Friday, March 10, 2017

The truth in black and white

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This guitar design comes from the sixties, a time when everything (even space travel and mainstream movies) was black and white, apart fr...
Thursday, March 09, 2017

Dreaded blue gloves

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Back in the day I'd worry that somehow I'd manage to do something criminal and end up in the slammer on porridge (which incidentally...

Sun sets on ignorance

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This is a test message: So we're back out of the black hole of internet failure, reconnected to the vibrant echo chamber and serial ...
Wednesday, March 08, 2017

Unintended consequences

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Unfortunately whilst feeding the smaller garden birds, blue tits, sparrows, finches etc. I've taken on the role of the great benefact...
Sunday, March 05, 2017

Springish

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Today has turned out to be a glowing kind of peaceful spring day, a day when the sun seems to seep into everything and just spreads a l...
Friday, March 03, 2017

Then the coconut hit the roof

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More work in more progress. IT Matters(?): Well the internet connection here is pretty much goosed, every ten minutes in an hour it make...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

Oh, Dundee

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The strangely dirty, narrow splendour of Dundee intrigues me. Lanes and closes and alleys and ironmongery. Desperate Dan and the Br...
Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Night sky

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Here's a very bright Venus and a very thin moon showboating in the sky on the last night of February. At first sight Venus looked mor...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Larger than original

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The contrast setting is the greatest tool, it throws the shadows into the forefront, pulls the black into the limelight, squeezes t...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Mechanics of the orchestra

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Today I spent an enjoyable and stimulating afternoon at Edinburgh's Usher Hall listening to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The ha...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Couch Surfing

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Anything good on the telly tonight? Last night we watched the final episode of Taboo on proper TV, almost in real time apart from a...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Typical

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"A small matter of time" or why guitars can be expensive but maybe not too expensive 'cos your precious time is considere...
Friday, February 24, 2017

Old School

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So another short brief period of reflection and introspection is over thanks to an unplanned drive by the green fields of my old primary ...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Seven new planets

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But there are only six in this graphic along with a sun. Well the planets aren't new, just new to us, pretty much like most things in...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

DeCaf

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Nothing beats the clean, fresh taste and non-headache inducing effect of a decaffeinated beverage. Hot, cold or indifferent, decaf is t...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Dan Armstrong turns...

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...slowly in his grave perhaps, my attempt at see-through guitar making isn't quite as stylish as his plexiglass models from th...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Peacefully

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I know it's already evening and I've already travelled through most of today and used that part up, however another side of me is...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Tiptoe through the snowdrops

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Not everything is about doom, gloom, constant criticism and the death of civilisation, even for us. Sometimes you can exceed your Fitb...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Smarter travel

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The long and winding road to Aberdeen is made a bit easier when you don't have to drive it. It's even easier when it only costs y...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Almost everything that's wrong...

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...with fancy food in a single picture. This is rhubarb and custard, plain fare if ever there was such a thing. No doubt it tastes nice b...