Retrophotography and garlic
A couple of months ago, I acquired myself a second-hand medium-format twin-lens-reflex camera dating from about 1963, with the intention of working out whether medium-format film was a sensible medium for me. The test rolls of colour film that I've fed through it have had various problems which I'm still working out how to solve. Yesterday, though, I finally got a roll of Delta 400 back from Jessops and scanned it with Verity's scanner, and I was surprised to find some actually decent pictures. I don't think they qualify as "good", but they do at least suggest that I might manage something worthwhile with that camera.
On an etirely different front, I grew some garlic this year. Trying to grow it in the front garden, shaded by a cherry tree and the house, was probably a bad idea and the bulbs came out rather small. Happily, they respond well the Clare's technique of sticking unpeeled cloves into the garlic crusher and squishing them out of their skins, so it wasn't too much hassle for me to put five bulbs into last night's stroganoff. Next year's garlic will be grown in the back garden.
<http://bjh21.me.uk/pictures/2008-08-04_coastpath/> (the first twelve pictures)
The garlic isn't on the Web.