Petch from PIPS | Photo credit / kind permission of A W Backhouse - thanks Andy! I'd asked twitter #harrogate if anyone had heard of the PIPS last night - they were billed to headline a free gig night at the Zoso late…
May 2013
33 posts
- PIPS
- Grove Road School Disco
Tonight's annual school disco at Grove Road School Harrogate, was the "Best Disco Ever" according the kid who wrote lovely note I found on the floor. If I was still an actual real kid I'd probably have thought the same.…
- 500 on the twitter, 160/4 on the cricket
For ages now, my follower count on twitter has floated at just under 500 followers. At the time of writing this, it's on 500 (hoopla!). That's around 100 followers per year, just over 1 new follower for every 12 tweets…
- Annie Mo smiles video
Embedded video At just under 2 months, Annie Mo is now smiling properly. These are not windy smiles but genuine happy smiles. I captured this the other day and thought I'd share. I'm so glad I captured one of her first…
- Resumed progress
Resumed progress on project finish kitchen. A project that started last October in a very intense fashion for a month - we swapped rooms around making our old dining room our new kitchen, which involved removing a skip…
- Atom Panopticon
I visited_ The Atom_ this evening. In Wycoller, Lancashire, near a row of gnarled old trees wrapping their limbs around what looked like a row of gravestones - slabs of rock forming ancient 'vaccary walling' (a sight…
PaintWalking down the paint isle in DIY shops can't help but make you smile a bit when you're called Matt. A whole selection of objects with my name in big letters, plastered on the front of them. Incidentally, I think the…
- Double X, X-Pro
I got a film back from the lab today, which included the above image. The image is straight out of the camera - no digital trickery. I achieved it by using two techniques - double exposure and cross processing. I shot…
- Cimenagraphs
I've been playing with a new (to me) photo technology called Cinemagraph. There's an native app on the phone I'm running at the moment - a Nokia Lumia 920 with Windows8 - called Cinemagraph. It's great fun. Here's a…
- Pretty colours
I was taken aback by this sight this morning. A Bright pink tree with a rich blue backdrop of a sky. I stopped for a minute and soaked it in. Undoubtedly the best part of the day today (07:00 ish - dog walk round The…
Google Glass - the future?Although not due for public release until 2014, the first few 'Explorer' and 'Reviewer Units' are now out in the wild. The latest google buzz has begun - and somehow, I think this one will fare better than Google Buzz .…
Royal Hall HarrogateI like the original name for Harrogate's Royal Hall : Kursaal. It means 'Cure Hall' in German and was a popular format for public entertainment venues of the sort, in Victorian times - particularly in Spa towns. This…
- Bilton Gala
For over 30 years, a true community event called Bilton Gala has taken place on May Day Bank Holiday Monday, in the heart of one of the oldest and biggest suburbs of Harrogate called (you guessed it) Bilton. If this…
Best man and BeltaneTwo blog worthy things happened today. The first of which; I've been asked to be a best man to an absolute top guy - Henry Morris. The same Henry Morris who runs ultra marathons (for instance, the Hardmoor 113 mile race…
- It's been a while
...since I wrote a blog using a Nokia. Probably the early 2000s on a communicator 9210. I remember being amazed that a could blog, from a field. Over the last few years, my field blogging solution has been provided by…