent cough, and that we should not Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-48705878688008230812020-03-11T04:03:00.001-07:002020-03-11T04:03:07.131-07:00Boiling frogs
As a genealogist, I've often wondered what it must have been like for my ancestors to have lived through the plagues which have cut a swathe through the population of this country from time to time. We all have ancestors who did, of course, or we just wouldn't be here. I didn't think I'd live through a plague of the sort now raging in China and Italy and creeping across the world. But Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-3230402149062928162020-01-05T02:07:00.001-08:002020-01-05T02:07:13.989-08:00New Year, new thinking
Flooded field in Market Rasen
Bankers
Once, it was simple and easy to see
I had extra bulls and I needed poultry
you had extra chickens and needed a steak
A swap was the easiest way to partake
Someone invented the mint one fine day
Then we could use shiny coinage to pay
I paid you for chickens and sold Bert the beef
And you could buy oysters and prawns from the chief
Thus far it is easy to Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-48421463396760256242019-07-13T03:25:00.000-07:002019-07-13T03:25:06.580-07:00Broken toes and broken heartsI've got the angry stage in my grieving. I was wondering if I ever would, I'm not an angry sort of person, don't get angry in circumstances where other people would, and tend to be the sort of person who tries to understand why other people behave as they do, rather than condemning them for it. I'm not a saint, but I really think I don't have an angry sort of personality and I have Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-78951988659631279902019-06-11T00:56:00.002-07:002019-06-11T00:56:53.708-07:00Keeping out of the washroomIt's been some time since I posted on this blog. I realised the other day that I tend to do most of my writing on Facebook nowadays, venting about the government, or about personal things to a limited audience of friends and online acquaintances. There is a qualitative difference between blogging and posting to FB though. With blogging, I have no expectation of anyone reading Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3863616.post-47746226849673578432019-02-11T06:21:00.000-08:002019-02-11T06:21:15.851-08:00Time to createLast Tuesday I started a course at the wonderful Bricktree Gallery in Caistor, called "Create some "me Time". The course is run by Sara Scott, who has set up the Facebook page and group the above link leads to.
Due to my recent bereavements, I haven't felt like creating much recently. Everything seemed trivial and pointless, and whereas I normally feel inspired to take up some sort Feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878413819251951017noreply@blogger.com0