On shooting oneself in the foot

My new fountain pen arrived in the post this morning. I was very excited – until I realised that none of my cartridges would fit. It is a Lamy pen and takes a proprietary cartridge. My original intention had been to buy my pen from The Writing Desk, who currently package the pen with a …

Dear Diary: May 2nd, 2013

I was up at sparrowfart this morning and it was not a bad day at all, so I took time out to go for a walk to the shop – taking my camera with me. One of the local farmers dumps his rubbish on the foreshore between our house and the sea. Each year the rubbish heap is brightened …

Advise me

I am considering  buying a little camera to keep in the kitchen drawer, for taking pot shots at, er, my pots and things when I am cooking. I find that I do not like getting flour  and dough all over my good cameras. So, advise me – recommend a good affordable compact that will produce no-fuss snapshots of …

Snappy

I took a few snaps today and made uploads to Newd, Flickr, Blipfoto and Tumblr I probably should have been doing other things. Managed to cook lunch and to freeze 2 dozen eggs, but that’s about all I did today that was of any effect. I’m still trying to bash the thumbnails into shape for the current site …

Tick Tock

This site consumed vast quantities of my time yesterday but I do believe that I have found a theme that I can live with.