Andy Roberts

Swine Flu Season in Full Flow – H1N1 Virus checkIt’s been more than six months since the swine flu epidemic erupted worldwide and in that time we have seen at least two major waves of illness around the northern hemisphere. The first was in our summer as the new virus spread in pocket...

Forth Road Bridge ScotlandOriginally uploaded by AndyRobI don’t have anything in particular I wanted to say about the Forth Road Bridge really, just to post this photograph I took from a vantage point on the south bank of the Forth, just outside the town of Queensferry.Anything you wanted t...

Living Here - Andy Roberts music video

http://distributedresearch.net/blog/andyrobertsmusic One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) from my favourite Bob Dylan album, Desire here covered by Andy Roberts music at Havering Folk Club on Wednesday ...

I started building a small log pile a couple of years ago in order to add to the environmental diversity in my back garden. There were only a few pieces of wood though, left over from some grubbing out and thinning. Then there was the incident with the dangerously overgrown eucalyptus tree which ...

Are there any good coders out there with an hour or two spare?I think I’m going to need a WordPress developer of some sort to help me try out an idea I’ve had for better navigation within some of my blogs. To begin with it’s probably just a chunk of code to create a single loop ...

How to Photograph a Ghost using free image editing softwareAs it’s halloween night tonight, and I have been requested to publish more image editing video tutorials using the Seashore free image editor for Mac, here’s the latest lesson in the series, which should be a lot of fun. It&#8...

When The Waters Rise – Blog Action DayMy contribution to Blog Action Day, this year on the topic of climate change, is a song called “When The Waters Rise” here recorded from one of my live Webcasts ( Tuesdays 7.00pm )When the Waters Rise LyricsWhen the waters rise, when the wat...

The Rowan TreeThe little wild rowan tree (sorbus aucuparia) in my front garden is looking great at this time of year, although half the berries are gone already thanks to hungry blackbirds. I planted it there about ten years ago, and it’s taken its time to grow upwards in the shadow of a gr...

http://andyroberts.me The Rowan Tree - Andy Roberts Folk Song This is a new song first heard on the Tuesday evening 7.00pm show Andy Roberts puts out on Ustream.tv every week. Come hear my story, it's ...