Yellow

I don’t know what this is – apart from yellow. 🙂 It is just the outcome of a playtime session, getting the “feel” of the graphics tablet and MS Expression together.  The result of an extremely idle afternoon, in fact. Shall I entitle it “Lazy Friday Afternoon'” ? I have been experimenting with importing vectors …

This is a test

This post is a handwritten post, believe it or not. Truly, I am writing this entry entirely by hand, in my awful handwritten script. I have a graphics tablet, courtesy of my wonderful fairy Godfather. I bought it a couple of years ago and made some slow progress in learning to use it before the …

Spinning Cake: Orange Drizzle Cakes

Another in the occasion series of cake recipes for cakes that we serve at Spinning Group.

Dandelion Lunch

Dandelion lunch 2 Originally uploaded by ulygan As usual, wrong lens in the right place and time. All the same, I like the image. Set of 4 shots at Flickr, click through to see bigger and better and more…

Not so punny

Today should have been a day for knuckling back down to routine. It is a measure of my aversion to that idea that I lay a-bed this morning, devising a punny heading for today’s blog post. I cast aside “A-har!” I rejected “What a difference a grey makes” and I came up with something far …

First Impressions

The Jumbo Flyer is assembled and mounted on my wheel and I have plied my first bobbin using it. First impressions are: The quality leaves much to be desired and it is not such a fine object as the standard flyer – it is made of ply, not timber, and lacks the running groove – …