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Due to an unresolved problem with WP I had to start over again on this blog.
I started blogging over five years ago but now with Facebook and Twitter, Posterous, Tumblr and others, blogging has evolved and personal blogging has, in my opinion, less relevance.
I managed to slavage most of my posts up until early last year so there is a hole in my blogging history of over a year. Unfortunately I was unable to access my blog to recover this period but luckily the blog was often very quiet which compensates.
I have decided to more or less cease generalist blogging because you can catch up with this on Twitter (justgraham) or look for me on Facebook (link will follow). Rather I will continue here with one of my passions and that is cooking.
Next year I will have been married for thirty years but it was only less than a year ago that I decided to assume all the cookery at home. My wife is an excellent cook but we both work full time. She has cooked for all this time and early on this year I decided it was time for me to step up to the plate and take over the role. I’m still having a ball and soon it will be a year.
I want to relate how it is going for me and show you what I am cooking, my successes and failures and any tips I might be able to give you.
I might stray onto other subjects from time to time but I’ll let you judge if this is a good thing or not!
Welcome back if you haven’t read me for a while!
This is the salad I had last week at The Green Spot here in Geneva.
If you are wondering what’s going on here is an update.
I recently noticed that my blog was spitting error messages so I tried to fix it. I couldn’t get into the admin interface whatever I tried so I backed everything up using the tools my hosting service provided. I deleted the installation, reinstalled, then got my provider to hook it up to the old database and copied back all the content.
The end result was identical and I had gone full circle.
I’ll be honest here and say that the heyday of my blog was long last gone and I hadn’t done much with it over the past year apart from posting from time to time to say I hadn’t posted lately. I wasn’t really getting much traffic and this was understandable. I’m active on Facebook and participate on Twitter and Friendfeed so didn’t really feel the need to post here a lot.
This should be the place where I post longer articles or put stuff that doesn’t belong on FB, Friendfeed or Twitter. I’m not really sure what that might be and notice that even the prolific bloggers I know tend to write less these days too so I’m not alone.
So now you know the story please come back and see how I’m doing real soon now!
Following on from my last few posts I’m trying to be a little more pro-active.
If you want to participate in the hunt for my friend Robert I have made a badge that you could host to help spread the word. I’ll be reporting regularly here to give you any news I receive.
Here is the badge:
and here is the code:
I lived in Edinburgh from 1968 to 1978 and had some very good friends. Robert Irvine (Whose photo I posted yesterday), John Sharp, who later came to Switzerland and was my best man at my wedding and James whose surname I have forgotten although it might be Cameron. We used to hang out together frequently, discovering music and taking photos and doing what friends do best, having a lot of fun.
I’ve lost touch over the years and would really like to get in touch with them. I want to try the power of the web because they must have made or are making waves on it as I write.
I’m starting with Robert.
Robert was born in Edinburgh and lived with his Mum in Lauriston Place before emigrating to the States. I know he was living in San Francisco in 1984 because the last photo of him was of his wedding with a woman named Sharon that was taken with the Golden Gate bridge as a backdrop on the 19th of February 1984.
Please help me find him by relaying this info and the photo I posted yesterday. I know it’s possible. Let’s make it happen.
This is a photo of Robert and Sharon taken in 1984
I was ill yesterday and without going into the details it was a digestive disorder sort of thing. It floored me for the day but I’m feeling a lot better today.
I came across an article on conjoined twin girls, Brittanny and Abigail Hensel, in our local free newspaper and that led me to a video on Youtube. It’s an amazing story and I’m surprised I didn’t find out about it until now. Here’s the video. There is also an article devoted to them on Wikipedia.
Finally, I received an info by email this morning. Matthieu Ricard, the Dalai Lama’s personal translator for French is giving a public talk in Lausanne on the 9th of April. His subject is “Interdependence and Universal Responsibility”. Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist Monk and before becoming a monk he obtained a PhD in Cellular Genetics in 1972.
I really want to go and listen.
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