Merry Christmas 2015
“Oh no it isn’t!”
A little goosy Yuletide humour. Mr Goose objects to his fellow geese being eaten for Christmas.
A little goosy Yuletide humour. Mr Goose objects to his fellow geese being eaten for Christmas.
Nowadays, one reads a lot about open source equivalents of proprietary software. Often these are described as poor substitutes for the real thing. However, some open source apps are starting seriously to outperform their proprietary counterparts. Mozilla Firefox is a classic example of this phenomenon. GNUCash is another. GNUCash vs Microsoft Money I was a…
Drunken bumblebees working the lavender in our garden. Seems Bumblebees have longer tongues than ordinary worker bees and can reach to the bottom of the lavender flowers in order to get to the nectar. Moreover nectar can ferment, when mixed with rainfall and natural yeast. Consequently these incredible little creatures can become quite tipsy, especially…
I like taking photos. Trouble is that I’m a tad trigger-happy with the shutter button. Over the last few decades I have captured around ½ million of my own digital images and about 33,000 scanned from 35mm neg. On top of that there are around 45,000 edited/retouched images – not to mention a thousand or…
By which I mean testing my Tamron 500mm Catadioptric lens. It was a nice warm reasonably clear day today, peaking 24°C. So about an hour before sunset I took my Tamron, fitted on the front of my µ4/3 Lumix DMC-GX7 up to my favourite vantage point on Portsdown Hill, Hampshire. This is a wonderful place…
I have not been out much the last few days, so I thought I’d go into central and do a bit of shopping.
Just across the road from us there lives a pair of ginger cats. For some bizarre reason they like kipping on my girlfriend’s Nissan Micra, despite the fact the street is lined with much posher motors. And they have to be some of the grumpiest looking cats I have ever seen. We call them the…