JustPickOneUK

 Its a very curious thing having a website. You'd think one of the biggest issues would be updating it regularly or preventing the information from getting into the wrong hands. But when I got an email this morning I was shocked to see one of the reasons my website wasn't being seen or not doing as well as it could on Google Search.  I am being "Blocked by Robots". Now, I don't know what to do with this information. I am very much an end user. I know what is working when it works and clueless when it doesn't. I am the type to get frustrated with computers when they tell me to do something to fix a problem and it still doesn't work.  The following my or may not be inspired by recent events: "I've added paper to the printer, I have updated the drivers, I have connected it to the WiFi, I have checked the cartridges and checked for blockages, just print my one page form so I can sign it and send it off...................."cannot locate printer...

 This blog has now reached 1500 views! When I started JustPickOneUK I had no idea whether anyone would read anything I wrote. I had no idea whether I would keep going with it. But now over 40 blog posts and 1500 views, plus a YouTube channel, an Instagram page and a TikTok account I think it's doing rather well. I'm still learning the ropes of all of the above platforms as they are all completely different. But I feel like I'm getting there and I have to be content with baby steps as I am still very new. Of course everyone who creates hopes that the thing they make is going to do well. Art is subjective and writing anything or producing a video fills one with anxiety that it will be received in well and that someone else might like it or think the same way you do. But this is not guaranteed and it forces you to grow a thicker skin.  Some people will not like anything you write others will never see what you've written and I have to be okay with that.  For now though 150...

 If you're in a situation where it feels like everything is failing, don't worry, it isn't. The fact is things just aren't going your way with that thing. I'm currently sat in my tent at 10:45pm talking into my phone so I don't have to type in the dark. I've forgotten to pack a bunch of things that you usually need for camping for example; a head torch, because it gets dark especially in the New Forest and I have to make it across the lumpy bumpy ground to get to the toilet. It is so much easier when you can see where you're going.  When I was pitching my tent this afternoon I needed to move one of the pegs because it wasn't quite in the right place. No big deal. It happens. Just pull it out and try again. But nope. The tree root I had unwittingly smashed my giant peg into had other ideas. It was going to hold on to my peg for dear life to the point where I had to wrestle with it for an hour..... Yes one whole hour of digging into the ground with ano...

 We've made it to Cambridge. The Camping and Caravan Club Cambridge site just to the south of the city. It is a nice site, a bit dull as it is just an open field with a toilet block on one side and a few taps dotted around. It did have a small play area and Wi-Fi so my son was happy. He actually managed to make a group of friends to run around, make silly games and pick berries with. Once set up under a cluster of trees we set our sites on looking for something to do around Cambridge. We knew we wanted to visit the Computing Museum but we didn't know much else about the city other than the famous University.   We decided to go to the museum on one day, then a hop on hop off bus would give us a good overview of the city without having to walk too much.  The museum was amazing. They have computers from all of the decades that had them. PCs, laptops, gaming consoles, phones, tablets, TVs and even robots. It is a feast but not just for the eyes. Most of the items you can actu...

 We decided to have a well deserved break. Its been a couple of weeks of travel, thinking about travel, setting up camps, explore the area, packing down camps, moving on and rinse repeat. It is a wonderful thing to do and I am loving it but we need a breather from it. So today is the day, reading books, making tea and doing not a lot. Well the weather has certainly decided that this is our only choice. It is raining. Raining HARD! The British weather has decided that we hadn't seen enough rain for the last 2 weeks (and to be fair we'd had glorious weather) and so it decided that it would give us all the rain we had missed in one day!  Any Friends fans out there will remember Joey feeling sad about living on his own and feeling home sick and looking through the glass with water in. Well that was our view for a full day. We actually loved it. We made up a new system for blocking more rain from getting into the porch area on our tent using a tarpaulin, a poncho and some bungee co...

When going tenting like we do, one of our favourite pastimes is Campsite TV. This doesn't mean getting out an aerial and looking for some signal while shouting "left, a bit right a bit!". I mean the comings and goings of other people on the campsite. The caravans, campervans, the tents, the site staff all going about their business without a care in the world. In my view, the best campsite TV occurs when you've been pitched for a couple of days and know the lay of the land so you can sit and judge others, (only in a kindly fashion), on where they believe the best spot is for them. It is particularly funny if the wind is blowing a bit hard or if this is a new or borrowed tent and they have no idea how to pitch it. Then you get to watch them pitching their tent / place the caravan and see how it was all jammed into their cars, wonder at the amount or lack of things other people have. Lust over their tables, chairs, awnings and flags or tell them under your breath that t...