I’ve been struggling to find anything interesting to photograph today. Then I had a thought. Let’s look back on this day in previous years. So a quick scan was made of my mobile phone photos and this is what I found.
This was our part of the world one year ago today. Another almost sunny day in Yorkshire. That’s 2 in a year. Wow.
In 2018 normal service has been resumed. It’s dark and rainy Yorkshire.
In 2017 it was a friends meet-up.
Can’t find a photo from 2016 but it would have been a Saturday. A time just months before the world changed for us. Saturday would have seen us get up early and visit my partners mum. After a coffee I would head off and shop for my mum. We would see her on Sunday. We would then stop off at a petting zoo. We would follow the exact same route through the little zoo. Waiting for quiet gaps to appear at each of the animals. Then we headed for home stocked up with sandwiches, cake and ice cream. In 2016 this would most likely have been a nice day.
So we find ourselves in 2020 and the world has changed for most of us. But just in case we revisit today in a few years time, we had better make it a nice one. So hopefully by the time you read this we will have built a ginormous Lego tower. The picnic in the garden was not disrupted by ants. I remembered to hard boil the eggs before they are decorated for this years Easter Egg tradition. This year we are going for Marvel Super Heroes. We both will have planted some peas (and they haven’t been immediately dug up). I will have found some frozen chips and our Heinz Tomato Ketchup supply can last one more hammering. Disney Plus will have been working and not constantly buffering so we could watch The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2. And that we had many more random laughs along the way.
While the lockdown is on I might revisit this idea. You never know what I might find and what thoughts it might unleash.
I’ve had a serious craving for fish & chips lately. I dont want to buy the frozen kind…not nearly greasy enough.
Tall tower, no ants, and Disney+ streaming perfectly🤞
Oh, and sunshine & laughter!🌞💌💌
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Yes home made are just not like the ones you can get in the seaside towns.
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All three are great pics, but I LOVE the “friends meet-up” pic. That one gave me a smile and a warm heart. ☺
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I like the one of two bushes running down the lane, lol.
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Thank you
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They still are having their meet-ups
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Awwwwwwe. ☺ That’s good.
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Hope your smiling today.
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I do hope the tower’s a success! Maybe I’ll challenge the kids with a Lego creation like that tomorrow. I’ve insisted they do a little creating, and we’ll do a little reading from the Bible…and maybe watch some Narnia? We’ll see!
Just keep the faith. Keep the camera at the ready, and the smile, too. xxxxxxxx
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Too much fun for a dog to allow for the towers to grow very tall. That sounds like a nice time. Try to keep smiling my friend. xxxxxx
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Hee hee! Well at least it was a contest to see how tall they could get before Captain Chaos swooped in. 🙂 Yes, I think we’ll be ok. It doesn’t feel like it all the time, but that’s okay. The low moments help make us better appreciate the high ones xxxxxxx
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They do. We just got to find ways of living. The Wisconsin elections made our national news the other day. It was almost presented as ‘if you think we messed this up well you should take a look at THIS’. Just seemed complete madness. xxxxxxx
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HA! See…yeah, here’s the thing. Media jumped on us as a chance to blame the Republican Party, who were idiots enough to let Trump take over, BUT in this situation it was eeeeeeeeeveryone’s issue. The Democratic Governor was all for having the election up until FIVE F’N DAYS before the election–you know, after the media started criticizing him–and only THEN started saying he wanted to move it, and then yeah, Republican Assembly gets the blame. Had he proposed back in March to reschedule (like a bunch of other states did) and the Repubs fought him then? Yeah, I’d get that. But he literally waited until the 11th hour, Repubs are like, “it’s too late, dude,” and then he executes orders’n’stuff with the military to help with the elections–ANOTHER thing he waited until the abso last minute to do. But then if we’re going to hold elections, then frickin make sure there’s decent stations! Our town’s small, so it was easy to do the whole social distance thing. Milwaukee, which is half a mill people, only had a handful of stations when it normally has at least a hundred. THAT was BS. If the National Guard is being used, then WHY WEREN’T THEY THERE?!?!
Sorry for the rant, but it really bugs me when the Democrats can just coast without blame. Republicans can be idiots, too, but they ain’t the only ones.
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We never got into the politics. It mentioned the governor leaving things to the last minute though. My thought was that it looked very cold. Plus it looked like the line you have to form to get onto a supermarket these days. I guess we are all mad these days. x
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We are indeed, Friend, we are indeed. Yeah, whatever lines you saw must have been Milwaukee–even the state capital had lots of polling stations. It’s just such a crapload right now; the governor acts like he has no clue what he’s doing. I’m not saying that because of this pandemic–I mean, let’s face it, NO ONE was all that ready for this–but any time he issues an order, it seems to be 24 hours after a nearby state does something, like Illinois. And he keeps renigging on stuff he says a few weeks ago, like the election. Yesterday he announced closing all the parks (playgrounds are already closed, but now any and all nature trails, etc), which again, just a few weeks ago he promised not to do. Flippin’ infuriating.
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Sadly we are going through a process when both our countries leadership on all sides has been shown to be sadly deficient. That’s why the UK has the highest deaths in any European country and New York has more cases than any European country. I’m with you on being infuriated.
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Here’s praying the doctors are at least making progress. I heard on NPR that a vaccine developed in China’s gotten through the first phase of trials.
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Our vaccine guys have said they have one just about to go to trials that they are 80% certain will work. If so they might have one by late summer. Our government is thinking about taking a punt with it and starting producing now it just in case it works. We are currently desperately trying to build new places to produce it.
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That’s good news! There’s some treatments here with lots of promise, too. There are times, though, I feel like this is blown out of proportion. Take Seattle–the military built a field hospital inside their stadium to help house all the sick, right?
They never used it.
They didn’t have one patient. One. The hospitals never overflowed.
So they’ve taken it down after being up for around a week.
…
It’s moments like that where I just shake my head and wonder if too much news is causing too much fear, you know?
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Here we’ve built a number of large temporary hospitals just in case and the might be only fully used for a month or so. But needs must.
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Anyway, you do your best to balance the madness with the sanity, and I’ll do what I can on this end. We better, since apparently the people in charge can’t just stop and think things through.
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We can do this.
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I love this!!
I have a 5yr “Question A Day” book that I quite enjoy. I’m actually on my 2nd book / 8th year!
I like the idea of photos better but don’t have the disciple for that.
I lurve the 2017 pic!!!
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btw: every time you mention the tower I think of the shoe “Lego Masters”. I only watched part of 2 episodes but the one I enjoyed involved building bridged and seeing how much weight they could hold. The show had about 309lbs of weights ready but 2 bridges made it to 1,000lbs before the show decided it was unsafe to keep adding weights (for fear of damage from the weights when they fell). They picked the winner based on aesthetics and it another time where you saw that reality shows are at least partially scripted… the one selected was dull whereas the one that lost was visually stunning.
Long comment longer… maybe you can try a weight bearing bridge next!
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I’ve just looked that up. Now that would be a challenge.
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It’s quite fun just looking back. Just looked now and found some old, forgotten memories.
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Interesting photo reveal. Have a good holiday. Take care
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You to. x
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❤️
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Nice memories!
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I did it again today. It’s fun. Even when you find boring photos. Brings back memories.
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It sure does. One of my “rituals” is to look at my posting on FB for this day back years ago.
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I can see why.
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I love the photos, but the last one with (I assume that’s Captain Chaos?) is really sweet. I still use Facebook, it keeps me connected to my rather large and very spread out family. At any rate it has a feature called memories which shows posts and photos from years gone by – today was one from eleven years ago! So I have become rather lazy, relying on Facebook to organize things for me. I really do like that feature though.
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Yes it is the Cap. I went through my old photos from today’s date. Quite boring pics but brought back nice memories.
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Not boring at all, I also particularly like the first one. It’s like something that was blown up into posters that I once decorated my bedroom with. It’s very beautiful.
That is the wonderful thing about photos – the memories they elicit. And they become so very precious when the people in them (or were with us when pics were taken) are no longer with us on this plain of existence.
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No it was the next days photos. Those where nothing is happening but they did remind me of stuff.
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And that’s all that really matters.
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It really is
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Beautiful pics and great memories. The meet up one is priceless. Yes bring on some more good days.😊
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Let’s hope so.
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Yes. 😊
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🙏
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Great idea!
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Thank you
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I keep thinking about what I was thinking about and worrying about, in the past. It makes me wonder if the future will be ‘fun’ as well.
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I guess we just gotta try and make the best of it. We are here, using up oxygen and world resources so we might as well make it all worthwhile. x
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The first picture is stunning but my favourite is “friends meet-up”. Your dog looks like our dog Lucy except that she is much smaller with shorter legs. What breed is it?
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He’s an accidental cross between a cocker spaniel and a small fluffy German Spitz. Apparently very rare according to the Vet.
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An adorable cross … Also our dog is a mixed breed a bit unclear though … but we guess she has a lot of Dachshund and Tibetan spaniel.
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Apparently you can get the dna checked. Did see a funny one where this little dog was found to be 5% Great Dane.
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Google photos doors reminders of this day last year or six years ago and it’s great.
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Even when the photo might seem boring they bring back memories.
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It is a good idea. Jackie went through earlier April posts yesterday
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The memories they bring back make the effort so worthwhile.
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it is actually scary when you see your memories coming up on facebook. I keep thinking… I had a life then,,,
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I did that this morning. I thought wow was I like that. It almost seemed fun….
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I know. I mean i am thinking… is that me??? Noo it’s goats at that Claghaig sign! But recently I went into my pics on facebook to find a particular one and it was just unreal..
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It’s amazing what memories they bring back. Frustratingly I still can’t find my Glencoe ones.
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NOOOOO
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🙏
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I want photo evidence of the ginormous Lego tower, including height measurements! Plus photos of the eggs please.
Thanks in advance 😉
X
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It was a disaster really. Many efforts that proved far too exciting for the dog. x
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I’ve thought the same thing – might be nice or fun to go back one year and see what I posted on the blog. See how things have changed. Always fun to look back at some photos and posts!
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It certainly is giving me a snapshot on what has changed and what is exactly the same.
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Maybe it will start a trend of people looking back a year, 2 years and so on. It’s so easy to do now. A catalogue of ones life. I’m older so I’ve been looking at black and white photos and trying to remember when they may have been taken. It has evoked a great deal of nostalgia and emotion, not always a good thing.
It is interesting to compare days, year to year, though. I have been looking in vain for signs of Spring. I am sure this time last year was much greener. I got quite excited this morning when I used my zoom lens and found buds on a remote tree. It is coming…just a bit slowly…we even had frozen stuff falling from the sky today! But with all that’s happening to so many people around the world, I would not think to complain about a thing. Best wishes to you and to your lad.
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I did look again today. Found some boring photos but they did remind me of stuff I had forgotten about.
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Sometimes it is almost unbelievable how different life can be when looking a few years back or only one year. Four years can make such a difference.
I love your Easter plans, Gary. This sounds like a lot of fun😊
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It was. Going to keep looking at the old photos each day, see what it reminds me of.
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Vivid memories!
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Thanks, yes they are.
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