StoneRoad2013's articles

  • Photo updates (edited - 7th March 2024) ...

    - 11 days ago - 37 comments
    I was attending a conference during the period when the visits counter passed 178,000 - which means that I don't have an exact date / time, so I'll estimate it was 12:00 on 7th March 2024. Recent weather has continued to be cold, wet & windy - but thankfully there are now a few signs of the approach of spring ! Sadly, recent weather has included snow flurrries. There has been so little respite from stormy weather that many areas are still water-logged to the point of flooding and a lot of trees have been uprooted, leading to some disruption to travel [whether that's ferries, rail or road !] and power supplies, depending on where you are based. SW Northumberland has escaped most of the time. NOTE : Now on GMT, as BST ended on 29th October 2023 so here cometh winter, after Samhain and Bonfires ... Now waiting for the SUN & BST from 02:00 31st March 2024. Huurrrahhhh !!!!! which ends on 27th October 2024 ... Many Thanks for visiting ! as I really do appreciate all the various interactions with my images, especially the comments & favourites. I'm hoping to be more interactive with other people's images etc in 2023, as well as deal with most of my own image backlog. Obviously, the newest albums have the least number of views - currently they are on page 11 of most viewed albums. I have been keeping up with my uploads, with various visits to places of interest featuring quite strongly but the vast majority are still "Private" as I have been busy in the garden and with a range of administration & other activities ... I have caught up with the last of the backdated items in the Cobid-19 album. Also, I am still working away with more of the various backdated images, and I have found some more "missing" images ... this has meant creating more new albums, for those that didn't fit into the existing albums; as well as adding titles, captions and keywords to the actual images. Final stage is unlocking them and adding some to groups. I have "tagged" the albums I am working on with *New*,*updated*,*WiP* and *done* as needed, these will stay for a week or three, depending on the status. For my ease of access, I sometimes add the albums I am currently working with into my favourites, so the contents of the "favourite" banner on my album home page may get changed periodically. Currently, SRR have hree vehicles as two new jobs for 2022, their *NEW* albums appeared recently. Backdated coverage is for :- NSR23, MSR62 & 63, plus two ex-Corris vehicles now on the Talyllyn. Also, various "holiday snaps" and visits to places of interest & gala type events. I still have several hundred images to process, and a further backlog of images to upload ... Please stay safe and healthy - keep indoors or follow social distancing rules if you must make an essential trip outside. Wash hands or sanitise them frequently. Cover face - Wear a mask over your nose and mouth when required, please, for not only your own protection but also for others. Make Space ; Stay at least the minimum distances apart (for me, in the UK that is 2m) Ventilation - make sure there is plenty of fresh air That means there have been an average of 1,000 interactions with my photostream each month, so very many thanks to all the visitors and for all the comments and yellow stars. Apologies, all this has been delayed as I have been concentrating on my garden rebuilding project and writing tender documentation. Although I have been doing a lot more of my administration work at home since March 2020. Luckily, I have avoided catching the plague, so far.

  • Bereaved - In memorium

    - 08 Jan 2024 - 55 comments
    In the wee small hours of 7th January 2019, my wonderful father died. May his katra Rest In Peace. ~~~~ Birthday memories ... e2aa - Somehat similar to what happened last year, four years seems to have passed in a brief flash and this morning I felt the loss very keenly. E2A - This morning I awoke to feelings that the last three years seem like yesterday, not that I slept particularly well. [This is a very personal sense of loss and I am not decrying all the suffering and deaths from the pandemic, quite the opposite] I typed my first version of this before dawn on 7th Jan 2022, deleted it and tried again. It would have been his 103rd birthday on 23rd March 2022 (1919 to 2019) and I doubt he would have managed to get to 104 [23rd March 2023] ... Father's Day in the UK on 18th June 2023. Always a sad day, I miss the opportunity to send himself some bad esperanto in an humourous card. ~~~~ this links to an image www.ipernity.com/doc/312383/47955110 in my photos entitled "CAS - esperantist" (which was in the Ipernity Frontpage and What's Hot group on 3rd March 2019)

  • Team Ipernity News - 28th Jan 2022

    - 31 Jan 2022
    www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4737428 . Be a part of shaping ipernity's future! . Please read this article on the Team blog [28th January 2022].

  • The day from hell

    - 20 Nov 2021 - 6 comments
    Yesterday, Friday 19th November was definitely NOT a good day for this household. Although, I know it could have been far worse ... First strike - we've all had a bout of digestive problems, involving frequents visits to sit on the loo. Cause unknown, no other symptoms, in case anyone suggests LFTs. [oh, and our visiting cat needed an emergency bathroom break ... but not the dog, as far as we can tell] Second strike - on a search for windfall apples, one of us managed a poke in the eye…

  • IMA : Newsflash - 2020 - 09 - 25

    - 25 Sep 2020
    Please read ... [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) In technical and economic terms, we have achieved a lot since we have managed ipernity ourselves. Now is the time to make this great progress public in order to attract new club members because the stock of registered accounts is exhausted: www.ipernity.com/doc/11832/50369726 {image} [a] Non-renewal of 2-year subscriptions which ipernity S.A. had offered as a special offer in 2016. [b] Compensation by a return offe…

  • IMA team : Covid-19 - financial help offer

    - 13 Apr 2020
    cvd - Covid-19 Financial Help (for membership renewals)
    Financial Help for membership renewals [EN] For further information see the Newsflash from April 10, 2020 . [[FR] Pour plus d'informations, voir le Newsflash du 10 avril 2020. [[DE] Für weitere Informationen siehe den Newsflash vom 10. April 2020.

  • IMA NEWSFLASH : 7th December 2018

    - 07 Dec 2018 - 3 comments
    [DE] & [FR] editions are here : www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4714600 Dear members and friends of ipernity! Today, we would like to address two topics that have been of great interest to you in recent discussions. 1) Being responsible for a balanced budget, the ima team is not allowed to spend money that is not in the bank. Therefore, we cannot assign any more software development orders in 2018. In the short term, it's not possible to integrate a display of individual memory consumption…

  • IMA Newsflash : 30th November 2018

    - 01 Dec 2018 - 1 comment
    The chart and [FR] & [DE] editions are here :- www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4714216 [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1. tomorrow the meteorological winter begins. Therefore we have switched the ipernity front page to "winter operation". Once again, we would like to thank the photographers whose pictures have helped to create a great variety[of motifs]. 2 In order to disturb the ongoing operation as little as possible, the cleaning of the database was switched to individual…

  • IMA Newsflash : 23rd November 2018

    - 24 Nov 2018 - 6 comments
    Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) After having weighed all requests for changes made by the Community with regard to the new ipernity tariff structure, today we present you a revised proposal. It is intended to make this structure official by November 30, 2018, after a final fine-tuning, if necessary, so that Flickr and Google+ users who are willing to move will be able to find out what to expect from ipernity. [Chart - which can be found here :- http://www.ipernity.com/blog/…

  • IMA NEWSFLASH : 16th November 2018

    - 16 Nov 2018 - 2 comments
    The [FR] & [DE] versions are here www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4713290 [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) During the last two weeks Ipernity's performance was unfortunately not always as good as it should have been. The reasons were explained in the comments to the last Newsflash. In the meantime, various technical and organizational measures have been taken to recover the usual performance. 2.1) There are always requests about the warnings of modern browsers that ipernit…

  • Image Updates (mainly from 2017 - so very belated!)

    - 02 Nov 2018 - 3 comments
    Updated to record the 90,000 visit milestone about 2300 (GMT) on 1st November 2018. 89,000 visits about 1200 (BST) on 8th October 2018. 88,000 visits approx. 8th of September 2018. 87,000 visits about 1300 (BST) on 19th August 2018 86,000 visits by early morning on 26th July 2018. 85,000 visit milestone was passed on the 1st of July 2018 (approx.) 84,000 visits were sometime during the first week in June 2018 83,003 visits just after 0745 on 12th May 2018. 82,000 visits just after 0900 on 17th April 2018. 81,000 visits just before 0930 on 24th March 2018, 80,000 visits around 13:30 on 2nd March 2018, 79,000 visits sometime during 9th February 2018, 78,000 visits around 13:30 GMT on 18th January 2018, 77,000 visits at about 11:00 GMT on 28th December 2017, 75,000 visits to my pages around 08:25 GMT on 15th November 2017. Very many thanks to all my visitors, especially for all the comments and favourites. There is an major update in progress (working in batches ) ... Still playing catch-up with 2017 images, some 2018 images are sneaking into the photostream.

  • IMA NEWSFLASH : 26th October 2018

    - 01 Nov 2018 - 2 comments
    [FR] & [DE] are here ... www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4711574 SEE --- two addenda at the end with extra information Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The restart of ipernity after the maintenance work was unfortunately somewhat rough. This was caused by one of two backup servers which have been additionally integrated. But from now on ipernity should run to our all advantage with enlarged security reserves. 2) For the announced cleanup of the ipernity database, all necessary…

  • IMA NEWSFLASH : 12th October 2018

    - 12 Oct 2018 - 2 comments
    The full article in [FR] and [DE] is here ... www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4710588 [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1. Pam's recovery is gradually progressing. Periodical information can be found at Clickity Click www.ipernity.com/home/christine.bentley . 2. On Monday, Oct. 15. 2018, our returnee offer ends. So far it has been accepted by 139 users. More than 277,500 documents are now publicly visible again. The additional contribution margin is 3,543 EUR. Less the mailing c…

  • IMA NEWSFLASH - 28th September 2018

    - 29 Sep 2018 - 4 comments
    Further updates ref Pam J - will be added as comments. (Latest news - 29th September 2018) The [FR] & [DE] versions of this Newsflash are here www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4709356

  • IMA NEWSFLASH - 14th September 2018

    - 14 Sep 2018 - 8 comments
    Updates on Pam ( latest - 27th September 2018) lifted from IMA thread, posted by Chris & Peggy - see comments.

  • IMA NEWSFLASH 31st August 2018

    - 31 Aug 2018 - 3 comments
    [EN] {the FR & DE editions are further down the page, here : http://www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4707952 } Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) After a well-deserved summer break, the ima team is back and would like to thank all users who have enriched ipernity with pictures and other contributions during the summer and holiday weeks. In addition, we would also like to thank those who have internally maintained operations and were available to help with any disruptions or questions. W…

  • IMA NEWSFLASH 28th June 2018

    - 28 Jun 2018 - 4 comments
    [EN] version only, the [FR] and [DE] language versions are here ... www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4704170 Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Since ipernity is now technically up to date again, we offer all free users the opportunity to upgrade their account to a club account at half price by Sept. 30, 2018. Details and conditions can be found here: www.ipernity.com/home/2396510 After October 1, 2018, the ipernity database will be cleaned from the invisible content of free users.…

  • IMA NEWSFLASH : 8th June 2018

    - 09 Jun 2018
    A couple of days late, as I'm away from home ... [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Meanwhile, SSL encryption has been extended to all ipernity login pages. Your registration and log-in processes are completely secure now. 2) Like other websites with login, ipernity offers the option "Stay connected". Under certain circumstances, however, this can be a safety gap. We therefore recommend that you always log out at the end of a session. This is especially necessary for a sha…

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