Lovely mail today and the outcome of two bouts of inappropriate shopping. Why inappropriate? Because every penny that I have is committed to the loom that should be arriving any day now. As enny fule no… the only sensible thing to do when purchasing serious kit is to get the best one can possibly afford. …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
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 …