Colin spent Saturday in his open air workshop putting in some overtime. He's got a batch of 19 circuit boards to finish before Monday.
24/12/08
Seeing this photo again reminds me of how lovely spring was. *sigh*.
New socks. Ok, it's been a very dull week.
24/12/08
I concur with my previous statement.
The crumpled aluminium foil which Colin uses to deter the dogs from lounging on our sofas in the van.
[Our neighbours think we're a bit odd.]
24/12/08
The foil didn't last, Fern sleeps on the sofa when we're not about but is always very careful to never let us see her on it!
Daisies in our garden with primroses and bluebells in the background. Shortly after I took this photo I mowed down all the daisies with the lawn mower.
24/12/08
I miss the lovely garden. I hope we can reinstate it next year.
The bread tree. A rare species, indigenous to the Peranzubuloe district of Cornwall, it flowers only once every 50 years and yes, its fruit are doorstop slices of granary bread.
24/12/08
If I recall correctly, I'd set up my tripod to take photos of visiting birds. I'm not sure I actually managed to take any photos of them though.
Siamese dogs attached at the head. When Barney stands up, Fern is upside down.
24/12/08
Cute eh?
An interloper arrived yesterday evening on a bag containing three home grown cauliflowers from our neighbour Sally. Photo a bit blurry to replicate previous wine consumption.
24/12/08
I've reread my description several times and I don't think it makes sense.
Mmmm I baked a coconut and chocolate chip loaf cake this morning as the weather was rubbish and we needed cake for lunch. It was lovely still-warm from the oven.
24/12/08
I just don't manage to bake as much as I used to. I blame the house rebuild and the fact that our builders, who I used to make cakes for, have gone too.
More droplets, this time on the wonk.
05/12/08
I do like this photo too. Taken on the L4.
The view from my office.
I don't usually work in my car, parked in a layby on the A30 but today I did!
05/12/08
This photo just makes me cross now. My then boss was always running late for everything and this was the reason I sat in a layby for half an hour waiting for him to turn up and hand some stuff over to me. I hate tardiness, although it's such a good word.
The side of a silo.
05/12/08
I like the wavy form of the corrugated steel which contrasts with the engineered bolt heads. Taken on the L4 I believe.
Dogs reflected in the bin top
31/10/08
Struggling somewhat for photos I think. I do like my bin and the lovely reflections it produces.
I made Colin a white chocolate cheesecake for his birthday (it made up for the rubbish restaurant we went to earlier!).
31/10/08
We did go out for a better dinner at a later date. Lovely cheesecake - it lasted all week.
Linds and her hedgehog from Chapel Porth (a cone with cornish clotted cream icecream, covered in cornish clotted cream and then rolled in honey roasted hazelnuts).
31/10/08
The thought of a hedgehog usually makes me feel a bit sick. I maintain you only ever eat one.
We spent Saturday afternoon at a local beer festival in aid of Colin's birthday. On the way home Linds took my photo a day photo on her mobile.
31/10/08
A legitimate photo a day I think. And we were quite drunk too!
Fern is very chuffed with Barney's new bed. Shame she prefers it to her own!
31/10/08
It is easier to take photos of her on his bed though.
Wiiine. I've been moving the wine out of the house and into the caravan.
31/10/08
There's not much left : (
Wot no birds?! There have been plenty of birds visiting my feeders today but can I snap a photo of them? My camera is set up on a tripod and the IR remote works until, typically, there's a bird there, and so all I've managed to take photos of today is the bird feeders.
I must do something about the reflections too. Must find my polarising filter to see if that helps.
31/10/08
Shortly after this our resident grey squirrel destroyed all my feeders in one hit. Git.
Another view of (part of) Truro Cathedral.
31/10/08
I like photos without edges - I'm sure that this sort of composition has a name. Truro Cathedral is curious and part clean, and part dirty.
Barney, Fern and I went for a great walk today in the lovely (but chilly) sunshine, but I forgot to take my camera, so here's a photo of them asleep together in a small patch of sunshine.
15/10/08
Awwww. Sometimes you wouldn't think these two dogs even know each other but at other times, they curl up together and rest heads on each other. Very, very cute. If you like dogs.
Naughty squirrel eating my nuts! (I haven't splashed out on a new lens, I've put the bird feeders very close to the caravan window for easy photo taking).
15/10/08
Shortly after I took this photo the naughty squirrel destroyed all my bird feeders and there went my bird photo taking opportunities. I must find some squirrel-proof feeders for the winter.
Purple flowers in the garden.
15/10/08
These flowers seem to grow in our garden almost all year round. I remember seeing them when we looked at the house in November 05 and they were still there when we moved in in Jan 06. I'm not sure if they have survived the garden butchery though.
Next door's weather vane. I noticed the other day that the directional indicators are 90 degrees out.
15/10/08
Too much time on my hands and not enough inclination to get out and take my photo for the day, methinks.
An update on the valentine's card I bought for Colin. The plant looks a bit sorry for itself but it's actually not withered and droopy, it's growing quite well. I think it might need planting out but I think the instructions went in the recycling bin!
15/10/08
I must check the plant, it spent the 'summer' in the greenhouse.
Droplets again.
Focus point in middle ground (should also have done a distance focus but needed to get on with some work!).
15/10/08
This one would work well with a shorter depth of field and without the dot of dirt on the board. I'm pleased with both photos though - not bad from my rubbish P&S.
Droplets of rain that I noticed at work.
I couldn't decide between these two photos so I've posted them both. Focus point in foreground.
15/10/08
This is the better of the two. I love the shape the water droplets have formed on the newly painted surface.
Truro Cathedral looking like it is emerging from the top of a hideous carpark. Photo taken from the top of another, equally hideous carpark.
15/10/08
Truro Cathedral is a great hefting and quite beautiful neo gothic building but sadly it lacks a grand setting. From this angle it does look like it's sprouting out of a concrete carbuncle carpark. In reality, it is wedged in between shops and other commercial premises with no gardens or land around it to separate it from the mish mash of buildings that make up the city of Truro.
Fern was half under the rug when I stood up to take this photo, but she moved before I could!
30/09/08
Never work with children or animals.
I used to suffer from laptop envy but now I have one of my very own : D
30/09/08
Everyone laughs at our his n hers laptops but they work well : )
My first 'van cake - cooked in the gas oven (bliss!), More Saturday afternoon baking as the weather is shockingly bad today.
30/09/08
Mmm more cakes. I think this is a banana loaf but I could be wrong.
Got back to my car in Tesco's carpark to find someone had put a blue smear down the side of my car. Couldn't see any paint missing off the car parked next to me but the colour matched.
I'm glad a drive an old banger but that's probably the reason why people drive into it.
30/09/08
Still have the car, it's just passed its MOT so will have it for a while longer.
I realised how messy my desk was this morning. Stuff on it included a five litre tin of white gloss paint, a box of a thousand rivets and other assorted rubbish.
30/09/08
Nggghhhh. Haaaated that jooooooobb.
After returning from the vet, Fern still hasn't worked out how to use her new wheel.
30/09/08
Colin had been at the Photoshop with this photo. I think at least one of my friends thought it was real!
I've been moving some stuff into the wendy house as we're sleeping over tonight. Two sad dog faces greeted me on one trip from the house.
I wonder how many times Barney will attempt to exit through the clear glass of the door.
30/09/08
I think we've been living in the caravan for six months now. Time flies.
Self portrait. The photographer and her dawg.
30/09/08
Self portraits are, by the very nature of them, hard to capture. I hate having my photo taken, so to take a self portrait and to have to look at it afterwards is quite excruciating. So there's usually a dog in the photo to soothe that process. This one had his head rammed in the small gap between the headrest and the side of the car. We were also travelling at the time so there were many misfires and vibrated shots. I'm actually quite pleased with this.
Birthday paddles! Only four months late, Den receives her birthday present. Den spends rest of the weekend stroking said present.
30/09/08
They are lovely paddles - they were so well made and varnished that it seemed a shame to actually use them!
Good friday beer festival at The Cricketers, Eastleigh. We drank alot of lovely ale.
30/09/08
Not the greatest composition but lovely amber tones from the light and the beer. And anyway, I had drunk alot of beer by this point.
My new work phone. The office phone is diverted to this every afternoon and therefore my office can (and often is) the beach, the pub, the wendy house...
30/09/08
I hated having to have this phone on all afternoon. The first day I had it, I spent an hour sorting out a work problem whilst sitting in The Watering Hole on Perranporth Beach, trying to have coffee with a friend. I really don't miss anything about that job and I REALLY, REALLY don't miss that phone. It was such a relief to leave.
Tulips in our front garden (well, what's left of the front garden).
30/09/08
There's not much left of the front garden now except some muddy ruts and a rose bush.
My valentine's day card has sprouted some leaves - just in time for easter!
30/09/08
I was quite impressed with this quick development!
Archaeology and beer. We met Hilary and Ian for dinner and beer. Hilary showed us her archaeology notes from their site visit to Botallack. They didn't really make much sense to me!
30/09/08
I like the orangey light in this photo, it goes well with the beer and the wooden table. A nice photo from my P&S.
Another photo especially for Sally. I hope this stops you worrying Sal!
30/09/08
Sally found the previous arrangement of the path worrying (she has autistic/OCD tendencies, we feel!) so we rearranged it for her. I also took the photo on the opposite slant for balance.
We spent this afternoon cobbling together a temporary brick path to the van as the garden is sooooo very muddy. Our neighbour is pleased - he's got his pallet of bricks shifted from his garden AND we're paying for the bricks too!
30/09/08
Some random from Flickr posted about how unstable our path was (like I asked for the guy's or anyone else's opinion!). Colin actually signed up to Flickr so that he could comment back.
Again for Sally: an update on the valentine's card. This new development happened overnight so I don't have any interim photos. But HOW bizarre this this thing?!
30/09/08
Freaky plant thing. I think there are more updates later on.
I found this chap clinging to my walking boot when I went out dogwalking earlier. I moved him out of the way (into Colin's overalls).
My new shopping friend Felix - the five month old son of my friend Vicki - who helped in my quest for a new pair of jeans (amongst other things) today.
13/09/08 I think the shopping wore Felix out. Looking at this photo, he's grown and changed so much since March.
Monday afternoon baking rocks! A lemon drizzle cake which I've been trying to make for ages. It smells lovely and isn't anything to do with caravans!
13/09/08 I have started to really enjoy baking these days. Combine this with part time work and cakes pop up on flickr all the time.
Despite a few squally hail showers, it's been quite a nice day here. It certainly isn't hinting at the storms due in later tonight and tomorrow.
13/09/08 I seem to remember promises of severe weather later that night. So lovely to see blue sky, there's been precious little of it this summer.
Hurrah! We have light and gas in the wendy house! Yippeeeee!
12/09/08 A major achievement , just getting this far : ) Seems like we've been living in the van for an age now.
