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1st December 2024

I don’t take any pleasure from being discouraging. I witnessed the Enfield parade of lights this evening as part of the 25 days of counting down to Christmas. It was a disappointment. I haven’t seen it for a few years, I think the last one was before COVID. I hadn’t realised it had deteriorated so much. It was short for one, the whole thing felt clinical, rather than community focused and led. The whole parade past my work in 20mins. 5 Children waved, 3 I knew from Lucas’ school. The variety of community groups were minimal and to be honest I felt embarrassed by the whole thing.

After watching, I made my way to Enfield town to watch the Mayor turn on lights. ( I had to shout and wave to get them to respond, something not befitting of a parade). I didn’t stay, I went home.

We were going to have a float this year, something I have wanted to do since we first it back in 2013, I am really glad we didn’t.

I completely forgot to mention, this was filmed on a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB and the audio was recorded on the same Pi using a rode usbnt.

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Happy Yuletide 2023

A very happy Yule to everyone and thank you for your amazing support in 2023. Have a happy new year on the Georgian calendar and I look forward to sharing with you my adventures (and there will be a few) in 2024.

The most recent Podcast 24th December 2024

Recorded at Grafham water on the 23rd December 2023, on the Eridol audio hand held recorder in the wind walking to the water vent as pictured in the ‘Feature Image’ on the post. Start at 2pm once the I had realised the car park closed at 4pm.

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