David's blog

I have decided not to use facebook anymore as I am not too happy about the information it seems to have about me the amount of information it has. The other day there was something on the timeline about the fact that I had met this person who is a friend on a certain date.  This friend hardly uses facebook and I did not tell facebook about when I met this person and I doubt the other person did but I am not too happy that it seems to know this fact it makes you wonder what else it knows I can't figure out how it has this information to its bye bye to facebook soemthing I have used extensivly for a long time.  There are other ways these days fo keeping in touch I guess and therefore its not that important well I don't think its as important as it use to be anyway. Its another damp day full of gloom a day before xmas ever and I still dont have any xmas spirit  it seems to have completely vanished this year oh well I guess I don't like the thing anywa and have to just make...

It has been a very nice day weather wise I had a bit of a stroll round the town in the nice autumn sunshine.  I then did some shopping as usual and came back here. I heard a story the other day about this lady who had a cult round here in the 17 hundreds she believed she would marry jesus christ and in fact had a wedding in the village here where her followers attened.  The name of this lady was Mare'r fantell wen, its hard to think of a woman leading cult its usually derranged men who get up to those kinds of things especially you would think in those ages where women were I guess or I would think were even more subordinate to men than they are today, anyway she was buried this time in some year in the 18th century I guess there is a halloween twist to the story as she was a cult figure.

It was very sad to see today a homeless person still sleeping in a doorway in the high street in Bangor their quilt was on covering a part of the pavement its hard to understand the mess the Tories and their supporters have made of this country really. It must be so undignified for the person to in that state I guess it gave me a glimpse of what goes on after dark in these larger towns.  It could probably happen to anyone given enough bad luck and 'bad' choices. It has been while since I had visited Bangor its not looking too good a lot of closed shops and there is rumour about Debenhams which might close which after seeing the prices of the stuff in their is understandable its too expensive. I also noticed today that the Traws cymru buses have a thing which tells you the next stop this has been present on arriva buses for years well the coast ones anyway it does not seem to be available on the route I use locally.  This service is useful for people who can't see too we...

I went for bit of a stroll this afternoon along this old railway track further on it is very over grown and its difficult to pass through it there are tree actually growing on the track now it has been closed that long.  I think the last train used it in the 1970s removing stuff from the power station which is now taken by road I assume. As a child we used to put coins on the line and wait for the train to go over it and they would have flattened them, no train could go on it now or I doubt ever will again due to the state of it.  While walking on it today a couple of young girls were on it I was surprised to see anyone there really as its a bit awkward to to walk I think they were visitors to the area I guess as its half term. I don't really know what will happen to the track I guess it will just be left as it is and get worse I suppose.

I learned the other day that these flowers are called Welsh poppies they are in my garden and grow every year they are wild flowers and I don't know much about them even if you can make opium out of them.  They are a nice change from the weeds which are usually present in the garden. It is a very chilly autumn day today and this morning I was trying to get to understand the source connect software that you can use to make and record phone calls or interviews which could be handy if someone wants to make a podcast or something which seems the way to go these days.  From what I can gather the quality is quite good really and should not need much editing I guess it depends on the quality of the microphone I am still trying to make it possible for the local blind society to record the local rag, the group that does record it is a bit slow in moving forward with the issue its been months now

Its another drab Sunday I just hope it is not as frustrating a day as yesterday which involved me having heartburn all night.  It started going bad when I missed the bus to go and pay the rent I was watching the football and thought I had enough time to catch the bus even if I sat and finished watching the whole thing the extra time didn't help. Anyway I was wrong I missed a bus I worked this out due to the app. I came back an hour later to see if I could catch the next one but this one did not turn up at all which was a bit of worry if I was going to get the next one as i might not get a bus back, this not turning up by arriva buses has been going on for months there was a meeting a few weeks ago but I guess it has not made any difference. There is no bus service round here to we are at the mercy of this unreliable service. I did manage to get to where I wanted to in the end anyway not sure it was worth all the hastle but oh well its done now. I woke up today to a wet sunday t...

It has been an awful day, the wind has been blowing really hard and the rain lashing down it took me three attempts to get out of the this village I got wet on the first two times.  It is good to get out of this place and go down to the coast as the weather can be a little bit better down there and it was I guess though when I came back here it had improved regardless of the what the bus driver said and that it was going to get worse.  It has been dark and bleak all day they are calling in some storm or other though and its a new thing to give these periods of wind and rain names we have always had bouts of wind and rain but they never had a name before I wonder if they will start giving names to sunny periods and calling them drout billy or something like that it really seems odd to me I gues it has come over from America like a lot of these stupid ideas. I regard a storm as something that incorporates thunder and lighttening so when the word storm is mentioned to me I thi...