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  • Views of Scarborough

    A couple of fine days, a couple of wet days and a couple of misty days. We’ve experienced a lot worse weather in Scarborough!

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  • Stunning Robin Hood’s Bay

    We’ve been to Robin Hood’s Bay many times. It’s a beautiful old fishing village on the North Yorkshire coast, and when the weather is fine, as it was on this visit, it’s a wonderful place to visit. There is a notoriously steep hill that must be walked to get from the top of the village to the bottom, and back again!

    And the bus back home!

    And here is an experimental image I like to throw in occasionally.

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  • I’m not happy

    Taylors ScarboroughI’m not happy. Taylors Cafe and Books in Scarborough has new owners – and they’ve done away with the books! After a decent coffee and cake, I could always find a couple of interesting second-hand books on the top floor. Sadly, no more.

    However it gets worse. The only bookshop selling new books (other than a middling Waterstones) has cut back to 3 days opening. It always seemed to me that it was far too small to survive, but it’s still there two years after opening – but for how much longer? It’s at the wrong end of an alley off the main street, an alley which is looking very rundown, and I feel pessimistic about this bookshop’s prospects.

    Oh, and it hasn’t stopped raining all day, and the forecast is for more of the same tomorrow. I’m not happy!

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  • Horsing around

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  • Still tinkering

    I used to be a computer programmer and I haven’t lost the pleasure to be had from figuring out how to alter or fix anything related to software. Nowadays this is likely to be exploring web design using HTML and CSS rather than writing computer code.

    Using CSS within WordPress it’s possible to alter the design of a blog (providing you’ve paid a little extra for the upgrade). It can sometimes be quite a challenge. Here is an example of before and after screenshots of some recent changes I made to how an image gallery is displayed. I wanted to remove the Comment area, the view full-size option, as well as to centre the description text and to emphasise the ‘close gallery’ icon at the top. For the really curious, a screenshot of the CSS code is also shown.

    Before CSS edits
    After CSS edits
    The CSS code!
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  • Hever Castle & gardens

    The castle
    This is probably my dream sitting room!

    The lake

    The gardens

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  • Park life

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  • My Life as a Courgette

    I was the only person in the Wimbledon HMVCurzon cinema – a first for me! That wasn’t too surprising as it was a lovely sunny day and it would have been lunchtime for most people. (more…)

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  • Southampton

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  • Noooo! Say it isn’t so!

    We’ve still got a Tory government, we’ve still got Brexit, but now we’re stuck with Corbyn and his motley crew and there’s going to have to be another election.

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