By Alice | Published:
August 16, 2010
It would seem my Sunday pictures were mainly green and black.
1. Apple bounty
2. A friend was clearing out their old toys from their mum’s house. So much 80′s stuff! Including Fungus the Bogeyman.
3. Friend’s guitar
By Alice | Published:
August 13, 2010
1. 6am Had fallen asleep watching the meteors and so we woke up with the window open and a great view of the morning sky.
2. On the way to work.
3. This is one of my favourite daily views.
4. Morning sun.
5. After work threading watercolour hearts onto gold thread.
6. Argh! My assistant wants to eat them.
7. What to do with them?
8. Here?
9. Here?
10. We are working our way through all series of Northern Exposure.
By Alice | Published:
August 12, 2010
I feel I’m in some sort of waiting phase with all sorts of trips and adventures just around the corner. I think it’s partly because there ARE trips and adventures around the corner hopefully. I’ve been planning for a big trip next year and some things before this year is out (fingers crossed). Also I have some projects that I’m getting on with that are at their beginnings. This weather at the moment is also very waiting-ish neither very summer nor autumn.
So I thought I would shake things up for a week or so by taking and posting daily pictures if I can. These are today’s.
1. I was sitting on the back door step looking at Twitter on my phone with my feet in the rain while the rest of me was in the dry. Beep came to see what I was doing.
2. Weeds
3. Weeds
4. The kitties like to take running jumps onto the new carpet so its usual state is all bunched up like this.
5. Brief bit of sunshine.
6. Making pizza dough. I use this recipe.
7. The garden is a bit overgrown at the moment.
By Alice | Published:
June 12, 2010
I noticed I had 84GB of photos on my hard drive (ouch!) so I had a good old spring clean. I currently don’t take pictures in Raw purely because of the storage issue even though I should and want to. Now I have had a tidy I might give Raw a go and I’ll just have to get more savage with deleting pictures not used. While I was tidying I noticed there were some pictures from the past month or so that I liked that hadn’t yet appeared, just random things.
1 Botanic gardens pond
2 Hedge
3 A barge
4 Beep!
5 Snack
6 Rooftop gardening
7 Oxford Castle mound
8 A serious kitty
9 Bedside table
10 In the neighbourhood
11 Simon learned this gesture when we were in Japan :D
12 The shire
13 My friend Dan takes really good band pictures. I was behind him and timed my picture so I could use the light of his flash going off.
14 Organic cider. Not mine.
15 Looking up at a magnolia
16 There are so many crows around here :o It’s called a ‘murder’ of crows isn’t it.
17 My washing line and wisteria
18 Sometimes it is so difficult to find a small meal in the countryside on a Sunday.
19 Looking up
20 Looking up
21 I like the green of this packaging.
22 Hair is like Queen Elizabeth I :)
23 Field
I’m not going to be posting for the next week as I’m off adventuring.
TTFN!
By Alice | Published:
May 26, 2010
I don’t know if anyone noticed but for 24 hours this website was gone. Poof, with one small error while transferring the database everything vanished: goodbye three years, goodbye 700 posts, goodbye thousands of photographs, and goodbye to thousands and thousands of kind, funny, thoughtful, interesting comments. It was an abrupt goodbye without even having a chance to say farewell.
And I really really cared. I hadn’t realised until it was gone quite how comfortable I feel in this funny little online home.
Without this space I would still take pictures, I would still visit new places, I would still cook, I would still sew random things, and I would still be amused by the odd things the cats get up. However I now really appreciate quite how much I enjoy sharing it all on here.
So thank you all who visit, and I promise next time to be really really careful with the databases.
I hope that everything is sorted out now but if anyone notices anything weird please let me know.
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This is the picture I had wanted to show before the disaster:
:) When Beep is not allowed on my desk she will sit up on a speaker like that hovering behind me gazing with that weird glassy expression over my shoulder out the window. It is eerie. Birds beware.
Tomorrow I will get to answering the questions, if anyone has anything else they would like to ask me please do so in the comments or on Formspring. I will answer it all back over here. I see there is quite a bit of interest I what I do for a living…
