Its been a while.....

Although lots of effort has gone in to the other blogs this has sort have been neglected.

To Date:    Pretty extensive bike riding to the end of term - about 300 miles in all. 2 runs!

Several memorials visited including the inside of the White Shrine in Blackpool pix below:

Confessional at the south corner of the shrine.

Made my 15th Kiva Loan to this chap:

Henry De Jesus Gallego

Henry is a person who has characterized himself by being very hard-working and always wanting to offer his family a better quality of life. Henry is married and has two daughters, who are one and four. They are his motivation to work hard in his business. He has dedicated a large part of his life to agriculture. His father made a living this way and taught him it at a very early age. Thanks to this, he makes the income necessary to support his home, and he can offer a good quality of life to his family. With the good quality of his crops, Henry has managed to attract a number of customers, and he has guaranteed a good level of sales. With the motivation of taking good care of his crops, Henry is looking for a loan that will offer him the possibility of buying irrigation and fertilizer for his crops.

Click throughs are going well too. This is why Henry gets his loan!

It is also "Spring into Old Hutton" on Saturday - Taking the youngest and his girl friend. They're wild camping afterwards. Having my eyes tested today - new glasses.

Well over 10,000 hits on all the blogs.

However deeply distraught about finding real rust on Millie. Going to be quite expensive. Got great confidence in Ed next door.

The Linux machine has had a grade a wobbler. After substitution I think I narrowed it down to the processor. However running on an old AMD 3000 processor with 2 Gig. At one time my fastest machine! Loaded up Mint LXD and I have to admit for this sort of work it goes fine. It just creeps along doing image work and the big spreadsheet just crumples.

Well the 17th of Jan!

First of the running - done about 10 runs - didn't stop on any of them but all within a comfortable distance - sort of running every other day - should be running tonight but awaiting new shoes! My right hip hurts. Maybe its throwing the leg out a little bit. The old Sauconies seem a lot fossilated to me! Bit like their owner!

2 more Kiva loans - again Paraguay - just seem like worthy loans - but again they all are: Probably appear in the right  panel. 2 loans because the click throughs are working.

Kuña Arandu Group

Mujeres Emprendedoras Group

Milly and I have been out too, did a bit of photography with the new lens on - not sure I'm impressed at all. Picture here below. Still an 18 to 55 Canon lens with IS

Picture below. Its actually close to vignetting on the wide angle and I don't think the other did that.

Ashton Gardens - at least there are no ugly purple rings around the branches

Finally Curly Poodle cards is now off the ground - Di's passion has gone global - within 20 minutes of going "live" she got her first order 

Click Here!

Just past Midnight! Next year's aims

Finished about a week of running, ordered my beautiful new lens - hope its as good as the reviews say! I have got lots of pictures on the hard drive - just a matter of editing them and getting them in the blog. Possibly a new body - both the camera and maybe me! Possibly experiment with a big flash gun and get inside some places I really want to!

Target is to get to 500 posts - looking deeper into the sights (sites) that I find. Maybe discover some new places that have not been photographed yet. Improve my skills too! The local area is absolutely teeming with interesting stuff! I still don't understand why the Smithy Lane Milepost has the largest number of hits - weird! Do more reviews and build more links!

Will need to look at LazylikeSunday to try and streamline that too.

Make sure the solar kit pays as well as I hope. That will be covered in the Active Particle blog!

Look at shares that give a yield to feed back into LazylikeSunday too. 

The Fellsman is still the number 1 target! Doing a good job at work is also important - the more time I can get the better the springboard will be when I do this full time! (1100) in 2 years.

Lastly currently making a Kiva loan every month. I can afford this until at least March with funds coming in!  The new blogsite will hopefully help this along!

And lastly - the other woman - got to keep her in good fettle - she's an old girl and needs looking after - got to plan summer soon!

Well its Christmas!

Its almost time for all those New Year Resolutions and the dreams that go with them. A complete of the Fellsman is the number 1 challenge - this may get me to the Wenlock Olympics - we shall see.
Had payments from LinkGrand and also Clixsense as well as Vale - Wordlinx is coming along too!
Think I will add a page on these really dependable sites and circulate it on a new page. Every click through payout has gone into Kiva.  - Its a great way to save and play my part.

No Snow - Mildred has now a new battery in the engine compartment too. Bit cleaner and all the habitation area is cleaned up too. Faced with 4 or 5 new tyres - as well as welding. Have to see my Mech about the welding - could be dear.

Money over Christmas spent on tools 3/8 sockets for the Millie van - possibly some into the current account for the general web bills and stuff.

Incidentally this build of Ubuntu is just flying along!

Shortest day of the year!

You can tell its Christmas - its dark - but it means so much more! New beginnings - running again perhaps, looking forward to the Fellsman - my major event of the year - I hope. Not sure I will get many more attempts at this.

Been to the Bike meeting - not one person turned up on a bike!

However made another loan on KIva. This is my 9th loan.

La Esperanza Group

They market and sell milk in Paraguay!

We got a nice letter of thanks from a lady in the Philippines about her loan. - It's great to know we are helping people. I shall save that for another mail.

Thanks to Clixsence providing me with a payout I have passed it along, someone else will benefit.

Perhaps I should make a page in my blog about PTC sites and also traffic generators.

Managed to solve the leaks in Millys roof, discovered the air in the tyres was only 28 psi when should have been 40 - 45., Varnished the floor and started putting the curtains up. Few major jobs to do - like Cambelt and tyres. Next year a good run and possible welding.

Off Work!

Seem to have got some sort of virus! Seems to be in the post stage and I will get better. Blown up 2 modems with big spikes on the phone line - where are those suppressors Amazon! Hurry! But producing electricity - need to check that both banks are producing power. Will post pictures.

No runs or rides - Having cabin fever here. Left people in the lurch running around after me not so good... No pictures to add - and not a lot done to the blog.

There will be another Kiva loan in the next couple of days: That will bring up 8 in all. Will post a picture. Seems to be another Bee keeper! Good luck Alen. It will be 2013 when you have paid off your loan to all of us.

Thanks to the PTR's who unknowingly support the Third World edge a little closer to a realistic and decent way of life!

Alen is engaged in beekeeping. He would like to expand his business, for which he needs some financial investemnts. With the requested loan Alen plans to purchase beehives. Additional beehives will allow Alen to develop his beekeeping business and increase his income. This is very important for Alen and his family, as he plans to get married. Additional income will help his family in the future. Alen lives with his parents.

Will be putting video on more blogs from now on. The first vid seems to have gone down well. Having a bath and an early night. Reading Shackletons Antarctic adventure - what an amazing leader of men!

Kiva Loan, Running and riding the bike

Hey busy - half-term ended and did several runs and a long wet training walk.
Pleased about the 10 mile walk went well, found every puddle there was. The 5 mile run was good as well as the 10K. All pretty slow but OK.

Got a payment from my Pay to Click sites so it went onto a beekeeper Sarik.

A loan of $1,350 helped Sarik Kostandyan
to purchase beehive boxes and hay.

Note I put up a very small percentage Kiva does the rest.
Traffic fine on the road but got a bit caught out in the traffic on the prom. Came back in the Illuminations traffic.

Published on my blogpage 2 articles one on Wesham Hospital and one on Fairways in St Annes. Both destined to be closed!

Hopefully ride tomorrow so I can start to climb up the table of My Cycling Log. Now at least off the bottom.