15 days – Day 12

Day 12: Saturday 4th April. Well, it’s the weekend and that means a little bit of a lie-in. It seems a little easier to sleep in these days as the traffic down the road is a fraction of what it was. Once up and about it was time to complete some chores and then … Continue reading 15 days – Day 12 →

15 Days – Day 11

Day 11: Friday 3rd April. It was somewhat of a varied day workwise. Paperwork involving pensions, HR stuff, IT assistance on a laptop with a faulty camera and software shenanigans. It was a relief to end the week that has felt so strange. I think we, I mean I, think about the work side of … Continue reading 15 Days – Day 11 →

15 days – Day 10

Day 10: Thursday 2 April Back at work this morning and a trip into the empty office to get some paperwork. I managed to get quite a bit done with no interruptions until 11:30 then a conference call via Teams. Back home for the afternoon and finish off some of the work started this morning. … Continue reading 15 days – Day 10 →

15 Day – Day 9

Day 9: Wednesday 1st April. No work today as I don’t work Wednesdays. This morning I spent the time printing out some colour photographs. This is unusual for me as I predominantly take black and white images. The images today dated from 2013. I am gradually working through past work creating monochrome portfolios for each … Continue reading 15 Day – Day 9 →

April Project

EXPLORE A LENS Choose a lens you don't normally use or a single focal length on a zoom lens and find photos and angles which use it effectively. This project can be interpreted in many ways and the instructions are deliberately not detailed so that you can do them in your own way. Try not … Continue reading April Project →

15 days – Day 8

Day 8: Tuesday 31 March. This morning I had to go into the office to get another laptop ready for a home user. The office was freezing. I was there for the whole morning and despite sitting on top of a portable heater I could not get warm. When I left, despite it being a … Continue reading 15 days – Day 8 →

15 Days – Day 7

Day 7: Monday 30th March It was our first day back at work today after our week off. Work laptops were set up, PC's were plugged in and powered on. We were away. The day actually passed quite quickly and a lot of the time was spent acclimatizing to MS Teams which is being used … Continue reading 15 Days – Day 7 →

15 Days – Day 6

Day 6: Sunday 29th March The realisation that today is the last day of the week-long holiday myself and my family have had initially made me feel a rush of depression. Even though we were all self-isolating, it was nice not to have to think about work things. Tomorrow its “back to work”, my work … Continue reading 15 Days – Day 6 →

15 Days – Day 5

Day 5: Saturday 28th March. Today we look back on a holiday week that we have never seen before – and hopefully will never see again. It has not been unpleasant, but plans were dashed. Today the weather has turned wintery again. There are flashes of sun, but the clouds soon got in the way … Continue reading 15 Days – Day 5 →

15 Days – Day 4

Day 4: Friday 27th March The last day of our holiday and it’s been the strangest break I’ve ever had. We have been blessed with nice weather but reading a book outside today was not on the agenda. It is sunny but cold. The temperature has been dropping all week. We’ve never particularly worried about … Continue reading 15 Days – Day 4 →