Today I bought a toaster, amazing I know. No I’m not about to start posting about every kitchen product I buy, but I will grumble and mutter a bit about this one (and in fact most electrical products you buy these days). My grumble is this…. Do you think the manufacturers sit down at design meetings and say to themselves, “let’s make a nice clean, shiny product, then stick labels on it. So when the customer gets it home they spend 10 minutes covering it in finger prints and scratches…
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Okay, no need for an interesting title, or much need for an introduction other than here are two photographs from today. The first is a misty bit of woodland from this mornings wander… And then the Moon over the Pennines this evening…
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I’d put the camera away for the day as I did not think I’d get chance to use it again and I was just pulling some bread from the oven when Julie called through that I may want to grab my camera. When I looked at the Pennines out of the living room window the last light of the day was casting a nice red tinge on the hills and the cloud looked rather good so I did indeed grab my camera and snapped a few shots. click image for…
Read MoreYou have to wonder
What happens inside your head at times, for March the theme of the month that I’m working on is Airships. For some reason my mind turned this into Hairships, which are of course ships which carry hair to wig makers :-/ well what else would they do with it. Any sailor worth is salt will tell you, if you want to make some easy money go to the Willwurd Isles, the daily routine was to sail round the various ports basking all the while under the Caribbean Sun collecting bags…
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One day I’ll learn the name of all these Eastern fells, I’m not so bad at remembering the fells out West, but for some reason I never picked up all the Eastern fell names. Click on small panoramic for larger version.
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