Changing Travel

Travel is becoming quite regular in my life a the moment and I thought I would share some observations that I have made over the last couple of years

Travel is becoming quite regular in my life a the moment. I drafted this post sat on a plane flying back to the UK. I have now been travelling pretty much the same journey for work since September 2020 and it is fascinating how things have changed. When I started travelling regularly, COVID was still very much on everyone’s minds. You had to get COVID tests before departing the UK, before…

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A little blue bear writes a story

Read on if you want to know what happens when a little blue bear writes a story about a little blue bear using an AI generator.

Hello everyone, your favourite little blue bear Blueted at the keyboard again. little blue keyboard warrior During a bit of downtime, I had, yes teddies do get rest. I decided to do a bit of exploring on the internet. No not that part of the internet, and I found ChatGPT (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/) I was planning to write another post to join my growing series of posts and the idea of…

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Blueted the little bear is back, I am still alive

Blueted - still alive if falling apart a little more.

Hello tinterweb people, how are you all keeping? I know you have all been wondering but this little bear is still here Blue wisdom It has been some time since this bear managed to find myself on a keyboard and be able to type a post. I am now a very old man, 46 in teddy bear years is …. well very old. However, despite my fur being very thin and my stuffing leaking out everywhere I still manage…

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What I read in 2022 - what books make the cut in 2022

Time for a review of books from 2022

It is that time of year to look back at the running log of books I have read. I keep a complete list in my “projects” where I have been tracking what I have read since 2015 2022 had significantly more travelling in 2021 however I found that despite this I still only managed to get 2 physical books read. Maybe 2023 will be the year to increase that as a challenge. That said 2022 was a good year.…

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Is flexible scouting what you think it is

If your view of flexible scouting the same as mine?

What do you think of when you hear the term flexible scouting? Photo by Yogendra Singh on Pexels.com Yes, the first image is Scout leaders of my shape and size doing yoga. When I really think about flexible scouting, I have always thought about it as being around adults. A way to provide an option that enables adults who work on shifts or can only give their support one weekend a month the…

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What is your guilty pleasure movie - mine is...

What is your guilty pleasure movie

Is there that one movie that you have seen many many times that you can call your guilty pleasure,I have a couple but there is one that probably stands above them all Definitely, Maybe The 2008 Ryan Reynolds movie Definitely, Maybe can be called my guilty pleasure. I know it is soppy and I know that from very early in the movie the outcome. However, I enjoy it and I am not 100% sure why. I…

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What I read in 2021 - was it a good reading year

Reading round up for 2021

It is that time of year to look back at the running log of books I have read. I keep a full list in my “projects” where I have been tracking the books since 2015 I did a bit more travelling in 2021 and the walking challenge in July, August and September. These together helped the number of books I consumed to pass the 2020 value. 2021 was a good year, and it was my best year since I started to…

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Jabbering January a short look back at my 2021

A slightly late Happy New Year to you and a little look back at 2021

Happy New Year to you and yours and welcome to 2022, As always at this time in the year, I do some looking back and some looking forward. It is always wonderful when we get a chance to stop and take stock. In the case of my blog, it is looking back at what I did and looking forward to what I am going to do. So this time last year, when I was looking back at my blog it was fair to say it had…

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Libyan Adventure - Part Three

Libyan Adventure – Part Three

Hello Dear Reader Well, what to tell you about the desert? here are the three things I noticed during my time in Lybia. Three things about the desert Firstly it is not a desert as you may think. I am sure you have seen movies of soft sand, rolling dunes. Here the sand hard more like a beach within the tide mark. this could be linked to all the construction activity and plan movement but I did…

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My youngest has got so tall this holiday #daughtersrock https://instagr.am/p/CTAW9DKoUf4/

16 tonnes of stone balancing 2m in the air on the points of other rocks about the width of a finger……. My guess the aliens 👽 did it #holibobs https://instagr.am/p/CS9erTaosQM/

The organ at St David’s Cathedral #summerholibobs https://instagr.am/p/CS4TdnzIwsJ/

When you on a walk on a footpath like this and through your headphones the sound of like a large farm machine comes….. I won’t lie a little bit of wee came out as I got ready to run😳 https://instagr.am/p/CSfAMZ-r9hL/

Ready to zip through the air #daughtersrock https://instagr.am/p/CSEe3YArwMG/

Marching on through week 3 of the steps challenge

Marching on through week 3 of the steps challenge and passing 250k steps

End of Week 3 marching along Marching here, marching there, I got out of the house and marched everywhere. This week was a week when I could actually get out of the house and not just walk around the garden. However, this week was a busy busy week at work so despite being able to get out I still needed to use my 85 steps route. Looking back at the time spent marching round the garden. I have…

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Not what you expect to see on an evening walk around the village https://instagr.am/p/CRpAzMwrxFk/

Steps challenge the week two check-in

Now in it week two of my steps challenge for diabetes UK and so far I am keeping on track.

A whole week in lockdown Week two can only be described as being a whole week in lockdown trying to get steps. I have managed to interrupt the daily phone calls from track and trace with some quality walking around the garden. As mentioned in my previous post this is the way I keep hitting my daily target. It has also been a way to keep sane during this period of confinement. It’s not that I…

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