Nature through the eyes of my camera

 Tuesday 1st October A blog is a regular updated web page usually run by an individual or a small group, that is informal. I went through numerous sites on the internet, and Google Blogger seemed the most simplest to use. I went into Google Blog and purchased an address for my site, www.roseysnatureandinterests.co.uk (£12 per year) and named my site Nature through the Eyes of my Camera. For my Voyage Award Blog I have made an entry each time I have completed part of a challenge. I have illustrated some of my work with photos, particularly the Explore my World section. Each one of these entries has taken anything between 1 - 2 hours to publish depending on how far I walked and how many photos I took. Each photo had to be downloaded from the camera, changed from a NEF file to a JPEG file and edited. These were then added to the blog. How to add a Blogger Index Go to Google Drive on line and open a new blank Google document. Name it Index and then start adding new entries. (keep this ...

 24th March - 31st October I am the Booking Secretary at the village hall and the time taken to do this roll is not included for my Bronze Voyage Award. I have taken on extra voluntary work at the village hall this year as there is no cleaner or gardener. I have been to the hall on three occasions to give the hall a thorough clean. Besides this I wipe down the kitchen surfaces and wash the floor, sweep the hall and check and clean the toilets on a regular basis. At the end of October a group of committee members came along to give all the windows, inside and out a clean, and a thorough clean of the complete building including the cupboards and all the tables.  Grass cutting and gardening My husband and I have mowed the grass and  trimmed the edges 4 times this season. I have tended the garden. We have swept all paved areas and weeded round the front of the building. Book Sale The book sale is one of the biggest fund raising events of the year and it requires a lot of sett...

Friday 22nd March - Braille Braille was create by a French man, Louis Braille. He lost his sight as a child and later developed a code for the French alphabet. Braille is a system of touch reading and writing for visually impaired people. Raised dots represent the letters of the alphabet, numbers, punctuation marks, special symbols etc. Braille consists of a set of six raised dots. The number and arrangement of the dots used distinguishes one character from another. Uncontracted Braille (grade I) - is the study of basic dot combinations for the letters of the alphabet, the main punctuation signs and the numbering system. Contracted Braille (grade II) - uses the same letters, punctuation and numbers as uncontracted braille but adds a series of special signs to represent common words or groups of letters. There are 187 contractions in Braille 2 Contracted Braille is used as it requires less space. Books, magazines and other information use it as it produces less bulky books and magazines...