Having 4 kids is brilliant on Father's day. The bigger 3 started me off with breakfast in bed - a classic Dutch breakfast (ham n cheese and egg on toast), a cup of perfectly made Yorkshire Tea and a big glass of orange…
June 2013
32 posts
- Father's Day morning
- Blog from the hip
Timings of tonight have dictated that my blog of the day/ 365 is short. You be the judge of sweet. Its 23:20, my phone battery has died and I'm out. Option 1: go home and blog, Option 2: borrow friends phone, download…
- DIY Pizza and movie night
Jaygo's got his friend round for a sleepover, Sophie is at a sleepover. Tea (as pictured) is DIY Pizza, the movie is National Treasure. It's been a fun day - working from home (as per yesterday also). For one of the…
- Scraping the bottom of the Apple barrel?
Earlier this week, Apple hosted their big flagship show - WWDC - where they typically reveal the latest earth shattering, world changing products they've had up their secret sleeves - like the iPhone, the iPad, the Mac…
What's in my bag? (version 2)CLICK HERE for the annotated version. [only works on desktop 'puters] A few years ago, I spotted a group on flickr called "What's in your bag?". The idea is, you take the contents of your bag, spread it out and take a…
A Hitchhikers guide to the A59I picked up a hitch hiker this morning. It's something I do. Having hitched myself for years as a youth (before National Express and Megabus priced it out of the market) I now pay back the good karma when ever possible.…
- Google (Nexus) keyboard. Its a lot like swype.
So Google have released a new version of their native, out the box keyboard for their nexus devices. The sentence above was written on my nexus phone using it, this sentence is written using my nexus tablet using it.…
300th Cache, a Sight Tower and a visit to KnaresboroughI've been my son Felix's personal chauffeur today, which has opened up opportunities left, right and center for adventure. I picked him up from a sleepover he was at last night then, a drop off & pick up combo at a gig…
NIKON 1.8 50mm primeBig thanks to Simon J who lent me his prime lense. This lense, thanks to it's fast apateur and human eye perspective qualities. I popped out this morning and shot around 200+ stills with it - 20 or 30 of which are…
Getting thereFurther to my recent posts about my new photography obsession - The Brenizer Method - I'm now at the stage where I feel I'm getting somewhere. This was one of three shoots I did this afternoon -= the others =- meh, but…
- 2014 Harrogate Festival Fringe
In the intimate climbs of Spiegeltent earlier this evening, Eirene and I had front row n center, for a talk by a Punk Rock elder statesman, John Robb. He talked about his (first hand experience) take on the roots of…
The Brenizer MethodThis evening, I've been mostly experimenting with a photographic technique I'd read about called The Brenizer Method , named after the awesome portrait photographer, Ryan Brenizer . Unlike the LOMO analogue alchemy I've…
- Spiegeltent Harrogate
For the past couple of years around this time of year, an incredibly 'Harrogate' corner of Harrogate - nestling behind the Crown Hotel in Crescent Gardens, has been enhanced, for two weeks only (as part of the Harrogate…
Libertel 166 BI had at unexpected bonus couple of hours in the sun today. The organiser of a meeting I was due to attend unexpectedly declared that he'd moved the meeting to outside. He'd brought cake as well. Double bonus. That took…
Compelling content"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." Charles Darwin This 365 project I'm doing - where I'm blogging every day for a year occasionally leaves me a bit short, when it comes to…