Video

I was on facebook at few days ago and saw someone had uploaded a video film to facebook using 'Socialcam'. I had the impression that this would upload as a film directly onto facebook but in fact it just creates a link to 'socialcam'. True it is quite easy to upload the link, well it is done automatically in fact, but it is a pity that it doesn't upload the film. I have found something called 'viddy' that I am going to try using to see what that does. Here are the videos I have made to date. They are not wonderful, I am just using them as trials.

First video

Then I made a short film of Tracey and Denis

The weather is getting a little warmer and wetter so the lawn needed mowing.

and after

Les Elections en France

Aujourd'hui nous sommes dimanche 22 avril et c'est la journée du premier round. J'habite juste à côté d'une école où il y a un bureau de vote et je ne vois pas grand monde et surtout le monde que je vois c'est plutôt les femmes. Je ne suis pas français donc je ne peux pas voter dans les élections présidentielles ni dans les législatives. Tous les 5 ans je me dis qu'il faut que je fasse le nécessaire pour avoir la nationalité française mais il y a trop d'administration et je suis citoyen d'un membre de la UE (Union Européenne).

Donc qui ce soir? Peut être y aura-t-il un nouveau président ce soir?

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nooooooooooooooo!

The whole thing has been changed!!! It is so upsetting when you get to a site you think you know and it has all changed since you were last there. It must be like when a friend has plastic surgery and you are not sure if the old friend is still the old friend or no! Then you get used to him/her and the paff, changed again! Well, most of the time that these things change, the changes are usually for the beeter and it looks mostly like what I know!

Today is Saturday 21 April. I had a real night on Thursday. I went to the first event of a friend's association, The Culture Tree, which is an association which gives people the opportunity to get to know each other and play games using English as the means of communication. It was good but the wine kept flowing and before Simon knew it, he was well over the top! The next morning I found myself in a strange bed - something that I have not done for donkey's years. It was good fun.

As it is the weekend and I have some time, I have been looking at my new phone come everything else these days - it's great! It has siri (which seems to work) and so many other features. You can even use it as a phone!

Last Sunday Nikos arrived for a few days as there are not so many tourists in Romanshorn at the moment, and we spent a few nice days together, some of the time in the garden. The things we (he) planted are coming up and we even used some of the herbs for a salad on Tuesday! Here are some photos.

I just hope I know what to do with these herbs!

Here is my first film which is not very long at all:

One of 'those' days!

Not really one of 'those' days but several of them! It must have something about being off work, haha 'on holiday' but I have just felt so down and depressed this week and really for no reason. I've been reading a little about it on the net as that seems the only friend I have! Anyway that's enough of that! For years (about 25!) I've been telling myself to just pull myself together and get a life. Although I do seem to do this for a time, it never seems to last. At the moment I'm thinking about retirment which is on its way in 6 or 7 years, and I just think that , well, do I really want it if I am going to spend the rest of my life like this?

I know that there are many people on the planet who have these feelings so why don't we just all get together and sort ourselves out?

Doing 'sad' things but am winding down a little

Hi. Yesterday I decided to take a tram ride to see the new shopping mall at the 'Confluence' here in Lyon. Yes, I know, sad but at least it got me out of the house. On  the way to Perrache on the tram, we pass the Comedia cinema so I decided to get off and have a look at what and when things were showing. At 2pm they were showing the new film, at least here, 'My week with Marilyn'. Aren't we all fans of hers, so I decided I would do a brief viré at the new mall and get back for 2 for the film.

Ok, it wasn't Marilyn but Michelle Williams does a great job and it was just great to see something about Marilyn and the cinema in the 50s. I loved Dame Judi Dench in the role of Sybil Thorndike and the innocent but not so innocent Eddie Redmayne who played Colin Clark who wrote about the week.

It is good to see that 'stars' can take on all kinds of roles. The heart throb from the Harry Potter films, Emma Watson, plays a wardrobe mistress and there is even a short scene with Derek Jacobi. This is real cinema. Go and see it.

By the way, I also quite liked the new mall at the Confluence (Lyon) and will be going again to visit the Apple store, among other things.

Hols!

Well at last I have time for some time off work. It is good not having to go to work and being paid, very first time in ages for me but I really should have made some sort of plans! That is my life! Today has been spent classifying my music, how sad is that? Very! Tant pis c'est la vie je suppose. Tomorrow I'll do something super interesting like going to the new shopping Mall at the confluent! Quelle vie! Quelle vie de merde! But for years I have been telling myself to do something about it.

Just having taken a little time to look at the interface here, it looks so much more user friendly. Well perhaps nothing different in fact.

What about some pics from the garden!

Some plants growing!

This is a gladiole and some parsley

this anethe I think it is dill in English

I put this wisteria (yes, desperate housewives) in when I arrived in the flat and cut it down but it has grown back to my great happiness.

The plant to the right was a fruit de la passion but the cold seems to have killed it.

Another general view

In fact it is Nikos who put all of this in and he has now gone off to Romanshorn in Switzerland as that is where there was a job. Will I see him again? Who knows?