31 July 2014
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Was Oxfordshire Artweeks in late May? I really should get my photos of my contributions to the St Clement’s exhibition published. This one is called Holocaust and was partly inspired by leaving a much loved chopping board on a hot … Continue reading
30 July 2014
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I recently rediscovered a trove of blog fodder ideas on my Evernote account. For example in 2010, I was impressed with the concept of Solar Piksols. These used an array of small solar panels projecting from a wall to create … Continue reading
29 July 2014
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Visiting our friend Daniel on Sunday afternoon, we joined him on the community allotment he helps organise. Joining his diverse team, there was a bit of digging, a fair amount of watering, harvesting and lots of drinking tea; a lovely … Continue reading
27 July 2014
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I notice that my friend Matt Gallagher has posted his top 20 albums for the last year so I thought I would take a look at my Last.fm charts and do the same. On that page you can see a … Continue reading
26 July 2014
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Is scrumping an appropriate colloquial verb to apply to wood? Cycling to work this week, I’ve noticed a branch bent low over the footpath beside the ring road cycle path that I use. Since nothing has been done to remove … Continue reading
25 July 2014
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I’m still well behind on getting my photos published. Here is one from May this year, which went up yesterday; a beautiful cloud of pink Cytisus flowers from a bush seen at RHS Rosemoor in Devon.
24 July 2014
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Why is it that the last screw never goes cleanly into the wall (or, more accurately, that the drill waits until the last one to hit an obstacle it can’t clear)? We put the second curtain pole up in our … Continue reading
23 July 2014
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Last night was the first time in a long while that I’ve cycled home in the dark or, at least, deep twilight. Fortunately I recently got round to improving how my front helmet light is mounted. It is a small, … Continue reading
22 July 2014
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I was working with a colleague over at the JR this morning scanning in biopsy slides for one of the projects I am involved in. This is going to a boon to the study, enabling the pathologists involved to access … Continue reading
21 July 2014
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I’ve always thought of Basildon as being a town in Essex, sometimes the butt of jokes and mainly being featured on election nights when it was regarded as the heart of a key indicator constituency before being merged with Billericay … Continue reading