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computer clean up

14 Thursday Jun 2012

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Time to bite the bullet and spend most of the afternoon doing what I’ve been dreading… cleaning out my photo files. Yes, I know I could just delete entire files without looking at them since I have them backed-up on an external hard drive but I’m loathe to do this for two reasons: the hard drive back-up might fail, and I prefer having easy-access to all my photos by keeping them in the laptop files. But poor Shadow is clearly overburdened and has been slowing down a lot lately. Funny how I remember thinking how massive his 250GB memory was! These days the norm is 600GB.

Of course that is my other option – to upgrade my laptop. Which is probably what I should have done before splashing out on a new iPad, but that one has already sailed.

And so there will be several hours of mind-numbing tediousness ahead of me (after I get back from the gym). Here I go…

friday foto finder – well

01 Friday Jun 2012

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This week’s Friday Foto Finder challenge is “well”.

For eighteen and a half years I was intrigued by this doorway in a small tunnel that joins the Patio Banderas to the old Judería. Well, wouldn’t you be? I called it the hobbit house and always wanted to know who lived there. I especially wanted to go inside and have a look around. And about a month ago I got my chance!

Peter had taken out a group on a Sevilla Tapas Tour – a family of four from Texas and a couple from the UK – and I ended up going to meet them at their final stop for the evening. Final? Ha! Turns out everyone was having such a good time that Paige and Keith invited everyone back to their holiday rental for a nightcap. The hobbit house! And what a curious place it turned out to be. There were four bedrooms haphazardly arranged over three floors, an odd sitting room off what everyone assumed was the living room, and a small terrace overlooking Judería street and the Royal Palace walls. Our guess was that it used to be some sort of guardhouse but now was prettied up with geraniums on the windows and made into a more or less functional living space.

But its most unusual feature was the open well in the living room.
A few more shots below – wish I’d taken more now!

Check out what other Friday Foto Finders have, um, found – over here!