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Slilmbridge, originally uploaded by species5618.

A Day out at Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

Autumn trees, originally uploaded by species5618.

simple shot, on route to school

Today my son turned 13
When I was 13 a handfull of my friends did not have a home phone, nights/days out had to be arranged by the time you left school or did not happen, homework was handwritten, home computers where rare, and ran at 4MHz with between 1 and 16kB of memory, hard disk where unheard of outside corporate circles and a 10 MB disk drive was the size of a washing machine. My TV was a 12 inch black and white portable which recieved THREE channels

Today, 98% of teenage kids have ther own personal mobile phone, a night out can be arranged by text, twitter, facebook, msn from the moble phone while on route to the destination. For his last history project, jake created a well edited 8 minute video and for his next it is a web site, the phone in his pocket runs at 500Mhz and has 8GB of memory, his (yes his own personal) laptop has 2GB memory 2x 2G Hz processors and a huge 250 GB hard disk drive. Jakes TV is a 42inch plamsa with all the toys and over 300 channels to chose from

Oh to be a teenager today

On the flip side when I was a teenager coping a grope with the teenage girl next door was considered a laugh, making a factual reference to someones ethnic background was the norm, and clipping a kid round the ear for scrumping apples was a daily summer time event…… today any of those would get you arrested

Just spent the entire weekend camping with local scout, cub and beaver troop

Great weekend, but man do I ACHE this morning

newent fayre, originally uploaded by species5618.

what a great day out
small country town fayre

Social networks are not NEW,

They have just gained a wider audiance due to improvod usability.

USENET or news groups started in 1979 (long before HTTP), where like minded individuals could gather and exchange puclic messages, very much like twitter today.

The big difference, it was mainly a hardcore GEEK world.

IMG_4444, originally uploaded by species5618.

one of my pathetic attempts at artistic photos

Some while ago??I wrote this “Someone living near me has been a naughty boy”

Well the presence of the stange BMW has continued, and can occasionlay be seen on weekends

However yesterday saw an intersting development.

A different car, parked same spot with two people with clips boards, acoompanied but TWO, yes TWO EON, power vans, small meter changing type vans, not the big, power fault, dig up the road trucks,

My thinks someone has has the lecky cut off….

yet another upgrade

bulk upgrade, did a few this time

GREEN GRASS, originally uploaded by species5618.

Test post from flickr.com

moment of bored, before cutting grass

Canon EOS400D, Sigma 17-70