Time for some trumpet blowing, I’m afraid. Remember I put in some images for this years third Monthly competition at the Orkney Camera Club? I came home from our trip to the big island to find that the results had been published – and I was quite literally lost for words, which is why I …
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Already?
Our Broadband was still crippled this morning. It does seem to be affecting only a few people on the island but we are surprised all the same that it had not yet been logged. Mr L was back at work this morning and so he called his Help Desk. They ran some line tests and …
M3
It’s the Orkney Camera Club competition time again. The last of the three “Monthly” competitions had its deadline this week. Unsurprisingly for me, having known about the topic and submission date since last September, I spent most of Sunday and Monday in trying to capture some of the ideas that have been swilling around in my head since Autumn. …
Knitting Update
It is high time that we had a knitting update, though truthfully there has been very little actual knitting this winter. Projects deemed to be current: Warriston: knitting complete, still in need of armhole grafting and other finishing tasks Mr L’s Sir Lancelot sweater – no further progress – back at armholes, front ribbing done …
The outlook is rosy
What is this? Well, yes, it is pink. Self-discipline was never going to be the preferred modus operandi for long now, was it? Let’s get real. It’s early January, the sun has not been seen for days and every time that I look out of the door it is blowin’ a hoolie. Was I really …
How short is too short? and how long is long enough?
Shirley Conran once famously stated that life is too short to stuff a mushroom. What rot. I am here to tell her that the effort taken to pack, for instance, some tasty herb-laden garlic butter into those little white buttons is time well spent. However, if time is short, pick a larger mushroom and the effort …
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