Changes.

When you wake up to this  (on February 4th)

and the high for the day is 5°,  you start to think that perhaps it's time to do indoor things.  Maybe not wood work as the wood and tools are in an outside shed, but a tidying type of job.   Over the past 35 years we have accumulated an unmentionable number of photos, slides and negatives, most of them have been sorted into albums but there are years in the early 80's that do not seem to exist except on slides.   Years back we had a projector but no idea where that went,  we also have negatives of varying sizes that we have no photos of,  so the idea at the start of February was to get prints from both the slides and negatives and add them to the existing albums.

Funny how projects seem to grow and grow!   John has done the bulk of the work as he has a slide reader (I think that's what it is) and software that can tweak the pictures so they look as good as new.  I have gone from my computer-stored photos and made us up to date from when we moved here in 2003.  He is still going back in time, having found negatives from the early 70's!

Numerous glue sticks, sheets of paper and plastic wallets later, we have the bulk of our life now recorded and lookable-at.  There seems little point in taking all these photos if you can't look at them,  and we are amazed at pictures that neither of us recall taking,  neither the people nor the place.   A lot we can estimate a year for,  then it's been a case of thinking  'the last pictures your hair was curly, now in these it's slightly longer/straighter,  that t-shirt was in the last one too so it's probably the same year'. 

And so to the new pictures of me  at the top of  this blog.   The one that has been there ever since I started writing was taken at Chateauneuf-du-Pape on the way down here in September 2003.  About time for a change really,  and  John has put up a selection taken over the years, dating back to the late 70's when we first met,  up to last week - me in a red t shirt.   If you wait long enough it'll come on - they are set to change at random, not in date order.