… oops no, we’ve already done that one. It was a dark and stormy day… Is a dark and stormy day. We have water ingress. There will be more yet as high tide is still a half hour off. I wanted to take some great wave shots but it’s too windy. I leant against …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
Cotherstone
Many moons ago, I lived in the village of Cotherstone, on the banks of the river Tees. I lived in this pretty house, for just about a year. I was 16 and fell for my first true love while I lived there. He said that he would love me forever – he didn’t. I think …
It’s a blank
You see that space up there? That space where the featured image is supposed to go? That space should have been filled with bread. I had intended an image of a table full of baked goods: Baguettes, soft rolls, crusty cobs, seeded buns, milk roll, muffins… That’s what yesterday was pencilled in for – a …
This takes the biscuit
May I commend to you, should you not already have enjoyed it, the BBC programme: Nigel Slater’s Great British Biscuit I adore Nigel Slater – he is so gentle and calm and reassuring and he generally treats food with reverance and respect. I’m loving the new dishevelled look too. I do have to disagree with …
It was a dark and stormy night…
Don’t worry, I am not about to do a Bulwer-Lytton on you… Last night got a little wild and after I was woken by the wind battering the window at 11:30pm, there was little sleep in it. I lay there wondering of the power would stay on… and fretted about my computer. I had left …
…somebody has to do it
Only two spinners had confirmed intention of attendance at Spinning Group this week, and one of those cancelled before breakfast yesterday. One look at the weather forecast for the day led me to contact the other and to make the decision to cancel. Which left me with two spinning cakes on my hands. The first …