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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 ... 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)

Exactly on target ! 194,000 at 14:10 on 13th January 2025. Many thanks for all your visits and interactions with my photostream ... Please Keep Safe - to everyone being subjected to natural environmental, health hazards and man-made warfare ! NOTE : 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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

Updates on Pam ( latest - 27th September 2018) lifted from IMA thread, posted by Chris & Peggy - see 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 :- https://www.ipernity.com/blog/…

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…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! We are pleased to present to you today the financial report*) for the short fiscal year 2017**). Adjusted for the one-off expenses in connection with the takeover of the website (contract costs and settlement of debts of Ipernity S.A.), revenues exceeded expenses. The website is therefore economically viable. *) English version: www.ipernity.com/doc/team/46643796 **) 14.04.2017 - 31.12.2017 Based on the existing subscriptions, a reasonab…

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…

C&P from IMA : www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4682062 [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Meanwhile IMA has gained access to the ticket log for “Help & Contact” and going forward will address issues. Please understand that we cannot go backwards to past requests, but will do our best to help going forward now. Where there will not be instant answers please be patient. We will be doing our best to answer in a timely manner. 2) Weeks ago people have asked an option to allow free gu…

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

[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.…

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…

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.

Posted by William Sutherland on 27th May 2017. in the IMA Project Group and reposted with permission. IMA News 26 May 2017 =EN= Dear Ipernity Members, This is to give you a short update regarding our conversations with Christophe Ruelle in his role as the CEO of Ipernity S.A. We are still in discussions with Christophe Ruelle about different aspects of the conditions and implementation of the transfer of the ipernity platform to IMA. The transfer of the platform has not yet star…

A very close friend has just lost her 92 year old mother to kidney failure, about 0400 on Friday 13th April 2018. I may or may not be on-line for the next few days, as I will be travelling around and otherwise occupied. {Too soon for a funeral date, but sometime in the next two to three weeks, I expect.} updated - the Funeral will be on the morning of Monday, 30th April 2018.

[EN] {the FR & DE editions are further down the page, here : https://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…

Now that I have completed the backlog of updates from the previous quarter, although I am still applying keywords etc to the images, I will move forward into the current quarter and make a start with July images. These will cover current projects and the images from elsewhere will include various day and longer trips to events and places of interest. Batch A : 12 images Plus - Batch B - "Miller at Sea" aka Adrian's images : 60 images (less 1 duplicate, so actually 59) and this album may b…