Today I fine-tuned my packaging techniques and learned the mysteries of the scanner. I haven’t scanned anything for over ten years so it was an interesting half hour, not least because I couldn’t find where the computer was storing everything. As a result I spent a lot of time going through files looking for images.
It seems that if you leave the scanner number as the name of the file it is stored in a different place to the ones you rename. I stopped renaming them when it was suggested it would make things quicker. What slowed it down again was trying to reunite them, and trying to identify the non-renamed ones from a meaningless string of numbers.
After finding them I then spent a lot of time trying to load them.
If you’ve never tried it, let’s just say that it makes WordPress seem so simple…
At the moment, although it’s wet, and intermittently gusty, it’s quite warm, which is very pleasant after the recent cold weather. There was a news item tonight which showed Nottingham Prison as it was last week. The skies were grey and there was slush by the side of the roads. It wasn’t just a different time, it looked like a different lifetime. That’s how quickly we forget.
Add a steadily lengthening day (the days in Nottingham are lengthening by just over three minutes a day at the moment) and things are really quite cheery.
Also on the news tonight, the company that refurbishes old British telephone boxes – yours for only £2,750 if you are looking for an impractical greenhouse, or somewhere to install a landline at the bottom of the garden.
Phone box with defibrillator – Heckington
I love these old phone booths. They remind me of Dr. Who! 🙂
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Oh, I hope not! Just so I can make an informed decision – what would £2750 fetch me in the coin world?
I’m going to have to think about that one, but for just a little over budget you could have a Charles I gold Unite – a rare and historical coin. http://www.silburycoins.co.uk/shop/index.php/medieval/house-of-stuart-the-commonwealth-1603-1660ad/charles-i-gold-unite-1625-1649ad.html
Alternatively you could go for a silver penny of King Offa (of dyke fame).
http://www.silburycoins.co.uk/shop/index.php/saxon-viking/middle-saxon-period-c-758-973ad/offa-ar-penny-757-796ad-light-coinage-2927.html
Oh, wow. They both knock the telephone box into a cocked hat. I’ll put them on my Christmas list. I think if I ever was going to get seriously into collecting (apart from hill-tops, tributaries of the Lune, tarns, birds, butterflies etc etc which is really just a form of collecting), but, if I was ever going to get truly hooked on physical things rather than tick-lists it would be either playing cards or maps. A great starting point therefore would be the ancient set of cards which each featured a County Map.
Maps are good – I have some of our local area from the 1930w, and things are very different!
Yes, it’s fascinating to compare the changes, both to the places themselves and to the techniques of mapping.
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Jan 20th is the crucial date on the road to the brighter life. I am sorry about your scanning problems. This is just the sort of thing which amuses tech people. They need something to keep them happy when they spend their lives looking at 0s and 1s.
The 20th? I’ll make a note.
I think these problems are specifically built in to annoy me.
I do identify with the struggle to find where the computer has hidden stuff 🙂
Yes, it can be quite a struggle at times. 🙂
Lots and lots of birdsong in our Sherwood garden. Research recently revealed that birds which have been fed over the winter are beginning to breed earlier, but I do think January is pushing it for Blue Tits and Blackbirds!
Yes, everything seems to be changing.
The scanning process seems particularly difficult! I’m glad all I had to do today was try to get myself, my mother and trolley safely across the carpark and endeavour to keep my mother’s hat on her head at the same time! 😀
It’s not too difficult once you get the hang of it, it’s just that I’m an old dog trying to lean new tricks…
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The days are getting longer in Maine, too. Love those red telephone boxes. A little pricey to put in the garden, but fun
http://www.x2connect.com/RedPhonebox/K6PhotoGallery
There are a few dotted round the New World. 🙂
Now I’ve seen everything. A public defibrillator in a refurbished phone box…
We have quite a few like this – they look good but I’m told by a doctor that medically speaking they are almost useless.
Well, I assume most of the public isn’t trained to use one either, and stopping to read the instructions wouldn’t be all that helpful.
I imagine the results could be quite dramatic in the wrong hands.