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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
As seen in the window of a charity shop in Morningside. No accounting for taste, is there?
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.
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.
Just read that Orkney photographer Gunnie Moberg has died. I don't remember Gunnie as much as her husband Tam, who runs the famous Tam's Books in Stromness. I have a copy of a book she created with George Mackay Brown, she took some stunning photos of Orkney, he wrote some (not his greatest) poems to go with them. My mum arranged to get a copy from Tam's and asked Gunnie to sign it rather than get it from a local bookshop in Yorkshire.
Alistair Peebles has written a great obituary in the Independent. My sympathies to her family and friends, she will be missed.
Our bedtime conversations always seem to come round to us talking about The New Flat. We've just paid out the deposit and agency fees but when we were woken up at 1am by downstairs listening to music in the kitchen we knew it was worth every penny. Not that we were having any doubts but it was a lot of money. Jon counts the days down, sometimes including the few days we'll be in Yorkshire later this month, sometimes not to make it seem quicker. August seems to be a busy month as we're doing a lot of film festival stuff so it should go by soon. There's a few comedy gigs and book events we wouldn't have minded seeing but moving is an expensive business.
Mr Bitch left a comment a few weeks back asking when I was going to knit him a bikers jacket. Should my crochet skills drastically improve and I come into a load of black yarn, I could make him this...
When you're feeling a bit fed up, other people's photos on Flickr can help cheer you up. Jon and I went to see an exhibition by Edinburgh artist Jill Ashforth last year and have been enjoying her photos on Flickr as well. She's just been to Stromness and I'm starting to wish I didn't find the journey to Orkney so stressful... Especially when you come across even more lovely Orkney photos from someone else, including one of a very special home.
Friendly Atheist Hemant Mehta asked readers for quick answers to questions that atheists are often asked by those who believe in a god. He's compiled a pdf of the best answers, and one of mine was included, the answer to 'If you don't pray, what do you do in troubling times?'. I said 'When it's possible, I try to take action to fix the situation. If that's not an option I talk to people I trust and hope that things get better'. If it sounds very simplistic, well, that was the idea of the whole exercise. I can't always 'do something' to help in troubling times, but I can try, and I can talk to those I love and I have to say that's enough for me.
Yummy black bean and sweet potato burritos for dinner tonight, I'm a lucky girl.
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