Welcome To
23/1/12 - A belated Happy New Year to you all! Alas inertia has triumphed in the last couple of months and I haven't managed any uploads here at all. However in odd moments I have been fiddling with this homepage and have incorporated website code supplied by both Twitter and Twitpic that display my most recent Tweets and links to my most recent Twitpic uploads. It's modest progress, but it's great to have a homepage that isn't static and unchanging when I haven't had time to do updates!
Getting A (Little) Bit Social!
Despite having answered friendly emails for many years, I was slow to try out 'Social Networking' when it took off. I first tried out Facebook but found it too cumbersome and no use to me. However when I tried Twitter, it proved to be much simpler and perfect for what little I have to say to the world day to day. And, thanks to code provided by Twitter here are my most recent Tweets (newest first)! (If there is nothing immediately below then Twitter may be down.)
Odd Pictures?
Having sorted out a workable form of 'Social Networking' I discovered that it had a few side benefits too! My website is currently suited to displaying sets of pictures, but paradoxically I have never worked out a format I like for displaying single one-off pictures. But as a Twitter user (see above), I can now make single pictures available through the website 'Twitpic' and at the same time send out a Tweet with the link. Obviously I want at least the most recent pictures displayed here, but Twitpic also provide suitable website code. Result! (Again, if nothing is displayed below then Twitpic may be down.)
Keeping The Past Alive!
I've been active in preservation of one sort or another since the mid-1980s, and have
owned preserved railway items, plant and buses since the early 1990s. And my extensive
personal preservation efforts can be explored by visiting the
J-Files!
Out & About, Past & Present!
I've taken a lot of pictures with various camera and captured many more from comcorder
footage of ever increasing quality over the years, and thus have built up a fair sized
archive. Most of the pictures are of trains and railways, but I do take pictures of other things too! Call up 'Jeff's Photo Album' to
see a wide variety of my pictures, past & present!
Going Local!
Many railway enthusiasts like to create web pages about their local lines and stations, but even
into the 21st century I would have found the task of writing about the railways of
Clackmannanshire much too depressing. However everything changed when a proposed
re-opening of the main line through Alloa was authorised by the Scottish Parliament
in 2003-4, and since then I have gathered together many pictures and have lots to
say on the subject in
Jeff's SAK Pages
Wanna See A Movie?
Since the spring of 2009, when I got a new camcorder, I have been uploading an ever
-increasing number of video clips to YouTube which in most cases start to clock up
viewings from the day they are uploaded. But of course many visitors to this website
won't know about that so I have now created 'Jeff's Video Album'
so that nobody need miss out!