Archive for December, 2006
It’s frothy man!
Saturday, December 30th, 2006I think, I have the coolest parents-in-law ever! And that’s official. Not only are they the proud owners of a limited edition sports car, number 98 out of 250… their idea of a Boxing Day treat is to nip across to Switzerland and don ‘far too tight to flatter’ suits, then throw themselves down the Olympia Bobsleigh […]
Saturday 16th December, I voted!
Sunday, December 17th, 2006Okay I got carried away in the heat of the moment. The X-Factor Final, 2006. Leona sang like an angel. Ray, well he was good, but I couldn’t help thinking his repertoire would be challenged really quite quickly if he won the prize of a recording contract. So I saw it as a personal duty […]
The Breathemobile
Monday, December 4th, 2006Last night we visited Bradfield Southend in Berkshire close to where we live, nicknamed ‘Christmas Village‘ at this time of year. It’s so called because the locals cover their houses with a thousand and one festive lights each December. We parked up, walked along to look at a farm covered in fairy lights with a parachuting santa and festive outdoors […]
Now you see them…
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006Digital manipulation is great isn’t it? In particular one of my favourite tricks is the way newspapers attempt to hide the identities of people in photographs. The commonly used system is to digitally pixelate a face, so you can’t see who that person may be. On the face of it, if you’ll excuse the pun, this seems to […]