…and a few others 😉 For a while I’ve been looking for a reading chair, somewhere to sit away from distractions, where I can pull a good book from the shelf and sit back and just read. We searched all the usual places, and we searched a few unusual places. Then we hit the internet and searched there for suitable chairs, we didn’t find anything modern that fit the bill. Then we struck on the idea of a William Morris inspired chair, we refined our search and found nothing really…
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Are we on dial up again?
Well, no we’re not, we’ve been on broadband for years, but sadly the performance for us is never quite what the companies advertise and you get the feeling at times you’re back on dial up. So the other day I set the computer up to stream Formula 1 live via BT Broadband, now the thing with F1 is you don’t really want to miss bits, nor do you want the stream to pause every minute or so while the stream buffers again and again. Sadly this is what happened. Every…
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Sometimes you take a photograph for one thing and then you look at it on the screen and see something else there. This is a good example 😉 I was looking at the Bulrushes in the marshy ground by the wood and decided to take a couple of photographs as the wispy effect of the fibers looked quite good with the way the Sun hit them and the dark background. It was only when I looked at the photograph on the screen that I noticed the gnomes face, now when…
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The cloud looked ‘interesting’ earlier so I made a quick dash to through the wood for a photograph (okay, this is several photographs stitched together ;-))
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A first attempt at Bilbo escaping to the eyrie.
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