Soggy Saturday - Restful Day

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Picture 1 is to show one of my starling-proof bird feeders and, as you can see, the tits can manage the entrance quite easily. As can robins, finches, sparrows and although not for a week or two, bullfinches.

I feel guilty of discrimination - a starlingphobe in fact. It is anthropomorphism at its worst but they are vexatious creatures who selfishly grab all the food and fight among themselves.

Picture 2 is an Icelandic 'Puffin' by Helen and, as I said previously, long serving members of EPS will have a wry smile to see one again.

Nicely handled environment with quite a long lens. A camera-club judge though would probably advise cropping some off the left, so as to have the bird slightly less central. Smashing colours and foreground detail.

Picture 3 was from the Isle of Wight and another Classic Car we chanced upon. There was no-one with this one though, so I couldn't ask.

I know we are probably not alone but neither of us can work up mch enthusiasm for the Olympics. There seems to be so much hype and if 'spectacle' is overdone it becomes kitsch.

There's a place in the Art World for kitsch and Jeff Koons and Co. occupy it splendidly.

Comments

Bungus ..... Thanks for the picture comments. I had said 'Turner-esque' because of a famous art history anecdote of an occasion when he and Constable were both young, and their paintings were hung side by side in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. On hanging day Turner glowered at the pictures (his included a beach). Two hours later he returned with paints and a brush and inserted a bright red ball on his beach. The effect was to wreck the Constable next door. The story goes that an attendant said to a colleague "He's not supposed to do that, is he?". The colleague replied "Are you going to tell him then? 'cos I'm not".

He had a reputation for liking a flash of red somewhere strategic in a picture anyway.

Re Serif. I am beginning to feel that Serif software leaves much to be desired. The blurbs are persuasive but the goods fall short. It would have been straightforward to burn onto DVDs what I needed to transfer, and to find the original discs for the programmes.

I hope your Firefox returns home. In my opinion it is better than IE7.

My locating of Pete, Manxislander, on the Isle of Wight was a straightforward typo having mentioned I of W so frequently of late.

Thanks for the Litheram stuff. I had forgotten we had previously discussed it.

AnonymousRob ...... So pleased to have your comment. I guess we had all assumed it was either work or DIY or something else which was occupying you. The sooner you have done with that awful work stuff the better !

The left-handed material is interesting. In the 1940s there was still pressure to conform to a right-handed norm and in slang terms left-handed people were called 'cack-handed'. I don't know if this was common everywhere ?

Another expression I grew up with, was being asked "What are you gawping at?" If you were caught studying something closely.

I can't help further with the identity of the car. I should have made a note. Perhaps now Reg has returned from holiday he will identify it.

anonymous ..... As acknowledged above. A mental slip, putting Manxislander on the Isle of Wight. Sorry !

Jill ..... I shall be speaking to David in the morning and I shall make enquiries about the orange towel.

How interesting - your mini-saga about the wedding. Y loved reading about the bride's outfit and flowers.

How outrageous - the catering ! With it being RC and lengthy someone should have arrived with a few loaves and fishes etc., and there would have been plenty to go round - plus left-overs ! Especially as the lusty singing (even if only you) had acted as an appetite stimulant.

I remember talking to Jenny at your GW and my guess is that she would have been embarrassed, even though it hadn't been her responsibility.

Whenever I do a barbeque I pre-cook sausages, chicken legs, beefburgers etc, indoors before taking them out to the barbeque for a final touch of the charcoal taste on the actual barbeque. A blackened chicken drumstick which oozes blood when you bite it, is a surefire recipe for food-poisoning.

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Sleep tight. Catch you tomorrow.

..... I thought the 'sheep-dog?' was due for an outing.

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