Harry's Blog

Given that I don't drink much anymore, don't smoke and am actually already eating healthier these days my new year resolutions can be a bit more fun this year.

So here's what I aim to do in 2010:

1. Take and then post at least one photograph on Flickr every single day of the year.
2. Write and record one song each month.
3. Play live at least once in 2010.

Will I be able to do these things? They shouldn't be too hard should they?

After mulling over the future of the site following my last post I've decided to carry on - albeit in a different way. I'm going to stop posting personal stuff and instead stick to humour, culture, current affairs, satire etc.

After all when there's stupidity on this scale there has to be dissenting voices.

Thanks to everyone for their kind wishes and gifts on this birthday. It's been a lot of fun.

The children have had a great time too, we laid on a little tea party - more for them really than me - and they even got to play pass the parcel.

Okay I admit it, I'm an unfit blob. No it's not all laziness, I've come to realise recently the biggest block to me getting out on foot more is my feet. I have flat feet, with the right one causing me quite some pain. But now I have solved this problem.

Walking any distance would make my right foot ache quite badly along the right side. I have a tendency to lean the foot over onto that side which means it takes all the weight. The other problem is that it makes me very likely to go over on that foot and sprain my ankle.

This has been the bane of my life really - constantly hurting my ankle and my aching foot which make me less likely to do any walking. Until last week.

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Dorset Sunset 1, originally uploaded by Harry Neary.

I must admit there's a little bit of HDR going on here. Three bracketed handheld exposures were combined. But the aim wasn't to create one of those weird halo-ruined monstrosities you mostly associate with the technique. The aim was to capture what I saw with my own eyes - and this is pretty close.