Thursday EPS day - Y at Burton Joyce

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Picture 1 is a seaside snap by Incy Wincy and, although he doesn't say so, it must have been infra-red film. Infra red conveys this slightly spooky, dramatic look and although people try to conjure up a similar look in photoshop, it never quite works.

Personally I think the picture is oustanding. The life-belt post breaking the shore-line and the sky-line is a deft touch which holds the picture together. Congratulations Denis! My guess is that Jill will enjoy the monochrome.

Picture 2 is of some of 4 ticks's 'tatting' and again, I think they look terrific. I don't quite understand whether or not the designs are hers too or if she follows a pattern, as in knitting. I feel sure that an explanation will be forthcoming.

The day so far has been pleasantly relaxing. I have printed and mounted a print to hand-in at EPS this evening. Mounting prints is not my favourite activity but I won't bore you with detailed reasons - I often get the bevelled edges facing the wrong way for instance and have to start again.

This evening Brian offered to cut me 4 which will keep me going for a week or two.

I have also done some computer jobs. One of the unforeseen problems of having multi-computers is that you do things on one and are then surprised it hasn't been done on the other simultaneously. (I know it is possible to network them together but I haven't done the necessary yet)

Tonight we have a lecture by Rowland and Barbara Hill who have won medals in prestigious events.

p.s. Their lecture and pictures were very good. From their travels in Cambodia, Venice, Laos, Nepal to mention just a few. They have a 'style' which they favour and perhaps a few backgrounds seemed close to being duplicated. Both are very skilful photoshop operators and they veer towards producing Art more than record shots. But a thoroughly enjoyable 1½ hours meriting more praise than criticism.


As it is Thursday, Y has gone to Burton Joyce. She will return happy-tired and I shall only see her for a few minutes before setting off for Eastwood.

Comments

Bungus ...... Welcome back and thanks for your account of your Supanet Saga. And all due to your changing broadband packages (who is boggering about with their computer now?). Still, we are all glad you have finally got it sorted !

There is much to be said for your staccato, sten-gun prose style, even if forced upon you. Each sentence becomes a little brain-teaser.

You 'dietary diary' is most interesting. Particularly so for us food-lovers who have a great interest in what other people cook and eat.

How interesting about Sandra's MBE conferring a right to be married in St Pauls. Are there any other hidden rights we should know about? Can she drive a flock of geese through people's gardens for instance? I think we should be told.

I shall continue to invoke Occam's Razor whenever I feel it appropriate. More easily understood than The Law of Parsimony, because people think that's to do with stinginess or Parsons. I suppose you could argue that it is to do with 'stinginess' in a way.

reg .... The Goosedale Conference centre's previous owner sounds like a real character. We need more people who are unwilling to be messed about. (nobody incidentally has come up with a better suggestion for the location - The Fat Duck at Bray is too far away and prohibitively expensive).

I suppose you are right to 'delete the expletives' in this family journal, but I suspect some of our readers will be disappointed.

4 ticks ..... The trouble with Catholic Weddings is they last too long. We were guests at Shaun Mosley's wedding to Teresa (Shaun is Sir Oswald Mosley's grandson but not at all right wing) and by the end there was much fidgeting and shuffling. Even now, so many years later, I have this indelible image of the soles of Shaun's shoes as they knelt at the altar-rail for what seemed like hours.

Thanks for the interesting material about 'tatting' and The Tudors. Y will be most interested

Glad you enjoyed the Longshaw view. Nothing too complicated for me. I just like a nice 'record' of places we have been and things I have found beautiful.

I hope your first teaching evening went well and that everyone who had enrolled turned up. With limited numbers there must be nothing more annnoying than someone booking a place and then not using it.

I noticed you had slipped in to EPS but obviously didn't know you had come straight from teaching.

Jill ..... in response to a previous 'comment'. I know that town-centres are bad at night, but as Sandra has found (see Bungus's comment) and Y's experience with the Football Hooligans, should you decide to walk through, they only make trouble between themselves and that you personally would not in anyway be threatened.

Unfortunately we have always been a drunken nation given to drunken revelry. As Wellington was reputed to have said about his soldiers "I don't know about their effect on Napoleon but they scare me to death". I haven't looked up the quotation, so it's a best guess at the wording.

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We have a busy day tomorrow. City Hospital outpatient's clinic at 10.30am then Bromley House, then shopping, then computer jobs. However, I shall take my dongle and, if the clinic drags, I can use the time on my laptop, on-line !

Quotation time ....... Now this isn't true for other art forms, painting for instance, where the knack lies in knowing when to stop - and then stopping, promptly.

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned"

Paul Valéry

Sleep tight - hope to catch you tomorrow




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