Tuesday, 19 November 2013

VANDA COERULEA BUDS OPENING

Now my Vanda coerulea flowering for the third time and unlike the Dendrobium victoria-reginae not quite old enough, large enough or setlled in enough to really show off! Sadly.

But I expect this one will do just that in about 6 months time?! Cannot wait either!


Bit fully opened as some of you will spot. A couple of days and should be there?!
 More photos to come of course and there is and will be more videos over on my YouTube account too!


DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE FLOWERING GOOD

Well its now onto ots thrid flowering, along with the Vanda coerulea you will see in the next post, and it is starting to get cocky and show off now my Dendrobium victoriae-reginae!


Stunning?! Well I do not know if you can see or not but two of the buds, at least two, have yet to open!! LMAO! Many more pictures when it does and there will be a video over on my YouTube account too!


Sunday, 25 August 2013

ZYGOPETALUM IN FLOWER

More to come as they produce MORE flowers, lol.

;)

Oh yes I now have a SONY CYBERSHOT DSC HX300 BRIDE CAMERA, LMAO!


Saturday, 17 August 2013

THE NIKON CONUNDRUM

Well what MORE can I say?!?!
Do not buy your photographic equipment from Argos!!! LMAO
Hmm or NIKON
FOUR CAMERAS AND ALL FAULTY AND OBVIOUSLY REFURBISHED!!


THE UNBOXING


REFUSAL TO SWITCH ON PART ONE (of FOUR)


REFUSAL TO SWITCH ON PART TWO (of FOUR)


COUPLE OF MY WITNESSES

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

INTERMISSION & iTEAM PUTTING 'i' BACK IN TEAM - PHASE 4

Well I will be a son of a gun!

I has been quite an unpredictable spring and summer so far! Started off cold and raining and then went straight from that cold, windy and wet weather into too bloody hot!

Everyone was like 'oh at last' and then into 'ooh its too hot, my children cannot sleep, we have cold showers every night!' and before long I was doing the same!

Then all of a sudden after weeks of what seemed like much more intense and brighter sunlight than usual a series of storms came making it extremely muggy and then it went cool. Only just like the Spring the cool weather has been accompanied by wind and rain?! Bar humbug!

There were some nice moments and only yesterday I was walking back from somewhere after getting a bite to eat and walking home in a westerly direction wearing sunglasses with the sun low in the sky and just the most perfect breeze! Hmm perfection!

Added to this a series of NHS run-ins and two extremely dodgy cameras, one I am still stuck with and I am waiting for the glue on the grip to dry before using it again. It had one day yesterday not being used and now I have added finishing touches....OF GLUE it has another 24 hours, sounds like a film, to dry.

I moved the laptop to the cabinet to my left thinking it would be more efficient having it there and great to work with but this was not to be. Only now and today am I typing this out while glancing into a direction that does not cause pain and dizziness after five or ten minutes. I have worked on my living room too and the Ottoman that now has a set of four Vivariums sitting on top of it as now been turned 90 degrees so if I look 90 degrees to my left I look straight at it.

The metal mesh lidding was loose on on partition and that is currently drying, if not already dry, too! I am looking forward to rigging up a set of light to my own design for these cages and indeed may end up with different wattages with each depending on what animals I keep in them.

At the moment those I would like to keep would be a Hyla (Tree-Frog), or Hyperolius (Small African Tree Frog), in another I always like those tiny Jewelled Geckos found in Egypt. Maybe even a pair Peruvian Beauty Spiders?! Now me keeping an invertebrate?! That would shock a great deal of people and would likely be the first time I have ever done it. Or at least in nearly 40 years that is for sure!

Of course there are the usual suspects that I would grab with both hands like alpestris apuanus and Bombina pachypus. The cages will take about two weeks before completion and around that time there are some reptile shows going on.

So for this year I have also NOT ordered any new Orchids, more is the pity, and no idea when I will start purchasing hardware to build the first of two PC Computers?!

Also I seem to have had a bit of a time out due to the falling apart of my Olympus Stylus SP-820UZ Camera that I wanted so badly and thought would be perfect. In some aspects it was better than the Camera it replaced, and I do not mean the faulty Nikon L310 I took back to Argos and ended up with this one, I mean the competent for what it was Nikon S8200 Coolpix. I am still trying to get over the fact that the best and most reliably performing camera is the one with the smallest objective lens?! Bloody unbelievable. Anyway the grip of the Olympus finally fell off entirely with the gentlest of tugs. I spent two days gluing it back on but did not work due to the cheap nasty sticky rice paper like substance they use to glue things to heir cameras?! Yuck. So I am now on the third day of having no camera and I have now used an epoxy resin to glue the grip on as previous attempts with rubber cement (plumbing glue more or less lol) and silicone sealant have been quite unsuccessful in all honesty. The funny thing is if the epoxy resin work it only takes 5 minutes to harden and I could grab the camera and go out. Only it is 9.22am now and has been raining for 30 minutes and according to the Met Office app, which is admittedly WRONG 80% of the time, will continue to rain until 7pm tonight and as I cycle everywhere and do not possess the necessary waterproof gear to protect both me and my equipment then it is a no, no. That is one reason I always look at the Pentax K-30 SLR, think that is what it's model name is, as it is waterproof and would be good for what I do. Only I also want to do detailed close up shots and so the Nikon D800E SLR is also wanted.

But out of the four main CAMERA companies Pentax and Canon are the only ones that have not screwed me thus far. I used to love Pentax when I was a youngster and wanted to get into photography, somehow ended up with a Minolta X-300 but I still loved it. But I am still a while away from getting the equipment I really need to move these blogs up a couple of notches so I am not sweating yet over the choices, lol. Besides by then there may well be another waterproof Pentax that does all that the D800E can. Or the D800E will be more affordable?! YEAH RIGHT!!

So what with the NHS, people who have the audacity to call themselves Doctors, the weather being too hot, too windy or too wet I have been somewhat...held up and am admittedly behind where I thought I would be at this juncture. Still it matters not as this has just turned out to be a damned good start for 2014. In fact by the time 2014 comes around I should be in the water and swimming like a fish?! Well unless there is the most glaringly obvious and hugest Internet rip off of authors that has somehow been missed by smart investigative journalists, TV News Networks and Ombudsman?! Ooh wait a moment?

As for what has been posted at different stage up until this point things are all honest and above board and EXACTLY how I wanted to play it. I wanted to wax philosophical when I was in that mood, type when angry when I was in that mood too and anything else I was feeling at the time along the way. This would no doubt have used some choice language but that was what I felt at the time and I type 'from the hip' and just the way I like to do things. I did not want it or me looking manufactured and still do not nor will I ever will. I suppose the time it has taken so far kind of works for me as it seems to play along long enough so that what I do or fail to do matches the economy, in the UK at any rate, and if there is ever an improvement or drop then I should feel it?! We all should those of us that exist online to one degree or another and collectively this should be able to be used in our favour.

Along the way I have tried very hard to show that when you do not work as a team effort then as a nation we will go backwards. I am having a guess that the majority of us, like those that said it after Concorde was grounded, that we have gone backwards and none feel that more than the British Public do?! We pay more than anyone else and then find out it is either refurbished and used crap or of extremely bad build quality in the first place?! NICE, talk about getting two fingers up in your face after handing over your hard cash?! Except what I find both amusing and worrying at the same time is that either I live in a nation of extremely naïve people or many media moguls are being bribed up to the teeth to pressure the journalists into submission?! There simply are no other reasons involved and I have been seeing this stuff for what now seems like an eternity. I just did not know just how widespread it really all was and that I found quite disgusting.

So we get hammered and told about team work and team player when what they actually have meant over the last two or three decades is following orders no questions asked! No idiots and morons that is NOT what the word team means you bloody dicks! The government along with the previous one that showed us nothing more than a struggle between Tony Blair, who now looks very dodgy indeed, and Gordon Brown, who I trusted even less, and continued with the new Siamese Twins of David Cameron and Prince George Osborne is a new initiative and idea that has been in place since the inception of that famous Apple invention called the iPod. Indeed and look so many other since they have secretly copied the name of this fashionable device and implemented it into their new code name for the initiative as well as the sub-title.

iTEAM – Putting the 'I' Back in TEAM!

LMAO.

The only thing that I hope and pray is that the British Public learns from this but also that the GOVERNMENT learn from this that you have been heading down this road now since 1979 and look where it has brought us?! We are not at a juncture where it seems like before very long now (January 2014) it would seem like it has been so bad for so very long that we will have forgotten or started to forget when it was good?! Well not me, lol. If this is them matched with the problem of not being able to foresee an end and after a third and most miserable of all previous Christmases going back 3 years or more then this will have a devastating effect on the human psyche in an increasingly and ever growing number of individuals?!

Of course if you behave like the intelligent human beings you believe yourselves to be than you will read, listen and then most importantly ACT!

This is better for me as and IF done correctly and things improve I will make my own income SOONER instead of LATER!!

Hmm I wonder if they, my enemies, have tried using the excuse that I have tried to CAPITALIZE on the recession both national and global to make money or a name for myself?! Well if so …. TSK-TSK!! TUT-TUT!! Still no forethought and just scribbling silly notes on napkins?! No I am sorry it does not work like that and I just kind of blew to bits any possibility of that have I not?! No I only want to change things for the better or die trying?! Well either that or a nice foreign country that does for its people the honest and decent thing would like to give me refuge?! LOL.

So until such a time I am still minus a few items that in themselves will allow me to spend around two months really and heavily putting content on my dozen blogs that will cause it to sky rocket. This is because I have, and always have had, an ability to instinctively know what people want and provide them with it. I can also hold people's attention with my telling of tales that could well pace me in some Guild of the Bards?! I can do this in both factual things as well as fictional too and you can chuck in a whole list of sciences to boot! I can also join up the dots that seems to have impressed seemingly impossible to impress people since I was 14?! Well you had better do a rummage around on here as there are nearly 1000 posts just on this blog alone you know?! LMAO!

Yes these items, sorry I digress. Yes there are a number of things that will allow me to absolutely mount a unbelievable charge at this point in time that I could not ever look back from without getting light headed! Despite the fact I still have no TV and therefore not really able to enjoy my Blu-Ray Discs in GLORIOUS 1080p magnificence the highest priority right now is...

  1. NIKON D800E SLR CAMERA + Telephoto and Macro Lenses
  2. CBoardman Mountain Bike in Halfords @ £850 which will lose 7lbs on current weight
  3. Out of current reach building blocks to at least ONE PC Build
    a) One for work and intended to become a SERVER RIG
    b) Another enthusiast GAMING RIG as this is my HOBBY (YESSS OK ONE OF THEM LOL) and would rocket my Computing blog among others!
Now with those three things as a basis then everything takes off and within just two to three months I will quadruple the numbers I am currently getting. This is just not achieved by anyone and now I know I am building up a high level of trust in everything I say and do among the people that read. In fact one one blog that sits alone and without advertising on it or ever intended to be placed I am now seemingly acquiring followers ever day or two?! I also know that this will increase as more and more see my blog listed on others blogs and have their interests peaked! I also know that within a few weeks of this building up the temperature will be cooling down, well in the NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, so that much of the UK, EUROPE and the USA will gradually and increasingly depending on their latitude (i.e. outdoor temperature/weather) spend more time indoors on the Internet. So If I was to hazard a guess this will start around September and October in the North of Scotland and increase as these cold temperatures work their way south.

Hmm, you see?! Many things rattling around in my head all the time I have to keep track of and make sense of! Sometimes I see a documentary and it covers something I do and I know that it will peak my numbers for a while. This is getting harder to predict as I have posted about a certain thing a number of times and lose track of how many! LOL.

Added to acquiring those three I also have a set of four glass Vivariums I intend to create the perfect environment for particular species of animals I love. Frogs, Toads, Salamanders, Newts, Lizards or even SNAKES?! SSSSSSS!! LOL. I also have my one metre aquarium sitting empty but set up and only needs the addition of FISH!!! The three bas items I listed above will allow me to do much more work and get much more content for these too and a great deal quicker to boot?!

Of course there are other items I am without and that would help with boredom, Billy-No-Mates (died or ran away), painful chores I have a dreadful habit of not being able to do or avoiding because I know it will hurt...

  1. Samsung Series 7 46” TV
  2. HQ Blu-Ray Player
  3. Dishwasher but will have to be tiny as I am CRAMPED here
  4. One of those little automatic vacuums, lol. How cool and hoe helpful.
  5. Litespeed Occoe with Mavic SLR Rims, Red Magura Marta SL Brakes, SRAM XX Gears, XTR or Carbon Chain-set, DT Swiss Carbon Forks 80-100mm travel, RaceFace Carbon FLAT BARS, Ritchey WCS Carbon Seat-post, Selle Italia Gel Saddle and Crank Brothers Egg-Beater 4TI pedals in ORANGE (preferably red if poss)
    (This is just to replace the one that was stolen by a council and bailiff they got £2,800 for but told me they got £400 for and was also featured with my name in What Mountain Bike Magazine)

What I think is the very sad and the extremely disgusting part about all this is the fact that it has taken me years of being lied to, tricked, physically attacked, defrauded, left in limbo and left for DEAD just to get to this juncture. In just a couple of weeks time in August my corruption blog would have been going one year, well one of the corruption blogs lol. Around ten others were started around September to October in 2012. So for the injustice section alone I have been at this now almost a year which is a tiny fraction to the period of time I have REALLY been on it. This became a large focus as of around 8 years ago and most of my time around 4 years back but technically goes back twenty years. But lets us just take the last year alone and the amount of time it has taken me to highlight all this to the point that segments and elements of my WORK, as that IS what it IS, is being used by one and all from the House of Commons to the tabloids and TV News broadcasters without so much as an acknowledgement. This is to which I believe is the sole reason that many religious leaders, IN THE UK before you all start lol, now see the UK and it's government as being run by evil people that must be Satan worshippers?!
That funny part about all this and to put it simply to those that used elements of my blogs, and proof positive yet again to my over the top accusations of blindness to the point of incompetent and just too easy to beat...

...you have used elements of my blogs and either released bits of info or then proceeded to investigate and got your own info but did it not occur to anyone that used my work and blogs that you are NOT the only ones that have access to these blogs?! STUPIDOLA!! LOL.

Now I have mentioned this several times going back a year now and I cannot stress enough that first off I am NOT in anyway religious, which should be obvious, but at the exact same time Satan Worshippers DO EXIST!! LMAO!

Just as I could not do when it was said to me by a rather and unusually nice Jehovah's Witness, I laughed and said that for once I can not argue with them!

So here we are at the midsummers night night NIGHTMARE scenario and one has to wonder with the run-up to the umpteenth miserable Christmas, when for the first time in twenty years I want mine to be joyous, what is going to happen?!

Although there were some protests and small scale rioting I was relieved about that and I did think it would be a great deal worse then it worse, though I was working to try and show this was just folly. Well just going out and destroying the very buildings that you will then be charged for and they will then use to defraud the public's cash yet again, lol.

This cannot be put off indefinitely but at least this blog now exists as a pure fact and proof that IF the public were pushed into such an act of protest and destruction the likes of which had never been seen then I am here to say that … IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT!!

I know that an action such as this is only human nature. No amount of sentencing, fines, prison terms or anything else is going to stop human nature, 'NUFF SAID! To punish human nature while those that have deliberately stoked the fires for so very long know so that they can then make others look like they are to blame, destructive and criminal and therefore not worth of any compassion is wrong, immoral and something of a contradiction in itself.

If the tables were turned they would behave the EXACT SAME WAY and therefore they need to be show that having money and power DOES NOT make them a different species to everyone else, just because you have not been put in the position to feel and fear as we have done. Carrying on like that and throughout history, including very recently, it always ends up that those that do not understand end up completely understanding when it is too late. Well it was too late for Colonel Gaddafi who took a bullet to his head! Though I do not think the British will go quite that far but fear for ones life is definitely a possibility! It is called an UPRISING these days but it used to be known as a REVOLUTION and was kind of synonymous with Russia for a long time. In the UK it is only known as the long winded … CRIMINAL ACTS OF A MASS SCALE.


Hmm that is bizarre? Anyone else note how all Dictator's always refer to it as criminal and terrorists and never use the 'R' word?! No not 'RECESSION' but 'REVOLUTION'?! Hmm must be the 're' prefix to these words?! I wonder if the UK government also plan on erasing words with an 're' prefix from history and dictionaries along with the word DISABILITY?! LMAO!

Monday, 29 July 2013

MORE, NOW FOUR: PURPLE BLOTCHED PHALAENOPSIS

Only got two photos of the currently four flowers of this stunning Phalaenopsis because my four month old Olympus Camera is being glued back together after starting to fall apart, lol.

Same old, same old it seems.



Sunday, 21 July 2013

ORCHID BIONAIRE FAN FAILURE!!

LMAO!

About a year old and it has failed?!

All that metal and build quality and its the only fan that has ever failed on me?! I kid you not too I have never had one fail, I have one in my bedroom I have had for 5 years or mre that came from a car boot...hmm Micromark I think it states on it. One of those really horrible white plastic desk fan types and if you switch it on it takes time to get going but go it does!!

Very disappointed in this Bionaire fan especially as the retail price was £60.00?!?!

I have emailed them about the warranty, the newer version has 3 years on it and this is a year old give or take. Bought it from B&Q but god knows where the damned receipt is?! Going to fall out of my loft one of these days and I have no bloody loft ladder, lol.




Friday, 12 July 2013

VIDEO of CRUSHED DIAMOND ORCHID - PODANGIS DACTYLOCERAS



VIDEO of DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE



VIDEO of PURPLE BLOTCHED WHITE PHALAENOPSIS



VIDEO of PINK AND WHITE PHALAENOPSIS




VIDEO OF MY LITTLE WINE PHALAENOPSIS



ZYGOPETALUM BUDS AND GROWTH

My Zygopetalums are now producing new growth and I just realised they have been sitting in an inch or two of water?!

God I have been so busy lately and my old bike keeps going wrong and in and out of hospitals and Doctor surgeries only to get lied to and lied to and getting lies about test results and ultrasound scans, lol.

Luckily I think they will be OK and show no signs of ills over being sitting in water!

Some Orchid types are not as as bad with water sitting as the books would have you believe. Still not a great idea to do though. Lol.



DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE

Those Dendrobium victoriae-reginae flowers almost open fully now.

Should be a good year for this plant. After I bought it last year it flowered TWICE and I took delivery of it probably about now or 11 months back.

So since then it has two new canes and currently has two more rising up as I type! Interesting to see if it produces any more flowers along with these two and I did think it would but not so sure now. Even so in a couple months time it should be quite interesting when it flowers again depending on how high the new canes are?!







THE BLOTCHED PHALAENOPSIS IS WHITE

Well finally after stalling several times due to the temperatures. It hit the late 28 Degrees or more for a week and BOOM!

So it turns out that this one is the white one and I had forgotten what a good one I picked out?! Yes it may not be the rare one that is similar but with a yellow ground colour but once seeing this, this morning I do not mind, lol.

In fact I realised that here is yet ANOTHER Phalaenopsis to the left of it, you can see in one of the pictures, which has yet to flower?! SO this could be the elusive yellow one with purple blotches I thought lost?!

It is not totally identical in pattern to this one. In fact the large purple botches are smaller and confined to nearer the centre of the flower. Also there is a series of smaller round dots if I recall correctly and normally about four of them a little further out than the purple colour. But on the yellow background it looks quite unusual and exotic and caught th attention of another Orchid enthusiast I knew that used to be on my Facebook list.







Tuesday, 9 July 2013

ENCRUSTED DIAMOND ORCHID - PODANGIS DACTYLOCERAS

Well a little earlier than I expected and the flowers are now opening. A few days time and it will look really mad!

Oh it is not called a Diamond Orchid or Encrusted Diamond Orchid, that is just what I refer to it because of the crystalline look of the petals, lol. You will see in a few days time what I mean.




Sunday, 7 July 2013

THE FOREVER PHALAENOPSIS

OK a killer this one.

Now my TWO favourite Phalanopsis both have purple blotches and one I have seen a few times since I bought mine, which is WHITE with big blotches, and another one I have NEVER EVER seen again.

This latter Phalaenopsis was an amaxing looking YELLOW with big purple botches and I am hoping it is this one. If it is then I can go and buy the other as mine is gone, err well I think, lol. Well it could have ended up at a nutters place in Norfolk when he stole a load of stuff or possibly I have one that I still have yet to get flowering again and that could be it, lol.

Well at least I will find out this year! Err fingers crossed!


CRUSHED DIAMOND ORCHID - PODANGIS DATYLOCERAS

Well I said before it was going to produce three spikes I think. Well whatever number I put I underestimated this one just a little, lol.

There are currently an AT LEAST 7 spikes, yes that IS SEVEN, and one well developed one I counted ten buds on it?!

So that is a potential of 70 flowers and whatever number it turns out to be it will be damned impressive, LMAO! Oooh I really do have high hopes for this one but especially when I get it to branch out with more plants again.

So next year this will be quite a specimen plant?!?! Fingers crossed!





WINE & CREAM PHALANEOPSIS RE-FLOWERS

Another re-flower after cutting back to node, oddly this is the first time I have done this and it has worked on both plants, lol.


PELLORIC PHALAENOPSIS RE-FLOWER

After cutting the spike back to above the next node it sent up another branching spike and flowered again.



DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE FIRST FLOWER 2013

First of this years flowers almost opened completely!

I will be doing a series on this one now as I am sure there will be many more flowers to come, fingers crossed.

Photos not great but light not good when I took them quickly.






Monday, 1 July 2013

DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE DEVELOPING BUDS

Well the first of the buds are now gaining in size and I only noticed when I looked at the picture there appears to be two?!

LMAO.

I need to quickly check these before I disappear out the house and count this bud section and look at the others.


MY DIAMOND ORCHID IN SPIKE - PODANGIS DACTYLOCERAS

Well in spike is somewhat of an understatement as there are NO FEWER THAN SIX SPIKES?!?!

LMAO!