As a New Years present, my previous landlord decided that he wanted to move Scorpio and I into a smaller room and double the rent money. The long and the short of it is that we ended up moving, in a day, into the spare room of one of Scorpio’s very charitable friends. This is… Continue reading Unintentional bedfellow.
The Sacrificial Lamb…
Sometimes a thought materialises in the jumble of my mind and then I find myself in situations where it continuously loops through my consciousness. Is it possible to fundamentally change yourself? As humans the majority of us can adapt to fit into our surroundings. For example when starting a new job there is an extent… Continue reading The Sacrificial Lamb…
Cranachan.
On Monday I found myself digging out my recipes for Cranachan, a traditional Scottish dessert. Unfortunately since my recipe book tends to be lots of scraps of paper, piled into one notebook, in no particular order, I couldn’t find it. So I took to my computer to find one. What I dislike about baking from… Continue reading Cranachan.
The hypnotic glass eye.
I love old cameras. I have a very large collection of them, an odd yet wonderful assortment. I studied photography and found, when faced with digital vs analogue, that I really loved the practice of developing the film and having to wait to see what I had produced, and then getting to develop those images… Continue reading The hypnotic glass eye.
And so it begins…
I have now written the first line of this first post about five times and every single time I felt as if I sounded like a pompous idiot; I may still but at least I might get onto the second. It is January once again and this year I decided a little bit of re-motivation… Continue reading And so it begins…
