Hey!  Remember me? No? Well this won't be very interesting then.  Move along please...

So what's been happening?  Not a great deal really.  The business is chugging along very slowly but to be honest it's not surprising - I can't believe how long it's taken the stresses of the old job to get out of my system.  I can't remember a time I slept so much ( Read more... )

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Rather than provide a litany of recent woes, thought I'd say a quick "hello" and leave a happy link:

Don't Download this Song

P.S. Mareike - if you see this, I've been having trouble with my mobile.  If you could text/email again, we'll definitely have to try to hook up!

Wow, the weeks just fly by, don't they?  Not much news really, we've finished the infamous tandoor and are now onto the far more fun (IMO) bit, cooking.  So far we've had three tries, two for guests.  It's a funny kind of cooking - lots of work up to 24 hours beforehand, preparing the marinades and stuff, then a hiatus before the big cook-fest, a ( Read more... )

A fun day was had by all today, dodging the thunderstorms to get the tandoor built.  Now we're at the stage where we're bringing the top in (i.e. decreasing the circumference with each course) it's a fiddly two-person job with me holding the slabs of clay in place whilst hubby jiggles them into just the right position.  We're both pleasantly ( Read more... )

Hope I'm not giving away too many tricks of the trade here, but have just found an automated airbrush application that (in moderation) gives fantastic results: My Perfect Picture

As well as a nice skin-tone balancing app, it has a rather freaky 'beauty' mode that can change the shape of the subject's face to something more aesthetically pleasing ( ( Read more... )

Our copy of WestSide magazine plopped through the door today (glossy local free magazine - 50% estate agents' ads but quite nice local editorial stuff in the rest).

Was having a flip through and happened on an article on the local music centre I photographed a couple of months back.  And, lo and behold, were three of my pictures and a credit!

Woo!

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Remember Dance Dance Revolution?  Here's the inevitable flash version for those less inclined to throw themselves around in a publicly humiliating fashion:

Flash Flash Revolution: Spin It Up

Was feeling pretty smug on the first few levels on getting well over 90%.  After about level 5 though, it all went to poo.  And my hand really hurts.  Ow!!

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Just to let you know that hubby is blogging his latest crazy project, building a tandoor oven, here.  I've been offering moral support (and cups of tea) and have offered to take some nice pictures for the great tandoor-building masses.  He's built up a bit of a backlog of posts but in the near future you should be able to see some exciting pictures ( Read more... )

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