Author Archives: Himself

Dough rising time-lapse

Posted on 2 September 2010 by Himself

At the risk of turning this into a vlogW another video being the bread dough rising:
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The Jam Making Movie

Posted on 29 August 2010 by Himself

It must be a couple of weeks ago that Martine made some jam but you cannot rush the post productionW process….

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A trip to Oxford

Posted on 25 August 2010 by Himself

As we both had a day off, a rare coincidence, we went to the station…

and caught the first train that turned up; which took us to OxfordW.
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Spot the difference

Posted on 22 August 2010 by Himself

Martine recently returned with some of her sister’s home grown HypergiantW tomatoes which are a little larger than mine :-/

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Nightmare bike rides

Posted on 11 August 2010 by Himself

Before the BBCW series Britain By Bike reaches hereabouts and shows you some fantasy rural cycling idyll I can reveal some of the real everyday horrors you can encounter…

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Cimy Header Image Rotator and a Twenty Ten Child Theme

Posted on 1 August 2010 by Himself

The previous post about rotating the header images in the Twenty Ten theme has been quite popular

but it was bad advice because as soon as you update your WordPress and/or theme files your changes are overwritten and lost. The … Continue reading →

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GameSalad and the iGoD

Posted on 18 July 2010 by Himself

Note: This will require the GameSalad plugin to be installed to work – and then it is probably only good with Safari on a Mac!
Experimenting with the GameSalad game creation software. It is still a beta version and has crashed … Continue reading →

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Dragonfly: almost emerged

Posted on 10 July 2010 by Himself

We spotted a dragonfly trying to emerge from its nymph skin but the nymph had not attached itself securely to a reed….

…and so it struggled to free itself…

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Dragonfly nymph

Posted on 8 July 2010 by Himself

I apologise to those searching for the Dragonfly nymph pictures from last year as they seem to have become lost in the move to this dot net site. I did spot an empty one today…

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Feed me!

Posted on 4 July 2010 by Himself

The garden continues to feed the slugs, birds and assorted ravenous beasts. Yesterday evening…
and this morning…

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