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Looking Forward

Ruth Weal — Fri, 13 May 2011 08:28:02 +0000

Dainty Blooms - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Today is my last day working for Chartis Insurance and I’m
eagerly anticipating taking the summer out to focus on some
of my personal work projects, blogging more, getting out to do more photography and editing my back log! I’m also going to do some more painting and should the muse bless me some more writing.

Add to that I want to get back to being a bit fitter and healthier, so rest, relaxation, regular exercise and a healthier diet are also on the to do list. One of the ways I’m hoping to improve my fitness is by starting up my Bollywood dance classes again.

Yes the summer looks set to be a good one and I’m hoping to get out and about in the countryside more, not to mention travel plans abroad.

Sometimes you just have to take some time out and focus on your own health and well being. It’s not good to let a pure pursuit of work get in the way of living your life.

As of tomorrow I’m going to step off the rat race for a while and enjoy the fruits of my labours over the past few years. I hope to be able to share some of those artistic outputs here with you.

Tread safely

Wealie x

A March Salisbury Sunrise!

Ruth Weal — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:57:31 +0000

Leaving my house this morning for work and I noticed this beautiful sunrise and thought I’d share it with you to help stave off any Monday Blues.

Happy Monday

Wealie x

just a little crack!

Ruth Weal — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:06:18 +0000

As I was merrily driving into work this morning I watched as a strange line slowly appeared across the bottom of my windscreen. At first I thought perhaps it was water and turned on the wipers, but I was soon disabused of this idea and came to the less than favourable realisation that I had an approximately 60 cm crack along the bottom of the windscreen.

Luckily I was only 20 mins out from home, though it took me another 40 to crawl back home, especially in morning rush hour. Still insurance called and screen will be replaced today.

I took a picture of the crack below if you are interested!

A Wealie Cracked Windscreen - Taken on the iphone - Copyright R.Weal 2010

Here’s hoping tomorrow’s drive will be less eventful!

Wealie x

An A303 Sunset

Ruth Weal — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:01:06 +0000

An on the move post, I just took this photo on the way home from work today, just as I passed Stonehenge. Don’t worry, Ben was driving!

Just goes to show that even the rubbish camera on the iPhone 3GS taking a picture through the windscreen of a moving car can still capture a great sunset.

Wealie x

Blogging on the move

Ruth Weal — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:43:02 +0000

Hello all

This is wealie blogging on the move, well not precisely. Actually I’m in the bath! “How is she writing a blog post I hear you ask?” Don’t worry, I’m not risking electrocution by laptop, I’m trying out the wordpress iPhone app.

It’s very simple to add your wordpress account and takes no more than 2 mins to set up. Once your loaded and ready to go you can read, write and moderate comments as well as writing and editing posts and pages. You can also add new categories and embed photos and videos to your posts and videos.

The editor is very simple and therefore very basic, so unless you code HTML in your sleep, you won’t be using it for complex posts, but it is a great tool for the busy blogger who is often away from their desk. I’d quite like a quick linking facility though – perhaps this will come in a later version. I gave up on the preview facility, I mean who’s got the time or patience to wait over 1 min for nothing to happen – certainly not me!

From reading the reviews on the iTunes app store, it’s clear that wordpress still has a way to go until all the bugs are fixed and it’s users completely happy, but so far my experience has been pretty seamless. In principle the functions provided are a great start and it is a free to download app. However, with a little investment and structure this app could be so much more powerful and I’m sure plenty of users would not mind paying a reasonable fee for a robust and bug free version.

Personally I am going to use it for short sharp posts in the moment and have created a new category “On the Move” for these posts – yes I created the category on the app!

Keep safe friends, this is wealie signing off from the bath x