French Marigolds
Yesterday I tried a more ambitious post. It didn’t work out, as you may have noticed. Well, it’s not there so you probably noticed an absence rather than something that didn’t work out. The theory was good – stitch together two bits I’d done for the Numismatic Society’s Facebook page, add a few extras to remove the coin bias and I’d have a post covering the history of Chilwell including the building, the explosion, a nice tank badge I have and the future plans to build houses on the site. That, in turn, would become part of the path to producing an even better post. One of my friends used to do that. He wrote a number of books covering the Civil War, each one built on the research he’d done for his previous books.
Bee on Chives
However, it’s harder than it looks and by the time I’d finished I still wasn’t happy. As I’m not aiming for perfection I decided it was good enough. Having prepared it all in Open Office I cut and pasted, and that was where I noticed the typeface problem. I’d cut and pasted the two articles, added more words and somehow ended up with a mish-mash of fonts, font colours and bold type. I’m not sure what happened but it took a long time to get it (mostly) right.
At that point I decided to call it a day, as the photographs are, I predict, going to be difficult to get right too.
So that’s my explanation. I’m now going to finish the other post so if you are lucky, and depending how you interpret the word “lucky” this is going to be a two post day.
Photos are from May 2020.
Damselfly at Wilford
Two good insect pictures, and we know the second post was excellent
The photos are beautiful, Simon. Is that your own fig tree? The climate here in the Cascade foothills is borderline for them.
No, it is one in the MENCAP gardens. We have ne in big pot. We will plant it in suitably rocky soil when we move. They do reasonably well here, but we are less extreme than you and town gardens are quite sheltered.
I will read the second post tomorrow when I have more time and can do it justice.
Keep, half a banana to hand – you may need the energy. 😉
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The explanation is fair enough I guess that the damselfly is perfect
Thank you. It’s from a bygone era when I could walk and point a camera at the same time. The second post is up now, though it is a lot longer than normal so you may need coffee and fortitude.