I am fairly well stunned. Mr L has the bit between his teeth and is insistent on cooking a meal for my birthday. He's not a bad cook, but pretty inexperienced overall, and multi-tasking in the kitchen tends to be a bit beyond his ability. He likes to cook but does become very stressed sometimes. Curry is …
Saturday Morning
A large deposit at the bank this morning added to an already sizeable reserve - and provided my Blip for today. Popped across the road to Lady PO after divesting ourselves of three skiploads, and I posted two letters to the USA and one to Malaysia, picking up one of my favourite sizes of Really Useful Box …
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 …