Chatiryworld

Snowy Edinburgh

I took the top photo on Monday and the bottom one this morning.  It's looking very festive but the flip side is that people are struggling to travel to see their families.  If you're stuck in nasty weather, take care.

What flexitime was made for

I opened the front door on Monday morning, already running a bit late for my usual bus, and was confronted with this sight.  I decided capturing a few photos was worth missing the bus for, so scampered back inside to get my camera, breathlessy half explaining to Jon what I was doing and losing a glove on the way.  As well as this photo I got another two, and of course missed my bus (I later found it from a colleague it was early anyway).  But what's the point of flexitime if you can't use it for nice things like this?

Speaking of nice things, Yorkshire readers may be interested to know that there is a Rob Ryan exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (apparently there's a Clothkits workshop going on too but it's sold out).

I hardly know her

Via swissmiss, ihardlyknowher is a great way to view your Flickr stream in a simple and minimalist way.  All you do is add your user name to the end of ihardlyknowher.com.  Here's mine.  If you hover your mouse over each photo you get the photo details.

Into 2009

Gorgeous skies over the Firth of Forth as I returned from my dad's this afternoon.  I wish we lived by the sea, although I suppose we're only a couple of miles from it, if that.

Orkney photos

All my Orkney photos are up on Flickr now.  Many were taken simply to show my mum and Hugh how Stromness had changed since their last visit in 1993, so they are not the greatest.  But I still got plenty I'm pleased with.  Jon is still putting his up, but his set can be found be here.

Work is taking up most of my energy at the moment hence light blogging.  I do have some knitting to showcase soon though.

The Fisher Price mum

Wooden moms, originally uploaded by hownowdesign.

I can't resist posting this photo by Abbey Hendrickson of Aesthetic Outburst.  The baby was also my Fisher Price person of choice, I lost it and was so upset my mum tracked down a single replacement one.  We then found the original baby in the big basket of hats, scarves and gloves.

I may have to look at Fisher Price stuff on eBay as a result..

Frost

I took some photos of our local park the other day as it looked so gorgeous with the frost.  The photos are best viewed on black, so if you want a nose, here's a slideshow at Flickr.

'Every home should have one'

As seen in the window of a charity shop in Morningside.  No accounting for taste, is there?

Favourites

How often do you look at your Flickr favourites?  If you haven't for a while, go and take some time to do it soon, it's great to rediscover some amazing images.  How many people just idly mark photos as favourites and then never check them again? 

It's even better if you view them as a slideshow, I may have to do this via the Wii so I can see them bigger on our tv screen.  Here are my favourites in a show.  How about looking at the favourites of your contacts too?  You never know what you might find, and also how much time you might waste.  Well, not waste I suppose, spend, that's a better word.  Just don't start cooking something and then look at photos, you might end up burning your dinner.

Must...have...normality

I think I should be ok to go back to work tomorrow, still not 100% but I'm fed up being an invalid, plus I've started watching ITV3, which is never a good sign.  I walked over to the library to see if my body could cope with going any further than the local shop, and it can.  And I got two knitting books out.

I took a couple of photos of the park on the way back, gorgeous autumn light.  You can just about make out some French women discussing if they should do anything with an abandoned shopping trolley on this one.

That's all for today.