In accordance with the new policy around here to include more about cats, we publish this book recommendation, submitted by Tigger Newman. Miss Puss says that she has, indeed, read the book (which was news to me) and that she found it useful, particularly the section on avoiding difficult people. I asked her if there might […]
I have been spending a lot of time in the 19th century, searching through CDs full of images of old newspapers, piling up books with post-its fluttering from their pages, wandering around in cemeteries. I seem to get what I need when I need it, even when I’m looking for something else. Thus I went looking for a […]
Regular readers will recall that I have been mourning the death of my little camera. It turns out that it is only the display that is dead. I discovered this when I was sorting through the last batch of images and found the one I was taking when the Phfft! happened. Well, if that one […]
This is a lovely morning. Green, quiet, shiny with rain. But I fear, I truly do, that my little camera is dead. It captured this morning’s walk and then Phffft! The screen flashed brilliant white with a streak of brown burnmark and some purple zigzags. Very dramatic. Particularly in contrast with its last peaceful images.
If you are not sick and tired of morels yet you will enjoy this. Come with me to Sonny’s. Visit the Amazing Mushroom, up close and personal. Marvel at Mama Nature’s inventiveness. (This is my first experiment with a WordPress slideshow, and if you are on slooow dialup as I am you may wish to […]
This morning I poured a cup of coffee and sat down to see what Mrs. Uhdd has been up to over in the north of England. It turns out that she is celebrating the third anniversary of her admirable blog. Three years of posts about drystone walls, weather sweeping across the hills and dales, fellrunners, chickens, […]
May 27, 2010
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