Below is my set of Standing Stone photos, shot on a recent trip to Orkney:
Twittering with Tweetdeck
It is almost the middle of June 2009, and it has been several months since my inital posts here.
It would therefore seem that blogging isn’t ranked highly among my many, many interests. Well, that’s not exactly true.
I have had several ideas for new blog posts in the past few months, covering some of the things I have been up to. However, I never got round to actually writing them.
Normally, I would pull the old tried and tested excuse that “I’ve just been SO busy doing blah and blah blah…….”. However, since the DDS show that has just not been the case. Most nights have been spent in the house, watching TV and messing around on my MacBook.
One thing I have been doing a lot of is twittering. I joined Twitter AGES ago, but didn’t really get into it straight away. When I joined Twitter, it was still fairly under the radar, used mainly by technology geeks (including yours truly). It wasn’t till it was thrust into the spotlight by celebs like Stephen Fry talking about it the Jonathon Ross show, that “normal” people (like some of my friends) started to get into Twitter. The fact that several people I actually knew were now following me renewed my interest, and I have been tweeting with gusto every since (although I do occacsionally take a day or two off).
Since I have been tweeting out the interesting things that happen in my life as they happen, I think that’s why I haven’t been showing the blog much love. I would, however, like to change that. Now I won’t make promises, as that just leads them to be broken, but I do intend to post here every so often about my interests or anything I feel I would like to share with the world and the t’internet.
So, there you have it. Will I keep my word and post here? Possibly. Does anyone but me REALLY care if I do or don’t? Probably not. All we can do is sit back and see what happens……… 
One of my many, many interests is watching international rugby.
Normally I watch on television, but for only the second time ever, yesterday I actually went to the game.
The game – Scotland vs Wales – the opening game of Scotland’s 2009 Six Nations campaign at Murrayfield. My wife and I treated ourselves (and her parents) to the tickets for Christmas, having been to Scotland vs South Africa last November during the Autumn Tests series, which we both really enjoyed.
Highlights of the afternoon for me were:
Now, you will note that missing from this list is any reference to Scotland’s performance. Sadly, that was not a highlight for me as we really didn’t play well. We were totally outclassed by the Welsh for the vast majority of the game. We did rally in the last 10 mins and it was good to see us scoring a try at home, but overall we just didn’t deliver. To be honest, I didn’t go to the game expecting a win. The Welsh are probably the best team in the Northern Hemisphere at the moment, but I expected us to put up a fight.
However, this did not affect my overall enjoyment of the match. Watching the Welsh burst through our lines again and again was thrilling to watch (albeit a little disheartening). The atmosphere before the game and inside the stadium was amazing, and even though we didn’t have very expensive seats, we still had a great view of the entire field. If you have never been to a game, I would highly recommend it. It’s a great afternoon out regardless of the final result. So much so, we have just booked up to go back at the end of the month to see Scotland vs Italy which, hopefully, will be a better day for Scotland.
I’m gonna finish this, my first proper post, with a video I shot of the National Anthems being performed using my trusty Canon G9 compact camera. In it you can see and hear the fantastic atmosphere I was talking about. Enjoy!
So it’s 2009, and I thought I’d give blogging another go.
And here it is, my new blog, where I will post random thoughts and info, mainly about my numerous interests and hobbies, but possibly about anything.