A link to a petition against the building of a monster data centre in rural west Norfolk and a photo gallery.
Just a brief post today…
PETITION AGAINST THE BUILDING OF A GIANT DATA CENTRE IN NORFOLK
Longmarsh Green Energy are planning to build a behemoth of a data centre in rural west Norfolk. To give you an idea of just how vast this data centre will be if its allowed to be built, it would occupy an area not just larger than entire village of Watlington which it would adjoin, but a larger area than the nearest town to Watlington, Downham Market. I cannot imagine anywhere that would actually be improved by the construction of something like this, but rural west Norfolk would suffer even more from this than many locations. A petition is running against this, which you can sign and share by clicking here.
PHOTOGRAPHS
As always I include a photo gallery…
The first 13 images of this gallery are an entire gallery for one lot, featuring ads and general content.On the left side of this composite is an advert that was a vertical half page, while on the right was a square advert that occupied about two-thirds of the page on which it appeared. This is a standalone selection from another lot.
A photo gallery featuring many birds and insects, including three species of butterfly.
Here is my latest gallery (late yesterday and today) featuring among other things three different species of Butterfly…
A painted lady on a buddleia head overlooking the upper Purfleet.A woodland brown on a leaf that still has its green colourA red admiral on a leaf that has gone redA red admiral with a background of greenery.A curious looking bug on the exposed underside of a green leaf.
I am a little short on inspiration right now, so just to keep the blog active I am producing a gallery of my latest hobby photos. To view photos at large size just click on one.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Here we are…
The grey colouring says that this is technically still a cygnet, but it is pretty much the same size as its parents.One smallish leaf, three larvae. The larvae on the left and right probably belong to the same species, but the one in the middle is clearly different.This looks quite similar to a squirrel, but its movements were bouncier than any squirrel I have ever seen, and where a squirrel would have a bushy tail pretty much as long as the rest of its body this creature just has a tiny tuft of tail. One fully developed insect (the reverse video ladybird – black with red spots rather than the usual way round) and one larva sharing a leaf.
An account of changing computers by way of explaining a few days of not blogging.
I am finally able to blog again after a few days without a computer on which I could do so. This post describes the trials and tribulations of the last few days.
RIP OLD COMPUTER
My old computer gave warning signs of trouble on Sunday, and on Monday morning it became very obvious that it was no longer usable. As a temporary measure to maintain some degree of connectivity I dug my even older computer out, and fortunately it proved still just about usable, although I could not do much on it. On Wednesday morning I went to PC World to check out new computers and find one that would do what I needed and was not too extortionately priced (my mother was willing to cover the cost, for which I am very grateful. My local PC World is on an industrial estate just to the south of King’s Lynn proper, while I live just to the north of King Lynn’s proper. This gave me, as a non-driver, two options: two buses, into and then out of town, or a longish walk. It being spring, and the weather actually being springlike I opted without hesitation for the latter. I found a suitable machine at a not extortionate price and made the necessary arrangements, and left it with the store for them to set it up for me, which they said would take a couple of days. Today, wanting the machine in my possession for my upcoming trip to the lake district I went back to PC World to collect, and eventually was able to do so.
NEW COMPUTER SETUP
I connected to my new computer, while keeping the very old one connected as well for a few moments in case I needed to check emails on it to access my email account from the new device. Once I was sure I would not need to use it further I returned to it is old resting place in case of emergency. The photo editing software on the new machine is somewhat different from that on the old machine and I am still coming to terms with it.
PHOTOGRAPHS
The photographs in this section were edited on three different machines – my very old laptop, a computer at King’s Lynn library and my new laptop…
The above were edited on my very old laptop…
Some of the images I have edited on my new laptop…
The third section of the gallery are the pictures I edited at the library on Monday.
