I bought a new combo scanner/printer on Friday evening, so pretty much spent the weekend scanning a load of old photos I'd excavated from some boxes a few weeks ago. Inevitably going through old things has stirred up memories and I've been reminded of certain landmarks in my life.

One of these is the fact that I started blogging almost nine years ( Read more... )

My Flickr Pro account expires in four days. I have been making intermittent attempts to pay for the upgrade all bloody day and the payments section site is refusing to work for me, just as it was doing a few days ago.

I have had this problem with upgrading my Flickr account every. single. year. without fail (except for the years when others have ( Read more... )

That was almost a whole month without me posting anything here, or on Flickr. To be fair, there were some fairly extenuating circumstances which led to my absence: to wit, my hard drive failed and, lo, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Actually, mostly there was a lot of facepalm action as I berated myself for not backing-up the data ( Read more... )

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Just to let you know that I've switched comments moderation on. I may turn it off again, though.
  Edit to add: this is not the case for LJ btw!

For some reason one of the html tags in my last post is simply refusing to close, no matter how many times I edit the damn thing. So, sorry if it's broken, but it's not my fault (and I don't know how to fix it).
 

Where were we? Oh yes, we'd reached the Roast Foie Gras with Almond Fluid Gel, Cherry and Chamomile. This was an amazingly complex dish, rich and full of flavour. Even the delicate wafers garnishing the top packed a knockout punch of flavour into a tiny space, but none of the flavours overwhelmed the others, they only offered a perfect complement ( Read more... )

Someone found the place where Superman washes his costumes:


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So, I was just catching up on some blog-reading, and was looking at Sarah's lovely post on the backstory to Vern & Lettuce, with this ace cutaway illustration of Lettuce's burrow:


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One of my photos has been selected to be in the upcoming Slow Exposure exhibition at Foyles. If you can't make it to the private view on May 1st, the exhibition opens on April 24th and runs for a month, if you want to catch it. (There's a Facebook event for the private view, if you want to RSVP, so they've got an idea of numbers.)

Another of my ( Read more... )