Tales of Home [7]

A picture from the local newspaper of the place where I grew up. Not the best quality, but still nice enough

What a lovely place to grow up in ! you lucky boy !!!

very pretty

Gorgeous, Ringo. Reminds me a little of the area where my dad's family is from, though that's being steadily suburbanized now.

{{Cracking view Ringo, reminds me very much of here in fact! And you have trees- does that make you a soft southerner by Fjordian standards?! }}}

I'm from central Fjordia, but any northerner would say "soft southerner" I miss trees, though - there are none where I live now, and if you grew up in the woods, that will never feel right. It's one of the reasons the first few chapters in FotR have become my favourites - I get homesick (in a good way) when I read them

i need the coast to feel homesick... sea gulls and the like. fish.

Ringdrotten wrote:I'm from central Fjordia, but any northerner would say "soft southerner" I miss trees, though - there are none where I live now, and if you grew up in the woods, that will never feel right. It's one of the reasons the first few chapters in FotR have become my favourites - I get homesick (in a good way) when I read them

Wow, Ringo! Brought up in the woods can only mean you were brought up by wolves. There can be no other logical explanation. That's pretty cool. 

And Nora, you were brought up by the sea, which means you must be half ice maiden and half mermaid. There is no other practical possibility. That's pretty cool, too. 

Forumshirans always have such interesting back stories: especially Fjordianlandian immigrants!  

I am actually a terrible swimmer...

{{{Went on a camping trip yesterday, and came back yesterday The weather just got too grim as the day went on. Got a fews pictures though along the way, in the mist.... }}}

Beautiful countryside, shame about the weather.

Wait.. isn't that the slogan of the Scottish Tourism Board..

Very beautiful. For some reason I never think about ferns when I visualize Scotland.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hilarywardle/never-visit-these-scottish-places

For some reason I never think about ferns when I visualize Scotland.- Hafy

{{Probably the most common plant you will see round here at this time of year, whole hillsides are covered in fern and bracken, can grow to about chest height and is surprisingly tricky to get through as its hard to see the ground below it grows so thickly}}}


{{Blue- I think they'd be better off visiting Disneyworld!}}}

Pettytyrant101 wrote:{{{Went on a camping trip yesterday, and came back yesterday  The weather just got too grim as the day went on. Got a fews pictures though along the way, in the mist.... }}}

Was there a ten year old girl in your party or something? {{{harr harr}}}

beautiful and green and fresh looking. its hot and sweaty 38 degrees here and that lake looks very tempting.

Great pictures, Petty! I'm sometimes surprised by how similar parts of Britain look to the East Coast of the US.

I'm heading off on a camping trip today. Hope I have better luck....

When I get back, I've got a project where I'll need to do some crude video editing (basically just cutting 10-15 sec interesting bits out of stuff from my camera and pasting them together). Is there a free utility without too many bells and whistles that anybody can recommend for this? The more stone-age the better!

Looked nice Petty. Might tempt me in to a visit some time!

David H wrote: I've got a project where I'll need to do some crude video editing (basically just cutting 10-15 sec interesting bits out of stuff from my camera and pasting them together). Is there a free utility without too many bells and whistles that anybody can recommend for this? The more stone-age the better!

I once sat beside someone as moral support as he edited together a number of videos on PC. Not sure what his base software was, but every time he wanted to do something different he googled, downloaded for free, did his thing and moved on. It was a real learning experience as to what can be done by sheer force of will rather than obsessing over reading manuals etc.

Might tempt me in to a visit some time!- Lance

{{You are very welcome to drop by the barrel any time you ar ein the neighbourhood Lance, you can buy me a buckie }}

Gorgeous pics ! So beautiful there feels like home

David H wrote:I'm heading off on a camping trip today. Hope I have better luck....

When I get back, I've got a project where I'll need to do some crude video editing (basically just cutting 10-15 sec interesting bits out of stuff from my camera and pasting them together). Is there a free utility without too many bells and whistles that anybody can recommend for this? The more stone-age the better!

Hope you have a fun (and relatively dry) time, Dave!

From what I recall of my time on Windows, Windows Movie Maker was pretty straightforward and serviceable. I've never done much in the way of video editing, though.

Enjoy your trip Dave Go well.