As in, I didn’t go out today. I did go to the wood shed and collect four buckets of wood but that barely counts.
Another wild and windy night with plenty of lying awake – some more thunder and lightning and roof rattling. Despite best efforts the last of the polytunnel plastic blew away. Ady spent the morning in his orange waterproofs cutting it off and moving things around. All pots, fish boxes and other such stuff is now in the old turkey pen. The polytunnel is just a series of hoops and the two remaining doors.
I offered to help but he was happy enough doing it alone, I baked a loaf of bread and hung out with Scarlett instead. We did lots of pages of her doodle book ans kept the fire going. It was cosy.
Ady came in for lunch and once again I offered to come and help him outside this afternoon but again he said he was fine just plodding on so instead I spent some time researching the best way to sell his photos online as so many people have suggested he should do and even said they would like to buy. After a couple of false starts and trying to get my head round photostock agencies, micro and macro selling and so on I went with a photobox gallery – no cost to set up, a full range of every type of photo product anyone might want to purchase and nice and easy to link to on facebook, blog etc. It’s already had plenty of people sharing and commenting on facebook, I’ve added a link to the WW blog and it can just sit in the background and see if anyone is actually up for buying. Ady can upload more photos easily without any techie stuff, perfect.
I made dentists appointments for when we are off in a few weeks – just need to sort out hire car and train tickets now and we’re all organised. Bonnie sitting is in hand and several people have offered to feed animals so that just needs firming up. Â Enforced indoor time definitely makes for organised living!
I made dinner – tacos and fajitas and we watched Will & Grace. No boat again today and we had been sort of hoping it might get rescheduled for tomorrow but the boat which was going to Eigg and Muck tomorrow has also been cancelled. Now to wait and see if the meat and veg deliveries we were expecting today will turn up on Saturday instead.
My dad still gets a bit of money from Shutterstock although he hasn’t added any new photos for years. Pictures have to be reasonably high definition, and you submit them and they may be rejected, but once they’ve been accepted and you’ve tagged them, there’s nothing to do except wait to be paid. It’s obviously a very different audience to photobox, but might be worth looking at.
Comment by Alison — 16 January 2015 @ 9:13 am
I was going to ask about your Dad as I remember he used to do something with photos years ago. Will look at that too thanks 🙂
Comment by Nic — 16 January 2015 @ 10:41 am