….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 the world plus […]
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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
….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.
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…..
…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 done, eventually, but […]
…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 the way […]
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……
…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 the same effect! […]
Just got one of those forwarded emails. You know the sort – multiple headers with every sender’s complete address book in each one. And a message body that consists of a few “uplifting” homilies (“Because we cram so much into our lives, we tend to schedule our headaches.. We live on a sparse diet of […]
Ron Ferguson, the religious correspondent of the Glasgow Herald, usually writes something that is worth reading. True to form, his latest column poses some pithy questions: Religion is part of the problem in the Middle East. Madeleine Albright is right: it needs to be dealt with openly, rather than denied – because religion also has […]