Category: A Day in the Life of a ‘Steel City’ Man…

If you are a ‘watcher’ of the steelcityman vlogs on You Tube, you will no doubt have heard me saying, more than once, that I need new , better equipment … well, that day has arrived and I have replaced my trusty Nikon D3100 for a smaller, better, faster and altogether more super model to…

Here we are at the Northern General Hospital in the Steel City (Sheffield) … booked the wife in at 0700 hrs for a Cardio Inversion .. In short, the medics are going to induce a rapid heartbeat and then shock it back to normal with the Defibrillator/Pacemaker she has fitted. If it doesn’t work correctly…

An anti-fracking campaigner has been served with court papers during a tea party protest opposite Buckingham Palace. Source: Lancashire ‘Nana’ threatened with prison during Buckingham Palace protest … from an article by Ruth Hayhurst in the ‘Drill and Drop’ publication I’ve just caught up with this update  of the Lancashire ‘Granny’s Tea Party Protest’ out side…

Originally posted on Pride's Purge: A group of grandmothers in Lancashire have written an open letter to the Queen telling her their concerns about fracking. And from 2pm tomorrow (Tuesday) the nanas will be delivering the letter and having what they call Nana Tea outside Buckingham Palace. They assure they will be bringing their “best crockery”…

AGE AND VLOGGING…. ( a link to the ‘steelcityman’ Vlog #4 on You Tube ) Well.. What a torrid time of late … My dear wife, Christine,  has been Very ill (Ventricular Tachycardia) culminating in a Cardiac arrest, but between the pacemaker/defibrillator she had fitted 4 years ago and the magnificent National Health Service we…

A Vlog and a Blog, done over several days from August 1st-4th 2016

Much of the Vlog#2 has content that was discussed in the previous post, but this time on a VLOG…Casey Neistat gets another mention and I’m using this mainly to see how the editing, using iMovies, is performing….

I’ve tried Blogging, and although I still enjoy doing it , (Who doesn’t  ? ..Vlogging that is !), I find my motivation slowly slipping away, with increasing gaps between my blog posts. I still feel as though I have lots to say on many topics, and who wouldn’t with over 67 years of life experience…

Originally posted on martinupfold: Woke up this morning feeling low, agitated and full of angst for no apparent reason. The highs and lows of being bipolar are a pain. It’s like having a Mr Jeykll and Dr Hyde personality. The lows are insular, dark and introverting where I want to harm myself.  Selfish thoughts of…

Strap yourself in for the roller coaster ride that is Martin Upfold’s Bi-Polar express experience …