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225,000 visits at 20:25 on 25th August 2026, so right on the nose for the second, consecutive, time. Item of interest / explanation - the garden camera trap has seen a lot of use over the past few weeks, monitoring the appearances of red squirrels at the bird table and other feeders. Plenty of images from this, as well. Recently paid a visit to Crich, the National Tramway Museum and a number of other places. Weather has continued to include days of near & actual heatwave temperatures, plus a thunderstorm ! As per the government alert - please be mindful of the risk of wildfires, do not use disposable BBQs, Please dispose of smoking materials and glass bottles carefully. Do not waste potable water - many areas have hosepipe bans as reservoir levels are too low. Uploads - not all of which are "published" - topped over 30,000 during an upload from the Garden Camera Trap, on 22nd June 2026 --- I do have quite a sizeable backlog of images to process --- Meteorological Spring started on 1st March 2026 [Spring Equinox is Friday, 20th March 2026, at 14:46 pm - Northern Hemisphere & United Kingdom Time] British Summer Time = The clocks will spring forward one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning 29th March, 2026]. This was despite the persistent problems caused by the AI crawler bots over the past few months. My thanks to the team for their efforts to cope. They are not alone, even large sites like wikipedia have not been immune. Many thanks for all your visits and interactions with my photostream - I have been adding new albums as part of my tidying up activities, once these new albums get a few views they will wander into folders, which will need a sort out, too ... Please Keep Safe - to everyone being subjected to natural environmental, health hazards and man-made warfare ! NOTE : Partial Solar Eclipse today [29thMarch ] and moving onto BST from Tomorrow [30th] ... GMT returned on 27th October 2024, with Samhain, bonfires and winter to follow ... Hopefully BST, and sunshine with dry & warmer weather cometh on Sunday, 30th March 2025 to Sunday 26th October 2025. Sadly we've lost Ben de-Dog, he crossed the bridge on Tuesday 4th June 2024, after collapsing following his morning constitutional around our garden. All of us are devastated - and that includes Beauty [our tripod cat]. However, we are now owned by a Collie, "Bella" came from a local working dogs rescue, She came to us as very shy & timid with a few problems. Bella has already learnt her new name, and has begun remembering her obedience skills. 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. ~~~~ 7th January 2025 - Another year has passed, and I still miss my father - sometimes much more than others. I woke up in the early hours this morning. Birthday memories ... 23rdMarch 2025 - miss You, Pops ! 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. My Late Mother would have reached her century on 29th September 2024, and she died on 8th July 1982, after a long struggle with having a defective heart valve. 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] ... I miss them both, so very much. It's my birthday on 6th September, and despite everything that always brings the sense of loss back. 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.

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/…

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…

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…

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

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…

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.

[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…

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].

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…