HI guys this is me trying to post a link to a mapmywalk for carterton which i have been researching. i hope it works. I'm going to test this walk in the new year , hopefully with a gps system on my mobile



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Burford Wild Life Park

at the moment im trying to download things onto my blog to get to grips with the process but hope in future to make it more interesting for you.

anyway lets try uploading another image of my lovely town just to get things going

As you can see, this is not actually an image from my town but believe me or not it's not too far away. In fact this little creature is a
Prairie Dog homed at the Costwold wild life park near Burford, which is a famously beautiful town some 8 miles to the west of here. I often think Witney is the gateway to the Cotswold's which I hope most people are familiar with. In fact, Burford is the first proper Cotswold town before you go further west into Gloucestershire and eventually getting to the Welsh border.
An interesting (not!) fact is that i once did a market research questionnaire outside the Burford public toilets as well as various other public toilets in the vicinity of the West Oxfordshire borders with the aim of ascertaining which toilets were used least and therefore which conveniences they could close first. Thankfully, Burford's services are well used as there are so many tourists (often American or Japenese). A toilet at the East end of Witney town ( curiously called the West end - don't ask!) was hardly used at all. I spent 2 hapless hours outside this establishment and not one person used them. They've now been refurbished and turned into a lovely home as the building was quite historical.


anyways - back to Burford. Th wildlife park there has many great creatures and the one above is one the nicest. Why don't you come and visit some time and check out the other beautiful creatures a the park. I'll even be your guide

picture at old minster lovell at better time of year

I'll be waiting for that summer heat. This is a photo I think looking towards the dovecote in old Minster Lovell. The river down there ( the Windrush is lovely)

due to the invasion of the American crayfish we are encouraged to fish them out of here and it's illegal to put them back once caught. I did take home a bucket of the critters but there's really not much meat on them at all

saturday 27th december

My attempts at embedding a map have not really gone very well - just a tangle of code published onto the blog. I think I'll try and erase that - most unbecoming. I saw a lovely drama last night about a love affair between two middle aged people in 1969 - they had known each other from a time when they had sung in a choir back in 1929 or thereabouts and got together again after a documentary was made of that event. It was a BBC 2 production written by Victoria Wood and starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton with some great song and dance numbers done a little bit in the style of the Singing Detective but perhaps a little more warm-hearted. It struck me what a lovely cheerful and open hearted guy the Michael Ball character was - so opposite to prickly hostile me . My aim in the next year is to become kinder and more loving and lovable like this character - I have been way to selfish and cruel in my life and this has to change. Today I have, again with frustration and negativity in my heart been trying to get myself a new shopping and dieting regime together including the use of Quinoa which is supposed to release sugars very slowly. I want to eat more healthily and more strictly in general so this should help. I found a website on line, called My Supermarket which allows shoppers to compare all the prices of products from different supermarkets and of course, Aldi comes out top which is what you would expect.

Regarding the name of my blog, I've realised as someone had already mentioned on line, that it is perhaps better to do a 'life' blog, not just a specialist one and perhaps use 'pages' to put up other blogs or at least incorporate other aspects of my life into the same blog. Perhaps i could write reviews or poems about the things i have experienced or seen on line and please Jehovah or please allow me just to be a nicer person to be around and a morally better person - just more loving and kind. oh, by the way, I do feel lonely so would welcome any comments on my blog. But please be positive, thank you

well guys - hi there - I've uploaded my photo using the google snapshot option - or at least that's what i think its called - i hate my image - fat, red and thuggish - what i want to do next is try to get adsense set up - I'm not a mercenary or anything but i just want to keep you abreast of whats going on. Infact, I think my post will also be about the process of setting up and using a blog although i think ill try and put this kind of stuff on a different page as it will be boring for those looking for pure information on the nature around these parts.

What i want to learn to be able to do is to label the photos so that you can see where I've been and perhaps access it through google maps although there's still some way to go with this
bye bye for now!

Tentative Beginnings

Well hello there my fellow bloggers and those who search for their loves and souls through this vast tangle of information we call the bloggersphere! I'm a newbie to this whole thing. I've got a lot of time on my hands and in some way want to start thinking that at least that I'm offering something up to the world that might be appreciated and helpful. On January the 13th I shall be getting my virgin Internet connection which should be quite fast and I need to decide what I can share with the world.
 Well, for one thing I've decided to start going out on long daily walks in my beloved West Oxfordshire where we really are blessed with some beautiful countryside. I can also use this opportunity to get more familiar with the history and folklore of the local flora and fauna. With this blog i aim to chart my walks ( I need to work out how to incorporate gps) and to post photos charting the year showing the different moods of nature and climate and offering interesting local history. On the one hand, this might get local people interested in what's out there and perhaps folk from more far afield might be able to get some insights into the wonderful nature and traditions of my local area.

anyway, today is all about trying to get my own head around this blogging thing. I'm now writing using my mothers laptop, as she presently has access to the Internet but I hope over the main part of the year to come, most of my content will be proffered up via my own PC which is still lonely and Internetless.