Still looking as if Blogger doesn't think I'm logged in on this blog when I am and doesn't register Quick Edit setting. I wonder why?

Filling a form at the bank today, it occurred to me that today was my father's birthday. He would have been 93 today but died in 2001 aged 84. For Dad, '13' was his lucky number. Mum survived him by a year and died in 2002 a little short of her 87th birthday (in August). Mum's twin sister, Sheila, who was very close, had died in November 2000 aged 85. That year (2001-2) I think we had a dozen funerals in as many months.

At 63, I wonder if I have another 20 years or so left? I notice that Blogger seems at least in part to think I might still be editing in Hindi.

Just checking that I'm still here!
Strange, but the little 'edit' pencil has disappeared and Blogger doesn't seem to recognise on the page that I'm logged in when I am!

Strange, but there doesn't seem to be a post title box for this post - what happened?
Oh well, not using this for a while I'm getting mixed up between blogger and wordpress!

I'm just adding this Picasa (Google) slideshow of earlier photos as an experiment/test for future use.
Ooops! I forgot to add the code: here 'tis:

 Interested?

 More interested?

Out of order? - but a few shots from our field trip Sierra de Aracena 14-21 April 2008

Puente del Sillo, 16 April 2008 - the Roman? bridge.

The passage of time.

The profile picture of me was taken about 10 years ago or more. This one taken on the Suffolk coast near Aldeburgh about 2 years ago.

Oh well, that's pretty extraordinary - after almost 3 months it seems I can still remember my password! The navasola.wordpress.com site hasn't been updated in a long time either but I have kept up with the HYC site at (Wordpress via) www.humberyawlclub.com

Will upload some pictures from Spain (and Portugal) if I recover from this weekend's sailing trip/BBQ.

But also to experiment, here's a link to the Tao of Mac as I found that fascinating today and have a longing for Lisbon.
(Tenho saudade por Lisboa?)

Now I'm torn between re-visiting this blog and updating it or revising and updating its sister at navasola.wordpress.com
Our second 'experimental' week at Navasola from 14-21 april went very well with three clients despite the abominable weather in the region of Western Andalucia. We were in fact very lucky with enjoying some fine days and managing to avoid the rain most of the time for fieldwork and picnics.
One client's feedback to date:
It still seems bizarre that we should have been so unlucky with the weather -- It would be dishonest not to admit that it rather spoilt the week though fortunately it didn't ruin it -- we fulfilled objectives reasonably well.
What we did and saw was interesting (to us) and in line with what we had expected. In retrospect, if cars can now be rented in Aracena, you could put a day in Merida as the day off option -- it seems silly to be so close and not visit and the drive there is not arduous and is through great scenery. Otherwise, I hope that you feel you got some benefit from running an economically non viable week for us, that will help in the future. Brian was excellent in the Donana but the weather certainly deprived us of seeing certain species -- indeed I suppose we'd have seen more raptors overall.

Stuff White People Like
Oh, I had some indirect links to this below but it continues to be hilariously funny and sort of deep and meaningful at the same time so here's the direct link.

NO2ID:why not?
A succint summary of why everyone should refuse to participate in the ID scheme - not a lot to choose between this and the Gestapo's/SS yellow stars for Jews. (Think about it! "Who are you?" "I'm ME!" "No, you're who we say you are on this piece of paper and in the records of the state police!")

NO2ID:stop ID cards and the database state
See the 'all recommendations' BROKEN on this home page.

Preemptive Karma: Stuff White People Like - the blog

Planet Grenada: stuff white people like

Planet Grenada

third resurrection

Not much visited just now as most effort has been put into the Humber Yawl Club website and blog and an experimental Navasola blog at Wordpress.com, with some editing of the HYC official site.

Interesting to see that Blogger now offers Arabic, Persian and Hebrew - when I've not long finished reading Salam Pax - the Baghdad blog - the book (about 5 years too late!). An interesting experience when combined with reading Brian Keenan's 'An Evil Cradling' just afterwards. (Recent illness with a nasty and lingering cough has led to rather more reading than usual so I've also read Paulo Coelho's 'Veronica Decides to Die' and Matt Lowe's 'The Family Friend' and dipped into Horace Dobbs' (North Ferriby at International Dolphin Watch) 'Journey into Dolphin Dreamtime'.)

Curiously, all five books deal with sex or masturbation at some point (at least, I think that's what Brian Keenan is obliquely referring to in contrast with Paulo Coelho's celebration). And what a contrast between Coelho's open spirituality (and sexuality?) and 'Islamic Jihad' or the Taliban. (Hear Coelho speaking at the Dubai International Film festival 2008 on his blog yesterday). (Now, where would that put me in the search results? Yesterday, two clicks took me from feminine lubrication to The Living Rainforest in Berkshire!).

I'll maybe pass by later and add some Amazon or better links to the books above.
Meanwhile, visit the Navasola website for updates there.

Mari
São Paulo, Brazil

A flying visit to sister Josie's gym club:

Surrey Borders Gym Club home page

A quick test visit! The weather for Seville:

Navasola Nature’s Weblog

Navasola Nature’s Weblog

Have now copied blog over to navasola.wordpress.com to try out some of the wordpress features.

Otherwise, Grimsby Lock Tower is now known as 'Pete's Tower' in some quarters and I'll be off to Spain for 3 weeks from Thursday.

Heston
Just a quick post whilst still in August and still in London.
Here's a picture of Peter and Georgina sailing on Uldra before Pete took her (Uldra) to Grimsby.



And here's one of Roger and Andy working at Winteringham which will also appear on the Humber Yawl Blog and website shortly.

YouTube - Experiment -Being a Nudist- This is beautiful and hilarious - whither the web - but the comments are rather sad.

Gemma's World Teaching Journal

Vagabundeando por el Mundo - travel blog from Spain?

BLOG DOS QUADRINHOS - UOL Blog
Cartoon News from Brazil

Humber Yawl Club

Not sure if I've posted this blog here before but just to do that and report and remind myself that the fire-brigade had to extract me from the bathroom window at 7.30am yesterday - so no sailing in the pouring rain for me that day! (Gather this has made a line in today's local paper!)

Humber Yawl Club

Barton on Humber 8th July 2007
Peter has made a quarter century.
Here's a picture of juvenile 'javali' - young wild boar - taken near the well a few weeks ago:

One for the Taliban

Body in Mind : Ideas of Female beauty
With serendipitous link.

And a couple more:
This is old whine in new battles. (I couldn't resist this quote)
Body in Mind Blog with story from Al Jazeera