Where have you been?
Public art at Brayford Basin, Lincoln
I may well be flattering myself that anyone at all is asking themselves where I’ve been, but I’m going to tell you anyway. Here’s the short version: the removal men broke my computer and the insurance company is still deciding what to do about it, and our existing ISP told us they were no longer dealing with domestic accounts and wouldn’t port our connection. We then had to set up another one, leaving us without internet for three weeks. We’re now fully connected internet-wise, but I’m working on Geoff’s old laptop and it’s not very well equipped for photo editing or any kind of serious use. Still, I’m grateful to have it.
I’ve missed writing for my blog, but it’s surprisingly difficult to get started again once you’ve left it for a while, so I’m writing this to help ease myself back into the whole thing. I’m going to keep it short, but let’s just say that we seemed to have turned a corner with this move and that things are going surprisingly well, and that I’ll talk more about that later. I’ve got my photographic mojo back again, and have a load of images to process – not too easy at the moment as all I’ve got on this laptop is an extremely old version of Elements that doesn’t recognise my RAW files and won’t open them, and I have one spare USB port that has to accommodate the printer, my external hard-drive, my camera upload cable, and anything else I need a USB port for. I’m sincerely hoping it won’t be too long before I have my desktop computer back in working order again, but in the meantime I thought I’d simply say ‘hello’ and confirm that I haven’t fallen off the edge of the world 🙂
August 5, 2013 @ 12:25 pm
I was wondering only yesterday how you were getting on, Gilly. Delighted to hear the move is paying off creatively (sympathy for your technical horrors). I’m feeling happy, too, after my move, and am hard at work on my new website. Here’s to a productive autumn for both of us!
August 7, 2013 @ 5:38 pm
Hi Jane,
I was just thinking about you the other day too. I hope you’ve found somewhere to live that’s at least as lovely as the last place and that you have a nice big garden to get stuck into. I look forward to seeing your new website – let me have the link when it’s ready.
August 5, 2013 @ 10:45 pm
Hi Gilly
Great to hear the move is working out well. Perhaps having no internet has been a blessing in disguise as has allowed you to re-charge the creative juices.
Just like Jane (above) I too have developed a new website/business in your absence (do you see now just how much you have been holding us all back ha). http://www.oplyst.co.uk
Hope things continue on an upward curve for you.
Stephen
August 7, 2013 @ 5:41 pm
Good luck, Stephen, with your new website/business – I hope it goes well – and thanks for your good wishes.
There was a part of me that thought my enforced internet abstinence might actually be a good thing; at least it’s got me out of the habit of spending far too long browsing aimlessly and wasting a lot of time doing that. Still, it’s nice to be back in action again!
August 9, 2013 @ 12:57 pm
I’ve been wondering where you’ve been, but more how you’ve been. I knew you said you’d be without service for awhile so I was sort of on the look-out for something posted here to give “the signal”. It sounds like your move, despite the inevitable bumps and bruises has put you in a better place. Yay. I’m delighted for you.
Hope your desktop comes back to you soon. Mojo is a good thing.
August 16, 2013 @ 5:44 pm
Great to hear from you, Susan. I’m very definitely in a better place, both literally and metaphorically. I’ve also just come back from a week in Canterbury and had a thoroughly good time there seeing friends and spending time on the beach, so I’m all set up and raring to go now.
August 15, 2013 @ 7:10 pm
Yay!! Welcome back. You’ve missed my hospitalisation amidst all your technical woes so there’s a small mercy “-)
Great to have you back on line.
Dave
August 16, 2013 @ 5:45 pm
Dave! – what’s been happening to you? I hope you’re OK, but I guess you can’t be too bad if you’re spending time leaving comments here 🙂 Great to hear from you.
August 26, 2013 @ 8:32 am
I will fill you in shortly … but even more twists in the tale of my life recently 🙂