Monday Memorandum : 2 firsts for the year and metaphor

Waving to Sian and all the Monday people.  Sian has suggested that this year we share something new we did or learnt and she deployed the ‘memorandum’ word.  I’m old enough to remember using a memo pad at work for sending notes that we would now send as an email – they were orange for some reason.  When I did typing classes as school the memo format was one of the key ones we had to learn – all those :’s .  So of course I take any mention of a memorandum seriously.
So – this weekend I bought my first daffodils for the year – so cheery on a grey day

and on Saturday I spied my first snow of the year – non fell here but I saw cars with snow on their roof and I could see some white on the hills (all gone by Sunday)

I also learnt something new – an interesting metaphor description of a common component of dyslexia and dyspraxia: like trying to run Photoshop on an old computer with little RAM, resulting in long pauses and frozen actions.  The suggestion is that part of dyslexia and dyspraxia is an in-balance between intellectual perception and comprehension on one side and immediate working memory and processing speed on the other.
Have a great week.

5 in 5 after the rain

Joining Sandie for her lovely monthly 5 in 5 meme and ticking off another item for the scavenger hunt.  After so much rain there are plenty of puddles (item 6) and a sunny interval meant lovely reflections in them too - I took so many photos on one stretch of path that when I was back at my computer I realised they would be perfect for my January 5 in 5

Snap 1

A new year and a new theme for Wednesday.  My idea for Snap is a visually linked set of between 2 and 4 images.  The set can be based on colour or shape or subject or ... let's see what we collectively come up with over the year.

I was thinking about what I would use for my first snap while on my daily walk and looked at the clock on top of the school sport pavilion - and thought it would make a good subject as I also regularly see several other clock towers.  I liked the idea of using clocks given how important the clock face is for marking the new year.

Top left is the one I see on my walk, top right is in the city and clock which we gathered near for New Year when I was a student in Edinburgh, bottom left is on the old town hall on my local high street and for the last I went to my photo archive for the lovely clock tower at the University of Auckland (NZ) where I worked for 15 years.

Looking forward to seeing how everyone uses this new theme.

Happy New Year

and my item for number 21 on the scavenger hunt list - my own handwriting.