31 October 2015
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Digging through my archive of blog posts that never quite got finished, I discovered this video from 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weq_sHxghcg Time to look back and see how the past did looking forward!
30 October 2015
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What do you think the word noncomedogenic means? I haven’t yet found a good way to slip it into a conversation and you lose points if you thought it meant a stand up act that wasn’t very funny. Look here … Continue reading
29 October 2015
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Duck! No, I don’t mean the bird; I mean this gorgeous piece of 20th Century engineering: Mallard is an iconic British steam train built in 1938 and achieving a speed record at the time. Its aerodynamic design and bold colour … Continue reading
28 October 2015
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From outside the excellent (and free) York Railway Museum… … in March 2014. I knew it would come in handy but didn’t realise that would be as a comment on my photo workflow!
27 October 2015
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Red, gold, azure sky Autumnal glamour and hope Ending in glory
26 October 2015
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I upgraded one of the computers at home to Windows 10 this weekend. It takes a while but seems to have been problem free. It’s still Windows and the machine still feels a bit sluggish but no more so than … Continue reading
25 October 2015
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I dropped a hydrometer into one of the fermenting vessels for my downie cider brew a few days ago and the reading was much higher than I expected. It didn’t seem to have moved much and the froth on top … Continue reading
24 October 2015
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The double bass sounds lovely but is cumbersome to lug around and sometimes awkward to get in or out of its case so, for a short extra rehearsal with The String Project this afternoon, I decided to take down my … Continue reading
23 October 2015
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Back in the summer I attended a week long course on Japanese woodblock printing and have to admit that I haven’t got round to doing much with it since – a little design work and gathering some more materials but … Continue reading
22 October 2015
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The term placebo comes from the Latin version of Psalm 116:9: “placebo Domino in regione vivorum” or “I will please the Lord in the land of the living”. It has become part of modern English through the observation that sometimes … Continue reading