Our garden and greenhouse are riddled with bindweed but I always think the flowers are beautiful, even in b&w.
The best of a bad bunch of panic snaps today.
Panic snapping - sometimes the best way to get a great photo, sometimes not. I ended up upping the contrast and lightness and turning this B&W in the end. Not my best moment.
A fisherman fishing in the rising tide on Perranporth beach at sunset this evening.
Rebecca and I took our dogs down to Perran for a beautiful, if noisy, dog walk on the beach. Was a gorgeous evening. Even managed a half of Rattler Pear Cyder at the Watering Hole which was most pleasant. I could have sat there all evening gossiping and drinking. Ah well.
This was taken on the P&S and tweaked a bit. Wished I'd had my SLR but I struggle to juggle it with the dog paraphernalia I have to take to the beach. Not too bad although the camera doesn't cope well with extreme light and dark (I'm sure there's a proper word for that...).
Ok so I've given up the retro blogging in favour of blogging my current photo a day.
I think this probably will be the last of the asparagus I eat this year - the season must be almost over.
This was a quick snap taken on my D70 when I realised I really must take some photos this weekend. It's a very impromptu photo - the asparagus was just how I'd left it after I'd chopped the woody ends off. I proceeded to wander around the garden, taking photos of the flowers and the new apples but ever since I played with a 35mm prime lens whilst on holiday, my kit lens (18mm - 70mm) just seems a bit rubbish. I will have to drop some very unsubtle hints about my birthday present this year.
Colin was still working hard when I got home from work this evening. The spoil piles have diminished in size and soon the garden will look (almost) like it did before.
Colin in his Sunday Best.
I have to thank Alison for this photo - the best one of the day
Fern blissed out in the sunshine on saturday morning whilst digging and tree felling go on around her.
I never did nuffink!
Photographic evidence that it was Barney who was joining in with the spirit of the weekend and had dug his own hole in the garden. It's a shame he couldn't have done it in a more useful place.
I confess also that I didn't take this photo - I found it on my camera.
Amongst other gifts, Ian and Alison arrived with this large tomato from his mother's garden. I think it's a Russian Krim tomato - we all had some for lunch on Saturday and it was lovely.
02/03/09
Actually, it was from his garden.
Scaffold planks.
02/03/09
I think, another one of those dull days.
Don't look if you have Coulrophobia.
02/03/09
This is a badly composed photo but I couldn't wait until the clown had passed the flags as he might have come over and frightened Den.
Mmmmmm beeeeeer.
02/03/09
It's quite possible that we drank our own body weights in beer again.
Friday night at Trowbridge Festival. I think the Peat Bog Fairies were on stage...
02/03/09
But I couldn't be sure. We had a fanastic time last year and I've just taken delivery of tickets for this year.
Amongst the deliveries at work today was a batch of 15 infra red sources which I needed to parcel up and send on.
02/03/09
Sometimes finding interesting things to take photos of is really hard.
I have spent the last two days retesting laser pointers. I know I should have gone to spec savers - the laser safety glasses I've been using for the red lasers aren't particularly pretty!
Colin standing at the study window space. Grinning like a mad 'un.
More cooking today. This is an apple, cinnamon, raisin and sultana cake. YUM.
02/03/09
No more fud photos - I'm sooo hungry now!
We had our neighbours over for dinner tonight and this white chocolate cheesecake with raspberries was dessert. The locally grown raspberries were so large that we thought they could almost be loganberries (or snozberries perhaps? It's ok, I'm having a retro Dahl moment at the moment).
02/03/09
Mmmmmmm YUM!
Colin looking very pleased with his new front wall. I should think so. He accidentally dislodged two newly laid blocks a couple of days ago whilst working on the stone wall. The builders weren't best pleased with them. He's had to apologise with Jammy Dodgers.
02/03/09
: D
Ok, who's run off with Fern's back legs? I knew I shouldn't have left her tied up outside the Co-Op in Redruth!
02/03/09
This photo makes me laugh when I look back at it. It's a wonder she hasn't fallen over!
Barney's nose.
25/02/09
The results from my L4 are varied. I tend to use it if I have a macro moment happening but sometimes it just can't take a good photo. Must see if I can get some macro filters for my D70.
See, I just can't get away from our building site. Tiny water droplets on a large piece of celotex insulation.
25/02/09
It's all hidden within the fabric of our house now!
Colin hiding in his favourite place - our building site.
25/02/09
And now we live in it!
Ever fallen asleep in your lunch? I caught Fraggle snoozing away in her lettuce today. Perhaps a pint too many for lunch?
25/02/09
I think perhaps it was lovely and warm and sunny and time for a snooze.
More Saturday baking. This is a Devonshire (I know) Honey Cake, made from this recipe: www.soyandpepper.com/2008/06/devonshire-honey-cake.html.
It's slightly burnt on top but tastes absolutely fabulous (if i do say so myself). It's also incredibly easy to make and eat, although it helps if you're slightly mad about honey.
25/02/09
Mmmmm cake...
A message from me (panicking slightly).
25/02/09
I'm not sure what I was panicking about but I'm sure it's all ok now.
The footings for the front wall and new porch are going in.
25/02/09
This seems like an age ago and indeed it was!
Beetroot grown in my very own greenhouse (sorry about terrible light in photo).
I'll be making beetroot and goat's cheese risotto with these babies at the weekend.
25/02/09
Mmm love beetroot. You'll also be glad to know that I now know how to use the WB on my camera.
Ta daaaaa - finished!
The builders have shored up the front of the house with sheeting to make their job easier this week as there's alot of rain forecast.
20/02/09
Looking back at the photos it's just amazing to see what the house used to look like and what we've done to it!
No building photos today as it has been too wet for the builders to dig the foundations. So here's a photo of my nasturtiums growing well in my old wellies.
20/02/09
Lovely to see summer photos, despite it being a bit of a wet summer. Good weather for wellies.
Flowers in the church we attended for nephew Ben's christening.
Colourful giant lego (duplo?) in the sunshine at Jo's.
20/02/09
A weekend away from the house, sitting in Jo's back garden in the sunshine. Just what the doctor ordered.
A tractor trailer from the icecream farm filled up with what was once our house!
Colin holding the roof up. Or down...
20/02/09
It's so easy to wreck a house!
Sorry, more house pictures. We got home late last night after a dog walking adventure to find that our house is very open plan now.
20/02/09
And all propped up, ready for the front wall to be dismantled.
Lots more wood in the loft.
20/02/09
The builders made a quick start by putting new joists in the roof to strengthen the beams. This is why we needed the bees to leave.
I only popped out to go to work!
Our builders started work on our house today and although we knew they were popping out the windows today it was quite a shock to come home to a ruin! Still, work has begun and it's quite exciting, if a little scary,
19/02/09
I was very close to tears when I saw the house like this for the first time. Just the removal of the windows turned it into a ruin and made the whole rebuild project seem a very definite thing.
I forgot to add this one in. We had lunch at The Bolingey Inn on mum's birthday and they brought out her cheesecake with a candle in it.
Oh arses. Just as we were preparing for our builders to start work on the roof of our house on Monday, we discover that a pile of honey bees has moved into our roof.
We have a bee specialist coming to have a look to see if he can move the queen out so that the rest of the bees will follow. We're keeping our fingers crossed.
19/02/09
Luckily the bees moved on the next day. It turns out that they were checking out all the houses in the area before choosing one to move into properly. Ours was probably too dusty.
I still don't know the story behind this note that Colin left for Dave at work.
19/02/09
I was glad to see later that someone had put in the correct apostrophe in Daves.
A quick mushroom photo to go with the mushroom farm photos from earlier this week.
A photo from the observation deck on the roof of the international terminal at Krakow Balice airport this morning. Yes we're quite sad (we even paid PLN 2 - approx 50p - each to visit it).
19/02/09
Someone added this photo as a favourite the other day!
Madman (Colin) in a long exposure shot taken at dusk in the Old Town Square, Krakow.
19/02/09
I love this photo - not bad for my little P&S.
A plasma ball at the Museum of Municipal Engineering, Krakow.
19/02/09
There were lots of hands on experiments to play with there and we spent an enjoyable two or three hours there on this sunday afternoon, whilst the bemused staff watched on.
Colin looking across to the Palace at Paszkowska, where our friends' wedding party would later take place.
The Insurance Museum (I kid you not) in Krakow. We didn't actually go in. We're sad but not quite that sad.
19/02/09
This was taken for a friend's husband who works in insurance.
St Mary's Church, Krakow.
19/02/09
We went to Krakow for six days for the wedding of a friend of Colin's. Had a fab trip and loved both Poland and Krakow.
