Biscuit - 365
(April 25th)
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Dublin Bus cuts the 172 route
I LEARNED today that my bus route to work is ceasing completely on Sunday. Brilliant. Aside from the reasons I'll go into shortly it is completely ludicrous to cut public transport. According to the powers that be no one took the bus. Well as a daily user of the route that is nonsense. Fair enough that isn't a busy route, but it is busy in the mornings.
Aside from that it is a route that goes down Oxmantown Road and invaluable to many of the elderly residents that live in the area. Course I suppose their voice doesn't matter as they will hold bus passes and generating no income.
I understand it is a quiet route for most of the day but what was stopping Dublin Bus from scheduling a morning service and maybe one or two during the day so the older people in my community can get their pensions and shopping.
It is a service that more could have been made of, such as actually advertising where the bus is going. In the 18 months I have lived here I have never once seen the bus properly labelled (is that right) as to its destination, other than Dunard. I don't even know where Dunard is, but it is the start of the route as it goes into town. So many people let the bus go by as it doesn't say it is going into town.
It's also really annoying that we the customers were given two days notice, nice. While this has been mooted and I did, as I said earlier, hear reports that Dublin Bus were adamant that the 172 had no passengers and would go, know it was probably inevitable, still I am peeved. Nevermind the fact that as a daily user of this route it is not empty, far from it unless you count a full bottom deck and some people on the top deck as empty.
Even more annoying, even though the route doesn't stop until Sunday, the timetable is no longer available on their website, you are redirected to one of the Blanchardstown routes.
Maybe the answer is to get a car, yaeh, get more people off public transport and into cars.
Sorry I doubled up on my 365 but there you go, or there goes my bus.
A load of bull
THIS is brilliant, I am not sure which bit I laughed at most, the farmer running for dear life or the butcher/matador and his expert use of shopping trolley. A classic.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Yardening - 365
THE yarden got a lot of attention over the weekend, more planting, this time of flowers. I also attempted, foolishly, to move my sweet pea plant which I grew from seed last summer. Unfortunately it took in one of my planters where I am growing sugar snap peas. I planted them together last year with the idea of lovely colourful popping up in and around the gorgeous green flowers of the sugar snap peas. Unfortunately only one took hold but was spread out over the trellis of the next planter box (am I losing you here).
I decided that I would try to move the sweet pea before all the peas came up (the ones I planted before Christmas are doing great, and I have staggered other planting to get a long summer of peas) but it wasn't happy and half of the plant was droopy by the next day. When I checked earlier it was mostly droopy. I knew it was a risk but still thought it was worth trying. Anyway I'll find something to replace it. Its just a pity as it was pretty big and went back and forth.
Among the other things I did was sort out my hanging basket. I was overrun with nastershums last year drowning the other flowers which I had to move never mind making a great feast for some small black pest so I have gone with other things this year, alyssum, petunias and a small white flower called snowflake. Anything left over from the planter trays I planted into pots. Hopefully I will have an explosion of lovely colours over the summer. (April 21st)
Fun in the sun - 365
SITTING here posting this on a wet and dreary evening, its hard to believe the wonderful weather we have had. That better not have been our summer. Anyway we took advantage on Sunday and went to Phoenix Park where fun was had by all. (April 19th)
Sunday, April 19, 2009
'Doing' the kitchen
THIS has to be a record, herself has been 'doing' the kitchen since 8pm, it is now 12.11am. When I say 'doing' obviously I mean talking on the phone, listening to music and dancing about like a mad thing.
You'd think there was loads to do, there wasn't/isn't. There were few dishes, groceries to put away and to clear away the corners where she has been cultivating the beginnings of clutter; you know the sort, tea-towels, tea-bags, ketchup, plates, etc.
Anyway I can hear her gabbing away, looks like she will be definitely beating her record this evening. So much for early to bed to start trying to get back into school mode!
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Out the front - 365
I COULDN'T resist and did another time lapse during the week, this time out the front of my house. I love the kid's tractor parked in front taking up a car space and being one of the few streets without pay and display, I'm sure this annoyed countless park and ride drivers. It had been there a couple of days until in the middle of the film you'll see a gang of lads kick it about.
Anyways here are the comings and goings in my street during a quiet grey afternoon.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Yarden time lapse - 365
I WAS directed to this brilliant time lapse video on Flickr by Hugh, do check it out as its fantastic. So I decided to try my own, I've seen others and wanted to try it for a while and as my new camera allows me to set it so it will automatically snap away over a particular period of time, there's no time like the present.
I basically set up the camera on a tripod, set it to take pics at two minute intervals over about an hour and a half. While its hard to see at this size you can watch the light move over the chimney as the sun set last night and in the last frames next door's cat makes an appearance in the middle of the video.
Once the pics were taken, I resized them down and then imported them into a quicktime movie at the rate of two pics a second. The music is a piece called Freedom by Ken Bonfield which I also added to the movie. I then uploaded it to iMovie to add a fade to the end, and I think the picture quality suffers for that, so I probably won't do that again the next time. I think I might try this again in the rain today. You should probably brace yourself for more of these, I'm just saying like.
Anyway this is my 365 for yesterday, my first time lapse attempt (April 14th).
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Dublin City Hall - 365
(April 11th) Taken during Phil's photowalk, I'll post more from that shortly.
Trinity Gate - 365
THERE are a few images I cannot resist when passing and you will probably see them over and over again here, the Trinity gate is one of the them. (April 6th).
Lens cap vignette - 365
THIS is what happens when I leave my camera in the living room, the Young Wan gets her hands on it. Two things here: firstly take the lens cap off the camera completely when trying to take a pic, secondly Young Wan do not touch my camera, I repeat do not touch my camera; oh and thirdly pick up the newspaper off the floor. (April 5th).
Spring Hanging Basket - 365
UNFORTUNATELY my hanging basket doesn't look like this anymore, the flowers are dying off. (April 4th)
Another Dail protest - 365
AND another Dail protest, this time by the Cystic Fibrosis Society of Ireland. (April 3rd)
Festival of Fools - 365
I STUMBLED upon this lot on April Fool's Day, they have been organising a Festival of Fools for a couple of years and the two were singing, if anyone can tell us more please do.
'Comunications consultant' - 365
THIS next one (well three) is/are just because I found it funny from March 29th. One of the people I was with pointed out the very bad and unfortunate typo on the back cover of this book. It is Spin and Win by Anton Savage, described as a 'comunications consultant' - big ouch. The website advertising the book had the same typo.
Street painting - 365
SOME of the street painting from the St Patrick's Festival lasted very well. (March 26th)
Pic of a pic in an exhibition - 365
THIS next image is from an exhibition which included one of my pics and a name credit:) My pic is the bottom right hand image taken during the count in the RDS (not John O'Donoghue the other one) after the Lisbon Referendum. (March 24th)
Jim Larkin - 365
JUST attempting another major 365 catch up before it gets completely out of control. I will have to, as far as possible, post these closer to the days they were taken than I am currently as it is becoming hard to find pics from days gone by with the amount of pics I've been taking.
Anyway here's a big burst of picture posts, please do comment if you like anything you see, the comments on the 365 posts have been drawing tumble weed (my own fault for posting two weeks at a time) course if nothing moves you in any of them, you are of course free to move on ;)
This was pretty much a commissioned pic, and its Jim Larkin, O Connell Street, Dublin, taken on March 23rd (I told you it was a major catch-up.
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Catch-up time, sort of
IT SEEMS I am on a massive catch-up drive over the last while and blogging has fallen to the bottom of the pile. I have been taking my 365, which is soo much easier with the longer evenings, not to mention lovely weather. A couple from last week all even have bright blue skies in them all but I will have to widen my net and do something more than going to and coming from work.
I have to dig out some folders that I stored away to hunt for a couple of the 365 days I am missing and then I'll update. At the moment I have last week but not the week before. I also need to sort these out as I go along, playing catch-up with the level of photographs I have been taking at the minute is hard going.
In the meantime here's one, and not from a morning or an evening, its from lunchtime :) And here it is large.
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