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My total vists were 182,001 around about 21:25 on 30th May 2024, which is close enough to being right "on the nose" ... The start of metereological summer is 1st June 2024 ! Much better weather here in the last few days, with greater amounts of sunshine, much less cloud / rain, and therefore warmer temperatures. I am sure the local sheep and farmers appreciate the improvement, my garden certainly seems to do so - and I've needed to do several grass cutting sessions. NOTE : Now on BST from 02:00 on 31st March 2024 - so hopefully some sunshine and dry weather cometh ... GMT returns on 27th October 2024, with Samhain, bonfires and winter to follow ... 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 2024, as well as deal with most of my own image backlog in the next few months. Obviously, the newest albums have the least number of views - currently they are on page 12 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. Mostly, 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.

In the wee small hours of 7th January 2019, my wonderful father died. May his katra Rest In Peace. ~~~~ Birthday memories ... 23rd March 2024 - where have the past five years gone ? they went past in what seems to have been a brief flash, on waking this morning I didn't feel quite as bereft as I usually do at this time of year. Sleep well Patro, I miss you ! e2aa - Somewhat 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)

The IMA have launched CROWDFUNDING ... www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/ipernity-members-association-a-non-profit-entity With a target of $25,000 in "two weeks" - this is to secure the platform whilst the takeover project is planned and achieved. March 2017 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Things have moved on ..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ADDED - new article from Team Ipernity - 10th January 2017 www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4646844 "New Perspectives" quote snipped…

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.

Update posted by William Sutherland for 27 April 2017: Mr. Christophe Ruelle signed off on the letter of intent confirming his acceptance of IMA's proposal. A copy of this document can be found on the IMA website at: ipernityma.wixsite.com/ipernityma/formal-proposal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Official from Christophe, all we are waiting for now is signed papers ... www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4659568 Blog post c2030 BST on 26th April 2017 ... 24 hours later - E2A - unfortunat…

William Sutherland posted an article in the IMA Project Group on 11th July 2017. www.ipernity.com/group/2260604/discuss/187672 C&P in full .... Dear members, We are absolutely delighted to share with you that the legal basis of our IMA goal to take the Ipernity platform over is achieved: Ipernity S.A. (represented by Christophe Ruelle) and IMA (represented by Eric Desjours) signed the contract regarding the transfer of the Ipernity platform, the underlying intellectual property and as…

We have now exchanged NSR127 for NSR61, and work is already underway........including on the doors, have a look at the album....... I have just (2013 Aug 28 1515) finished adding and allowing viewing of something in the region of 25 images, there will be more of NSR127 - showing the arrival and unveiling at Blythe Bridge - to upload shortly (sorting out a copyright release). There are a few extra images to be uploaded of the juvenile Blackbird, which is now fledged into an aviary in our ga…

I am starting to look for a new home. I will be backing up my stuff here from today. Results of my investigations to follow ... so far, almost everything looks like a fl****r clone ! Updates - 5th December 2016 ... Tried 23hq --- www.23hq.com/StoneRoad2016/album/list OK, but not as functional as here and I'm not convinced about security. Tried 500pix https://500px.com/stoneroad looks like a fl888r clone and not fun to use. will have a look at smugmug and zenfolio tomorrow…

Sunday 21st July 2013 - I have just begun adding over 70 images, mostly of recent work and events. These will become visible gradually; as I complete their descriptions, tags/keywords and sort them into albums etc, over the next few hours. As I need to re-take a couple and there are some of the newest progress on NSR127 to capture, this is a bit of a work in progress. Completed just before 2200 BST.....in between various other tasks, been very busy today..... . Please enjoy looking at what has…

The main item requiring attention, at least for the next few months, will be the restoration of the convict van from the Peterhead Quarry Railway, which will arrive soon after NSR61 returns home to Staffordshire. Some further work will be carried out on NER70 concurrently. In addition, there are several other projects under varying stages of development - sometimes it can take two to three years from initial approach to actually starting work. From a state of really worrying about whether we wil…

Having transplanted my existing images, sorted them into albums and re-created the album (set) description / commentary........Now I can carry on with the normal service ! There is a rather larger than usual (for me) upload batch in progress (34 items) covering from just before the f****r diaster. I'll make them visible as soon as I have added their titles, descriptions, keywords and filed them into their respectives albums. Please keep checking back as I will not be doing all of them just…

C&P from IMA Project Group, originally posted by William Sutherland. Also posted in Ip Blog here :- www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4675826 IMA Announcement - 1st September 2017 [EN] Dear Members, We are thrilled to announce that we are about to take the last steps of IMA's take-over of the Ipernity platform and service. IMA is now handling the financial aspects of the site. IMA made the first payment to Amazon Web Services for August and will continue to pay the operating costs…

[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…

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 :- https://www.ipernity.com/blog/…

Various images to be uploaded ... details to follow. Very busy so these uploads will be delayed for a bit. longer, my apologies. Still progressing the preparation of these backdated uploads, the delay was largely due to the compilation of tender documents that were submitted to an on-line procurement portal. As a very small and highly specialised organisation (run on a non-profit basis) we are severely disadvantaged by these portals, especially as we have to do a lot of un-paid work to compile o…

Although most of the recent additions to my Ipernity stream have featured either NSR 61 or the Miller Fifer, I have also retrieved and uploaded a few images related to other subjects. After I have done the titles, descriptions, keywords and organised them into their albums, I shall put them out to view. This may take a little while, but as a bonus for re-visiting / waiting patiently, there are a few missing images of more recent work on NSR61 that I will need to upload, as well.

"At Work" images from January 2016 onwards will be mainly NER 70, NER 2853, the PQR convict van and the "Miller Fifer". "At Play" images - mostly the Miller in Whitehaven, the weather and various other subjects such as Ben de-Dog. These new uploads will be unlocked after allocation to albums and addition of keywords. Certain images may have incorrect capture dates, as using another, older camera which has yet to be informed as to the correct date. Batch A - 17 images, almost all "at play"…

A selection of images for various projects and other interests are in the process of being uploaded, this is an attempt to clear something of a backlog before the end of the month and will be in several stages. Once the keywords and album allocations are completed they will be on show. Project images are from a range of new, current and past commissions, some of the "backdated images" have resulted from finding another, older camera memory card. Also included are some captures of various item…

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.

Originally........ ~~~I had a paid account on fotopic and when that disappeared into the ether in March 2011 ....... ~~~ I restarted at flickr (having looked at various other image hosting sites) where I had a "pro" account; after the "improvements" on 20th May 2013 and realising that I needed something better............... ~~~ I moved to here, liked what I found; so I have just paid my subscription to "Club Ipernity" and migrated over my images. Now - all I have to do is to re-sort into al…