I haven’t posted in a while. Quite frankly, I’d forgotten I even had a « blog »…a blob of a log, really. I guess the poor thing has just been gathering dust, caught up in the vicious cycle of a sedentary virtual life.

As its maker, or caretaker, or what you will, I am here to spring clean, or spring spruce : if I were to prune this site too much, the thing would be reduced to stump status, with little chance of regrowth.

So sprucing up will, as usual, take the form of a stack of new-ish pictures, taken in the months following the previous post. Look at them, throw darts at them, whatever.

Oh, and if you’d fallen asleep during this humdrum spiel -I know I did *yawn* – here’s hoping THIS will wake you up.

Oh (again), by the way, the other day, I went and bought Photoshop, the photo-editing software used to virtually nip and tuck. Now I understand why people are committing so many crimes to photography these days. I have also learned to recognise a photoshopped picture a mile-off. And have reverted to using freeware, or nothing. Live and learn.