abraxas

last minute stay

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:38:00 +0000

i've been pondering what to do with abraxas for sometime, as i've not really been happening this year. after looking around i've been quite interested by word press, it having some nice features. then just when i thought i had almost made a call blogger goes all beta and unveils a whole raft of news toys. it's a shame they weren't able to roll them out direct to all users with the beta (i had to set up a new test blog to play with). so now i have a more difficult decision to make. don't expect changes any time soon. probably.

passion flower

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:49:49 +0000

view from the garden.

abstract faces

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:37:00 +0000

i was stood waiting for the dlr the other day and my eye caught on some of the railway lines that looked like faces. it was one of those days i wished i'd taken my camera with me. true to form there is a flickr group for just about anything you could possibly conjour up. the abstract faces group just makes me smile.

must keep my camera handy and see if i can add to it.

there seem to be a lot of entertaining instructional videos cropping up on youtube, including, how to refresh 5 hours old sour coffee and how to make your fleece like brand new, more here.

flaming sheep

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:36:00 +0000

a rather menacing looking sheep shilouetted against the sunset on a welsh mountainside. haven't got round to albumising (?) our scottish photos yet and already have another holiday to document.

had a lovely time in wales. it was very hot. went walking and to portmeirion, amonst other things.

just a taster

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Tue, 30 May 2006 20:45:00 +0000

more to come, but here is a taster photo from our recent visit to the west coast of scotland. scotland was as ever, wonderful, beautiful and a little bit wet. the view is from the very well-preserved ruin, castle tioram.

this most recent visit north of the border was made particularly special as we travelled up there on the caledonian sleeper, the best train in the world.

another highlight was the pine marten that visited to rummage through the bin. it took a bit of debate to narrow it down to a pine marten, not surprising given they are one of the rarest mammals in the country.

>>update>> mandy got a good picture of the pine marten.

aww for the baby animals

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Mon, 22 May 2006 21:01:00 +0000

there's not many things get described as being as big (or as small) as a raspberry.

catch up

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Thu, 18 May 2006 18:01:00 +0000

been to the rather enchanting sheffield cemetery, where apparently 87,000 people are buried. there aren't that many gravestones but those that are there are wonderfully overgrown, ivy clad or just slightly askew.

simple pleasures on saturday

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 21:48:00 +0000

- waking up and lying in bed with a cup of tea listening to radio 4 for an hour and a half. not normally one of my favourite programmes but excess baggage was good this morning, all about people going on pilgrimages of sorts, including the new long march 2; an incredible journey through china.
- eating a lovely meal that wasn't slaved over for hours, ta nigel.
- tidying up my bookmarks. a satisfying task.
- currently liking netvibes. started using it a couple of weeks ago and all of a sudden there is a bumper load of new things to fiddle with.

back

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:52:00 +0000

from a lovely week in scotland, where the mountains were topped with snow.

angry wimmin

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:05:00 +0000

caught bbc four's angry wimmin last night. it was a very watchable documentary about far left revolutionary feminism from the 70's/80's based around interviews with women who were very active in the area at the time. they were all, for the most part, still angry but looking back, sometimes with humour, at the political landscape they were a part of.

folk britannia

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:34:00 +0000

caught some of bbc 4's wonderful folk britannia last night. over the years my consumption of home grown folk has, for the most part, been intermittent and confined to a few artists or groups recommended by people. last nights folk roots, new roots has given me some new directions to explore, namely davy graham and anne briggs.

pandora has been playing me some nice tunes this morning as a result.

reflected

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 09:58:46 +0000

lucky numbers

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 07:49:00 +0000

well, like most people in the country i got euro millions lottery tickets yesterday, not just for me, we had a syndicate at work and this morning, after blearily poring over a pile of tickets i'm quite sure that we've had a win. a grand total of £17.20, which will make us all 66p richer, or taking into account the pound fifty used to buy the ticket we are each only 84p worse off than we were before buying the tickets.

this is the biggest success i've had with the lottery. i'm overjoyed.

ffffing freezing

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:07:00 +0000

with hindsight january may not have been the best month to get the boiler replaced. work has been going on all day to fit the new boiler, which means that since 8am this morning i've only had the kettle for warmth.

what makes it harder is that this is self inflicted. we've got a couple of things to do on the house but, as the old boiler, whilst working ok (albeit quite noisily), was nearing a quarter of a century old it was inevitable it would need replacing at some point soon. so rather than having a nasty shock at an inconvenient time we decided to get the new boiler put in first.

*note to self, next time you need a new boiler get it done in july.

blueness

snowcat@gmail.com (snowcat) — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:04:00 +0000

went to see the blue man group last night. they really are quite unlike anything else and trying to describe them would really spoil the fun of anyone planning to visit. suffice to say i laughed an awful lot and this morning i even made a picture on the blue man website.