Well, I have X-Plane installed on the home PC and good fun it is too. I’ve downloaded lots of extras including some HD mesh scenery. Here are a collection of screen shots I have taken [for no real reason].
Things You Need
Amazing
Isn’t our planet amazing? It always manages to impress even when not doing much at all. This is the view of a rainbow over Maidstone, early 2015.
I don’t have anything else to say which given the context of recent Fooyah.net communications is a good thing.
Blue Bell Hill
As I ‘ve mentioned before in this forum I do feel lucky to live here. My normal running route now takes in part of the North Downs Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty. This is a photo I took from the top of Blue Bell Hill overlooking the valley of the Medway.

I think the real view is much prettier, this doesn’t really capture it!
Wrong and Right
Busy Skies
Time
I’ve been feeling that I don’t have time to do all the things I want to. I’ve been adding to the “things what I do” list and unfortunately I don’t see a lengthening of the day to allow me to do these things. I think this means that I have to give up or lower my priorities of “things to do”.
Not enough time to get stuff done.
— Ian Parish (@iparish) October 21, 2014
Things what I have done regularly:
- Running
- Rowing [erg]
- Listening to podcasts
- Listening to music
- Playing Gran Tursimo
- Watching American Football
- Watching Babylon 5
- Write stuff on this website
- Go to the cinema regularly
New things what I do:
- Write music
- Play on the PC
- Play on the PS4 more
- Watch Hawaii Five-O
- Listen to more podcasts
- Learn new music
- CCF
I’m not too happy. All of these new things have to be prioritised. I could do with about an extra 4 hours a day to myself. I have to work and look after my family so once that’s all done I get little time to do all the things I want to. I don’t even consider myself to be a busy person. How do you get to do things if you are VERY busy? I don’t get it.
Now, I guess I am lucky that I do get time to do these things and I should be grateful and I think I am. I get to do things that I like doing, I just have to ensure that I balance my time successfully.
I have also come to the conclusion that I need at least an hour of “brain dead time” each day, preferably once the house is nice and quiet. I can cope with less than an hour if planned and I extend the time another evening. Oddly enough some things which I really enjoy don’t count as part of that hour. Gran Turismo is great and I play it a lot [not so much recently] but it doesn’t count as part of the hour, it’s something I have to concentrate on and work at, the rewards are good. Cinema doesn’t count towards the hour but most TV shows do. I guess that means I need an hour of stuff to watch each day, to keep the brain fresh!
Disaster Area 10 Oct 2014
Disaster Area played a couple of songs at the MGS Arena on the 10 October 2014. This should really be a page under the DA section on MyMusic but I am moving those pages to communications to tidy up my menu etc.
Set List:
- Symphony of Destruction
- Highway To Hell
Disaster Area is:
- Shredder Shillito
- Destroyer Martin
- Punisher Parish
- The Anvil Gymer
Here’s some pictures, if I can get a video I’ll embed it on this page too.
A little later in the gig most of Disaster Area joined Iron Maidstonian to play a couple of Maiden songs:
- The Number Of The Beast
- 2 Minutes To Midnight
Location, Location and a Camera
I spent the day at RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire and while there an RAF Tornado flew past at high speed. I was fortunate enough to take a few photographs, of which the following is the best. I haven’t cropped it or anything. [the other 5 photos were ok-ish].
My favourite thing about this shot is that you can see the Navigator/Weapons Officer looking at the ground as they fly by.