Photo Albums for July 2016. Please click thumbnail
to see the complete album.
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Thursday, July 14. 2016
July 2016
June 2016
Photo Albums for June 2016. Please click thumbnail
to see the complete album.
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May 2016 - Isle Of Wight
During May 2016 Carol, John Gail and Steve spent a
week on the Isle Of Wight. Please click the thumbnail to see the complete album
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More April Photographs
New Photo Albums have been included in my April
2016 Collection. Please click the thumbnail to view.
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Sunday, April 17. 2016
April 2016
It has been quite while since I have updated the
front page of my web site. This has been mainly due to a very large computer
project that I have been meaning to do for several months but required some
alterations to my computer hardware. In the past I have managed to free up a
considerable amount of space in our house by digitising various things such as
photographs, my music collection and books. In the past a considerable amount of
space was taken up with VHS tapes to keep our video recordings. This was later
reduced by moving things onto CD/DVD and then disposing of the taped versions.
However there have now been vast improvements in computer technology with larger
capacity hard drives plus the increased speeds of wireless networking within a
building. It has now become practical to move stuff from those CD/DVD discs onto
hard drives and stream the content around the building. To do so however I had
to upgrade various items of computer hardware some of which proved to be a
challenge - mostly getting things to fit into the motherboard. This has now been
completed.
The weather has been so mild this year that I had to
give our lawn its first cut on 12 February - Quite surprising when the last cut
was only in November.
On Thursday 25 February My Aunt Doreen (Whitehouse)
was buried in Walsall Wood. There was a service at St Johns Church followed by a
wake at King Street Progressive Club. I met up with several family members I had
not seen for several years including my cousins Mark, Christopher and Tracey. It
was quite surprising to see how Sandra and also Graham's families have now
grown. My former next door neighbour Norma from Herbert Road was also in
attendance.
On Monday 29 February having noticed that Millie was
now panting much more than usual I took her to the Vets. Millie has now been put
on heart medication.
On Friday 4 March the twins had "sleepover". The same
day Faustine came over from France on a business trip and so Faustine also slept
here from Friday through to Wednesday 9 March.
Tuesday, January 26. 2016
Rhine Cruise 2001
During 2001 Gail, Carol, John, Pat, George and
myself went on a cruise down the River Rhine in Germany. At that time I had the
latest "State of the art" Analogue camcorder and took the following videos. In
those days computing was still in its infancy with restricted hard drive storage
space, YouTube videos were restricted to very short clips. Video editing
software was almost non existant. At that time I simply transferred the entire
contents of my camcorder tapes to one huge video file which for playback
purposes was obviously not very efficient making it almost impossible to locate
a particular piece of footage. Also I was unaware of the locations of many of
the clips - It was only whilst working on this project some 15 years after these
videos were taken, that I was able to identify the location of the Hotel in
Belgium (Video #3 below).
I have not attempted to improve the quality of these old clips but have simply split the large file up into several small sequences and then inserted an opening title.
I have not attempted to improve the quality of these old clips but have simply split the large file up into several small sequences and then inserted an opening title.
Wednesday, January 20. 2016
Happy New 2016
We celebrated the Christmas Period with Festive pub meals at
1. The
Whitehouse
2. The Boathouse.
Christmas Dinner was at the Toby Carvery,
Shenstone (Known locally as The Highwayman)
On Tuesday 22 December 2015
we attended an Aladdin Pantomime at the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre. Neil had
arranged the two front rows for members of the PPFC Community Centre, Gail and
myself sat at the very front.
New Year was celebrated in our traditional
manner of taking a mini holiday with other members of the PPFC Community Centre.
This year it was to Scarborough with a Harry Shaw coach arranged by Neil. During
this break we also made visits to Harrogate, Whitby, Bridlington and York.
I have made an alteration to the layout of my website. The Video albums have
now been merged with the photo albums. This should make items easier to find
plus the videos have now been cross-referenced much better than they were
previously
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Tuesday, December 15. 2015
Hello Georgia
We are delighted to announce Georgia Emily Jones was born at 3.38am this
morning Tuesday 15 December 2015 weighing 6lb 15. Mother and baby doing well at home.
