Monthly Archives: June 2006

Back again….

By Val | Published: June 26, 2006
…after some very fretful days without a working computer. I won’t bore you with the details here, but I appear to have another sickly motherboard. This time it may be rescuable, but in the meantime I’ve work to get on with, so I’ve plugged my hard drive into B’s machine again. It’s a brand [...]
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Fini….

By Val | Published: June 20, 2006
Finally, I’ve got the July issue of Transit off to the printers. I was planning to finish it over the weekend, but it took longer than I expected, mainly because I was double-checking everything. Don’t want to have any more typos! This time, naturally, my printer ran out of ink just before [...]
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Just When I think….

By Val | Published: June 18, 2006
….I might be getting good at this photography lark, I come across something like Marc Bradshaw’s site. OK, to be fair, he’s been a professional photographer, trained and everything. And he has all the equipment (instead of a cheapo little digi, like me). But you can have the most expensive gear in [...]
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Another day, another blog…

By Val | Published: June 15, 2006
I’ve had a LiveJournal account for ages, but only ever used it for reading friends’ LJs. However, yesterday, while looking at a link from one of their Journals, I discovered the
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Seen today….

By Val | Published: June 14, 2006
….on the A75 to Dumfries: A pub sign saying “LIVE PIANIST ON SUNDAYS!” Good job too – a dead one would pong up the place something awful. A tank (the military kind) sitting on a layby, covered in tarps and camo netting. With a couple of totally uncamoflaged military-issue chemical bogs standing alongside it.
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Blur….

By Val | Published: June 10, 2006
Went out this morning and shot off a few photos of natural textures – closeups of grass, bark, moss, stone etc. Rather too many of them came out like this: Looks like a bad case of camera shake. But, visually interesting…..
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Procrastination…

By Val | Published: June 10, 2006
…is one of my perpetual problems. The work will be piling up, people will be shouting at me on the phone that they need it NOW. And I’ll be wasting hours – no, days – surfing the internet, telling myself tht I’ll buckle down and do it – sometime. I’ll get it [...]
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Instead of the football…

By Val | Published: June 9, 2006
…I shall carry on with my present artwork-in-progress. It’s a pencil drawing on A3 cartridge paper, using just three colours (vermillion, Spectrum Blue and indigo). I’ve been working on it on and off for a couple of months, just picking it up now and then and doing 10 minutes or so. This is [...]
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One of the reasons I love the Internet…

By Val | Published: June 9, 2006
An author writing an SF story wants some facts about space physics, so that he can get everything right. So he uses his Live Journal blog to broadcast an appeal……
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Today….

By Val | Published: June 8, 2006
…Sue & Bob moved in to Grahm’s old house, a day earlier than I’d expected. Had made plans to bake them a loaf and carry it ceremonially into the house as a good-luck sign. But I had to make do with a bottle of my home-made wine. Sure that will have much [...]
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