Month: April 2020
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Day Twenty-Six of ORCA in Switzerland – Playing With 360 Video
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s Day 26 and today I was playing with 360 video. Specifically I went for a walk in the woods and placed the camera ahead of me to provide people with the opportunity to look around. Doing this is a risky strategy during the pandemic because if you cross paths with…
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Day Twenty-Five of ORCA in Switzerland – The Passing Of A Friend
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today I learned of the passing of a friend, due to complications after struggling to beat cancer. I was made ready for the news today by a post that he was very sick yesterday. I didn’t know the details at the time. It was one of the first posts I saw…
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Day Twenty-Four of ORCA in Switzerland – The Smell of Colza
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today I walked along roads that would be filled with non-stop traffic if we weren’t in a pandemic. As a result I could enjoy almost the entire walk without avoiding people. In the process I passed by colza fields, an open garden centre and more. The image above is of a…
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Day Twenty-Three of ORCA in Switzerland – The Chernobyl Fire
Reading Time: 2 minutes In normal times a forest fire in the Chernobyl exlusion zone would attract attention and environmentalists would actively speak about it. The world would pay attention. Due to the pandemic the news story is low on the agenda. I mentioned that a coffee shop and a pet shop had reopened on…
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Day Twenty-Two of ORCA in Switzerland – The Company of Cats
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today during my walk this afternoon I surprised a cat on some stairs and I moved patiently. It brushed up against me so I started to stroke it. During this pandemic the only living things I have had physical contact with are cats. During a pandemic, if you’re not living with…
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Day Twenty-One of ORCA in Switzerland – A Morning Walk
Reading Time: 3 minutes I had a morning walk this morning because I found that there are too many people to avoid during my afternoon walks. During my morning walk I took images of flowering plants, bees collecting pollen from flowers, roses budding and Apple orchards getting ready to blossom. During the walk I also…
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Day Twenty of ORCA in Switzerland – An Island of Tranquility
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today I went on my daily walk and found an island of tranquility. Instead of walking in one direction I reversed it. In doing so I saw the river from another point of view. I was on a trail and saw that I could get down to the riverbed and did.…
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Day Nineteen of ORCA in Switzerland – TGIF
Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you have that TGIF feeling like no one else does? In theory today is the day when people are happy, knowing that the weekend is about to start and they can do the things they love for the next two days. In this context though, that is unlikely. We’re meant…
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Day Eighteen of ORCA in Switzerland – Plumbing and Scuba Diving.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Plumbing and scuba diving are not unrelated. If you understand o-rings and pipe/hose connections then you’ll be fine. I dismantled a system, cleaned it, and then reassembled it, checked for leaks and then ran the tap to see if all was well. Once I saw that everything was indeed well, I…
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Day Seventeen of ORCA in Switzerland – April Fool’s During Self Isolation
Reading Time: 3 minutes April Fool’s during self isolation is not fun. People made jokes about how our freedoms would be limited even further. In ordinary situations those jokes would be detected but because we have the freedom to get food, go for walks, and sit at home we have no other rewards as such.…