Ukjohnd.com » Life http://ukjohnd.com Tue, 22 May 2012 00:58:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Battlefield 3http://ukjohnd.com/2011/10/27/battlefield-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=battlefield-3 http://ukjohnd.com/2011/10/27/battlefield-3/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:08:01 +0000 ukjohnd http://ukjohnd.com/?p=796 Out soon, there went my evenings.

 

Battlefield 3

 

]]> http://ukjohnd.com/2011/10/27/battlefield-3/feed/ 0 She is gonehttp://ukjohnd.com/2011/10/12/she-is-gone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=she-is-gone http://ukjohnd.com/2011/10/12/she-is-gone/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:25:23 +0000 ukjohnd http://ukjohnd.com/?p=777 You can shed tears that she is gone

Or you can smile because she has lived

 

You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back

Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left

 

Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her

Or you can be full of the love that you shared

 

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday

Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday

 

You can remember her and only that she is gone

Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on

 

You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back

Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.

 

written 1981

David Harkins 1959 -

Silloth, Cumbria, UK

]]> http://ukjohnd.com/2011/10/12/she-is-gone/feed/ 0 Challenges for 2011http://ukjohnd.com/2010/12/31/challenges-for-2011/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=challenges-for-2011 http://ukjohnd.com/2010/12/31/challenges-for-2011/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:31:08 +0000 ukjohnd http://ukjohnd.com/?p=618 Always good to plan but not project..

My challenges for this year will be….

365 photography project – photo a day for the next year.

Relaunch hexagoneye.com as a wordpress photoblog.

Professionally template photo’s, even those that aren’t so great.

Try and sell at least one photo commercially as everything published so far has been for free.

Enter a few more photo competitions as won a prize in the two local one entered so far.

Ride my new bike (thanks Dad!)

Combine bike with photography.

Cycle to work 14 mile round trip.

Fortunately staying sober only has to be done a day at a time.

]]> http://ukjohnd.com/2010/12/31/challenges-for-2011/feed/ 0 St Mary’s Church and an 8 year olds home workhttp://ukjohnd.com/2009/04/16/st-marys-church-and-an-8-year-olds-home-work/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=st-marys-church-and-an-8-year-olds-home-work http://ukjohnd.com/2009/04/16/st-marys-church-and-an-8-year-olds-home-work/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:37:20 +0000 ukjohnd http://ukjohnd.com/?p=253 Having a veritable photography fest at the moment today Porchester Castle discovering the Roman History of the place. Got these snaps of St Mary’s Church in the grounds of the Castle.

St Mary's Church Porchester Castle

St Mary's Church Porchester Castle

]]> http://ukjohnd.com/2009/04/16/st-marys-church-and-an-8-year-olds-home-work/feed/ 0 Need sleephttp://ukjohnd.com/2009/01/23/need-sleep/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=need-sleep http://ukjohnd.com/2009/01/23/need-sleep/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:03:23 +0000 ukjohnd http://ukjohnd.com/?p=220 Another period of insomnia, I do hope it doesn’t last many more days its draining me.

Here’s a Painting I did of my eyes at 5am yesterday morning.

Insomnia Nights

]]> http://ukjohnd.com/2009/01/23/need-sleep/feed/ 1 No New Year Resolutions (except one)http://ukjohnd.com/2009/01/02/no-new-year-resolutions-except-one/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-new-year-resolutions-except-one http://ukjohnd.com/2009/01/02/no-new-year-resolutions-except-one/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:08:42 +0000 ukjohnd http://ukjohnd.com/?p=195 Not being a believer in lame resolutions I never would complete, like going to the Gym, we’re going for a frivolous one instead this year, Eat More Jelly (Jell-o in the U.S.)

Made pinapple Jelly with the youngest this NY eve and was as good as I remembered it from Childhood parties and also baked bread for the first time in probably 18 years. Turns out I’m a pretty good baker even if I do say so myself.

bread

Happy new year to all those fellow recovering drunks out there, I have  found post Xmas/New Years can be a tricky time, particularly in the early days after the highs and lows of Christmas, take care and keep safe.

 

 

 

]]> http://ukjohnd.com/2009/01/02/no-new-year-resolutions-except-one/feed/ 0 Merry Xmashttp://ukjohnd.com/2008/12/25/merry-xmas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=merry-xmas http://ukjohnd.com/2008/12/25/merry-xmas/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:56:35 +0000 ukjohnd http://ukjohnd.com/?p=188 Wishing everyone a very happy and sober Christmas and if your struggling with it all that’s ok, just make sure its a safe one. I went to a meeting at some point during Christmas day for the my first 7 or so sober Christmas’s and they got easier and far more fun as time’s gone on.

kittytree

 

Photo by Kenyai under CC licence.

Update

Here’s our rather heavily laden tree, a great day of fun prezzies, food and naps was had by all.

 

tree09

]]> http://ukjohnd.com/2008/12/25/merry-xmas/feed/ 1 I’m a Brit but please Vote Obamahttp://ukjohnd.com/2008/11/03/im-a-brit-but-please-vote-obama/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=im-a-brit-but-please-vote-obama http://ukjohnd.com/2008/11/03/im-a-brit-but-please-vote-obama/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:10:59 +0000 ukjohnd http://ukjohnd.com/?p=136 I may have no vote in Tuesdays election, but everyone will be effected by Tuesday’s US vote. I’m also a whore for a rather large US company to pay my bills.

We’ve had a Dry Drunk running the US for the past 8 years which has drawn the UK into two ‘Energy wars’ in Iraq and Afghanistan, if there were no Oil or Gas pipelines in these countries would we be there?

The Democrats have a recent history of JFK, Carter and Clinton, not perfect but beat the hell out of the Nixons, Reagons and Bush’s of this world. Can you imagine another dose of Bush in McCain or even worse still following the possible premature demise of McCain the prospect of Palin in the Whitehouse. This planet would officialy be more F**ked than it is already.

AA has no opinion on politics, but I do This is not a great political argument on my behalf but a 3am insomniatic rant.

Please Vote Obama

Please Vote Obama


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